stuff that’s online
“Tread Depth” in MEMO
“Sweet Elsewhere #7: So You Want to Be a Writer?” via ONLY POEMS
“Sweet Elsewhere #6: Hide and Seek Champions” via ONLY POEMS
“Sweet Elsewhere #5: And You, You Ridiculous People, You Expect Me to Help You” via ONLY POEMS
“Sweet Elsewhere #4: Just Missed” via ONLY POEMS
“Sweet Elsewhere #3: Not This One” via ONLY POEMS
“Sweet Elsewhere #2: Wonderful Verse!” via ONLY POEMS
“Sweet Elsewhere: On Yearning, Failure, & the Endless Pursuit” via ONLY POEMS
“Give ’em Something to Talk about: Love, Generosity, and Wonder in the Portrait of the Artist Workshop” co-written with Florence Gonsalves in Journal of Creative Writing Studies
“A Peculiar People” (excerpt of All of Us Together in the End @ Spectrum Magazine
“Intrigue, Not Critique: On the ‘Portrait of the Artist Feedback Model.’” at LitHub. (w/ Florence Gonsalves)
“The Blinking Lights in the Wood.” Excerpt from All of Us Together in the End @ Oxford American
“Heaven Is Touching Earth with Rest” in Gravy. Excerpt from All of Us Together in the End
“Unbeknownst” in Catapult’s Tiny Nightmares
“The Other, Invented Man” in The Sun
“Fat Kid” in Autre
“Hereafter” in Damnation.
“When It Comes to Innovation There Are No Modest Ideas” in Juked.
“Good Friday” in Litro Magazine.
“Dispatch from a Pandemic: Blacksburg, VA” in Another Chicago Magazine.
“Quarantine Diary” at Statement of Record.
“Okay to Die” at The Rupture.
“Easter Sunday” in Booth.
“The Fiscal Technician from Mt. Rogers” at Monkeybicycle.
“What Happened on December 21, 2019” at Essay Daily.
“Power Animals” at Shenandoah.
“‘Routine’ is a French Word Derived from ‘Route’ or ‘Path’ Denoting a Usual Course of Action” at Statement of Record.
“On the Enduring Power of ‘Once More to the Lake’”at Essay Daily.
“Perfume Wars” at Peatsmoke.
“Outlaw” at Cartridge Lit.
“Founders” at Miracle Monocle.
“Good Old Leon” in SmokeLong Quarterly.
“Notes for an Essay on Special Music” at Essay Daily.
“The Literary Masquerade: Writing Stories Disguised as Other Forms of Writing” in Glimmer Train‘s monthly Bulletin.
“Surviving Modern Times: Meditation through Status Updates” and “Spoiler Alert” at LitHub.
“June Twenty First, Two Thousand Eighteen” at Essay Daily.
“Sinkhole” at The Rupture.
“Land of Enchantment,” “Inferno,” and “Tiger Moth” in Flyway.
“101 Oak Street” at Territory.
“The Subordinate Fragment” in Baltimore Review.
“Night Thoughts” in Electric Literature’s Okey-Panky.
“Observatorium,” “Hands Up,” “Storm Box,” “Game Day,” and “Eye of the Storm” in The Scofield.
“Black Magic” and “Trick-or-Treat” in New Orleans Review.
“Blood Soup” at Booth.
“Brain Bank” at The Fanzine.
“Status Update,” “Hatchling,” “Last Blood,” “Robocall,” “Can’t Feel My Face,” “33rd Balloon,” “Fool’s Gold,” “Top Secret,” “Holy Hours,” and “Bring Me the Head of Geraldo Rivera” all at The Brooklyn Rail.
“The Mountain Man” in Wabash Magazine.
“Hubby” at River Teeth.
“Failures of Imagination” in New Orleans Review.
“21st Century Prose: We Like Words and Voices and That For Which We Have No Name” at Essay Daily.
“Influenced by.. Nicholson Baker” at The Believer Logger.
“An Imperfect Gentleman” in Wabash Magazine.
“For Flight Attendants Giving Safety Speeches” at Airplane Reading.
“For Beds,” “For Actors in Pornographic Films,” and “For Not Knowing” at New Orleans Review.
“This I Believed” in The Sun.
“Epitaph XXXIII.” VINYL.
Epitaph IX (excerpt) at New England Review.
“If I Should Ever Lose My Mind” in The Sun.
“Keeper of the Flame” in New England Review (also included in Best American Essays 2013).
Epitaph XIV at Hobart.
“Epitaph 34” in Ghost Town.
“NeVer ForgeT” in Ecotone.
“Epitaph 5,” “Epitaph 19,” and “Epitaph 40” in Phoebe.
“Epitaph 54” at The Rupture.
“Epitaph 25” at elimae.
“Epitaph 37” & “Epitaph 38” at DIAGRAM.
“No News Today,” at Robert Lopez’s blog.
“Bodies” in r.kv.r.y.
“Fighting It” in Eyeshot.
“Future Missionaries of America” in Epoch. (Read excerpt at the NEA website.)
“Light Work” in NC3.
“The Ghost of Bob Ross Paints Shit Town” in Sweet Fancy Moses.
“Adolescence” in Pindeldyboz.
“The Gospel of Mark Schneider” in Virginia Quarterly Review.
“The Black Twins” in Pindeldyboz.
“Interview with a Man with Two Heads” in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.
“The Last Blog” in PRISM International.
“Oh Land of National Paradise, How Glorious Are Thy Bounties” in Paris Review. Listen to an excerpt here.
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