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A Review of Shaun Scott's Heartbreak City, South Seattle Emerald, March 2024

Consider the BananaYes! Magazine, September 2022

For American Labor, the Past Isn't PastYes! Magazine, May 2022

Reverberations as a Generation Takes a KneeYes! Magazine, November 2021

Why Are We Expected to Love Our Jobs? Yes! Magazine, May 2021

Reflections on the Union Loss in BessemerSouth Seattle Emerald, April 2021

Remembering the WobbliesCrosscut, December 2020

Notes on the Inequality of GriefYes! Magazine, August 2020

The Collective Power of the Pandemic's Essential WorkersCrosscut, May 2020

On Social Movement Poetry and Mark Nowak's “Social Poetics,” Poetry Northwest, April 2020

“Invisible People” Showcases Full Range of Alex Tizon's Journalistic Work, South Seattle Emerald, December 2019

Can Rainier Beach's Kubota Garden Remain a Refuge for All? Crosscut, November 2019

What the Seattle General Strike Can Teach Workers TodayCrosscut, January 2019

The Seattle I Thought I KnewCrosscut, June 2018

At Beacon Hill's Cafetal Quilombo, Tamales Are the StarSouth Seattle Emerald, January 2018

Poems Create a Space of Timelessness: A Conversation with Jericho Brown, Poetry Northwest, November 2017

Path With Art Uses Creative Expression to Elevate the Vulnerable, South Seattle Emerald, October 2017

The Questions Matthew Zapruder’s ‘Why Poetry’ Fails to Ask, Electric Literature, October 2017

International Workers of Natural Foods Grocery Stores, Unite! South Seattle Emerald, August 2017

Station's Block Party Soars in Raucous Community Celebration, South Seattle Emerald, June 2017

WITS Voices: Reflections from Nathan Hale High School, WITS Blog, May 2017

How Mary Miller's Stories Demystify the White Working Class, Literary Hub, February 2017

A Millennial Democratic Socialist Buys a House, Salon, January 2017

On Stalkers, Being Stalked, and The Fall Guy by James Lasdun, Seattle Review of Books, December 2016

Claudia Rankine's Citizen and Gentrification, City Arts Magazine, May 2016

Review of Hardly War by Don Mee Choi, City Arts Magazine, April 2016

Maggie Nelson's Provocations, City Arts Magazine, January 2016

Against Where'd You Go, Bernadette, The Monarch Review, December 2015

Why Amazon Will Never Replace Public Libraries, Vice's Motherboard, November 2015

On Ben Lerner's 10:04, Heavy Feather Review, October 2015

13 Things I Learned Cooking for a Tech Company, Seattle Weekly,
September 2015

Review of Please Excuse This Poem, The Stranger, June 2015

On Gluten Intolerance and and Leslie Jamison's The Empathy Exams, Salon, February 2015

On Mary Miller's Big World, Los Angeles Review of Books, August 2014

On Mary Ruefle's Madness, Rack, and Honey, Fanzine, August 2013

On Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station, 3:AM Magazine, August 2013

Grief: A Beautiful Place to Visit, The Good Men Project, June 2013

Race in the Land of MFA, The Nervous Breakdown, May 2013

On Tom Bissell's Magic Hours, The Rumpus, August 2012

Facing Up to the ‘Face-to-Face’, The Nervous Breakdown, April 2012

A Rejoinder to Hate (or Why I Love The Rumpus), The Rumpus, February 2012

Escape to the Red States, Salon, January 2012

On John Cheever's Bullet Park, Bookslut, January 2012

The Devilishness of Idleness, The Rumpus, November 2011

Where I Write: Nowhere, Everywhere, The Rumpus, June 2011

Inequality, Solidarity, and Why Labor Still Matters in America, The Utopianist, June 2011

A Portland Couple Goes Organic Farming, The Oregonian, January 2011

Heart Healthy, The Rumpus, January 2011

Review: The Wilding, by Benjamin Percy, The Collagist, November 2010

Review: Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker, by James McManus, The Brooklyn Rail, March 2010

Review: Misadventure, by Millard Kaufman, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Winter 2010

Review: The Tyranny of E-mail, by John Freeman, The Brooklyn Rail, December 2009-January 2010

Call Me Naïve: A Love Letter, The Brooklyn Rail, October 2008

Bill Simmons and the New Sports Journalism, Pop Matters, October 2007

Opening Night, The Brooklyn Rail, March 2007

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