Sample Work
POEMS
“Category Error” / shortlisted for the 2020 Montreal International Poetry Prize
“Wreck” / American Literary Review
“Dog Pissing on a Statue of the Buddha” / storySouth
“Even the River” / The Collagist
“A Shape with Forty Wings” / Verse Daily
“Weather” / shortlisted for the 2015 Montreal International Poetry Prize
“The Way They Loved Each Other” / “On Being” (American Public Media radio program)
“Hedonist’s Prayer” / The Other Journal
“Vapor of Vapors” / The Curator
“Dignity and the River” / Bluestem
TRANSLATIONS
from the French of Stella Vinitchi Radulescu
5 poems from A Cry in the Snow / EuropeNow
an excerpt from “Journal with Closed Eyes” / World Literature Today
a selection of verse & prose / New Poetry in Translation
4 translations & an interview / Connotation Press
an excerpt from “Journal with Closed Eyes” / Verse Magazine
“the earth begins” / Blue Lyra Review
4 translations / Asheville Poetry Review
“day and night” / Levure littéraire
ESSAYS
“Nepotistic American Poetry” / Medium.com
“My Griefs to Sing: A Review of Christian Wiman’s Selected Poems” / West Branch
“Metaphysical Courage: A Review of Bruce Beasley’s Theophobia” / 32 Poems blog
“Which I is I?: A Review of books by Scott Cairns, Tarfia Faizullah, & Franz Wright” / Image
“Song Out of Ruin: A Review of Betsy Sholl’s Otherwise Unseeable” / Southern Humanities Review
“Poet & Priest: A Review of Spencer Reece’s The Road to Emmaus” / Books & Culture
“The Soul’s Country: A Reveiw of Patrice de la Tour du Pin’s Psalms of All My Days” / 32 Poems blog
“The Poem as Devotional Practice” / Contemporary Poetry Review