I contributed an essay to an exciting new collection of essays on Wallace Stevens entitled The New Wallace Stevens Studies, edited by Bart Eeckhout and Gül Bilge Han, which was recently published by Cambridge University.

My piece argues that Stevens’s influence on poets of the New York School (like Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, James Schuyler, Ted Berrigan) — and the avant-garde more broadly — has been overlooked, to the detriment of both.  

For more on my piece, see this post at Locus Solus.

An essay of mine about Elizabeth Bishop recently appeared in a terrific new collection of essays called Elizabeth Bishop in Context, edited by Angus Cleghorn and Jonathan Ellis for Cambridge University Press. My piece examines Bishop’s fraught but deep relationship to surrealism and the avant-garde.

Back in 2019, I wrote this piece for Berfois about math, poetry, John Ashbery’s “Soonest Mended,” the writer and mathematician Jordan Ellenberg, and my STEM-obsessed son Dylan.

Finally catching up on some old pieces that I never got around to posting about here: in late 2019 I wrote this article about the wonderful Frank O’Hara exhibit at the newly renovated Museum of Modern Art for Apollo Magazine.

Here are links to some recent book reviews I’ve written:

— For On the Seawall, I reviewed The Selected Letters of John Berryman.

— For American Literature, I reviewed two recent scholarly books on twentieth- and twenty-first century American fiction, Postmodernism in Pieces: Materializing the Social in U.S. Fiction by Matthew Mullins and Lyrical Strategies: The Poetics of the Twentieth-Century American Novel by Katie Owens-Murphy.

— For On the Seawall, I reviewed Bill Berkson’s posthumous memoir, Since When: A Memoir in Pieces.