Literary essays, critical articles, and other prose writings appear in numerous publications.

“Slow Fuse of the Possible: On Poetry & Psychoanalysis,” Five Points 21, #1 (winter 2022).

“One Bread. One Body. One Love,” Harvard Divinity Bulletin (Spring/summer 2018, Vol. 46, Nos. 1&2).  

“The Curious Power of Poetry,” in Shining Rock Poetry Anthology (Winter/Spring 2018).

“The Inward Journey: Review of Voyage of the Sable Venus, by Robin Coste Lewis,” in Women’s Review of Books (March-April 2017), pages 24-25.

“Reconsidering My Whole Position: On Robert Penn Warren,” Chapter 16 (June 10, 2016).

“Phil Levine & the Burger Bitch,” Best American Poetry (March 4, 2015).  

“Remembering Philip Levine, Former Poet Laureate,” The Conversation (February 24, 2015). Accessible at:

“From a Once Young Feminist: Remembering Adrienne Rich,” Women’s Review of Books (July 2012)

• Guest Blogger: Best American Poetry Blog, June 4-10, 2012.
  “Head, Hand, and Foot: On Poetry and Tennis”
  “Three Birthday Boys & a Transit of Venus”
  “If You Build It (& Provide Full Funding), They Will Come – and Write!”
  “Front Porch Poetry News”
  “Welcome to Nashville. (Now, Y’all Go Home!)”
  “Words & Music in Music City, USA”
  “A Rainy ‘Sunday Morning’”