Essays and Prose

“On We Do Not Live in Vain by Selva Casal” in The Kenyon Review

“Poetic Form as a Tool for Restoring the Black Body to History: Tyehimba Jess, Marilyn Nelson, Derek Walcott, & Countee Cullen” in The Writer’s Chronicle

“God Bless the Child That’s God her Own” in Prairie Schooner Vol. 94, Issue 3

“Problems with Enlightenment” in Speculative Nonfiction

“Review: The Scent of Buenos Aires: Stories by Hebe Uhart in The Common

An Interview with Tomás Q. Morín in Waxwing

“Samsara” in Cold Mountain Review

“Destiny of Cumin” Winner of the 2020 VanderMey Nonfiction Prize, in Ruminate

Review of Alejandra Pizarnik’s The Last Innocence / The Lost Adventures in Waxwing

Review of Reina María Rodríguez’s The Winter Garden Photograph in Waxwing

The Breaking Open that is Required for the Risk of Love: An Interview with Lisa Russ Spaar in Waxwing

The Heart is a Thing if What We’re Talking About is My Mind: An Interview with Paul Guest in AWP’s The Writer’s Chronicle

Review of Joseph J. Capista’s Intrusive Beauty in Iron Horse

Review of Rodrigo Lira’s Testimony of Circumstances in Waxwing

Jared Yates Sexton Tells Us the Truth (an interview) in Iron Horse

“Mountain Laurel” in Michigan Quarterly Review

When a Poet is Read and Read About in 32 Poems

Beginning the Writing Process as Bradbury Did in 32 Poems

Not My Last Apologia for Poetry in the Colgate Scene

Bruce Smith’s Devotions in Carolina Quarterly

Bruce Bond’s Blind Rain in 32 Poems

Lee Upton’s Civilian Histories in 32 Poems

Les Murray’s Killing the Black Dog in 32 Poems

A Belated Note on the Pulitzer Prize (review of Tracy K Smith’s Life on Mars) in 32 Poems

Lee Upton’s Swallowing the Sea in 32 Poems

Greg Orr’s The City of Poetry in 32 Poems

Jim Harrison’s Songs of Unreason in 32 Poems

The Genres We Ignore (review of Kim Addonizio’s Jimmy and Rita) in 32 Poems