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May 2017
The Silk Road was a network not only for trade in goods but also in culture, ideas and religions
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March 2017
— or, Stroking Her Feet to Opus 131. A new poem.
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December/January 2016/17
"Can we understand public artistic experience by considering it analogous to going to church: the search for the sacred; for the questioning of the meaning of existence?"
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November 2016
A new poem
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