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Reviews and Essays (see personal web site for full list)

• "Directing the Dream." American Book Review, v29 n6 September/October, 2008, online p3L-4L. (on the poetry of Eileen Tabios)
• Review of The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century,. Boston Review, v32 n6 November/December 2007.
• "Color Coded." American Book Review, v28 n6 September/October 2007, p20-21. (on the poetry of Harryette Mullen)
• "Self and the City." American Book Review, v27 n6 September/October 2006, p16-7. (on the poetry of Lawrence Joseph)
• "E Pluribus Feldman." American Book Review, v27 n2 January/February 2006, p13-4. (on the poetry of Irving Feldman)
• Review of New and Selected Poems, 1974-2004 by Carl Dennis. Manhattan Review, v12 n1, 2005-06, p. 186-7.
• "Not in My Language." American Book Review, v26 n6 September/October 2005, p3,7. (on the poetry of Taylor Brady)
• "Au Contraire." American Book Review, v26 n5 July/August 2005, p21, 23. (on the poetry of Bill Knott)
• Review of In a Landscape of Having to Repeat by Martha Ronk. Boston Review, v30 n2 April/May 2005, Web-only content
• "Order That of Itself Can Speak." American Book Review, v26 n4, May/June 2005, p17,22. (on the poetry of John Taggart)
• "Philip Booth." in The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry, edited by Burt Kimmelman. New York: Facts on File, 2005. p58-9.
• "William Everson." in The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry, edited by Burt Kimmelman. New York: Facts on File, 2005. p156.
• "Dana Gioia." in The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry, edited by Burt Kimmelman. New York: Facts on File, 2005. p183-4.
• "Albert Goldbarth." in The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry, edited by Burt Kimmelman. New York: Facts on File, 2005. p185-6.
• "David Lehman." in The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry, edited by Burt Kimmelman. New York: Facts on File, 2005. p275.
• "Rochelle Owens." in The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry, edited by Burt Kimmelman. New York: Facts on File, 2005. p365-6.
• Review of Matter by Bin Ramke. Boston Review, v30 n1 February/March 2005, p55.
• "Writing Where the Ink Never Dries." American Book Review, v25 n3, March-April 2004, p9-10. (on the Light & Dust Poetry Anthology)
• "Five Ordinary Lives." American Book Review, v25 n2, January-February 2004, p16,18. (On five recent poetry collections from Carnegie-Mellon University Press)
• Review of Combinations of the Universe by Albert Goldbarth. Boston Review, v28 n6 December 2003/January 2004, p59.
• "Taking Measurements of Will and Circumstance." Boston Review, v28 n2, April/May 2003, p54-55. (On the poetry of Garrett Kalleberg)
• "Intertextu[re]ality." Electronic Poetry Review, #5, February 2003. (On the poetry of Stephanie Strickland)
• Review of Fugue State by Bill Berkson. Boston Review. v27 n4, October/November 2002.
• Review of Florida Poems by Campbell McGrath. Boston Review. v27 n3, Summer 2002.
• "Seeming is Believing." Electronic Poetry Review, #4, October 2002. (On the poetry of Rae Armantrout)
• Review of Hourglass Transcripts by Susan Gevirtz. Boston Review. v27 n3, Summer 2002.
• Review of Breakers. Selected Poems by Paul Violi. Rain Taxi Review of Books Online, Winter, 2001.
• "Curiouser and Curiouser." American Book Review, v22 n2, January/February 2001, p. 4. (on the poetry of Fanny Howe)
• "Epistolary Friction." Electronic Poetry Review, #2, June/July 2001. Review of Joe Wenderoth's Letters to Wendy's.
• "The Travels of Marco Goldbarth." American Book Review, v21 n4, May/June 2000, p. 18. (on the poetry of Albert Goldbarth)
• "A Poet's Calligraphy." American Book Review, v21 n3, March/April 2000, p. 19. (on the poetry of Michael Ondaatje)
• "Ambiguity Isn't What It Used to Be -- Or Is It?" The Georgia Review, Spring 1998, v52 n1, p142-160. (on difficulty in contemporary poetry)
• "The Poet Always Rings Twice." Electronic Poetry Review, #1, July 1996. (on poetry by Robert Polito)
• "Poets in the Essay's House." The Bookpress, v9 n2 March 1996, p.8-9. On the essays of Judith Kitchen & Albert Goldbarth.
• "Joel Oppenheimer's Urban Architecture." Creeping Bent, Spring 1987, #5, p.41-47.
• "Carruth's Conscience." Northwest Review, v25 n2 1987, p.135-140. On poet Hayden Carruth.
• "Traditional Form and the Living, Breathing American Poet." New England Review/Bread Loaf Quarterly, v9 n2 Winter 1986, p.217-241.
• "The Verifiable Art of William Bronk." Northwest Review, v21 nl 1983, p.161-166.