Writing
Selected Poetry
"Three Sonnets for the Slaughtered Innocents," Christianity & Literature
Two Poems, MARK (Print)
"The Cloisters," The Yale Review
"Perichoresis," Narrative
Three Poems, Narrative
"Breaclá," TriQuarterly Review
"Manna," Image Journal
"Not an Ocean (Apophasis)," Washington Square Review
"White Hall, VA," Gettysburg Review (Print)
Four Poems, Hampden-Sydney Review (Print)
Two Poems, 32 Poems (Print)
"Geworfenheit," The Adroit Journal
"Three Sonnets for the Slaughtered Innocents," Christianity & Literature
Two Poems, MARK (Print)
"The Cloisters," The Yale Review
"Perichoresis," Narrative
Three Poems, Narrative
"Breaclá," TriQuarterly Review
"Manna," Image Journal
"Not an Ocean (Apophasis)," Washington Square Review
"White Hall, VA," Gettysburg Review (Print)
Four Poems, Hampden-Sydney Review (Print)
Two Poems, 32 Poems (Print)
"Geworfenheit," The Adroit Journal
Selected Prose
“I belonged to the Lord”: On Spencer Reece’s Acts, Commonweal
Hope or Consolation? On Saskia Hamilton’s All Souls, Commonweal
‘A Servant to Order and Erotic Love’: On Richie Hofmann’s A Hundred Lovers, Los Angeles Review of Books
‘Tell Me a Story’: On Noah Warren’s The Complete Stories, Los Angeles Review of Books
On G.C. Waldrep’s The Earliest Witnesses, On the Seawall
‘What Else Would Heaven Be’: On Shane McCrae’s Sometimes I Never Suffered, Los Angeles Review of Books
On Jill Osier’s The Solace is Not the Lullaby, Kiki Petrosino’s White Blood & Alice Oswad’s Nobody, On the Seawall
‘Stronger Than Steel’: On Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s Living Weapon, Los Angeles Review of Books
To Say Two Things at Once: On Kathleen Graber’s The River Twice, Los Angeles Review of Books
Silence That Is Not Silence: On Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic, Los Angeles Review of Books
“I belonged to the Lord”: On Spencer Reece’s Acts, Commonweal
Hope or Consolation? On Saskia Hamilton’s All Souls, Commonweal
‘A Servant to Order and Erotic Love’: On Richie Hofmann’s A Hundred Lovers, Los Angeles Review of Books
‘Tell Me a Story’: On Noah Warren’s The Complete Stories, Los Angeles Review of Books
On G.C. Waldrep’s The Earliest Witnesses, On the Seawall
‘What Else Would Heaven Be’: On Shane McCrae’s Sometimes I Never Suffered, Los Angeles Review of Books
On Jill Osier’s The Solace is Not the Lullaby, Kiki Petrosino’s White Blood & Alice Oswad’s Nobody, On the Seawall
‘Stronger Than Steel’: On Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s Living Weapon, Los Angeles Review of Books
To Say Two Things at Once: On Kathleen Graber’s The River Twice, Los Angeles Review of Books
Silence That Is Not Silence: On Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic, Los Angeles Review of Books
Academic Writing & Presentations
"'You must be taught to love me': On Louise Glück's Choral Lyric," Christianity & Literature (Vol. 74.1, 3/25)
“This sea which utters me”: Reading W.S. Graham’s “The Nightfishing” in the Theological Wake of G.M. Hopkins’s “The Wreck of the Deutschland,” Christianity & Literature (Vol. 73.1, 3/24)
“‘Much against my will’: Robert Lowell’s Theological Lyric,” Duke-UNC Americanist Speaker Series (2/25)
“‘FACT IS IS IS FABLE’: On James Merrill’s Ironic Belief,” ALSCW 2024 (Catholic University)
“the sea bell’s / Perpetual angelus”: On T.S. Eliot’s Marian Poetics," International T.S. Eliot Society Annual Meeting (Presentation)
"'You must be taught to love me': On Louise Glück's Choral Lyric," Christianity & Literature (Vol. 74.1, 3/25)
“This sea which utters me”: Reading W.S. Graham’s “The Nightfishing” in the Theological Wake of G.M. Hopkins’s “The Wreck of the Deutschland,” Christianity & Literature (Vol. 73.1, 3/24)
“‘Much against my will’: Robert Lowell’s Theological Lyric,” Duke-UNC Americanist Speaker Series (2/25)
“‘FACT IS IS IS FABLE’: On James Merrill’s Ironic Belief,” ALSCW 2024 (Catholic University)
“the sea bell’s / Perpetual angelus”: On T.S. Eliot’s Marian Poetics," International T.S. Eliot Society Annual Meeting (Presentation)