S acred Offense:. Studies in Art, Aesthetics and Spirituality was my thesis title for the Master of Liberal Studies in Sustainable Communities, Northern Arizona University, 2008. Written from the Orthodox monastery in New Mexico, this is the material I worked with during the Thomas Mullen Writing Fellowship when I first went to Earlham School of Religion, 2009.

Since, I’ve offered poetry readings, workshops and collaborated on theopoetic liturgies.

Currently I am working on a series of prose poems about a man with large hands. The man is, at times, a dead relative. But he can largely be understood as Christ figure.

The poems are about sightings (theophanies). The man shows up first in a dream, then the prison, the parking lot of J @ L Steel Mill, Carnegie art museum, family farm, the desert, Slovak forest, trailer park in downtown Phoenix etc.

The manuscript (a chapbook) has the working title, Lefthand Mesquite, Righthand Slavic Oak. It is written in the everyday talk of many of my friends, some of my family, and most of the men I engage in prison.