On allusions & reference, in The New York Times
The best poetry of 2024, in The New York Times
“The Essay as Realm” in The Georgia Review
On clouds in poetry and art, in The New York Times
“Fear as a Game” in The Believer
Five favorite books about books, in The Atlantic
“Second Selves” in The Paris Review
On “the speaker” in poetry, in The New York Times
On keeping a reading list, in The Washington Post
The best poetry of 2023, in The New York Times
On two books by Terrance Hayes, in The New York Times
On short poems, in The New York Times
On self-pity, in POETRY
On beginnings, in The New York Times
“A Place for Fire” in the Paris Review
The Best Poetry of 2022, in the New York Times
On Jorie Graham, in the New York Times
“On Beginner’s Luck” in Lit Hub
“Why Write?” in The Paris Review
“Dream House” in Epoch
“The Shape of the Void: Toward a Definition of Poetry” in The New York Times
“A Poem (and a Painting) About the Suffering That Hides in Plain Sight” (on Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts”) in The New York Times
“The Lyric Decision: How Poets Figure Out What Comes Next” in The New York Times
“The Leap” in Grand Journal
“A Field Guide to Productivity Apps” in The Believer
On Louise Glück in The New York Times
“Seeing and Being Are Not the Same” (introduction to The Voyage Out) in the Paris Review Daily
On June Jordan and Muriel Rukeyser in The New York Times
“A Complicating Energy: Notes on a Year Without Strangers” in Harper’s
On punctuation in poetry in The New York Times
“The Year in Self-Googling” in Hazlitt
“The Intolerable, I Guess” (Poetry Foundation)
“Safe” in The Yale Review
“Poems from the Storm: On Climate Poetry” in the New York Review of Books
“Hoarding Instincts” in Real Life
“Nostalgia for a Less Innocent Time: On the Glory and Depravity of Hair Metal” in the Paris Review Daily
“The Uncanny Child” in the Paris Review Daily
“Proust and the Joy of Suffering” in the Paris Review Daily
“The Stupid Classics Book Club” in the Paris Review Daily
“On Classic Party Fiction” in the Paris Review Daily
“Weird Time in Frankenstein” in the Paris Review Daily
“Against Completism” in the Paris Review Daily
“On Writerly Jealousy” in the Paris Review Daily
“The Great Mortality” in Real Life
“Letter of Recommendation: Recently Returned Books” in the New York Times Magazine
“Is compassion fatigue inevitable in an age of 24-hour news?” in The Guardian Long Read (also available as a podcast)
“Big & Slow” in Real Life
“Crash Course” in the New York Times Magazine
“Doomsday Pattern” in Real Life
“True Crime” in Real Life
“On the Pleasures of Front Matter” in the Paris Review Daily
“In Our Midst” in Real Life
“Picture Yourself Happy” in Real Life
“The Little Room, or the Unreality of Memory” in Pacific Standard
“Earth Is Not Vengeful, Just Indifferent” in Pacific Standard
“NASA’s Overlooked Duty to Look Inward” in the New Yorker
“Magnificent Desolation” in Real Life
“Vanity Project” in Real Life
“Can Ideas Withstand Shifts in Language?” in Guernica
“Personal Data: Notes on Keeping a Notebook” in Catapult
“Variations on Crying” in The Butter
“Dream Logic” in The Butter