Make Make It New New
A brief essay written to commemorate the centenary of Ezra Pound's "A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste." From Poetry, March 2013.

I Thought You Were a Poet
A Notebook essay on poetry and madness from the July/August 2011 issue of Poetry.

The Grand Hotel
Review of new poetry collections by Stephen Edgar and Joel Brouwer. From Poetry, January 2010.

Manifesto
Prose piece written for Poetry magazine and MoMA event commemorating the 100th anniversary of "The Futurist Manifesto" in 2009. Click here for audio of the event, also featuring Charles Bernstein, Thomas Sayers Ellis, and A.E. Stallings.

Commentary on poem 50 from Tennyson’s In Memoriam
From Poetry Daily, a subscriber e-mailing: National Poetry Month "Poet's Pick"). [PDF.]

Introduction to Poetry
Paper delivered at UCLA's Edgar Bowers Conference and Exhibition, April 11, 2003. [PDF.]