Publications
Books
Essays and Poetry
In Anthologies and Blogs
- "Writing Ekphrastic Poems" (pedagogy) in The Working Poet. Scott Minar, ed. Autumn House Press, 2009. 109–113.
- "Lyric" and "Chaco Canyon, New Mexico" reprinted along with an interview in Poem of the Week. 5 September, 2008.
- "Fragments" (essay) and "Call and Response" (headnote) in Landscapes with Figures: The Nonfiction of Place. Robert Root, ed. University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
- "In Such a Homecoming" (essay) in Good Roots: Ohio Writers Reflect on Growing Up in Ohio, Lisa Watts, ed. Ohio University Press, 2006.
- "Sonnet, Almost" (poem) and interview by W.T. Pfefferle in Poets on Place: Interviews and Tales from the Road. W. T. Pfefferle, Ed. Utah State University Press, 2005.
- "Zero" and "Zero at the Bone" (prose accompaniment) in September 11: American Writers Respond. William Heyen, ed. Etruscan Press, 2002.
- "Dieback" in Urban Nature. Laure-Ann Bosselar, ed. Milkweed Editions, 2000.
- "Lyric," "Like Memory, Caverns," "Touched" in American Poetry: The Next Generation. Gerald Costanzo and Jim Daniels, eds. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2000.
Selected Poetry in Journals
- "Homeopathy," Hamilton Stone Review 20 (2010)
- "Marginalia," OnEarth: environment, politics, people. (2006): 29.
- "Course of Empire: Desolation," Lake Effect 8 (2004): 102–103.
- "In the City of Crows," Plains Song Review 5.6 (2004): 63.
- "Philology," The Laurel Review 38.1 (2004): 80.
- "The Problem of Other Minds" and "All Wounds," Tar River Poetry 43.1 (2003): 23–25.
- "Ethology," Ascent 28.1 (2003): 55–56.
- "Poison Control," "Phineas Gage," and "Substrate," LitRag 16 (2003): 6–8.
- "Narrative Sequence with Landscape," "Pine Tree Bower, My Prism," "The Elimination of Ground," and "Roadcut Disconformity," ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 10.2 (2003): 221–115.
- "Dr. Paterson Has Gone Away to Rest and Write," Tar River Poetry 42.1 (2002): 25–27.
- "Piltdown Man and Surprise Lily," North American Review 287.5 (2002): 45.
- "Surrealism," The Midwest Quarterly 44.1 (2002): 47.
- "Sandbagged" and "In the Teeth," West Branch 50 (2002): 56–58.
- "Zero," OnEarth (formerly The Amicus Journal) 23.4 (2002): 27.
- "The History of Anatomy," LitRag 13 (2001): 6.
- "Ubi Sunt," The Georgia Review 52.4 (1998): 61.
Selected Essays in Journals
- "Megalithic North" forthcoming, Southern Humanities Review.
- "Sinuous," Terrain.org 2010
- "Concentric Canyon," Ascent 2010
- "Refugium," The Laurel Review 43.2 (2009): 105–111.
- "Geochronicity," Orion Magazine (May/June 2008): 52–57.
- "Disorder," The Georgia Review (Spring 2008): 81–94. (Cited as a "Notable Essay" in Best American Essays, 2009).
- "Moonrise Over Chimney Rock," Notre Dame Magazine (Winter 2008): 46–49.
Critical Articles
- "Green Places: The Poetry of James Wright." ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 13.2 (2006): 17–32.
- "Beyond the Blithe Air: Terry Tempest Williams's Post-Nuclear Transcendentalism." In Surveying the Landscapes of Terry Tempest Williams, Katherine R. Chandler and Melissa A. Goldthwaite, eds. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003.
- "Louise Glück: The Ardent Understatement of Postconfessional Classicism." In Contemporary Literature Criticism, Jeff Hunter, ed. Gale Group Publishing, 2002.
- "The Great Rainbowed Swamp: History as Moral Ecology in the Poetry of Michael S. Harper" (article). ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 7.1 (2000): 131–145. Reprinted in Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism. Karla Armbruster and Kathleen Wallace, eds. University of Virginia Press, 2001.
- "Another Version: Michael S. Harper, William Clark, and the Problem of Historical Blindness." Western American Literature 33.1 (1998): 60–72.
- "The Mamas and the Papas: Goddess Worship, the Kogi Indians, and Ecofeminism." National Women's Studies Association Journal 9.3 (1997): 77–88.
- "On the Floor of the Mind: Sentence Shape in Mrs. Dalloway." The Midwest Quarterly 36.3 (1995): 275–288.
- "Poetry, Passion, and Personal Classicism." Kansas Quarterly 24.4 & 25.1 (1994): 194–199.
- "Metamorphosis and Vorticism in The Cantos: How to Read the Allusive Image." The Midwest Quarterly 29.4 (1988): 425–437.
Reviews
- "Dead Reckoning" (review of A Sunday in God Years by Michelle Boisseau. Tar River Poetry 49.1 (Fall 2009): 50–52.
- Review of Superdove: How the Pigeon Took Manhattan…and the World by Courtney Humphries. LBJ: The Avian Life, Literary Arts 1.2 (Summer 2009): 128–130.
- Review of The Wet Collection by Joni Tevis. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 16.1 (Winter 2009): 180–181.
- "A Desolation Made" (review of The Palace of Reasons by Scott Minar). Tar River Poetry 46.1 (Fall 2006): 51–52.
- Review of Rivers and Birds by Merrill Gilfillan. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 12.1 (Winter 2005): 251–252.
- "Voices" (review of Trembling Air by Michele Boisseau). Tar River Poetry Fall 2004: 51–53.
- Review of Poems for the Millennium: 1990–1999 by John Haines. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 10.2 (2003): 264–265.
- "Dark Fire" (review of Scott Minar's The Body's Fire). Tar River Poetry 42.2 (Spring 2003): 49–50.
- Review of Turning over the Earth by Ralph Black. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 9.2: 267–268.
- Review of One Degree West: Reflections of a Plainsdaughter by Julene Bair. Great Plains Quarterly 21.1 (2001): 78–79.
- Review of What the River Means by Elizabeth Hodges. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 7.2 (2000): 281–282.
- Review of Woman and the Sea: New and Selected Poems by Michael Mott. Tar River Poetry 39.2 (2000): 47–50.
- Review of Nine Skies by A.V. Christie and Bruised Paradise by Kevin Stein. Tar River Poetry 38.2 (1999): 50–53.
- Review of Understory by Michelle Boisseau and The Word for Everything by Roger Mitchell. Tar River Poetry 37.1 (1997): 44–50.
- Review of Crazyhorse in Stillness by William Heyen. Tar River Poetry 36.1 (1996): 45–48.
- Review of Green Voices: Understanding Contemporary Nature Poetry by Terry Gifford. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 4.2 (1997): 117–118.
- Review of The Big Empty: Essays on the Land as Narrative edited by Leonard Engel. Journal of the West, July 1996.
