Literary Criticism

Scholarship, On Craft, Blogs, Reviews, & Interviews

 

“Post-Apocalyptic Latency Poetics and Living ‘Here’” presented at ASLE 2020
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“Fairy Tale as Transformative Poetics” in Far Villages: Welcome Essays for New & Beginner Poets, Black Lawrence Press, 2020

“Questions of Sustainability, Potable Water, and Swimmer Poetics” at 1508: A Blog Where Poetry Lives, Apr 24, 2020

“Climate Change, Power, & Poetry” at 1508: a Blog Where Poetry Lives, Oct 20, 2019

“Place, Time, & Aloneness: Meditating on Two Poems and Autumn’s Arrival” at 1508: a Blog Where Poetry Lives, Oct 3, 2019

“Secret Written from Inside the Prey’s Mouth: Jeanann Verlee’s PREY” at The Bind, Sept 27, 2019

“Projective Verse and Passing Across the Field of the Page” at 1508: a Blog Where Poetry Lives, August 28, 2019

“The World Begins at a Kitchen Table: Reflections on Joy Harjo” at 1508:a Blog Where Poetry Lives, July 30, 2019

“Diving Into ‘Deep Water Trawling’” at 1508: a Blog Where Poetry Lives, April 22, 2019

“A Field Guide to Vievee Francis’s Forest Primeval” at The Bind, March 22, 2019

“Everywhere Else It’s Just Tuesday” at 1508: a Blog Where Poetry Lives, March 5, 2019

“Going Through the Woods: Little Red Riding Hood in Contemporary Poetry” at 1508: a Blog Where Poetry Lives, February 18, 2019

Review, Kim Garcia’s The Brighter House at The Bind, February 1, 2019

Review, Sally Rosen Kindred's Says the Forest to the Girl at The Bind, December 6, 2018

“Contemporary Odes to the Mundane” at 1508: a Blog Where Poetry Lives, December 6, 2018

“Take Us With You Wherever You Are Going: A Normal Interview with Jessica Jacobs” at The Normal School, November 20, 2018.

“This Is How It Ends: Poetry of the Apocalypse” at 1508: a Blog Where Poetry Lives, October 3, 2018

“Fusion & Fissures in Conjoining by Heidi Czerwiec” in The Bind, Apr. 27, 2018

Review, Human-Ghost Hybrid Project by Carol Guess & Daniela Olszewska at The Bind, December 7, 2017

“The Abstraction of Women Artists,” Midway Journal, January 27, 2017

“The Poetics of Place: On Writing Place as Imagination” in On Place (blog), November 2016

“The Fabulist and Fantastic Edges of Contemporary Southern Women’s Poetry” at Electric Lit, July 19, 2016

Review, Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls by Erika Meitner at The California Journal of Women Writers, November 28, 2014

Interview, Tarfiah Faizullah, at The California Journal of Women Writers, April 22, 2014

“Not a Debate but a Duet: Margaret Atwood’s Two Headed Poems,” The California Journal of Women Writers, December 2, 2013

More Interviews & Reviews at The California Journal of Women Writers, 2013-2015, are archived here.