"'There Is One End for Everyone': Trends & Traditions in Contemporary American Literary Ballads" - Literary Matters

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"'The Flicker, Not the Flame': E. A. Robinson's Narrative Compression" - Los Angeles Review of Books

 

"'Left to Folly or to Fate': Gwendolyn Brooks's & Elizabeth Bishop's Ballads of Social Unrest" - Los Angeles Review of Books

 

"'To Crawl Under the Earth': The Persistence of Expansive Poetry" - Hopkins Review

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"Rhyme's Crimes" - Literary Matters

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"Not Even the Future's Like It Used to Be: Rita Dove's Apocalyptic Anthems" - Literary Matters 

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"Bidart's Silences" - Literary Matters 

 

"Komunyakaa's Everyday Mojo" - Literary Matters

 

"Poetry in the Age of Superior Television Drama: Don Paterson's Zonal" - Literary Matters 
 

"It's like . . . it's like . . . I don't know what it's like: On the Limitations of Metaphor" [Best American Poetry]

 

"On Corrupting the Youth" [Best American Poetry]

 

"'Champion of the Obsolete Event': An Appreciation of Richard Frost's Neighbor Blood (Sarabande 1996)" [Best American Poetry]
 

"Purity & Nonsense" (Part 1) [Best American Poetry]

 

"Purity & Nonsense" (Part 2) [Best American Poetry]

 

On Contemporary American Narrative Poetry [The Cincinnati Review]

 

On Rebecca Lehmann’s “Exoskeleton” (CR 10.1) [The Cincinnati Review]

 

On John Poch's "Two Rooms" (CR 9.1) [The Cincinnati Review]

 

On William Wordsworth's "The Thorn" [Voltage Poetry]