Selected Essays and Reviews

“The Unlonely Art: Notes on Poetic Collaboration.” Bramble, Spring 2018.

"Education By Poetry." Address delivered at the annual Honors Convocation, Ripon College, 7 May 2015. Link

"Going Deep: Some Notes on Sentiment & Sentimentality." Verse Wisconsin 112, October 2013. 

Book review of Martha Silano's Little Office of the Immaculate Conception. Verse Wisconsin 107, November 2011.

"My Barefoot Rank." Verse Wisconsin 106, July 2011.

"Heritage Channeling: Review of Wind in a Box by Terrance Hayes." American Book Review, May/June 2007. 

"The Ultra Talk Poem & Mark Halliday. Valparaiso Poetry Review 7.1 (Fall/Winter 2005-2006.

"Why Emily Dickinson Would Not Smile for the Camera." Eclectica 9.3. July/August 2005.

"Loyal Toward Reality." Are You Experienced? Baby Boom Poets at Midlife. U Iowa Press. 2003.

"Voluminous Underwear: Why I Write Self-Portraits."
​Essay written for After Confession: Poetry as Autobiography. Eds. Kate Sontag & David Graham. Graywolf Press, 2001. Reprinted in Valparaiso Poetry Review.

"Rain." (on Edward Thomas). Rain ForPoetry (April 1999).

"The Table Within: Notes on Emily Dickinson." Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin 9.1 (May/June 1997).  Link. 

"The Frightened Fawn of Sense: Mind & Nature in the Poetry of Miroslav Holub." American Poetry Review 14.6 (July/August 1987).    LINK
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"Millimeters and Not Miles": The Excellence of Robert Francis. Painted Bride Quarterly, 1985.

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