SAMPLE ESSAYS
"Purple" in Kenyon Review
(On the beauty of coral reefs as a healing balm)
"Seas of Change" in The American Scholar
(Raja Ampat's reefs have withstood collapse—but for how long?)
"Innocence" in Kenyon Review
(On a beloved painting by Agnes Martin and a coral reef in Palau)
"Otter" in The Rumpus
(On queer self-understanding and wild otters)
"Ice" in The Southern Review
(On vulnerability and an ice moon of Saturn)
"Beacons" in Prairie Schooner
(What does poetic vision really mean?)
"One Whale Shark Eye" in Mudlark
(Further discussion of "The 23rd-Century Nature Poem")
"The 23rd-Century Nature Poem" in The American Poetry Review
(What kind of nature poems, given climate change, ring hollow?)
"Reef Album" in Essay Daily
(A craft essay on creative nonfiction as spiritual, civilizational surgery)
“'Immortality on Their Faces': The Persistence of Autobiography of Red" in AGNI
(Why we're still reading Anne Carson's masterpiece)
(On the beauty of coral reefs as a healing balm)
"Seas of Change" in The American Scholar
(Raja Ampat's reefs have withstood collapse—but for how long?)
"Innocence" in Kenyon Review
(On a beloved painting by Agnes Martin and a coral reef in Palau)
"Otter" in The Rumpus
(On queer self-understanding and wild otters)
"Ice" in The Southern Review
(On vulnerability and an ice moon of Saturn)
"Beacons" in Prairie Schooner
(What does poetic vision really mean?)
"One Whale Shark Eye" in Mudlark
(Further discussion of "The 23rd-Century Nature Poem")
"The 23rd-Century Nature Poem" in The American Poetry Review
(What kind of nature poems, given climate change, ring hollow?)
"Reef Album" in Essay Daily
(A craft essay on creative nonfiction as spiritual, civilizational surgery)
“'Immortality on Their Faces': The Persistence of Autobiography of Red" in AGNI
(Why we're still reading Anne Carson's masterpiece)