Below is a selection of publications. I’m particularly excited that my work researching and translating the Yiddish poet Itshe Slutsky was recently featured by the Academy of American Poets.
You can also watch a recording of my recent in-person conversation with Edward Hirsch here.
Essays, Reviews, & Interviews
Regular contributions to the Parshah Commentary column at Jewish Currents.
On Beyond the Cordons by Gábor Schein / On the Seawall
John Moreland’s Hard-Earned Gospel / Image
Recognizing the Roma Holocaust / Jewish Currents
On Well-Kept Ruins by Hélène Cixous / On the Seawall
The Fight for Recognition of the Romani Holocaust / Slate
On Still No Word From You: Notes in the Margin by Peter Orner / On the Seawall
Spiritual Modernity / Brooklyn Rail
On Jed Rasula’s What the Thunder Said / On the Seawall
The Failed Plot to Kill 6 Million Germans / Slate
Shaping the Neo-Hasidic Canon / Jewish Currents
On Aviya Kushner’s Wolf Lamb Bomb / EcoTheo Review
Murder Ballads / Jewish Currents
God is the Apple / EcoTheo Review
Poems
To the Reader / Poetry Ireland Review
Two Poems / Peripheries
God Instructs Jeremiah in Poetics / Cumberland River Review
Book of Revelations / Psaltery and Lyre
***(Included in the Best Spiritual Literature 2025 anthology, available from Orison Books)
Prayer / Northwest Review
Memoir of a Psychiatric Hospitalization / The Inflectionist Review
Kaddish (A Study of Fireweed) / EcoTheo Review
Memory of Rocky Mountain National Park / Anglican Theological Review
Lot’s Wife / Peripheries
Sonnet as Deuteronomy 14:11-18 / Peripheries
Road Trip Hymn / anthologized in Written Here: The Community of Writers Poetry Review
Gospel / Image
Psalm / Notre Dame Review
Translation
Di Freyd Fun Yidishn Vort/The Joy of the Yiddish Word – newsletter of Yiddish poetry and criticism
Dead Sea Scroll, Biblical Hebrew fragments / Kenyon Review
Text, Yiddish of Aaron Zeitlin / Anglican Theological Review
Editing
Co-founder & poetry editor / Gashmius Magazine
Daniel Kraft 