Journalism, reviews, and interviews
published writings
“They Built Three Homes Together. Now She Must Do It Alone,” The New York Times, April 2024
“Baking with Henley of Honeybody Bakery,” Northforker, September 2023
“Simplicity > Perfection: A Note to 7-Eleven Pizza, With Love,” Whalebone, August 2023
“Reviving the Legacy of ‘Christ in Concrete’: Pietro di Donato’s Classic Novel,” Newsday, January 2022
“How a Barber and Journaling Expert Spends His Sundays,” The New York Times, September 2021
“Tension in Poetry: The Hidden Art of Line-Writing,” Writer’s Digest, April 2021
“The Trail Blazer,” Power & Motoryacht, January 2021 Issue
“Play That Again: Colorado Inmates Pour Heart, Hope, & Faith Into ‘Territorial’ LP,” Grammy.com, September 2020
“King of Composites,” Power & Motoryacht, May 2020 Issue
“Can Outward Bring Together Cops and Kids in Baltimore?,” Amtrak’s The National, December 2019/January 2020 Issue
“Handball Prepares to Crown Another King of the Court in Queens,” amNewYork, July 2019
“Examining the Evolution of Trash Talk From The Streets to The Hardwood,” UPROXX Dime Magazine, February 2019
“Diane Williams: When a Master of the Short Short Goes Long,” Literary Hub, October 2018
“The House That Marty Built: Lessons From a Legendary Poetry Teacher,” Teachers & Writers Collaborative, August 2018
“Got Milk? How the iconic campaign came to be, 25 years ago,” Fast Company, June 2018
“The Amoral Artist,” Guernica, February 2018
“Finishing What You Start: A Conversation with Musician Matt Kivel,” The Rumpus, April 2017
“Meet the Boatbuilders Doing the Dirty Work That Makes Sailing Beautiful,” Outside Magazine, September 2016
“Are We That Good? Has Binge-Watching Made Us Better – or Worse – TV Watchers?” Decider.com, August 2016
“When a Descendant of Witch Hunters Writes a Novel About Salem,” Literary Hub, August 2016
“Exploring the Innate Art of Navigation, from Ancient Cults to London Cabs,” Outside Magazine, May 2016
“Kwame Dawes on Rhythm, Diaspora, and Political Poetry,” Literary Hub, March 2016
“I Enjoy That Confusion: Paul Rome and Roarke Menzies’ Philadelphia and Other Stories,” The Rumpus, January 2015
“Saint Friend by Carl Adamshick,” The Rumpus, September 2014
“Inappropriate Behavior by Murray Farish,” Electric Literature, September 2014
“Lucidity, Faith, and Generations: A Review of Scott Cheshire’s ‘High As the Horses’ Bridles,’” Volume 1. Brooklyn, July 2014
“Who’s Having So Much Fun? An Interview with Courtney Maum,” Tin House, July 2014
“The Power of History,” Los Angeles Review of Books, April 2014
“Inscriptions for Headstones,” The Brooklyn Rail, July 2013
“The Status is Quo,” The Brooklyn Rail, June 2013
“Interview with Lauren Groff,” The Brooklyn Rail, March 2013
“Love is Singly Blind,” BOMBlog, January 2013
“Imagist Aesthete: On Bianca Stone’s New Chapbook,” Tottenville Review, Issue #6
“The Fallback Plan by Leigh Stein,” Electric Literature, January 2012
“Donald Antrim’s The Verificationist,” InDigest Magazine, December 2011
Poetry
“Sitting in the back of a pick-up after a fire simulation, reminded of what it’s like to have a tacit future,” Nova Literary-Arts Magazine, March 2025
“Recovering Spanish Teacher,” The Nervous Breakdown, March 2017
“For Our Son, with Love On Your Birthday”; “Poem for Returning,” Yes, Poetry, April 2015
“The Minutes,” The Adirondack Review, Fall 2014
“Tymbals,” “Last Days,” “Walkers,” Noncannon Quarterly, Volume 2
“Vertices,” “Tourist Trap,” Gigantic Magazine, Issue #5
“Monday, Three Days Later,” Forklift, Ohio, Winter 2013
“Three Premises Above Pemetic Mountain,” Tuesday; An Art Project, April 2013
“Snow in the Garden,” The Southampton Review, Spring 2013
“Ripe Order,” "On Second Thought,” Construction Magazine, June 2012
“Parasol,” elimae, September 2011
“The White Dog,” “Tremor Cordis,” Slice Magazine, Issue #9
“Lottery,” Anderbo, April 2011
“The Dog’s Tail,” Assisi, April 2011
“Poem for Leaving,” InDigest Magazine, February 2011
fiction
“Me, You, the Young Man, the Dying Woman, and the Watch,” Prairie Schooner (forthcoming)
“The Coldest Night,” Emerge Literary Journal (forthcoming)
“Spitting,” Handwritten & Co., Fall 2023
“Late in Early Quarter,” Works Progress, August 2023
“Bird and Balloon Go Racing,” River Styx #105/106, *2021 microfiction contest winner, forthcoming July 2022
“On Shaft Mining,” Blue Earth Review, Issue 19
“In Lost Time,” Penny, January 2016
“Drone Warfare,” Tin House Flash Fridays series, July 2015
“Spells,” Joyland Magazine, January 2013
Personal essays
“Thank You for Coming: A Remembrance of the Gratitude and the Gorgeousness of Public Readings,” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, April 2021
“Non Quis, Sed Quid,”Epiphany, November 2020
“Photos That Remember Us,” The Rumpus, January 2015