Articles

“Reading, Misreading, and Rereading ‘We Real Cool.’” In Teaching Poetry Now. Ed. Caroline Gelmi and Lizzy LeRud. SUNY Press (forthcoming 2026).

“Literary Sociology, Cultural Studies, and Poetry.” Poetry in the Digital Age: An Interdisciplinary Handbook. Ed. Claudia Benthien et al. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025: 277-288.

“The Poem in the Digital Age.” In The Cambridge Companion to the Poem. Ed. Sean Pryor. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2024: 300-319.

“‘Overlook the poem, but look the picture over’: On the History of Poetry and American Silent Film.” JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 59.1 (Fall 2019): 23-43.

“Ghosts of American Literature: Receiving, Reading, and Interleaving Edna St. Vincent Millay’s The Murder of Lidice.” PMLA 135.5 (October 2018): 1152-1171.

“Popular Verse: Poetry in Motion.” In American Literature in Transition, 1910-1920. Ed. Mark Van Wienen. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 244-265.

“From Vagabond to Visiting Poet: Vachel Lindsay and the Institutionalization of American Poetry.” In After The Program Era: The Past, Present, and Future of Creative Writing in the University. Ed. Loren Glass. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2016. 21-38.

“Field Notes: Writers at War.” Los Angeles Review of Books 22 July 2016. Web.

“High, Low, and Somewhere In-Between: Women’s Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America.” In A History of Twentieth-Century American Women’s Poetry. Ed. Linda A. Kinnahan. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 202-221.

“Lullaby Logics.” Poetry 206.2 (May 2015): 185-191.

“Orality, Literacy, and the Memorized Poem.” Poetry 205.4 (January 2015): 371-382.

“Material Concerns: Incidental Poetry, Popular Culture, and Ordinary Readers in Modern America.” In The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. Ed. Cary Nelson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 301-330.

“American Advertising: A Poem for Every Product.” In U.S. Popular Print Culture 1860-1920, Vol. 6 of The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture. Ed. Christine Bold. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 133-167.

“The Business of Rhyming: Burma-Shave Poetry and Popular Culture.” PMLA 125.1 (January/February 2010): 29-47.

“Writing Good Bad Poetry.” Poets & Writers Magazine (November/December 2008): 39-44.

“Remembering Paul Engle.” The Writer’s Chronicle 41.2 (October/November 2008): 32-42.

“The Sounds of Black Laughter and the Harlem Renaissance: Claude McKay, Sterling Brown and Langston Hughes.” American Literature 80.1 (March 2008): 57-81.