Review-essays & essays
Poetic Justice: Books for Troubled Times, A Review-Essay, on Kimberly Blaeser, Martín Espada, Fabu, Daniel Khalastchi, Margaret Rozga, & Chuck Rybak in Verse Wisconsin, 106 (July 2011)
Tradition & the Individual Sonnet, or Listen! Iambic Verse Has Variation in Verse Wisconsin, 105 (March 2011)
The Essay That I Begin Writing While Walking to the Wisconsin Capitol Trying to Discern the Right Question, 2/24/11, in Verse Wisconsin, Main Street (2011)
god-xings: belief intersects Wisconsin poetry in Verse Wisconsin, 104 (Fall 2010)
Ninety-fifth Street by John Koethe, and The Living Fire, New and Selected Poems by Edward Hirsch Verse Wisconsin 104 (Fall 2010)
Poets Laureate: Kay Ryan, The Best of It; Maxine Kumin, Where I Live, New and Selected Poems, in Women’s Review of Books, Sept-Oct 2010
bending the retina’s mirror to the world’s beat: new books by younger Wisconsin poets [Brenda Cárdenas, boomerang; Brent Goodman, the brother swimming beneath me; Nick Lantz, We Don’t Know We Don’t Know; John Murillo, Up Jump the Boogie; Matt Schumacher, The Fire Diaries; Angela Sorby, Bird Skin Coat; Bianca Spriggs, Kaffir Lily] in Verse Wisconsin, 103 (Summer 2010)
Defamiliarize Yourself: The Halo Rule by Teresa Leo; Sister by Nickole Brown; Ordinary Beans by GwynMcVay; Bonneville by Jenny Mueller; The Gravity Soundtrack by Erin Keane, in Women’s Review of Books, Jan-Feb 2009, Reprinted on Poetry Daily
History and More : Martha Collins’ Blue Front, Leslie Adreienne Miller’s Resurrection Trade, Penelope Scambly Schott’s A is for Anne, Alaina Hairston’s Logan Topographies, in Women’s Review of Books, April-May, 2008
Selected recent reviews
Black Nature, ed. by Camille T. Dungy, in Verse Wisconsin 107 (Nov. 2011)
For a Limited Time Only, by Ron Wallace, in Free Verse 99/100, 2009
Modern Life, by Matthea Harvey, in Rain Taxi Review, May 2008
Gilgamesh at the Bellagio, by Karl Elder, in Free Verse, 96, 2008
Milwaukee Does Strange Things To People: New & Selected Poems 1979-2007, by Susan Firer, in Free Verse, 96, 2008
Scholarship Girl, by Lesley Wheeler, in Rattle, Sept 2008
Short Story and Other Short Stories, by Cory Mesler, Poemeleon, Dec 2007