His writing on rhetoric and poetics has appeared in Jacket 2, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Public Modalities: Rhetoric, Culture, Media, and the Shape of Public Life; his poetry can be found in The Baffler, Best American Poetry, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. He is the author of Poets Beyond the Barricade: Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960 (University of Alabama Press, 2012); a current book-length project examines the relationship between amateurism and professionalism in the arts under forms of contemporary democracy. The three short pieces here are from his forth-coming book Slow Poetry in America (Cuneiform Press, 2014).