Essays

On Returning to The Book of Nightmares as a New Father in the Trump Era

The Rumpus

Breaking a Window on the World: The Poetry of Marie Howe

Shenandoah

A Defense of Train Wrecks: Lyric Narrative Poetry and the Legacy of Confessionalism

Shenandoah

I Dance for the Joy of Surviving: Stanley Kunitz’s Meditations on the Writing Life

The Writer’s Chronicle

Volume 47.1. September 2014: 100-105.

The Diagram Still Sketched on the Wind: Self-Portrait Poems and the Poem as Self-Portrait

The Writer’s Chronicle

Volume 52.2. November 2019: 69-75.

Approaches to Titling Your Poem

Poets & Writers
Craft Capsules No. 188

What Herbie Hancock Taught Me About Formal Poetry

Poets & Writers
Craft Capsules No. 189

Crayoned Fire: In Praise of Book-Length Poems

Poets & Writers
Craft Capsules No. 190