Selected Poems and Translations​

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"Ecclesiastes" (trans. from Leconte), Literary Matters

"Anguish" (trans. from Mallarme), Literary Matters

"Jacarandas," Literary Matters

"A Diner for David Lynch," New Verse Review

"Monster Means 'To Reveal,'" Literary Matters

"Terror Management Theory at the Sculpture Garden," Light

"Kraken and Leviathan," New Verse Review

"The Devil's Image," Modern Age

"The Master," Modern Age

"Antarctica," New Verse Review

"Riding Valravn," Cuyahoga County Public Library

"Sick Vita," THINK Journal

"Tlaloc," E-Verse Radio

"The Romans Reply to Paul," The Classical Outlook

"Birth of the Lyric," The Classical Outlook

"Haecceity" (trans. from Lucretius), The Classical Outlook

"Coney Island," The Alabama Literary Review

"The Clarinet," Literary Matters

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Selected Essays

 

"Bright, Soft Things: Catholicism and the Art of Baroque Poetry in Richard Crashaw's 'The Tear'" Dappled Things

"A Visit to Our Sister's: A Brief Tour of the French Poetic Sublime" Part I and Part II Marginalia Review of Books

"The Monumentalist Manifesto," New Verse Review

"The Poisoned Well: Melville and Gnosticism," THINK Journal

"The Iron Lyre: Poetry, Heavy Metal, and the New Sublime," New Verse Review

"Cracking the Ode: A New Englishing of Pindar," Literary Matters

"Abandon All Hope: Dante and the Problems of Hell," Voegelin View

“The Poet Laureate of Crushed Dreams: Midlife and the Artistry of Matthew Buckley Smith,” Literary Matters