Reviews and Other Writing:

I am currently the poetry editor of Open Letters Monthly. The journal is open to submissions of poetry in May and October, and to submissions of reviews year-round. See our submission guidelines for more information.

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I wrote about Admiral Richard E. Byrd's Alone for Open Letters Monthly's 2015 summer reading feature.

I wrote the afterward for The Women in Visual Poetry: the Bechdel Test, published by Essay Press in March 2014.

I reviewed Alice Fulton's Barely Composed for the February 2015 issue of Open Letters Monthly.

I wrote about Gregory Robinson's All Good Movies Love the Moon and Chris Nealon's Heteronomy for Open Letters Monthly's 2014 "Our Year in Reading" feature.

I interviewed Katy Bohinc, author of Dear Alain, for Open Letters Monthly's December 2014 issue.

I reviewed Joseph Massey's To Keep Time and Jean Donnelly's Green Oil in the November 2014 issue of Open Letters Monthly.

I wrote a series of writing prompts inspired by Bernadette Mayer's list of Experiments, which appeared in Please Add to this List, Tender Buttons' teaching guide to accompany the 25th anniversary edition of Mayer's Sonnets.

I wrote about Mikhail Bulgkov's Heart of a Dog for Open Letters Monthly's list of Great Minor Works by Major Hands.

I wrote about Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo for Open Letters Monthly's 2014 summer reading feature.

I reviewed Maxine Kumin's And Short the Season in the June 2014 issue of Open Letters Monthly.

I reviewed Melissa Broder's Scarecrone and Sara Nicholson's The Living Method for the April 2014 issue of Open Letters Monthly.

I organized and wrote for OLM's February 2014 Twoo Wuv feature.

I wrote about Lolly Willowes and Where'd You Go, Bernadette? for Open Letters Monthly's 2013 "year in reading" feature.

Here's my review of Ange Mlinko's Marvelous Things Overheard, from the October 2013 issue of Open Letters Monthly.

From August 2013, here's my review of James Longenbach's The Virtues of Poetry.

I wrote about Sarah Gridley's book, Loom, for the July issue of Open Letters Monthly.

For Open Letters Monthly's 2013 summer reading feature, I wrote about Nabokov's Pale Fire and Sylvia Townsend Warner's Mr. Fortune's Maggot.

In February 2013, Delirious Hem published a conversation between myself and my sister regarding Labyrinth, as part of their "Chick Flix" feature.

I wrote about Rudyard Kipling's Kim, Lisa Robertson's Nilling, and Daniel O'Malley's The Rook for the December 2012 edition of Open Letters Monthly.

I reviewed Anthony Madrid's I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say for the October 2012 edition of Open Letters Monthly.

I wrote about Craig Dworkin's "Mote" and Liz Walder's "Play" for the July 2012 edition of Open Letters Monthly.

I reviewed Brandon Brown's The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus for the April 2012 edition of Open Letters Monthly.

I wrote about Randall Jarrell's approach to criticism for the March 2012 edition of Open Letters Monthly.

I reviewed Kate Schapira's "The Bounty: Four Addresses" and "How We Saved the City" for the February 2012 edition of Open Letters Monthly.

I interviewed Anne Gorrick for the January 2011 edition of Open Letters Monthly.

I reviewed Rebecca Skloot's "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," as part of Open Letters Monthly's look at 2010's nonfiction best-sellers.

My review of Tan Lin's "Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking (Airport Novel Musical Poem Painting Film Photo Hallucination Landscape)" is up at the The Montserrat Review.

You can find my review of Caroline Knox's "Quaker Guns" here.

With Cathy Eisenhower, I edited the Washington DC section of the Portable Boog Reader 4.

I edited the Winter 2009 edition of Beltway Quarterly.

You can find my review of Rachel Loden's "Dick of the Dead" and Kevin Prufer's "National Anthem" here.

You can find my review of Lauren Bender's "The Dictionary Poems" here.

You can find my review of Kate Greenstreet's "Learning the Language" here.

You can find my review of Elizabeth Treadwell's "Cornstarch Figurine" here.