Recent Essays

Ferry’s Wildman | The Hopkins Review, Fall 2019

Tony Hoagland and Self-Criticism | Literary Imagination, Summer 2019

Tony Hoagland and Second Thoughts | Literary Imagination, Fall 2018

Retroview: Trouble Kept at Bay (on Richard Wilbur)| Pleiades, 2018

Lerner and His Firefly | Pleiades, Winter 2017

Kinnell and Fame | The Hopkins Review, Fall 2016

Whitman and the Rescue of Particulars | The Hopkins Review, Winter 2016

Stevie Smith and the Value of Life | Literary Imagination, 2014

Kenneth Koch and the Fun of Being a Poet | Pleiades, 2014

Art Against Loneliness (on Rachel Wetzsteon) | Pleiades, Winter 2013