Nine Lessons with Carols is a century-old practice first celebrated at Cambridge. It pairs scripture with music, to reflect on the season of Advent. These nine original poems were commissioned by Duquesne University as a new celebration of the historical practice. They explore a dialogue between humanity and its longed-for creator and mirror the nine months of a pregnancy.

Find the subtle disguises where life hides, peering outward with eyes "like birthdays." These poems ask, through the lens of the collection as through an old window: Who is the guest? The answer ranges from people in homes, to humans in nature, compassion in strangers, dreamers in dreams, sadness in the heart, the creative power in love, and finally to the secret longing for the human mystery that we carry always.

Called Perpetual explores the gift of identity and its quest, ever-springing from love, nature, anthropology, and history, as we struggle to surpass its strictures. This work seeks to touch the rawness of conviction, reaching from loss, searching for unity, finding all roads lead back to the human cause and root - alive in perpetuity, indefatigable, and undeniable. But as the title suggests, this mystery remains within our limits of articulation.

Forms and Vessels examines the dual nature shared by the individual and humanity, discovering the person as noble creation and empty servant. Its poems open a dialogue with the self, with the self in another, and between the self and the inevitable "us." It asks how we become fully what we are.

The product of poignant dreams from diverse strangers and friends across the world. In the poems of Somniloquy, or sleep-talking, "Midnight [is] / A ruby in my mouth / A secret on my lips. . ." Follow the author's intrepid verse and voice into the deep places only reachable from the surrender of sleep: the unknown wish, the forgotten hope, the secret truth, the liquidity of pasts, and the revealed self reaching from dark night toward dawn.

Ecos Neomexicanos explores the beauty and conflict of the author's heritage in the Southwestern U.S. His poem "La yerbabuena," which recalls childhood memories of his great-aunt and great-grandmother, won first place in the 2015 National Federation of Press Women communications contest. His other work has been published in the Voices of New Mexico series.