A longtime resident of New England, Mark S. Burrows, Ph.D. has spent the last decade teaching religion and literature at a university in Bochum, Germany, and was part of the “Bonn Rilke Project” that offered programs across the country blending original jazz compositions with meditations on Rilke’s poems and photographic images. He is the translator of what would become 'Part I” of Rilke’s "Book of Hours", published as "Prayers of a Young Poet" (2012/2016), as well as "99 Psalms" by the contemporary Iranian-German poet SAID. Other recent publications include a collection of his recent poems, "The Chance of Home: Poems" (2018) and two volumes of meditative poems inspired by Meister Eckhart, written with Jon M. Sweeney: "Meister Eckhart’s Book of the Heart" (2017) and "Meister Eckhart’s Book of Secrets" (2019). The recipient of the Witter Bynner Prize in Poetry, he remains an active member of the Bochumer Literaten, a circle of professional writers living and working in the Ruhr Region of Germany.