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Poems & Essays

Selected Poems

we who burn here below, Broadsided Press, 2018

How to Start a Flowery War, círculo de poesía, 2018

how to make bread pudding, Duende, 2015

Caesium 137, Border Crossing, 2015

The Hills We Grew On, Drunken Boat, 2014

Six Poems on Sixteenth-Century Maps, disClosure: a journal of social theory, 2014

After My Copy of Life in the Forest, Rattle, 2013

Copiapó and Last Song for Copiapó, Adirondack Review, 2012

The Legend of El árbol de las letras, Hinchas de poesía, 2012

Under the Portal of the Four Evangelists, The Cortland Review, 2011

Selected Translations

Sarajevo--Alí Calderón, Poetry International, 2018

Poems from the Red House--Juan Carlos Mestre, Asymptote Journal, 2015

Poems from Autumn's Countersong in Bierzo Valley--Juan Carlos Mestre, Still: The Journal, 2015

Bandit's Ballad--Alexandra Domínguez, 2015

Poem to the One in Far-Off Lands--Juan Carlos Mestre, Words Without Borders, 2012

Selected Essays: Articles & Blog Posts

Whitman, Borges, and Ironic Detachment, 2018

More than Birds: Mark Catesby, a Colonial American Naturalist, 2018

On Borders and Neighbors and the American Dream, 2017

Travel, Empire, and Abolition in John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative of a Five Year's Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, 2017

Women and the Global Imagination: Carmen Boullosa,Prairie Schooner, 2015

Interrupting Augustine: Hermeneutics, Allegory, and Irony in El perro del hortelano, Romance Quarterly, 2014

How to Live in Exile: The Poetry of Amal Al-Jabouri, Asymptote Journal, 2012

Eyes Wide Shut: Sor Juana’s Paradoxical Hermeneutics of Faith, Calíope: Journal for the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Studies,  2008

The Iguana and the Barrel of Mud: Memory, Natural History, and Hermeneutics in Oviedo's Sumario de la natural historia de las Indias, Colonial Latin American Review, 2007

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