Essays
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Creative:
"Letter To Satan." THIN SLICE OF ANXIETY. December 20, 2023. "The Anti-Vegas Vegas Blues." HOBART. 1 Oct 2023. "My Sidewalk Stage." [Vol. 1 BROOKLYN]. 29 March 2023. "Tripod Lookout Blues." THE JOURNAL (literary journal of OSU). May 19, 2023. "Santa Fe." BENDING GENRES. 15 Feb 2023. "vox clamante in deserto." TIMBER. 31 Jan 2023, issue 13.1. "Letters To Wakoski." Epistolary essay. SOUTH DAKOTA REVIEW. Print. Volume 56, no. 3. Fall 2022. (Made it to the "Notable Essays" in the back of this year's Best American Essays 2023. That means it made it to the top 100 essays. Third time!) Now up at my blog. You can buy that issue of SDR here: "The Ghost of Ed Abbey." DEAD SKUNK MAG. 15 Oct 2021. "Tower Point Lookout." LAMMERGEIER MAG. 22 Sep 2021. Also an interview with me as the featured nonfiction/hybrid writer of the issue! (Made the "Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2021" in Best American Essays 2022!! And! Lammergeier nominated it for their 'Best of the Net'!) "Cher Vincent: Letters To Van Gogh." THE LIT QUARTERLY. Winter 2021. Print. Up now at my blog. "The Power of Pantyhose." HST. 17 Feb 2021. "Gillian Welch's Boots." Essay/review. SPLICE TODAY. January 2021. "Let's Wake Up: On Reading Boccaccio During Our Pandemic." SPLICE TODAY. 30 Nov 2020. "Letters To Michael." SOUTH DAKOTA REVIEW. Vol. 55 No. 1 & 2. Fall 2020. Up now at my blog. Order original issue here. "Rain In Peace." LITTLE DEATH LIT. Spring 2020. Site defunct. Now up at my blog. "On Teaching Again." Vol. 1 Brooklyn. March 2020. "When The Rain Comes: Escape from the Grand Canyon." ENTROPY. February 2020. Now up at my blog! "Puerto Rico in the Late 60s." Micro-essay in the Boricua en la Luna Anthology. December 2019. Print. Proceeds benefit hurricane relief on the island. Order your copy here! "Pacific Blues." ENTROPY. January 2020. (Made the "Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2020" list of Best American Essays of 2021!!!!) Now up at my blog! "The Devil Gives." Micro-essay. TINY ESSAYS. July 9th, 2019. "Glacier Grey." GREEN THEORY & PRAXIS JOURNAL. Special creative writing issue #12 April 2019. (PDF format. Mine is on page 39.) Now at my blog! "Aztec Summer." EMPTY MIRROR. May 2018. "Billy Sheehan: The Greatest Bass Player In The World." ENTROPY. May 2017. Now at my blog! "I Was A Beach Bum on Mallorca." COLDNOON: International Journal of Travel Writing and Travelling Cultures. March 2017. Now at my blog! "The Ghosts of Dawn Crosby." ENTROPY. Feb 2017. Now at my blog! "Open All The Boxes: The Barcelona Poetry Festival." COLDNOON: International Journal of Travel Writing and Travelling Cultures. January 2017. Now up at my blog! "Jaco." SLOW TRAINS. July 2016. "Fear & Loathing at the AWP Conference." Blog exclusive. February 2016. "Emerald City ComiCon: It's A Thing." COMICS BULLETIN. February 2015. "Holy Water" in the anthology On Foot: Essays On Hiking in the Grand Canyon. 2014. Vishnu Temple Press. Now up at my blog. "Who Will Save Red Sonja? Enter Gail Simone." COMICS BULLETIN. December 2013. “Slayer! : An Essay in 13 Parts.” SLOW TRAINS. March 2013. “Puerto Rico in the Late 60s.” SALT RIVER REVIEW. October 2010. “Barefoot Running Allowed Me To Run Again.” BAREFOOT RUNNING SOCIETY WEBSITE. July 2010. "First Barefoot Marathon." BAREFOOT RUNNING SOCIETY WEBSITE. April 2010. Up now at my barefoot running blog! "China." The Best Jackson Community College Essays. 1991/1992. Jackson, MI. 1993. Print. |
Academic:
"I Hate English But I Love Writing." Master's project for my MA in Written Communication: The Teaching of Writing. Eastern Michigan University. 2009. "I Was A Teenage Plagiarizer!" (Old essay, a bit outdated at this point, and unpublished, but up at my blog!) "Imitation/Emulation in the Writing Process." WRITING ON THE EDGE 25th Anniversary Edition. Fall 2014. UC Davis. Davis, CA. Print. “Ready Or Not.” WRITING ON THE EDGE Volume 20 #2 Spring 2010. UC Davis. Davis, CA. Print. “What Works For Me: Using Six Word Memoirs As Icebreaker and Intro To The Writing Process.” TEACHING ENGLISH IN THE TWO-YEAR COLLEGE. The National Council of Teachers of English. Fall 2010. Print. (Now at my blog) “Academic.” WRITING ON THE EDGE Volume 19 #2 Spring 2009. UC Davis. Davis, CA. Winter/Spring 2009. |
