Foster's Circle-Word Puzzles, Crossword Craze, December 4, 2024. Review essay of R. F. Foster's book of the same name as part of the Crossword Craze project. The first crossword books were published in 1924, the year crossword puzzles became a national fad; Crossword Craze highlights "ephemeral gems from the crossword archives, republished after exactly 100 years."
A Boy Detective, Frog Trouble Times, May 28, 2021. Appreciation of Donald Sobol's Encyclopedia Brown children's book series.
Eventual Consistency, 2019. Prose poem / lyric essay in JSON format published on Disjunction Notice: A Poetry Archives, as part of the Wrong Biennale 2019-2020, a global digital art event. Disjunction Notice was accessible via a wrong router at the Information and Library Science Library at the University of North Carolina from November 1, 2019 to March 1, 2020.
On Being Back on One's B------t, Barrelhouse Issue 22, 2019. Creative nonfiction. Not available online.
Future Development, Slate, September 12, 2018. Creative nonfiction / personal essay.
Two Poems, Angry Old Man Issue 2, 2018. Poems. Originally available here; print version remains available for purchase at link.
Catpants, New Ohio Review, May 28, 2017. Poem.
Cooking With Pepper Spray, The Big Jewel, March 7, 2012. Humor.
It's a Man's World, Independent Weekly Poetry Issue 2008, March 19, 2008. Poem: a sestina about James Brown and the J.B.'s. PDF.
Title TK, Makeout Creek Issue 5, 2008. Poem: a sestina about Roky Erickson whose title eludes me. Not available online.
Short Imagined Monologues: Thak, The Most Organized Member Of The Party Of Roughly 70 People Who Originally Settled North America, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, June 21, 2005. Humor.
Title TK, Salt Hill Issue 17, fall 2005. Poem whose title eludes me. Not available online.
One-Time Use, Hudson Review Issue 57, spring 2005. Poem. Not available online. Reprinted in the anthology Poetry Daily Essentials 2007.
Seven Questions For The Guitar Solo From "Stairway to Heaven," McSweeney's Internet Tendency, November 11, 2004. Humor. For unknown reasons, this piece is no longer available on the McSweeney's website.
Apartment Words DIAGRAM 4.5, 2004. Poem: a sonnet about East Hollywood.