Mark S. Burrows

Mark S. Burrows is a writer, scholar, teacher, and award-winning poet and translator of German poetry. His collection of poems, The Chance of Home, was published in 2018; he has also published three volumes of meditative poems (co-authored with Jon M. Sweeney) inspired by the medieval mystic Meister Eckhart, most recently Meister Eckhart’s Book of Darkness and Light (2023). His translation of poems by the German Jewish poet Hilde Domin, The Wandering Radiance, also appeared in 2023. He published the first English translation of what became Part I of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Book of Hours, published as Prayers of a Young Poet (2013/2016). He is widely known for his work on the mystical literature of medieval cultures, as for his academic work on spirituality and the arts. Forthcoming books include A Wiser Way: Living Your Deepest Questions with Rainer Maria Rilke, co-authored with Stephanie Dowrick. He lives and writes in Camden, Maine. He currently serves as a member of the core faculty of Seattle Pacific University's MFA program. www.msburrows.com