Craft Criticism
Crafting the Lyric Essay: Strike a Chord
I’m thrilled to announce my collection of craft and lyric craft essays, Crafting the Lyric Essay: Strike a Chord, forthcoming in 2024 from Bloomsbury Press, is now available for preorder. The book contains several of the pieces below, as well as a number of new essays and a readings list. Watch for updates!
Quote from “Using Poetic Forms in Nonfiction”
Quote from “A Jump to the Left…”
As Contributing Editor at Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies
“Ekphragrance,” on how to write about smell
Elsewhere
“A Dash of Dash: The Lyric Art of Punctuation” at Fourth Genre
“Of Fragments and Segments” at Hippocampus
“Consider the Lobster Mushroom: being a brief theory of the craft of creative nonfiction” at Brevity
“A Jump to the Left, Then a Step to the Right: Lateral Lyric Moves” at CRAFT
“(R)Evolution Pantoum: An Unconventional Craft Chronicle, or, Playing with Your Food” at Brevity
“The Resonance of Lyric Essays, or Lyre, Not Liar” at Essay Daily
“Fragmentation Grenade: The Violence of Hybridity” at Sweet: A Literary Confection
“Zero at the Bone” at River Teeth’s “Beautiful Things”
“Permissive Sieves: Comparing the Lyric Essay and Ghazal” at Bending Genre