GENERAL ESSAYS ON POETICS

"Listening to Poetry"
Harriet, Poetry Foundation

"The Poetry of Autumn"
Poetry Foundation Articles


"Why I Am A Women Poety"
Harriet, Poetry Foundation


"Trochees: An African American Tradition"
Harriet, Poetry Foundation

"Chas in Fourteen Lines: Reformations and Deformations of the Sonnet"
Contemporary Poetry Review


"Where Are You, General Audience?"
Harriet, Poetry Foundation

"The Poetry of Deep Winter"
Poetry Foundation Articles

"The Body of Poetry"
Academy of American Poets website

"Technology and Inspiration" 

Kritya Magazine  (India)

Valentine's Day Recommendation

Inside Higher Education Journal

In Defense of Meter

"Kegels for Poets"
Harriet blog, Poetry Foundation

"A Moment with Maxine (and Robert and Henry)
Harriet blog, Poetry Foundation

"Female Tradition as Feminist Innovation"
Poetry Foundation


Carolyn Kizer and the Chain of Women
First published in Poetry Flash

Unnecessary Burdens

First published in North American Review

Hypnagogic Poetry (review of M and Other Poems, by John Peck)

First published in Agni Review

A Hundred Great Poems by Women (review of 100 Great Poems by Women, ed. Carolyn Kizer)

First published in Poetry International

Free Form (review of Chalkmarks on Stone and of Taken from the River by Carol Moldaw)

First published in Poetry Flash
 

ESSAYS ON CLASSIC POETS

"An Evening With Forugh Farrokhzād: Iranian Poetry Night"
Harriet blog, Poetry Foundation


"Discovering Dunbar"
Harriet, Poetry Foundation

"On Claude McKay"
Lemonhound

"On Leonie Adams"
Foremothers Corner, Wom-Po Website

An Unsung Singer
essay from Legacy on Lydia Sigourney, with selections from her poetry

Phillis Wheatley and the Sentimentist Tradition

at Romanticism on the Net, issue edited by Laura Mandell

Dickinson as a Poetess

in Titanic Operas: A Poets' Corner of Responses to Dickinson's Legacy , ed. Martha Nell Smith

The Poetess in America

at Ablemuse website. Based on an article in the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Poetry , ed. Jay Parini