Odds/Ends

• “A Conversation with Jared Carter, Part 1,” New Verse Review, 20 October 2025

• “A Conversation with Jared Carter, Part 2,” New Verse Review, 27 October 2025

• “An Illiberal Influencer,” letter on a Profile of Curtis Yarvin, The New Yorker, 11 August 2025

• “News & Notes," appreciation of poet Joseph Harrison, PN Review, July-August 2024

• “‘Bharat’ might help erase centuries of colonial influence over India” [note: NOT the author’s title], Washington Post, 22 September 2023

• “Defining racism too broadly carries its own risks,” letter in Washington Post, 4 March 2021

• “Keeping with Tradition,” letter on the novelist John Williams, The New Yorker, 25 March 2019

• “‘Sleeping in a Hobo Jungle Can Be a Dangerous Thing’: A Conversation with Richard Wilbur,” Contemporary Poetry Review, 3 December 2008

• “Letter on Louis MacNeice,” Poetry, 27 October 2008

• “Louis MacNeice: His Own Unchanging Self,” interview with Jon Stallworthy, Contemporary Poetry Review, 1 October 2007

• “A Further Range,” interview with Glyn Maxwell, Contemporary Poetry Review, 8 July 2006

• “Letter on John Lennon,” Washington Post, 30 October 2005

• “The Incredibly True Adventures of a Washington Saturday Night,” interview by Martha Sherrill, Washington Post, 26 June 1995