Essays & Art Writing
“It Is Nothing We Can Name (Ellipses),” Bennington Review (forthcoming)
“A Case for Action: CPM’s New Edition Project with Luba Drozd,” BmoreArt (6/28/2023)
“Glitch x Glitch: Painter Taha Heydari,” BmoreArt Journal of Art + Ideas, Issue 15 (Spring 2023)
“A Legacy Left Intact: Darrel Ellis at the BMA,” BmoreArt (1/4/2023)
“The Star Essay,” The Georgia Review, Winter 2022 (vol. 76, no. 4)
“Glenstone: The Art of Cultivation,” BmoreArt Journal of Art + Ideas, Issue 14 (Fall 2022)
“Emerald Encounters: Salman Toor at the BMA,” BmoreArt (8/17/2022)
“Sight Unseen Film Series Closes with a Poetic Ode to Baltimore,” BmoreArt (6/2/2022)
“Experiments of Association: Linda Campbell Franklin,” BmoreArt Journal of Art + Ideas, Issue 13 (Spring 2022)
“Dispatch from New Orleans, Prospect.5: Yesterday We Said Tomorrow,” BmoreArt (1/21/2022)
“An Artist’s Altar to Divine Feminine Energy,” Hyperallergic (1/20/2022)
“Looking Back at Infinite Futures: TLaloC’s Orbis Tertius: Hlaer to Jangr,” BmoreArt Journal of Art + Ideas, Issue 12 (Fall 2021)
“Wonder Where You’re Going: Curiosity and Freshman Composition,” Writing on the Edge, Fall 2020 – Spring 2021 (vol. 31, no. 1 & 2)
“Tarot Recall: A Visionary Exercise for the Present,” Woodland Pattern’s Prompts Against Anxiety (5/11/2021)
“Corporeal Congruencies: Louise Bourgeois and Pooneh Maghazehe,” BmoreArt (3/5/2021)
“Erasure Poetry: Clifford Owens at CPM Gallery,” BmoreArt (12/16/2020)
“State of Surveillance: Ajay Kurian’s Polyphemus at Goucher College,” BmoreArt (11/9/2020)
“Bringing You Back to You: The Acme Corporation Finds Its Audience Through the Mail,” BmoreArt (10/1/2020)
“Lost Touch in Pandemic Solitude: On Patrick Church’s All Over You,” BmoreArt (7/3/2020)
“Collective Dreaming in the Time of COVID-19,” BmoreArt (3/26/2020)
“The Limits of Language: The Acme Corporation’s The First Thing that Happens,” BmoreArt (2/20/2020)
“The Truth of Men and Magic in Simaetha: a Dreambaby Cabaret,” BmoreArt (1/23/2020)
“Zevel: A Photographic Shine to Growing Up Gay in the 80’s and 90’s,” BmoreArt (11/18/2019)
“Seizure of Reality: Kat Sotelo’s The Wild Walls at Open Space,” BmoreArt (10/9/2019)
“Mardi Gras, Through the Eyes of an Ant,” nola.com (2/9/2018)
“Personal Realism: Toward the Blue Peninsula,” Pelican Bomb (10/30/2017)
“On Full Existence: William Eggleston,” Pelican Bomb (8/5/2017)
“Modern Mythology: Anastasia Pelias at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery,” Pelican Bomb (1/20/2017)
“Dead Reckoning: The Waterways of Turner and Canaletto,” Pelican Bomb (1/13/2017)
“On Light, Falling: Virginia Woolf, Joaquín Sorolla, and Sally Mann,” Pelican Bomb (10/12/2016)
“On Conflagration: The Masks of Natalie Portman,” Pelican Bomb (9/13/2016)
“On Bias: Toward Fashion,” The Georgia Review, Summer 2016 (vol. 70, no. 2)
“A Partial Guide to Camp: On Crossing the Border,” Pelican Bomb (6/14/2016)
“On Flatness and the Faerie Realm: Andrea Dezsö at Newcomb Art Museum,” Pelican Bomb (3/30/2016)
“A Partial Guide to Camp: On The Eyes Of The Beholder,” Pelican Bomb (3/7/2016)
“On Fashioning Memory Lane: The Photography of Bill Yates,” Pelican Bomb (1/7/2016)
“A Partial Guide to Camp: Tennessee Williams’ ‘The Mutilated,'” Pelican Bomb (12/1/2015)
“What Remains: Les Schmidt at Guy Lyman Fine Art,” Pelican Bomb (10/26/2015)
“That Rococo Feeling: Joie de Vivre,” Pelican Bomb (10/8/2015)
“On Circles: A Bildungsroman,” Pelican Bomb (8/13/2015)
“Occam’s Razor: Tennessee Williams at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art,” Pelican Bomb (5/27/2015)
“Olfactive Memory: The Locale of Scent,” Pelican Bomb (4/9/2015)
“On Jealousy: Call (Me) Your Boyfriend,” Pelican Bomb (3/3/2015)
“Effeminate Ephemera: Vinstantos at Tresor,” Pelican Bomb (5/8/2014)
“A Pop Music Emergency: From Pallor to Applause,” co-authored with Meghan Vicks, Gaga Stigmata: Critical Writings and Art About Lady Gaga (8/2013)
“Children of the World, You Don’t Look So Good,” Parcel (Spring/Summer 2013)
“On (Un)Masking,” Pelican Bomb (6/2013)
“A Partial Guide to Camp: On the Loo,” Pelican Bomb (5/2013)
“On the Sinking of Titanic,” NANO Fiction, vol. 6, no. 2 (5/2013)
“On Reading To the Lighthouse,” Bayou Magazine (3/2013)
“Fashioning (Still) Lives,” Pelican Bomb (3/2013)
“On Being (In)Visible,” Pelican Bomb (12/2012)
“A Partial Guide to Camp: How to Get Dry Again,” Pelican Bomb (10/2012)
“The First Nine Days Of Advent Are Apparently All I Can Take,” Shadowbox (6/2012)
“On The Whiteness of the Wail: From Ashes to Ashes,” Gaga Stigmata: Critical Writings and Art About Lady Gaga (12/2011)
“A Disaster That Is Ours,” Hot Metal Bridge (12/2011)
“On Plastic: The Endless Garment,” Gaga Stigmata: Critical Writings and Art About Lady Gaga (8/2011)
“Playing with Pearls: The Adornment of the Selves,” Gaga Stigmata: Critical Writings and Art About Lady Gaga (8/2011)
“On Compression,” Matter Press (6/2011)
“The Pasteboard Mask: Our Lady Leviathan,” Gaga Stigmata: Critical Writings and Art About Lady Gaga (6/2011)
“Why I Have Been So Silent: A Letter,” Bluestem (6/2011)
“Escapism On The Rocks With A Dash Of,” The Offending Adam, 60.4 (5/2011)
“Agents of Pop: ‘Of What Is Past, Passing, Or To Come,'” Gaga Stigmata: Critical Writings and Art About Lady Gaga (3/2011)
“Dear Lauren: A Dismantling” Mason’s Road, vol. 1, no. 2 (1/2011)
“On ‘As I Unscrew,'” Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog (9/2010)
“On Orgasm as Metaphor,” 300 Reviews #68 (9/2010)
“Watching Your Train Leave You Behind,” 300 Reviews #26 (2/2010)
“As I Unscrew: A Letter,” Brevity, Issue 32 (1/2010)
“The Adirondack Chairs of the Main Line,” 300 Reviews #19 (12/2009)
Interviews & Reviews
“Exhibition Pick: Michael Meads,” Pelican Bomb (2/8/2016)
“Tactile Fixation: An Interview With Aubrey Longley-Cook,” Pelican Bomb (6/8/2015)
Review of R. Solnit and R. Snedeker’s Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas,
The Georgia Review, Winter 2014 (vol. 68, no. 4)
“Film Review: They Glow In The Dark,” The Huffington Post (10/2013)
Review of Lara Glenum’s Pop Corpse, Black Warrior Review (8/2013)
Review of Ashley Butler’s Dear Sound of Footstep, Black Warrior Review (12/2009)
An Interview with Kathryn Davis, Black Warrior Review (10/2009)
Fiction
“Poise & Ivy,” Momma Tried, Volume 1, Issue 1 (9/2013)
“La Bastille,” Momma Tried, Volume 1, Issue 1 (9/2013)
Work in Anthologies
“A Partial Guide to Camp: How to Get Dry Again,” The Queer South: LGBTQ Writers on the American South. Ed. Douglas Ray. Alexander, AR: Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014.
“As I Unscrew: A Letter” and “On ‘As I Unscrew.'” Tuscaloosa Writes This. Ed. Patti White and Brian Oliu. Tuscaloosa, AL: Slash Pine Press, 2013.
“On (Not) Giving Up,” Liver of Dixie. Ed. Brian Oliu and Farren Stanley. Tuscaloosa, AL: Broken Futon Press, 2013.