His interests include Creative Writing, Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Traditions of Lyric Poetry, Translation & Imitation, Poetics, Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English Literature, Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, Religion and Literature, Early Modern Travel Literature, Italian Renaissance Literature, Anglo-Italian Texts, and Classical Influence in the Renaissance and in Modern Poetry. The poetry reading is free and open to the public. The event is part of the symposium "The Bible, Narrative, and Modernity" on March 26-28 sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies.