I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Brainard Carey for the Museum of Non-Visible Art interview series, a project by Praxis and hosted by Yale University Radio.

The poet & critic Leslie Sainz reviews Valuing alongside other recent collections that “are striking in their service to language over ego. Wolfson, Hezekiah, Zamora, and Kondrich are more interested in kneeling before their muses than standing on the proverbial soapbox and asking reputation and status to do the heavy lifting.”

The poet and writer Molly McCully Brown recommends Valuing for The Kenyon Review’s year-end reading list. To purchase a copy of Valuing, please order through their Bookshop page.

Valuing has been chosen as a finalist the The Believer Book Award in Poetry, selected by the editorial staff. In the citation, they write: “In his elegant and meditative poems, Kondrich reflects on how we assign value, how we evaluate what is worthy, useful, and necessary.”

For The Kenyon Review series, I’ve contributed a brief essay about Valuing and the community spaces that supported its creation.

In her review of Valuing for AGNI Online, the poet Hannah VanderHart writes, “These are metaphysical poems in the Renaissance sense (think of the linguistic play of John Donne), but also in the Jorie Graham sense, where to attend to an external, physical wind is to attend also to an internal, intellectual wind, a thinking spirit.”

In an interview for The Kenyon Review, I discuss my poem “Ownership of Time” (included in the Of Today folio, edited by Solmaz Sharif): “I wanted to evoke the corrosiveness of political fanaticism as a kind of capitalistic force, but I was also considering how the time one spends on this earth is actually defined and modified by how other people spend their time.”

The editors of Library Journal name Valuing as one of the ten best books of poetry published in 2019.

The poet John James and I interview one another about our books, The Milk Hours and Valuing, respectively, for the Los Angeles Review of Books.

In an interview with WNYC’s All of It, Tracy K. Smith mentions my work as deserving a wider attention.