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• "Politics and Poetry: Do They Really Ever Meet in America?" in The Huffington Post
  
• "Big Loves: Rader on Stevens." Essay on Wallace Stevens' poem "The Man on the Dump" for Memorious.
  
• "British Publisher Touts American Indian Poets." Essay on the Salt Earthworks Series in The San Francisco Chronicle, September 2008.
• "Fabricated Memoirs Defy Reader's Expectations." Op-ed in the Oakland Tribune Newspapers (pdf)
• "American Icon." Op-ed on Barack Obama as pop culture icon in The San Francisco Chronicle, July 2008.
  
• "Core Value." Op-ed piece on the Harvard University core curriculum in The San Francisco Chronicle, July 2007.
  

s e l e c t e d   b l o g   p o s t s

• Are There Iconic Contemporary American Poems? (From The Best American Poetry Blog)
  
• Is San Francisco To Poetry What New York Is To Fiction? (From The Best American Poetry Blog)
  
• Four Contemporary American Indian Poets You May Not Know But Should (From the Best American Poetry Blog)
  
• Poetry for the President (from The Best American Poetry Blog)
  
• On Terrance Hayes
  
• The True Blood Rolling Stone: Revisiting the Naked Cover
• Mad Men: Season Two
• Mad Men and the Middle East
• How the Questions Surrounding Sonia Sotomayor Can Be Answered Via Literary Studies
  
• When Poetry Gets Political: Geoffery Hill and the Oxford Poetry Professorship
• On Elizabeth Alexander's Inaugural Poem
• Joe Biden and Plagiarism
  
• On Elizabeth Alexander as the Inaugural Poet
• On Season Five of The Wire
• Friday Night Lights: The New The Wire
  
• Can't Decide Who To Vote For? It's All About the Inaugural Poem
• Stuff White People Like: Redux
• Now That We Have Pop Music, Why Do We Still Need Poetry?
• Obama and the Whites
• Grading President Obama's Speech on Afghanistan
• Fox News Leaks Draft of Obama's "Welcome Back to School Speech"
• Reading Sarah Palin Swag