Robert Eric Shoemaker has covered arts and culture for Newcity, Rain Taxi, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and other venues. He is a poet and the author of Magical Poetics (Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming), Ca'Venezia (2021, Partial Press), We Knew No Mortality (2018, Acta Publications), and 30 Days Dry (2015, Thought Collection Publishing) and the translator of Catherine of Siena: Prayers (One Subject Press, forthcoming). Follow him at reshoemaker.com.