A Review of Shaun Scott's Heartbreak City, South Seattle Emerald, March 2024
Consider the Banana, Yes! Magazine, September 2022
For American Labor, the Past Isn't Past, Yes! Magazine, May 2022
Reverberations as a Generation Takes a Knee, Yes! Magazine, November 2021
Why Are We Expected to Love Our Jobs? Yes! Magazine, May 2021
Reflections on the Union Loss in Bessemer, South Seattle Emerald, April 2021
Remembering the Wobblies, Crosscut, December 2020
Notes on the Inequality of Grief, Yes! Magazine, August 2020
The Collective Power of the Pandemic's Essential Workers, Crosscut, 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 Today, Crosscut, January 2019
The Seattle I Thought I Knew, Crosscut, June 2018
At Beacon Hill's Cafetal Quilombo, Tamales Are the Star, South 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