DEGREES

BOOKS

CHAPBOOKS

POEMS PUBLISHED IN

ANTHOLOGIZED WORK IN

• More Truly & More Strange:  100 Contemporary Self-Portrait Poems (forthcoming, Persea Books, 2020).
• The Mind of : 50 Contemporary Poets on Jefferson (University of Virginia Press, 2016).
• The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses (Alfred A. Knopf, 2016).
• The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (Ahsahta Press, 2012).
• Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion and Spirituality (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2011).  
• Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability (Cinco Punto Press, 2011).
• Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Books, 2006).

SELECTED ESSAYS, ARTICLES, REVIEWS

• “Martha Ronk’s Distressed Lyrics.” North American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Beyond Lyric and Language. Eds. Kazim Ali and Lisa Sewell (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2019, forthcoming).
• “The Earth is Full of Men.” 21|19 : Contemporary Poets in the Nineteenth-Century Archive Eds. Kristen Case and Alexandra Manglis (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2019).
• “The Apophatic Pilgrim: Simone Weil and Fanny Howe.” Quo Anima: innovation and spirituality in contemporary women’s poetry Eds. Jennifer Phelps and Elizabeth Robinson (Akron: University of Akron Press, 2019).
• “The Good Life: A Valediction of Ecopoetry,” in Harriet: A Poetry Blog (January 29, 2019).
• “En Plein Air in Harriet: A Poetry Blog (January 21, 2019).
• “Textual Preference,” in Harriet: A Poetry Blog (January 14, 2019).
• “On the Brink: On the Centenary of Robert Duncan’s Birth,” in Harriet: A Poetry Blog” (January 2, 2019).
• “How to Be a Dandy in the Age of Mass Culture: Notes on Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music," Kimmel Center for Performing Arts (August 24, 2018).
• “’To Weave Ever Themes of Love’: New Narrative and the Berkeley Renaissance.” From Our Hearts to Yours: New Narrative as Contemporary Practice. Eds. Rob Halpern and Robin Tremblay-McGaw (Oakland: On Contemporary Practice, 2017).
• “Four letters from one window, Philadelphia, February 2014: On Kathleen Fraser’s Wing.” Dear Kathleen: On the Occasion of Kathleen Fraser's 80th Birthday. Eds. Susan Gevirtz & Stephen Motika (Callicoon: Nightboat Books, 2017).
• “The Best Job on Earth: On the Poetry of C. D. Wright,” in Harriet: A Poetry Blog (January 12, 2017).
• “Into Openness: An Interview with Jean Valentine,” Los Angeles Review of Books (November 28, 2015).
• “Reading Carson Reading Brontë RE: the Soul’s Difficult Sexual Destiny.” Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre. Ed. Joshua Marie Wilkinson (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015).
• “Guest Review: Bhanu Kapil’s Ban en banlieue,” On the Seawall (April 15, 2014).
• “My grandmother’s name was Lorine.” The Force of What’s Possible: Writers on Accessibility and the Avant-Garde. Ed. Lily Hoang and Joshua Marie Wilkinson (Callicoon: Nightboat Books, 2014).
• “The Marriage of Granite and Rainbow: A Biography of Robert Duncan,” Boston Review (November 7, 2013).
• “Spectral Evidence: Archive & Afterlife.” Common-place: The Journal of the American Antiquarian Society, 12.3 (April 2012).
• “‘The History/of the World Without Words’: Mysticism and Social Conscience in the Poetry of Jean Valentine.” This-World Company: On the Poetry of Jean Valentine. Eds. Kazim Ali and John Hoppenthaler (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012).
• “Everything Comes Close: On Eileen Myles’ Snowflake/Different Streets,” Los Angeles Review of Books (August 24th, 2012).
• “’There is no strict personal order//for my inheritance.’” “Q&A: American Poetry.” Ed. Brett Fletcher Lauer. Poetry Society of America (July 19, 2010).
• “Our Dionysian Experiment: Three Theses on the Poetry of Thom Gunn.” At the Barriers: The Poetry of Thom Gunn. Ed. Josh Weiner (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009).
• “Revelation: The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest,” Boston Review, 34.1 (January/February 2009).
• “Whole New World: Alice Notley’s Grave of Light,” Boston Review, 32.1 (January/February 2007).

EDITORIAL POSITIONS

• Editor & Publisher, Albion Books
• Editorial Board, Poetry Daily

HONORS

• Woodberry Poetry Room Creative Grant (Harvard University), 2019-20
• MacDowell Colony Fellowship, 2016
• Henry David Thoreau Environmental Writing Fellowship (Vermont Studio Center), 2016
• Pew Fellowship in the Arts, 2015-17
• Finalist,Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, 2014
• Fund for Poetry Award, 2013
• American Antiquarian Society Visiting Fellowship for Historical Research, 2011
• Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, 2011
• Lambda Literary Award for Gay Male Poetry, 2010
• Pavement Saw Press Chapbook Prize, 2009
• Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Poetry, 2006
• Residency, MacDowell Colony, 2005
• Winner, Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, 2004
• Literature Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 2003
• Brittingham Prize (University of Wisconsin Press), 2003
• MacDowell Colony Fellowship, 2003
• Phillip Roth Residency in Creative Writing (Bucknell University), 2003
• Wallace E. Stegner Fellowship (Stanford University), 2000-02