Essays & Commentary:

The Adroit Journal: Time Pieces, lyric essay 2025

The Cleaver: Writing to the End, craft essay 2025

Electric Lit, 10 Books of Poetry of Insistence and Resistence, book list 2025

Largehearted Boy: Book Notes—a playlist for tic tic tic 2025

Lit Hub: How Writing Poetry Can Freeze Time, personal essay 2025

Crab Creek Review: Road Trip to See My Ex in Palm Springs, lyric satire 2024

On the Seawall: Art of Revision/Act of War personal essay 2022

Brevity: Writing in Persona: Language, Lipstick & a Mirror, craft essay 2021

Hunger: The Illusion of Sleep, lyric essay 2021

Hobart Pulp: Everyone Eventually Leaves LA, lyric satire 2021

The Financial Times of London: From Business to Poetry: A Road Less Travelled, personal essay 2021

LitHub: How I Kicked Insomnia & Addiction with the Help of Marilyn Monroe, personal essay 2021

Split Rock Review: On Writing “Dendrochronology”, craft essay 2021

Best American Poetry Guest Editor: Marilyn Monroe, Poet; Marilyn Monroe’s Love of Poetry & Poets; Poets Love Marilyn Monroe; At the Ritz: Plath, Sexton & Monroe; Selfie with Marilyn Monroe: Writing in Persona 2021 Pacific Northwest Poets: Plentiful & Powerful, The Poetry of Bonnie & Clyde, A Delicious Deciduous Debut, A Modern Take on “Marriage”, Over the Moon and Back Again essays and reviews 2019

Blood Tree Literature: That Fall in 1996 When You Dined with Divas, hybrid essay 2018

The Adroit Journal: Editor’s Note, Issue 26, Editors Note, Issue 29, Editor's Note, Issue 30, Editor’s Note, Issue 37, Editor’s Note, Issue 38 Editor’s Note, Issue 54