Books and Writings

Book:

• Frank O’Hara and the Poetics of Saying ‘I’. Lanham, MD and Madison, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield and Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011

Articles, Essays and Reviews:

• “Poetry and the Brain.” The New Atlantis (forthcoming, 2012).
• “A Novelist Goes to Washington.” The Weekly Standard (forthcoming, 2012).
• Rev. of A Daring Life, by Carolyn J. Brown. The American Conservative (forthcoming, 2012).
• “The Point of Criticism.” The American Spectator (October 2012).
• “Everyman’s Poet.” First Things (October 2012).
• “The Art of Trains.” The American Conservative (October 2012).
• “Occupied Poetry.” The American Spectator (20 August 2012).
• “Address Formal.” The Weekly Standard (20 August 2012).
• “The Prayers of a Poet.” The Wall Street Journal (6 August 2012).
• “How to Read Robert Frost.” The American Conservative (August 2012).
• “François Hollande and the Arts.” The American Spectator (26 July 2012).
• “Red Clay Weather.” Books & Culture (19 July 2012).
• “The Sin-Eater.” New Oxford Review (May 2012):46-48.
• “The Big Easy’s Unfortunate Son.” The City (Spring 2012).
• “Poetically Thinking.” The University Bookman (22 April 2012).
• “Poets and Capitalism.” The American Spectator (27 February 2012).
• “The Pursuit of Presence.” The Wall Street Journal (11 February 2012).
• “Is Free Verse Immoral?” Public Discourse (10 February 2012).
• “Nikolai Gogol’s The Night before Christmas.” First Things (12 December 2011).
• “The Reading Life.” The Weekly Standard 17.1 (19 September 2011).
• “Meaning and Music.” Books & Culture (September/October 2011).
• “Walker Percy’s Alternative to Scientism in the Thanatos Syndrome.” Perspectives on Political Science 40.3 (2011): 147-152.
• “The Bard Politicized.” The City (Summer 2011): 97-100.
• “A Psalter of Praise.” New Oxford Review (July/August 2011).
• “A Tourist in Hell.” Books & Culture (5 July 2011).
• “A True Account?” Pleiades 31.2 (2011): 150-155.
• “How Might the Arts Be Funded.” Capital Commentary (13 May 2011).
• “Everyone Loves a Story.” Books & Culture (6 April 2011).
• “April’s Ambivalences.” First Things (1 April 2011).
• “Saving Poetry from Ideology.” Public Discourse (15 February 2011).
• “Of Form and Flarf.” Public Discourse (7 February 2011).
• “An Interview with Winston Riley on Walker Percy.” First Things (4 February 2011).
• “On Christian Literature.” Comment Magazine (3 December 2010).
• “The Comedic Effect.” A Smartish Pace (5 November 2010).
• “Disconnected.” Touchstone 23.5 (September/October 2010): 37-38.
• “Ayn Rand: An Egotistical Life.” The City 3.2 (Fall 2010): 81-85.
• “Letter from Switzerland.” Books & Culture (August 2010).
• “Whither Walker Percy?” First Things On the Square (10 May 2010).
• “Frank O’Hara and ‘Why I Am Not a Painter’.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 40.2 (March 2010): 10-12.
• “The Wright Stuff.” Rev. of Wheeling Motel, by Franz Wright. America (15 February 2010): 28-29.
• “Occasional Poetry and John Updike’s Endpoint.” First Things (2 February 2010).
• “Art and the Right.” The New Ledger (17 October 2009).
• “Shock Value.” Touchstone 22.5 (June 2009): 26-7.
• “Nobody Move.” The New Ledger (30 June 2009).
• “The Peculiar Peculiar Life of Sundays.” First Things (20 April 2009).
• “It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s the Beats!” The New Ledger (10 April 2009).
• “National Poetry Month Special: Show Me the Money.” The New Ledger (3 April 2009).
• “Poetry and Subsidies.” The New Ledger (1 April 2009).
• “Scott Cairns: The Slow Pilgrim.” The City 2.1 (Spring 2009): 103-6.
• “The Romance of Socialism: Lessons from Hawthorne’s Blithedale Romance.” Provocations (19 March 2009).
• Review of Sleigh Ride, by Joe Fletcher. Octopus Magazine 11 (2009).
• “The Recent Poetry of Franz Wright.” The City 1.3 (Winter 2008): 116-23.
• “Democracy and the Intelligentsia.” Provocations (26 November 2008).
• “A Theology of Safeway.” Provocations (18 July 2007).
• “Naming Things: Frank O’Hara and ‘The Day Lady Died’.” American Poetry: Walt Whitman to the Present (SPELL 18). Eds. Robert Rehder and Patrick Vincent. Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006, 139-50.
• “Periodization and Difference.” New Literary History 35.4 (2004): 685-97.
• “Frank O’Hara’s Lute against the Self.” Applied Semiotics 11-12 (2002): 123-32.