He is the 2015 Poet in Residence at Beijing University (first westerner to hold this positon). His books include Poetics of Emptiness (Fordham) (recently published in Chinese as 虚无诗学), Grotto Heaven (Chax Press), Yingelishi (吟歌丽诗) (Counterpath), and Lost Wax: Translation through the Void (TinFish). He is also an editor of The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: a Critical Edition (Fordham) and the translator of Winter Sun: The Poetry of Shi Zhi (1966-2007) (University of Oklahoma Press).