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Quid Plura?

“Quid Plura?” is the blog of Jeff Sypeck, a writer in the Maryland woods.

For an overview of my professional writing, please visit www.jeffsypeck.com.

I don’t use A.I. for my books, blog posts, articles, or anything else I write. It’s all the work of my own busy brain.

Contact: jeffsypeck -at- gmail dot com

A few of my projects

The Little Garden of Walahfrid Strabo: A Carolingian Poem in Verse Translation, published by Uppsala Books in 2026.

“On the Names, the Signs, the Labors, and the Weather Conditions of the Twelve Months” by Wandalbert of Prüm: An Annotated Translation, a peer-reviewed monograph from Witan Publishing.

Fortress of Failure: Reading F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Forgotten Medievalist Stories, a Quid Plura Books paperback.

Behind the Design: Battlefields of the American Revolution, a cool little book I wrote in 2025 for the U.S. Postal Service.

I Have Started for Canaan: The Story of the African American Town of Sugarland, co-written with Gwen Reese and Suzanne Johnson of the Sugarland Ethno-History Project.

Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800, published in 2006 and still available as a HarperPerennial paperback and e-book—and now as an audiobook as well.

Looking Up: Poems from the National Cathedral Gargoyles, a 2012 collection of formal poems inspired by a D.C. landmark.

The Grandest Things, a 2009 book about America’s national parks jointly published by the National Park Service and the U.S. Postal Service.

40 Years of Art and Community, a 2014 book published by the Torpedo Factory Artists’ Association in Alexandria, Virginia.

The Tale of Charlemagne and Ralph the Collier, my 2007 translation of a 15th-century Middle Scots romance.

The Beallsville Calendar, a 2016 poem about the disorientation of moving from the city to the country.

For more about my writing, including my work for various publications and professional clients, please visit www.jeffsypeck.com.

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