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- "The Aesthetics of Inscrutability: On Cy Twombly: Inscriptions" in Zyzzyva.
- "Poetry, Painting, History, Hermeneutics: On Cy Twombly: Making Past Present." An essay that takes a close look at the the exhibition catalogue for "Cy Twombly: Making Past Present" (currently at The Getty Center)
- "Notes on Williams, Abstraction, and the Line," an experimental essay on William Carlos Williams, abstraction, poetry, and Cy Twombly in The Kenyon Review.
- Review essay of "Frank O'Hara: Lunchtime Poet," a new gallery in the revamped Museum of Modern Art in Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.
- Essay on Jackson Pollock, Walt Whitman and all-overness as part of North American Review's Every Atom series curated by Brian Clements.
- Dean Rader on Jordan Kantor in BOMB, July 2017.
- "Elegy as Ecstasy: Rereading Motherwell" in The Los Angeles Review of Books, 2017.
- Review of Bill Anthes, Edgar Heap of Birds. Duke University Press, 2017.
- "On Abstraction and Accessibility: Poetry, Perspective, and the Painting of Jordan Kantor" in Ploughshares, 2016.
- "Reading the Visual, Seeing the Verbal: Text and Image in Recent American Indian Literature and Art," in The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature.
- "Indigenous Semiotics and Shared Modernity" in Visualities: Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art, Ed. Denise Cummings, 2011.
- "Part of the Strangeness: Landscape, Branding, and the American West," in Branding the American West: Paintings and Poems 1900-1950, 2016. Essay on landscape, Indigenous representation, and absence for the Branding the American West exhibition catalogue.