Prose

Online

• “Warsaw Dispatch,” a series—in Michigan Quarterly Review Blog (August 2013 – September 2014)
  • Where Benches Play Chopin (August 7, 2013)
  • What’s in a Joke? (August 16, 2013)
  • Cultivating an Aesthetic Present (October 7, 2013)
  • Success, an Experiment (October 16, 2013)
  • On Dinner with Jimmy Page (October 23, 2013)
  • Antidote to the Season of Hell (November 7, 2013)
  • Nie Rozumiem. Rozumiem. (November 21, 2013)
  • Success, a Report (December 29, 2013)
  • I Call This Friendship (February 3, 2014)
  • Where Are You From? (March 31, 2014)
  • On Daffodils (April 29, 2014)
  • Holster Your Weapon (June 11, 2014)
  • Your Place? (September 1, 2014)
• “Integrating Black and White, Chipping Away at Unproductive Scapegoatery”—in Michigan Quarterly Review Blog (April 20, 2013)
• “A Ritual History”—in “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Genealogy, Ancestry, and the (Re)making of Selves,” curated by Virginia Konchan, Michigan Quarterly Review Blog (August 29, 2012)
• “Transitioning the Great Sadness”—in Michigan Quarterly Review Blog (June 20, 2011)
• “Things You Can Do”—in Michigan Quarterly Review Blog (April 22, 2011)
• “Top 40 Sweet Cheeks: Cee-Lo, Gwyneth, Dap-dippin’ & the Motown Legacy”—in Michigan Quarterly Review Blog (January 17, 2011)
• “An Elegy: Fine Things, Flip-side(s) & Transformation”—in The Offending Adam (2010, 029.2)
• “On Retreat in Vermont”—in Michigan Quarterly Review Blog (December 6, 2010)
• “On the Read Again”—in Michigan Quarterly Review Blog (November 15, 2010)
• “Narrative Possibility & the Broadly Real”—in Michigan Quarterly Review Blog (November 8, 2010)
• “Generation Gulf”—in Michigan Quarterly Review Blog (October 4, 2010)
• “You Are What You Eat”—in Michigan Quarterly Review Blog (August 28, 2010)
• The Unrequited by Carrie St. George Comer, A Review—in Verse Online (April 29, 2005)

Print

• “The Challenge of Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters: (Re)Claiming Wholeness”—in The Future Is Now: A New Look at African Diaspora Studies, Vanessa Valdes, ed. (2012, Cambridge Scholars Press)
• “A Prescription for Wholeness: Resisting the Discourse of Difficulty to Embrace Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters”—in Let Spirit Speak!: Cultural Journeys through the African Diaspora (2012, SUNY Press)
• “Re-visioning the Scope of Analysis for Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters: Transforming the Reader to Transform the Reading” in Turning Points and Transformations: Essays on Language, Literature and Culture, Christine Devine and Marie Hendry, eds. (2011, Cambridge Scholars Press)
• “Budget Cuts & the Illusion of Access”—in Flagpole (April 15, 2009)
• “Two Georgias & the Cost of Coal”—in Flagpole (April 2008)
• “How to Hunt & Gather”—2006 Editors’ Choice in the Mid-American Review (Spring 2007, vol. XXVII, no. 2)
• “Monsters, Monsters Everywhere: The State of Nonfiction and Memoir,” commissioned by The Michigan Quarterly Review (winter 2007)
• “Poetic Sequence the Gen Y Way: Ben Lerner’s The Lichtenberg Figures,” commissioned for a special issue of Verse on the poetic sequence (Volume 22, Numbers 2 & 3, spring 2006)

  

  

  

MQR Blog

In August 2010, I joined the Michigan Quarterly Review as their founding Blog Editor, and I enlisted a globally dispersed roster of award-winning creatives to contribute. For the next four and a half years, we brought you the MQR Blog, an eclectic of mix criticism and creative nonfiction.