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• “America Starts Here: On When the Light of the World Was Subdued Our Songs Came Through. A Norton
  Anthology of Native Nations Poetry,” Los Angeles Review of Books. November 9, 2020.
• “More Than Me: On How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton,” Los Angeles Review of Books.
  November 29, 2000.
• “Victoria Chang and the Elegy/Anti-Elegy: On Obit,” Kenyon Review, July/August 2020.
• “The [Pleasurable] Anxiety of [Aesthetic] Influence: Bill Berkson’s A Frank O’Hara Notebook, The Rumpus.​
• Review of Whereas by Layli Long Solider in Ploughshares.
• Review of Javer Zamora's Unaccompanied in Ron Slate's On the Seawall.
• Notes on Banana Palace or Fourteen Ways of Looking at Dana Levin.
• Three Books of Poems You Should Have Read in 2014: Rusty Morrison, Beyond the Chainlink; Matthew Zapruder, Sun Bear; Gillian Conoley, Peace in The Huffington Post, January 28, 2015. 
• The Poetry of Politics, The Politics of Poetry: On Claudia Rankine's Citizen in The Huffington Post, December 11, 2014. 
• Poems That Contain (and Critique) History: Three First Books, in The Huffington Post, October 16, 2014.
• What Poetry Can Do: Brenda Hillman & Geoffery G. O'Brien in The Huffington Post, December 10, 2013.
• Review of Rusty Morrison's After Urgency; Richard Silberg's The Horses: New & Selected Poems; kathryn l. pringle's fault tree; and CJ Evans' A Penance in The Huffington Post (January 2013).
• "The Best of Bay Area Poetry." Review of Aaron Shurin, Citizen; Camille Dungy, Smith Blue; W. S. Di Piero, Nitro Nights; and Jane Hirshfield, Come Thief in The Huffington Post (October 2012).
• Review of Crossing State Lines: An American Renga, edited by Bob Holman and Carol Muske-Dukes in The Rumpus (October 2012).
• Review of Terrance Hayes', Who Are The Tribes? in The Rumpus (August 2011)
• 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.