Book Reviews and Essays:
2003
"Making a Case for Randall Jarrell's Proper Place." (Review of Randall Jarrell's Letters, Expanded Edition, edited by Mary Jarrell.) Writer's Carousel 26.5 (Sept.-Oct. 2003): 9-10.
Review of The Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity: Small Incisive Shocks, by Philip Nel. Children's Literature Association Quarterly 28.3 (Fall 2003): 183-84.
2001
Review of Inventing the Child: Culture, Ideology, and the Story of Childhood, by Joseph Zornado. The Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children's Literature 25.3 (September 2001): 432-436.
2000
Review of The Children's Culture Reader, edited by Henry Jenkins. Forthcoming in The Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children's Literature.
1999
Review of American Children's Literature and the Construction of Childhood, by Gail Schmunk Murray. The Lion and The Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children's Literature 23.2(April 1999): 304-308. Click here for full text (Project Muse subscribers only).
1997
"Making Poetry Safe for Schools." Review of The Invisible Ladder: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poems for Young Readers, edited by Liz Rosenberg. American Book Review 19.1 (November-December 1997): 1, 30.
"Critic Over the Candlestick." Review of The Nimble Reader: Literary Theory and Children's Literature, by Roderick McGillis. The Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children's Literature 21.3 (September 1997): 453-456. Click Here for Full Text (Project Muse subscribers only.
1993
"Bishop Studies Comes of Age: The Books of 1993." Review essay on 5 1993 books about Elizabeth Bishop. The Elizabeth Bishop Bulletin 2.2 (Winter 1993): 2-3.
"The Century's Adolescent Turn." Review of The Fin-de-siecle Culture of Adolescence, by John Neubauer. The Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children's Literature 17.2 (December 1993): 235-237.
1992
Review of From the Red Eye of Jupiter, by Patricia Garfinkel and Moon and Mercury, by Elisabeth Murawski. Washington Review 17.5 (February/March 1992): 28-29.
1991
"More Than `A Nice Idyllic Thing To Do': Jarrell's Work for Children." Review essay on The Children's Books of Randall Jarrell, by Jerome Griswold. Children's Literature Association Quarterly 16.2 (Summer 1991): 87-88.
Review of Crosscurrents Vol. 10 No. 1 (1991). Literary Magazine Review 10.4 (Winter 1991-92): 16-18.
1990
Review of The Night Parade, by Edward Hirsch. New Mexico Humanities Review 33 (1990): 145-147.
Review of The William and Mary Review 1990. Literary Magazine Review. 9.3 (Fall 1990): 35-37.
1987
"Washington Poetry Chronicle." Review essay on 5 Washington, D.C. area poets: Grace Cavalieri, Shirley Cochrane, Barbara Goldberg, Jean Nordhaus, and Myra Sklarew. Washington Review 13.3: 28-29.
Review of At the House of the Tin Man, by Robert McDowell. Gargoyle 32/33: 397-8.
Review of Body of Work, by Stan Rice. Gargoyle 32/33: 317-9.
1985
"A Fable for Today." Review of Pen, Sword and Camisole, by Jorge Amado and The Water House, by Antonio Olinto. The Bloomsbury Review 5.12: 17.
"Memoirs of a Haunted Childhood." Review of Randall Jarrell's Letters: An Autobiographical and Literary Selection, ed. Mary Jarrell. The Bloomsbury Review 5.11: 3,16.
Review of White Trash: an Anthology of Contemporary Southern Poets, eds. Nancy Stone and Robert Waters Grey. Gargoyle 27: 117-8.
1984
"Against Popular Culture," G.W. Forum 27: 15-17.
"New York Style." Review of Entre Nous, by Tim Dlugos and Broken Off By The Music, by John Yau. Aerial 1: 45-46.
Review of New and Selected Poems, by Eleanor Ross Taylor. Washington Review 10.1: 29.
Review of Faith and The Smuggler's Handbook, by Albert Goldbarth. Gargoyle 24: 202-4.
1983
Review of three books from Washington Writer's Publishing House: Mary Ann Larkin, Hastings Wyman, and Elisavietta Ritchie. Washington Review 8.5: 28-29.
1982
Review of four books by Harrison Fisher. Washington Review 8.3: 38-39.
1981
Review of Blue Streak, by Heather McHugh. Gargoyle 17/18: 70.