Writing

Essays

A Divine Remedy: Why We Should Still Read Dante
(for Word on Fire Online)

What I’m Reading: White Week, by Wojciech Chmielewski
(for Notre Dame Magazine Online)

What I’m Reading: Lila, by Marilynne Robinson
(for Notre Dame Magazine Online)

What I’m Reading: The Samurai, Shusaku Endo
(for Notre Dame Magazine Online)

Contemporary Catholic Poetry: A Review
(for New Verse Review: A Journal of Lyric and Narrative Poetry)

Aristotle, Meet Mr. Sunshine
(for Humanum Review: Issues in Family, Culture, Science)

Finding Your Way Home in a Divided Age
(for Our Sunday Visitor Magazine)

Strength to Stay
(for Hearth and Field)

Rooted in Reality
(for Front Porch Republic)

Czesław Miłosz: A Poet of Luminous Things
(for Humanum Review: Issues in Family, Culture, Science)

Reading Ulysses in Autumn
(for Dappled Things)

Why We Should Read Hard Books
(for Humanum Review: Issues in Family, Culture, Science)

Reviews

The Spring that Feeds the Torrent: Review of Rhina Espaillat’s poem translations of St. John of the Cross
(for Dappled Things)

Seeking Answers: Review of Robert Pack’s Poems in Searching for Home
(for Current)

Delighting in the Great Possessions: Review of Great Possessions by David Kline (for Front Porch Republic)

The Christian Difference in Classical Education: Review of Norms and Nobility by David V. Hicks
(for Humanum Review: Issues in Family, Culture, Science)

Print Only

The Weight of the Word: A Review of Poet in the New World: Poems, 1946-1953 by Czesław Miłosz, translated and edited by Robert Hass and David Frick
(for Colosseum: A New Journal of Arts and Letters, Winter 2026)