Category: articles and essays
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Niedecker’s New Goose
An essay on Lorine Niedecker’s 1946 book of poems published in Post45: Contemporaries.
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Composting’s Colonial Roots and Microbial Offshoots
An essay in the digital magazine Edge Effects.
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Organic Farming’s Political History
An essay in the digital magazine Edge Effects.
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Playing in the Planetary Field
An essay on Robert Duncan’s ecopoetics published in an edited collection.
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Towards an Ecopoetics of Food
An article on Lorine Niedecker’s 1930s and 40s poems about farming published in Modernism/modernity.
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Hubris and Humility in Environmental Thought
An essay on techno-optimism and criticism of it that was published in The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities.
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Browning’s Critique of Organic Form in The Ring and the Book
An article on organic metaphors in Robert Browning’s long poem published in the journal Victorian Poetry.
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The Importance of Being Interested
An essay written for Another Word, the blog of the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin.
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Rethinking Organic Metaphors in Poetry and Ecology
An article on contemporary poet Oni Buchanan’s “Mandrake Vehicles” published in the Journal of Modern Literature.