Research & Writing Interests

Creative Writing/Contemporary Poetry

                    Recent  poetry publications in:

The Fourth River: Nature and Culture (2005)
Natural Bridge (2003)
madpoetry.org a Madison, Wisc Poetry Webpage
                     "Poetry Buzz: An Aural Year Full,"  (audio-CD anthology), Madison, 2001
Louisiana Literature, Semi-finalist,  2001 Louisiana Literature Poetry Prize
                     Oxford University Press anthology The Life of Jesus in World Poetry,
Voices Israel, Kiriat Ata, Israel
And What Rough Beast: Poems at the End of the Century (Ashland Poetry Press)

Reader Response Literary Theory

Recent essay publication on Reader based criticism applied to Freshman Composition
                         in College Reading, Research and Practice: Articles from the Journal of College
Literacy and Learning.  Newark, Del.: International Reading Association, 2003.

Holocaust Studies

                    Recent study tour of Polish cities and concentration camps with Alverno College, Milwaukee.

Recent course offering at UW-Whitewater, The Literature of the Holocaust.

Recent poem, an 18 part reflective poem, "Reading the Tao at Auschwitz."
and "Walking with Lao-Tsu at Auschwitz." memoir/essay in
Storytelling Sociology: Narrative as Social Inquiry.  New York: Lynne Rienner
                       Publishers, 2004.

                    A portion of the poem "Reading the Tao at Auschwitz" was choreographed by UW-Milwaukee
                         dancer and choreographer, Simone Ferro, and was performed by  Sarah Wilbur of DanceWorks,
                          a Milwaukee Dance Company, August 27-29, 2004.

<> “Between Yesterday and Today…Remembrance is not Enough,” a 50 minute multimedia
                        dance concert based on "Reading the Tao at Auschwitz" choreographed by Simone Ferro,
                        UW-Milwaukee “Summer Dances,” June 24-26, 2005, Mainstage Theater, UW-Milwaukee. <>

Bible/Jewish Studies

Recent article (co-authored) on an 18th Century mystical rabbi
                     in The Journal of Progressive Judaism [Nottingham, England].

Buddhism

Article {in review} on ancient Buddhist and Jewish texts:
                     "Sittting at the Buddha with the Tanna'im: Walking Through the Dhammapada and Pirke Avot.