Selected Poems
The Nation: “Hummingbird in Oil” (forthcoming)
The Atlantic: “For Now”
The New York Review of Books: “Empty Spaces”
The Yale Review: “The Threat of Being Cut is Constant”
The Paris Review: “Floodwaters Carry Coal Ash Into the Cape Fear River”
New England Review: “I Side With Myself. I Touch My Face”
The Believer: “Forced March”
The Washington Post: “Green Wave”
The Georgia Review: “Forests, Too, Are Fleeing”
Los Angeles Review of Books: “Wind Enough to Bend These Trees”
Ploughshares: “There Is Nowhere for the Wind”
Poetry London: “As the Crow Flies”
TriQuarterly: “We Belittle the Grass”
The Kenyon Review: “Ownership of Time”
Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day: “Common Things”
Quarterly West: “Like a Wound in the Snow” “Punches Down”
AGNI: “To Hear, At This Window, Bare-throated Bellbirds”
Smartish Pace: “The Leaf That Produces the Plant” “Rainfall on the Side of the Street”
West Branch: “Collateral” “Spoken For” “Eremocene” “Endling”
Image: “Explosives, Once Signaled”
Witness: “Inunacknowledgeddetentionwithout”
The Antioch Review: “Ownership of Words”
Harvard Review: “Definite Article”
Conjunctions: “Black Paintings” “Peace Epic”
The Iowa Review: “Division of Labor” “Multiverse” “Ruin Value” “Placeholder”
Selected Essays
& Criticism
The Washington Post: “4 new volumes of poetry that help restore nuance to our chaotic world”
Los Angeles Review of Books: “The Ethics of Materiality: On Aditi Machado’s Material Witness”
Los Angeles Review of Books: “Reselfing: On Brandon Shimoda’s Hydra Medusa and Eleni Sikelianos’s Your Kingdom”
Poetry Northwest: “Failure as Negative Space”
The Providence Journal: "How Poetry Can Keep Us Living in the Moment"
Guernica: "Our Best Selves Are Reserved for the Page: An Interview with Tracy K. Smith"