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Prose

Personal Essays

Guernica, “The History Before Us” (Pushcart Prize 2021, Special Mention)

The Iowa Review, “Kriah: Meditations on Life Before Death” 

The Oxford American (online), “No Union More Profound: Letters from Little Rock,”  co-written with Nickole Brown

Rattle, “The Double Image”  (Nominated, Best of the Net )

Flash Essays & Articles 

Lilith Magazine, “So You Have a Yetzer HaRa! A Training Guide for Primitive Breeds”

River Teeth, “Beautiful Things” series, “The Lesson”

ESPNW, “When Marching Becomes a Movement”

Dedicate Your No-Trump Vote, October 2016

River Teeth,  “Beautiful Things” series, “Bells”

Fiction

West Branch Wired, “The Business of Burning,” February 2015

Reviews

32 Poems,  “An Open Letter to Albert Goldbarth,” October 2021

Orion Magazine, “Thirteen Essential Poetry Collections that Pass the Test of Time (on Elizabeth Bradfield’s Interpretive Work),” July 2021

Arkansas Times, “Reading in the Rock (on Matthew Olzmann’s Mezzanines and Andrea Cohen’s Furs Not Mine),” July 2015

Sycamore Review, “Just to act, was the glorious thing: C.D. Wright’s One With Others,” February 2011

Sycamore Review, “Truth, Beauty, and Thomas Mann: The Quests and Questions of Michael Cunningham’s By Nightfall,” Winter/Spring 2011

Interviews

Sycamore Review, “An Interview with Michael Cunningham,” Winter/Spring 2013

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