Theodoretus Breen (b. 1992) is a poet based in New York City. They concentrated in creative writing at Harvard College, supervised by Josh Bell. A background in classical performance and orchestral conducting inspired them to subsequently pursue graduate education combining the study of music and poetry. First at Cambridge, and then Yale, they obtained degrees in historical musicology, researching music-text relationships in medieval French song. 

These experiences bear directly on their poetry. Musicality is a constant concern in their work, and medieval devotionality, especially that of mystics, is discursively echoed throughout their poems. Moreover, their approach to language itself has a decidedly neo-medieval bent. Premodern English—with its shifting sound patterns, nonstandard orthographies, and collisions of different linguistic influences—was an index of the flux of its speakers’ sociocultural situations. In confronting present instabilities, Breen both reappropriates Old and Middle English and embraces a kindred verbal dynamism. 

Their current artistic praxis is invested in creating devotional liturgies that are performed as public rituals. Poetry, music, drama, choreography, and magic are arts woven together in uncanny ways to queer the liturgical inheritance of Christianity while distilling from it a spiritual quiddity that orients us before the Apocalypse.