Peer-reviewed Essays
‘“Assimilating the Arts’: On Poetry and Difference in Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit.” Amodern. [forthcoming]
“‘What activism can learn from poetry’: Lyric Opacity and Drone Warfare in Solmaz Sharif’s LOOK.” In “Gender and Surveillance,” edited by Molly Geidel and J.D. Schnepf. Special issue, Review of International American Studies, vol. 15, no, 1, Spring-Summer 2022, pp. 69-87.
“American Lyric, American Surveillance, and Claudia Rankine’s Citizen.” Contemporary Women’s Writing, vol. 15, no. 3, Nov. 2021, pp. 326–44.
“Frank O’Hara Rebuilds the Seagram Building: A Radical Poetry of Event.” Textual Practice, vol. 30, no. 1, Feb. 2016, pp. 113-142.
“Figuring an Ethical Reading Practice: Anne Carson’s ‘Whaching.’” In “Alliances/Transgressions/Betrayals: Women’s Writing in Canada & Québec Today” edited by Marie Carrière and Libe García Zarranz. Special Issue, Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies, vol. 3, no. 1-2, 2013.
Public Scholarship and Book Reviews
What Has Literature Ever Done for You?
On Du Bois’s Telegram by Juliana Spahr
Los Angeles Review of Books
On [G A T E S] by Sahar Muradi
Southern Indiana Review
On Ordinary Beast by Nicole Sealey, daughterrarium by Sheila McMullin, and WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier
The Southern Indiana Review
On Do Not Rise by Beth Bachmann
The Rumpus
On Let Her Speak: Transcript of Texas Sate Senator Wendy Davis’s June 25, 2013, Filibuster of the Texas State Senate by Wendy Davis/ Counterpath Press in a Symposium on Repetition
The Believer
On Exercises in Criticism: The Theory and Practice of Constraint by Louis Bury
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Poems
My chapbook The Thought of Preservation, published by Ursus Americanus Press in 2019 is sold out, but available upon request. The cover art and interior images are by Beth Holladay.
“Mother Siege” in The Offing, September 2019.
Poems from The Thought of Preservation in the July 2019 issue of X-Peri.
“Dancing in September” in the Summer 2018 issue of Sixth Finch.
“Blood Mittens” and “Drone Poem” in Issue 3: 2017 of Prelude Magazine.
“Tiny Pound” in the Fall 2015 issue of the digital broadside Rove.
“Men Around the Cake” and “Advice for Good Vengeance” in Two Serious Ladies, 2014.
“Narrative, Tail and Paws” in Issue 3.2 of Bone Bouquet.
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