I began writing formal poetry when I was 11, and my passion for translating German poetry began in undergrad. Currently I’ve translated over 500 short poems from Angelus Silesius’s Cherubinischer Wandersmann, 100 of which have been published in English as The Sorcerers’ Stone.
Additionally, several poems and translations of mine have appeared in print and around the web.
Original Poems:
- (2026) “Sagrada Familia: The Chains” (America Magazine), in honor of the raising of the Jesus Tower and the 100th anniversary of Antoni Gaudi’s death
- (2025) “Magdalene: Before” (America Magazine)
- (2025) “The Adoration of the Peacock” (SCP)
- (2025) “Evenstar” (Mythic Circle 47:1)
- (2025) “Rivendell: A Drawing by Tolkien, c. 1930” (Mythic Circle 47:1)
- (2025) “How to Count While in Love” (Fib Review No. 52), a Fibonacci poem that incorporates rhythm and rhyme
- (2024) “Caesar and the Rose” (Classical Outlook), anthologized in A Folded History: Poems and Mythologies, eds. Philip Walsh and Rachel Hadas
- (2022) “Meditation” (SCP) – anthologized in the The Society of Classical Poets Journal XI
- (2022) “Papercutting” (SCP)
- (2020) Riddle-poems in the children’s magazine Cricket.
- (2020) “Easter Haiku” (Amethyst Review)
- (2018) “The Parting” (First Things)
Translations:
- (2025) “The Knight” (New Verse Review), a translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Ritter”
- (2022) The Sorcerers’ Stone: Alchemical Poems by Angelus Silesius (Wipf & Stock)
- (2019) “Angels” (Christian Century), a translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Die Engeln”
- (2019) “Loneliness” (Blue Unicorn), a translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Einsamkeit”
In 2024 I ran a free formal poetry contest, which I hope to repeat in 2026.
