Critical Writing & Interviews

Sample Essays
Making Poetry Ungovernable
2021
Interview with rob mclennan
2022
Interview with Aaron Beasley
2018
A Walking Measure: Renee Gladman and City-Writing
2017
Rebel Yells: Poets in Resistance
2016
Elective Affinities feature
2010
Some Remarks on Poets Theater
2007
Editor’s Notes on Poetry and Globalization
2015
Poetics and Public Space in Occupy Oakland
2014
The News from Oakland
2013
Performance/Poetics
2013
A Neural Net
co-written with Jen Hofer (ANTENA), Seung-Jae Lee, Rachel Levitsky, & Ira Livingston (OoRS), & Jennifer Scappettone, & Kathy Westwater (PARK)
Ecopoetics Conference, UC-Berkeley, 2013.
Poetry and Other Englishes
with Juliana Spahr
introduction to a forum on Contemporary Avant-Garde Poets on Globalization
2006
Sample Art & Book Reviews
Scale Matters
Catalog essay for Charlene Tan’s exhibit 400%
2011
Syd Staiti’s The Undying Present
2020
Ghosts in the Archive
Catalog essay for SE Barnet’s at Five Years, 2014
Art and Torture
Fernando Botero, Artweek, 2007
Enrique Chagoya
Artweek, 2008
David Huffman
Artweek, 2008
Nao Bustamante
Artweek, 2008
Etel Adnan
Galatea Resurrects, 2006
Daniel J. Martinez
2003
Amitava Kumar, ed., World Bank Literature
XcP, 2003
Harry Gamboa and the Contemporary Avant-Garde
2002