UPCOMING READINGS

• Saturday, March 7, 2026: Tribute to Larry Sawyer. Lit Balm: An Interactive Livestream Reading Series. Time: 5:00-6:45 (eastern). Zoom link forthcoming.

BOOKS

• Elise Cowen: Poems and Fragments (edited collection). Second edition: BlazeVOX [books], 2025. First edition: Ahsahta Press, 2014.
  
  
• The Punishment Book: The Complete Dark Shadows (of My Childhood), Book 4 (poetry and prose). BlazeVOX [books], 2024.
  
  
• Craft: A Memoir (creative nonfiction). Marsh Hawk Press, 2023.
  
  
• The Beats and the Academy: A Renegotiation. Essay collection co-edited with Erik Mortenson. Clemson University Press/Liverpool University Press, 2023.
  
  
• Proof Something Happened (poetry). Marsh Hawk Press, 2021. Winner of the 2020 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize (selected by Susan Howe).
  
  
• Ghosts of the Upper Floor: The Complete Dark Shadows (of My Childhood), Book 3 (poetry and prose). BlazeVOX [books], 2019.
  
  
• Inside the Walls of My Own House: The Complete Dark Shadows (of My Childhood), Book 2 (poetry). BlazeVOX [books], 2016.
  
  
• Dispatches from the Body Politic: Interviews with Jan Beatty, Meg Day, and Douglas Kearney (edited collection of interviews from Radio Free Albion poetry podcast). Essay Press, 2016.
  
  
• The Complete Dark Shadows (of My Childhood), Book 1 (poetry). BlazeVOX, 2014.
  
  
• White Noise (poetry). Apostrophe Books, 2013.
  
  
• Historic Diary (poetry). BlazeVOX, 2011.
  
  
• With the Memory, Which is Enormous (poetry). Main Street Rag, 2009.
  
  
• Make a Joke and I Will Sigh and You Will Laugh and I Will Cry (poetry). Scantily Clad Press, 2008.
  
  
• Visions and Divisions: American Immigration Literature, 1870-1930 (literature anthology). Co-edited with Tim Prchal. Rutgers University Press, 2008.
  
  
• Allen Ginsberg's Buddhist Poetics (criticism). Southern Illinois University Press, 2012 (paperback); 2007 (cloth).
  
  
• The Lama's English Lessons (poetry). Burnsville, MN: Three Candles Press, 2006.
  
  
• "Strange Prophecies Anew": Rereading Apocalypse in Blake, H.D., and Ginsberg (criticism). Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000).

RECENT POEMS AND ESSAYS

• "To Larry Sawyer" (essay). The Fortnightly Review (Feb. 14, 2026).
  
  
• "Paper Boxes" (essay). Unwoven Literary and Arts Magazine 2 (2025).
  
  
• "The night before my reading at Mac's Backs"; "What did my mother feel, sitting in front of the television"; "Collins family lawyer Evan Hanley begins another pompous Prince of Darkness ritual"; and "Count Petofi's servant, Aristede, arrives in Collinwood in a moody overcoat." Mulberry Literary (Fall/Winter 2024).
  
  
• "Section 10, Lot 245, Grave Number 9" and "Relics." Unwoven Literary Magazine (Fall 2024).
  
  
• "Confidence is Prick Weak Since Last Summer"; "The War on Christmas"; and "To Treat Inoculation as Innuendo." Action, Spectacle (Summer 2024).
  
  
• "April Song"; "First Recess"; "In the Dark"; and "A Roll of the Metaphor Dice." R&R Journal (Summer 2024).
  
  
• "Ars Poetica, with Cat." Pleiades 44.1 (Spring 2024): 188.
  
  
• "Dear Stakeholders" and "516 South Lincoln Street." Mulberry Literary 8 (Spring/Summer 2024).
  
  
• "The Steeplejack." The Best American Poetry 2023. Ed. Elaine Equi. Series ed. David Lehman. New York: Scribner, 2023. 108.
  
  
• "Polyamorous Sentence Diagramming" and "Ghost Father." Marsh Hawk Review (Spring 2023).
  
  
• "An epic backup." Southern Poetry Review 60:1 (Fall 2022): 20-21.
  
  
• "The Importance of Being Obstinate." Marsh Hawk Press "Chapter One" Essay Series (October 2022).
  
  
• "In the Intersection, Jackson and State." Reprinted in Wherever I'm At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry. Ed. Albert DeGenova, Don Evans, and Haki Madhubuti. Chicago: After Hours Press, 2022. 191.
  
  
• "Episode 737: January 1, 2020"; "Episode 781: April 6, 2021"; "Episode 807: July 3, 2022." Mystic Owl Magazine (Fall 2022).
  
  
• "The Steeplejack" and "Poem in Praise of My Wife." Marsh Hawk Review (Spring 2022).
  
  
• "On Poetics." The Laurel Review 54 (2021): 76-78.
  
  
• "Writing What You Don't Know: Poetry and the Arcane" (essay). Big Other (December 9, 2021).
  
  
• "Tony Trigilio's Playlist for His Poetry Collection Proof Something Happened." Largehearted Boy (May 26, 2021).
  
  
• "That morning, a terrified phone call." Salamander 51 (Fall/Winter 2020-2021): 38.
  
  
• "Poetic Influence, William Blake: 'You Never Know What is Enough Unless You Know What is More than Enough.'" Marsh Hawk Press "Chapter One" Essay Series (March 2021).