Missouri's current poet laureate, Maryfrances Wagner interviewed me for her podcast series, The Literary State. Check out my short episode and the others as well!

My article "Writing White: Martha Collins's Poetry of Collective Memory" is out in the most recent issue of Literary Imagination, published by the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers. They've made the full issue available for reading for free, including all the scholarly articles and poems from notable poets such as Rita Dove, Nichole Sealey, and Major Jackson. Check it out. 

My poem "Shale" appears in the current issue of Radar Poetry, a journal that features poems alongside original artwork. I love the piece the editors chose to pair with my poem, pictured above. It's called "Shelter in Place" by Sarah Detweiler from a series of hooded figures. Thank you Radar!

My essay "Misreading" was published as part of Entropy Magazine's "Variations on a Theme" series. This series features essays by writers exploring music in a variety of ways. I write about Liz Phair's "Only Son" from her 1998 album whitechocolatespaceegg.

I'm the faculty adviser of William Jewell College's student arts magazine, Inscape. Despite the challenges of the pandemic, we were able to come together and release an issue. It's out now!