Honored to be featured for Best Literary Translations 2027 I’m thrilled—and deeply humbled—to share a piece of exciting news today. The upcoming edition of Best Literary Translations 2027, guest-edited by Emily Wilson, is featuring my translation work as part of their effort to highlight rarely-translated dialects and lesser-heard voices. Translating dialect is always a labor of love. It means navigating unique cadence, localized idioms, and rich cultural nuance to find a ho

I am delighted and honored to share my newest ballad, based on an American Indian legend from the Cherokee people. Many thanks to editor,...

Before his death in 2018, businessman and former Yale Scholar of the House in Poetry, the writer Timothy Iver Murphy, appointed me as...

Hello and welcome to my new page. Check back soon for regular blog posts with information and images, excerpts from my works-in-progress,...