
Green Green Green
Nightboat Books
2021
A collection of hybrid essays that engage the intersection of habitats, horticulture, and histories both poetic and personal.

basic research
Oxeye Press
2023
Observations and encounters rooted in the shifting qualities of growing things. Hand-bound chapbook with letterpress printed covers.
“You’ll know her by her foot–,” The Harvard Review, forthcoming.
“The Dirt that Grew the Flower: Ecopoetics & the Domestic in Cecily Parks's The Seeds,” Fence Constant Critic, 2026.
“The women who wing lullabies for the dying,” Oakland Review of Books, 2026.
“Dear Jack: Spicer’s Magic Correspondence,” Fence Constant Critic, 2025.
“Hejinian Grammar,” memorial essay for UC-Berkeley English website, 2024.
“Lyn in Landscape,” memorial essay for cluster on Lyn Hejinian, Jacket2, 2024.
“Transverse Ranges” (selection), paperbark, 2023.
“Prompts, Proposals, Poem,” Litmus Magazine: The Lichen Issue, 2021.
“On the Etymology & Reverberating Human History of the Color Green,” Lit Hub, 2021.
“Verde Requiem,” Harpers, 2021.
“Reading Natural History in the Winter,” Grand, 2021.
Santa Barbara contribution to Dispatches from a Pandemic, The Harvard Review online, 2020.
“Poppy/Friend,” with Juliana Chow, LARB Journal, 2019.
“Herman Melville the Poet,” Boston Review, 2019.
“On Observation & Imagination,” Nautilus, 2019.
“Imagining Mothering (an excerpt)” The Critical Flame, guest edited by A. Bradstreet, 2017.
“Stone-Age Nostalgia: the Deep History of Fashionable Foraging,” The New Inquiry, 2014.
“A More Ordinary Poet,” Boston Review, 2013.
"compensation,” "fate,” folio on parenting, guest edited Laura Kolbe, peripheries, forthcoming.
“translation,” “correspondences,” New England Review, 2022.
“Basic Research” and "Stanzas,” ISLE, 2020.
"Watching Baseball, Writing Poetry, selections from “The Perfect Game,” with Megan Pugh, Boom!, 2015.
“In the Woods,” “Hetero,” Bennington Review, 2019.
“Poem with Oratory & Roses,” American Literary Review, 2019.
“A Mother Writes a List,” Harvard Review Online, 2019.
“Poem with Birds,” The New Republic, 2018.
“Sexual Dependency,” “Allegory,” “Fever of Unknown Origin,” “99.9,” Shearsman, 2018.
“Bernal Hill, San Francisco, 2009,” Volt 19, 2014.
“Letter to Another Hamlet Impersonator,” Threepenny Review, 2006.

Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field
with Angela Hume
University of Iowa Press
2018
This volume models new methods for reading 20th and 21st-century ecological poetry and poetics, exploring apocalypse and embodiment, toxicity and sustainability, while drawing insights from contemporary philosophy, gender and sexuality studies, Black studies, Native studies, disability studies, and more.
“Imagining Distorted Scale: Learning from the Hitchcocks” for Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis, Huntington Library Exhibition Catalog, Yale University Press, 2024.
“Roots, Seeds, and Transtemporality: Poetry in the Common Sense” in Dispersion: Thoreau and Vegetal Thought, edited by Branka Arsic and Vesna Kuiken, Bloomsbury, 2021.
“Dickinson and Historical Ecopoetics,” The New Dickinson Studies, edited by Michelle Kohler, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
“Melville and His Flowers,” The New Melville Studies, edited by Cody Marrs, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
“Field Notes from the Conference on Ecopoetics,” with Angela Hume and Margaret Ronda, Jacket2, 2013.
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