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    • Review of Rachel Loden's Dick of the Dead in Poetry Flash, July 2011.
    • "It's Still Summer! Books By Bay Area Authors" in The Huffington Post, July 2011.
    • "The Hokum of Her Clothes," a review of Dorianne Laux's The Book of Men in The Rumpus, May 2011.
    • "And Then Lapsed Ordinary," a review of Seamus Heaney's Human Chain, in The Rumpus, March 2011.
    • Best Books of Poems of 2010 in The San Francisco Chronicle, December 2009.
    • Review of Christian Wiman, Every Riven Thing in The Rumpus. December 2010.
    • Review of three new books by contemporary British poets: AF Harrold, Maurren Jivani, and Simon Turner in Eyewear. December 2010.
    • Review of Adam Bradley, Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip-Hop and The Anthology of Rap in The San Francisco Chronicle, December 2010.
    • Review of Ai, No Surrender in The Rumpus, November 2010.
    • Review of Sally Ashton, Some Odd Afternoon in Rattle, October 2010.
    • Review of James Longenbach, The Iron Key in The Rumpus, August 2010.
    • Review of Bay Area Poetry (The Place that Inhabits Us: Poems from the San Francisco Bay Watershed; Robert Haas, The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems; Michael McClure, Mysteriosos and Other Poems; Robin Ekiss, The Mansion of Happiness), in The San Francisco Chronicle, April 2010
    • Best Books of Poems of 2009 in The San Francisco Chronicle, December 2009.
    • Review of The Making of a Sonnet, eds. Edward Hirsch and Eavan Boland in The San Francisco Chronicle, March 2008.
    • "Composition, Visual Culture, and the Problem of Class." Essay review in College English, July 2005.
    • Review of The Dirt Is Red Here: Art and Poetry from Native California in Studies in American Indian Literatures, Summer 2004.


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    • Troy Jollimore, Tom Thompson in Purgatory, April 1, 2009.
    • Brenda Shaughnessy, Human Dark with Sugar, April 9, 2009.
    • D. A. Powell, Cocktails, April 21, 2009. 
    • Brian Clements, And How To End It and Disappointed Psalms, April 29, 2009
    • Joan Houlihan, The Us, May 10, 2010.
    • James Thomas Stevens, A Bridge Dead in the Water, May 16, 2010.
    • Simone Muench, Orange Crush, May 26, 2010. 
    • Cristina Garcia, The Lesser Tragedy of Death, May 31, 2010.
    • Natasha Tretheway, On Native Ground, March 27, 2008. 
    • Richard Russo, Bridge of Sighs, September 1, 2008. 
    • LeAnne Howe, Miko Kings, October 2, 2008.