I am a literary author and an educator living with my wife and children in Michigan, USA. Substack is right now (2025) my main presence in social media. My irregular and always free writing here will reflect my education, training, and interests (in no particular order):
poetry and poetics from all periods
fiction — especially modern and contemporary, medieval-renaissance
the art of translation both historical and current
geography, environment, travel literature, the natural world and the sense of place (especially American/New World senses of place)
fantasy and other genre fiction
music — western art music, certain folk traditions including Americana, Bob Dylan (his entire career to the present)
philology — especially Romance; some Germanic, Celtic, Greek, Hebrew, Classical Chinese
religion and philosophy
long-distance cycling
martial arts east and west, military history
I guess I could have just written “Bob Dylan” and it would have covered all of that except the cycling…
