Kurt’s work explores gratitude, joy, and breathwork as holistic and responsive to nature. He writes meditations and scholarly articles on kinship with creatures ("Relational Literacy," 2019) and ways to promote a kind, reflective atmosphere in the classroom ("Contemplation as Kairotic Composure," 2019).

He often presents at national and regional conferences on writing and teaching. Sample presentations include — "Commemorating the ‘Haiku’ in the Room: Using Focus-based Meditation to Realize Gratitude” (2025); "Embodying Permission: Using Lifewriting to Co-create Spaces That Reinvent the Required College Research-Writing Class” (2024); "Transforming/Teaching: A Roundtable on Inner Work and Its Effect on Our Writing Classrooms" (2023); and "The Rhetorical Implications of the German Concept Waldeinsamkeit: An Abiding Solitude with the Woods"(2022).

Kurt’s current projects include meditation videos on landscapes and a paraphrase and series of poetic meditations on the first book of Psalms.

He is married, has four children and two grandchildren, and spends his free time traipsing along Lake Ontario’s shoreline and concocting tea blends for friends in his studio overlooking the water.