ESSAYS
“Ekphrastic Influences”
(LitHub, December 13, 2024)
“When the World Seems Awful, I Submerge Myself in the Vastness of the Universe”
(Zócalo Public Square, October 17, 2024)
“What is a 21st-Century ‘Writer’s Home’?”
(Zócalo Public Square, August 12, 2024)
“Emo Music Made Me a Better Man”
(Zócalo Public Square, June 2023)
“How Is Poetry Like a Political Campaign?”
(The Houston Chronicle & Zócalo Public Square, January 2023)
“Teaching Emily Dickinson to Men”
(The Boston Globe, August 2022)
“How Our Greatest Poets Found America Riding Public Transportation”
(LA Times, Zócalo Public Square, & The Boston Globe, February 2022)
“The Poet Sits in the Dentist’s Chair”
(Zócalo Public Square and The Boston Globe, July 2021)
“I Know a Man”
(essay review, Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics, November 2021)
"Ten New Ways to Read Ronald Johnson's Radios"
(Poetry Daily and the Kenyon Review, summer 2015)
“Walt Whitman’s iPad”
(Poetry Northwest, May 18, 2015)
“The First Time: On W. S. Merwin”
(Memorious, April 1, 2012)