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. He is the author of one book of critical scholarship, Poets Beyond the Barricade: Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960, and four books of poetry, including American Rambler, The Flood and the Garden, Black Stone, and Susquehanna.