Poppourri

🫟 prose & poetics (selected)

The False Mirror Sonnet Sequence: Three Poems (The Sonneteer) (Fall 2026)

Ordinary Time (Image) (Summer 2026)

In Is Free (Trampoline) (lyrics & cinepoem) (Spring 2026)

Minecraft (Talk to Me in Long Lines) (lyrics & cinepoem) (Fall 2025) +

“Eulogy for Dada” selected for critical commentary by the Oxford Professor of Poetry A. E. Stallings for Echolocations‍ ‍(Fall 2025) +

Everyone Says I Look Like Brad Pitt (New Verse Review) (Summer 2025) +

A Bomb in a Cathedral: Thoughts on Form in Times of War (New Verse Review) (Summer 2025)

Eulogy for Dada (Who Loved to Waltz) (Nimrod International Journal) (Spring 2025) +

Chubby Checker (Literary Matters)+

Stuck Inside a Mary Oliver Poem with the Milton Blues Again (New Verse Review) +

Andy Warhol as Puzzle (Dappled Things)

Church Going (Literary Matters) +

Introducing Famous Letter Writer (Talkhouse)

Warhol’s Mother’s Pantry: Or, Pop in the Age of Bird Box(Los Angeles Review of Books)

After Winter: Leonard Cohen, Rostam, Noname (Los Angeles Review of Books)

Wait For It: On Michael Robbins and Refrains (Los Angeles Review of Books)

“Share,” “All in my Head” (Selected Lyrics) (Measure) +

Critical writing has also appeared in American Literature, Adaptation, Journal of Experiential Education, and collections on early cinema, literary modernism, and pop culture.

(poems +)

🎥 film · lit · art criticism (selected)

Warhol’s Mother’s Pantry: Art, America, and the Mom in Pop (Gournay Prize)

“An Art That Won't Behave”: Film and the Seven Arts, 1907-21‍ ‍(American Literature)

The Literature of Attractions (in Teaching Tainted Lit, Iowa UP)

‘Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory’: The Cinematic Adaptation of American Poetry (Adaptation)

The Whole Thing (and Other Things): From Panorama to Attraction in Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat,” Ashcan Painting, and Early Cinema (in Genealogy of Modernity, Palgrave)

Early Cinema and the Post-9/11 City (in The City Since 9/11, Fairleigh Dickinson UP)

Are We Experienced? The SUNY Experiential Learning Mandate (Experiential Education)

Interviews/Reviews

Famous Letter Writer’s Dadamama (i) (Seven Days)

“I’m the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.”  A conversation with M.I. Devine (Fall 2025) (Amauteur podcast via bandcamp)

“I’m the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.” A conversation with M.I. Devine (Amauteur) (Fall 2025)

Pattern and Novelty (A Review of Michael Robbins’ Walkman, M.I. Devine’s Warhol’s Mother’s Pantry, and Hannah Sullivan’s Three Poems) (Commonweal)‍ ‍

How Refrains Work: M.I. Devine’s Warhol’s Mother’s Pantry(Tupelo Quarterly)

Seeing the Mom in Pop: A Conversation with M.I. Devine (Los Angeles Review of Books)

How We Endure: A Conversation with M.I. Devine (The Millions)

Famous Letter Writer Strikes a Balance Between Order and Chaos (North Country Public Radio)

Warhola Album Review (Seven Days)

Famous Letter Writer on the Poetry of Pop (Seven Days)

Introducing Famous Letter Writer (Talkhouse)

Famous Letter Writer’s Ambitious Effort (American Songwriter)

The Tension at the Heart of Pop in Warhol’s Mother’s Pantry(Chicago Review of Books)

Warhol’s Mother’s Pantry: The Art of Curation and Remix (Full Stop)

“Allowing for strangeness in criticism”: A Conversation with M.I. Devine & a Short Film (Tupelo Quarterly)