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• "In Which Twombly & Rader Consider the Letter" in Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy. Eds Simmons Buntin, Elizabeth Dodd, and Dereck Sheffield. Trinity University Press, 2020.
• "The Fire that Consumes All before It," a poem that enters into conversation with Twombly's massive ten-part painting Fifty Days at Iliam, accompanied by an interview about the poem, painting, and ekphrasis in Rappahannock Review.
• "Troubled by Thoughts about Infinity and Oblivion, I Exit the Twombly Retrospective at Dusk and Walk the High Line with the Ghost of My Father," a new poem featured at The New England Review. ​
• "Once Again in Thought about Rilke, Twombly's Orpheus Paintings, and Fatherhood, I Consider the Inevitability of Creation and Loss" in New England Review, Winter 2019.
• "Unending Octet," a poem from a larger series that enters into conversation with Cy Twombly's Untitled (1969) in Waxwing.
• "Octet: A Fragment" + "Unfinished Sonnet" with drawings by Cy Twombly, in Zyzzyva 112, 2018.
• "Meditation on Mimesis: Cy Twombly's Poems to the Sea" in Southern Review, Winter 2020.
• "Octets after Cy Twombly: The Ferragosto Series" in Cherry Tree, issue 5, 2019.

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E S S A Y S

• "Notes on Williams, Abstraction, and the Line," an experimental essay on William Carlos Williams, abstraction, poetry, and Cy Twombly in The Kenyon Review.

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I N T E R V I E W S

• "Goth Tendencies, Cy Twombly, and Turnstile Hearts: A Conversation with Melissa Stein & Dean Rader" in The Kenyon Review.

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Cy Twombly, Untitled (New York), 1970