Essays
Ode to Tom, Cortland Review , Spring, 2017
Chard deNiord on Tom Lux, Plume, 2/17
The Cortland Review, Like a Book at Evening, Summer, 2016
The Trouble With Poetry, Cortand Review, Fall, 2015
The Sublime Irrationality of Love, Cortland Review, Winter, 2014
Resistance and Independence in Contemporary American Poetry, Cortland Review, Issue 63, 2013
The Teasing Corners of Oblivion, On the Career of Ruth Stone,
Green Mountains Review, Winter, 2010
James Wright, Literary Encyclopedia, 2010
Silence Amidst the Crowd, A Reading of Philip’s Levine’s
“The Simple Truth” and “Call It Music,” Literary Imagination, Fall 2009
“For Each Ecstatic Moment,” Poetry International, Spring 2009
“The Place Where You Lie, A Reading of James Wright’s ‘To the Muse,’”
New England Review, Spring 2008
"Electric Poetics," Poets and Writers, Fall, 2000
"Sad Friend," The Harvard Review, Spring 1999
"The Man Who Remembers His Shoes, Charles Simic,"
The Harvard Review, Fall 1997
"Peter Balakian and the Poetry of Witness, a Reply, "AGNI 41, 1995
"In the Divide, Skeptic, Master, Stung Pilgrim," The New England Review, Spring 1994
"The High Place Of American Poetry, the Problem with Witness," AGNI 39, 1994
"Gerald Stern," The Dictionary of Literary Biography, 1991
“The Nature Of Voice," The Associated Writing Programs Chronicle, October/November, 1991