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Recent Publications

Prose: 

"‘Dirty Computer’ is Not a Coming Out Album—Because Janelle Monáe’s Music Has Been Queer All Along" at Electric Literature

"Watching Dolores O’Riordan Dance on Yeats’ Grave" at Electric Literature

Poems:

"The Last of Us" at Glass: A Journal of Poetry

"Drink Up," "Giant-Impact Theory of Lunar Formation," and "Project Excelsior"
 at Hobart

"Little Deaths" at Luna Luna

"Self-Portrait as Dissection" and "Prague Floods" at Sky Island Journal

Excerpts from "Time Enough at Last" at Cotton Xenomorph



Rust Belt Chicago: An Anthology


Ah, Chicago. Where my parents and grandparents met, where I spent the coldest winters of my life. Get your copy of this new anthology today. 

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You can’t love this city
for long: you must allow
the great, flat machine

to mold you in its image.
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Poems

My poems have appeared in a variety of publications, mostly print. 

Here are some you can read online:

Three Great Lakes poems, at Chicago Literati

"In Steubenville," at So to Speak

Essays

Literary:

The Anachronist: Anne Carson, The Toast

Infinitely Concrete, Infinitely Metaphorical: In Praise of Oliver Sacks, The Toast

Discovering Muriel Rukeyser as a Young Writer, Muriel Rukeyser: A Living Archive

The Power of Suicide and the Refusal of Mythology – Sylvia Plath and Muriel Rukeyser, Muriel Rukeyser: A Living Archive

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950): The Beyoncé of Formal Verse, The Toast


Personal: 

Trauma Is a Time Machine: On Loss, The Toast

Love, Isaac, The Archipelago

Sir David Attenborough, My Secular Saint, The Toast

The Day I Should Have Believed In God, The Toast
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And so on:

What 'Making a Murderer' Reveals About the Justice System and Intellectual Disability, Rolling Stone

Mid-30s Women: Here’s Why You Can’t Stop Looking at Teen Wolf GIFs, The Archipelago


Internets

See my work as Sweet Machine at Shapely Prose and Captain Awkward.

Sorry, Mark Doty, for stealing the title of your wonderful poem to write about fat politics and periods and stuff.
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