“Mighty Meta: The Language of Your Book (as a Book)”
Demystifying the Manuscript: Essays and Interviews on Creating a Book of Poems
2023
“Entering the Whirlpool”
American Poets
Fall-Winter 2022
“The End of an MFA: What Happens When a Low-Residency Program Closes?”
Poets & Writers
September / October 2020
“Flexing the Form: Contemporary Innovation in the Sestina”
American Poets
Fall-Winter 2018
“On ‘Burning the Letters’: Immolation as Creative Impulse”
Plath Poetry Project
August 2017
“Craft Capsules”
Poets & Writers online exclusive
April-May 2017
[Read the April 4 capsule: “Find Your Metaphor”]
[Read the April 11 capsule: “Beware the Indeterminate ‘It'”]
[Read the April 17 capsule: “The Art of Targeted Revision”]
[Read the April 25 capsule: “Left Brain, Right Brain”]
[Read the May 2 capsule: “Gin and Scotch Tape”]
[Read the May 9 capsule: “Loving the Rubble”]
“What We Talk About When We Talk About Voice”
The Writer’s Chronicle
February 2017
“Mermaids and Matryoshkas: The Secret Life of a Poetic Sequence”
Poets & Writers
November / December 2015
“Flint and Tinder—Understanding the Difference Between ‘Poetry of Witness’ and ‘Documentary Poetics’”
Poetry Northwest
Summer & Fall 2015
“Prioritizing Place: In Defense of Regionalism”
Poetry Foundation [online]
January 2014
“Nice Poem; I’ll Take It.”
The New York Times Book Review
April 2013
“‘Kilroy Was Here’: Poetry and Metaphor as Signature”
American Poet
April 2012