Mark S. Burrows

Mark S. Burrows is poet, teacher, and scholar, and is much in demand as a speaker and retreat leader on spirituality and poetics. He is well known internationally for his work on spirituality and the arts, and for his academic work on theopoetics and mysticism. His poems have appeared in many places including Poetry, The Cortland Review, The Southern Quarterly, Metamorphosis, 91st Meridian, Almost Island, Image, and Spiritus. A collection of his poems, THE CHANCE OF HOME, was published in 2018; recent books include MEISTER ECKHART'S BOOK OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT (co-written with Jon Sweeney, 2023), poems re-voicing the startling wisdom of the medieval mystic, and THE WANDERING RADIANCE (2023), a collection of poems-in-translation by the beloved German-Jewish poet Hilde Domin (1909 - 2006). He has published two further volumes of German poetry in translation: Rainer Maria Rilke’s PRAYERS OF A YOUNG POET (pb. 2016) and a volume of poems by the German-Iranian author SAID, 99 PSALMS (2013). Burrows is Poetry Editor for Wildhouse Publications and for the journal SPIRITUS. The winner of the Wytter Bynner Prize in Poetry, he is a core faculty member in the MFA program at Seattle Pacific and co-directs the Camden Festival of Poetry in Camden, Maine, where he makes his home. Forthcoming books include A WISER WAY. LIVING YOUR DEEPEST QUESTIONS WITH RAINER MARIA RILKE, co-written with Stephanie Dowrick (Monkfish, 2024). www.soul-in-sight.org