Forgotten Ground Regained

Jeff Sypeck

Jeff Sypeck taught medieval literature at the University of Maryland University college from 1999 to 2009. He works as a writer and editor for PhotoAssist, Inc., where he has helped the U.S. Postal Service research and develop more than 200 stamps on a dizzying range of subjects, including African American history, Islamic holidays, military history, and fine art. His published nonfiction includes Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800, and he co-authored I Have Started for Canaan: The Story of the African American Town of Sugarland. He lives in an agricultural reserve in rural Maryland.
His alliterative verse includes The Beallsville Calendar (alliterative verse for each month of the year), and the alliterative poems “Mearcstapa”, “Theodicy”, and “Riddle in his poetry collection Looking Up: Poems from the National Cathedral Gargoyles. He has also published a translation into modern English alliterative verse of the medieval alliterative romance, The Tale of Charlemagne and Ralph the Collier and a translation of Paul the Deacon's alliterative poem, Epitaph for the baby Hildegard, daughter of Charlemagne and Queen Hildegard in Ablemuse.
His alliterative poetry on this site includes "Entreating a Sick Kitten" in Issue 4, Fall, 2024.