Dr. William Ruleman is Professor of English at Tennessee Wesleyan College. His first two books of poems, A Palpable Presence (2001) and Profane and Sacred Loves, were published by Feather Books. His renderings of poems from Rilke's Neue Gedichte appeared from WillHall Books in 2003, while Ariadne Press issued his translations of early novellas and stories of Stefan Zweig in 2011.