• Seconds” (on the poetry of Sharon Olds, Olav Hauge, Richard Kenney, Kevin Goodan, and Carl Phillips), The Georgia Review, Fall 2009.
  • "Keeping Company" (on Quote Poet Unquote and the poetry of Lars Gustafsson, Todd Boss, Paisley Rekdal, M. R. Peacocke, Kevin Prufer, Rick Barot, and David Huddle), The Georgia Review, Winter 2009.
  • "The Omnivorous Omnivore" (on the poetry of Robert Hass, Michael O’Brien, Meghan O’Rourke, Philip Schultz, and Stanley Plumly), The Georgia Review, Spring 2008.
  • "Raindrops on Roses" (on the Selected poetry of Albert Goldbarth, Carl Phillips, Robert Wrigley, Rebecca McClanahan, Bruce Beasley, Paul Zimmer, and the Collected poetry of John Engels), The Georgia Review, Fall 2007.
  • "The Letter of the Life" (on the letters of Theodore Weiss, Robert Lowell, James Wright, and Amy Clampitt), The Georgia Review, Fall/Winter 2006.
  • "Grouching toward Bethlehem: A Look at First Books" (on the poetry of Christian Hawkey, Elizabeth Edwards, Gina Franco, John Brehm, Amy Fleury, and Kevin Goodan), The Georgia Review, Spring 2006.
  • "The Fact of the Room," (on the poetry of Albert Goldbarth, Quan Barry, Joseph Stroud, Ann Townsend, Kevin Prufer, and Linda Bierds), The Georgia Review, Fall 2005.
  • "The Properties of Rain," (on the poetry of Linda Allardt, Chris Forhan, Pattiann Rogers, Ted Kooser, Sherod Santos, and Carl Phillips), The Georgia Review, Spring 2005.
  • "RowRow," (on the poetry of Robert Wrigley, Edward Hirsch, Heather McHugh, and Marvin Bell), The Georgia Review, Summer 2004.
  • "Second Thoughts: On Re-Reading Robert Lowell," (on the Collected Poems of Robert Lowell), The Georgia Review, Spring 2004.
  • "The Good, The Bad, and the Indifferent," (on seven anthologies), The Georgia Review, Winter 2003.
  • "In Trouble," (on the poetry of Kevin Prufer, William Olsen, Sam Hamill, Eamon Grennan, and Deborah Cummins), The Georgia Review, Summer, 2003.
  • "Interlude," (on the poetry of Madeline DeFrees, Linda Gregerson, Li- Young Lee, Philip Schultz, and Natasha Trethewey), The Georgia Review, Winter 2002.
  • "Thinking About Love," (on the poetry of Gregory Orr, Eavon Boland, C. K. Williams, Andrea Hollander Budy, Louise Gluck, Carl Phillips, and Jane Hirschfield), The Georgia Review, Summer 2002.
  • "Q&A," (on the poetry of Conor O’Callaghan, Lia Purpura, Ralph Black, and Marvin Bell), The Georgia Review, Summer 2001.
  • "In Pursuit of Elegance," (on the poetry of Les Murray, Yehuda Amichai, Derek Walcott, Jane Cooper, James Richardson, Robert Wrigley, Gregory Djanikian, and Stephen Dunn), The Georgia Review, Winter, 2000.
  • "The Subjective Correlative," (on the poetry of Marcia Southwick, Lynn Emanuel, Dana Levin, Jorie Graham, and Philip Booth), The Georgia Review, Summer 2000.
  • "A Flash and an Hour," (on the poetry of Ida Affleck Graves, Laura Kasischke, Tony Hoagland, Robert Hedin and Lola Haskins), The Georgia Review, Winter 1999.
  • "Tensions," (on the poetry of George Szirtes, Paul Muldoon, Albert Goldbarth, Suzanne Paola, and Naomi Shihab Nye), The Georgia Review, Summer 1999.
  • "Against," (on the poetry of Mary Karr, Billy Collins, Thylias Moss, and Ted Hughes), The Georgia Review, Winter 1998.
  • "Simplicities," (on the poetry of Jo McDougall, Kinereth Gensler, Marie Howe, Joan Aleshire, and Brendan Galvin), The Georgia Review, Summer 1998.
  • "I Gotta Use Words," (on the poetry of Elizabeth Holmes, Sandy Solomon, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Annie Finch, Cal Bedient, Marilyn Nelson, and Marvin Bell), The Georgia Review, Winter 1997.
  • "What Persists," (on the poetry of Charles Wright, Maxine Kumin, Robert Hass, Paul Zimmer, Lisel Mueller, and Leslie Norris), The Georgia Review, Summer 1997.
  • "A Convention of Things," (on the poetry of Christianne Balk, Allison Funk, Anita Feng, Stephen Dunn, and Sharon Bryan), The Georgia Review, Winter 1996.
  • "The Ladybug and the Universe," (on the poetry of Stanley Kunitz, Donald Justice, Gerald Stern, and Michael Harper), The Georgia Review, Summer 1996.
  • "A Terrible Beauty," (on the prose of Nadine Gordimer and the poetry of Carolyn Forché, Charles Simic, Donna Masini, Dionisio Martinez, and Paul Muldoon), The Georgia Review, Winter 1995.
  • "Fourteen Ways of Looking at Selecteds," (on the poetry of William Stafford, Heather McHugh, Stephen Dobyns, Stephen Dunn, David St. John, Pattiann Rogers, John Engels, and Marvin Bell), The Georgia Review, Summer 1995.
  • "Inner Worlds," (on the poetry of Fleda Brown Jackson, Janet Holmes, Lawrence Joseph, Sherod Santos, and Marianne Boruch), The Georgia Review, Fall 1994.
  • "A Mind of Winter," (on the poetry of Albert Goldbarth, Susan Howe, Kelly Cherry, John Hollander, Walid Bitar, Martha Collins, and Susan Ludvigson), The Georgia Review, Spring 1994.
  • "Skating on Paper" (on the poetry of C.K. Williams, W. S. Merwin, Judith Hall, Deborah Pope, Gerald McCarthy, and Anne Carson), The Georgia Review, Fall 1993.
  • "The Woods Around It" (on the poetry of Kathryn Stripling Byer, Mary Oliver, Dennis Hinrichsen, James Richardson, and Louise Glück), The Georgia Review, Spring 1993.
  • "For the Moment: Essential Disguises" (on the poetry of William Stafford, Tess Gallagher, Gerald Stern, Agha Shahid Ali, David Baker, and Nancy Eimers), The Georgia Review, Fall 1992.
  • "Excellent Excesses" (on the poetry of Stanley Plumly, William Matthews, Pamela Stewart, Albert Goldbarth, and Les Murray), The Georgia Review, Spring 1992.
  • "Under the Umbrella" (on the poetry of Stephen Dunn, Dan Masterson, John Skoyles, Renate Wood, and Anne Douglas), The Georgia Review, Fall 1991.
  • "Auditory Imagination: The Sense of Sound" (on the poetry of Pamela Gross, Jane Kenyon, Li-Young Lee, Thomas Lux and Wayne Dodd), The Georgia Review, Spring 1991.
  • "A Want Ad" (essay review on the poetry of Janet Kaufman, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan, Emily Hiestand, Lisel Mueller, and Rita Dove), The Georgia Review, Spring/Summer1990.
  • "Speaking Passions" (essay review on the poetry of William Stafford, Heather McHugh, Linda Pastan, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, and Li-Young Lee), The Georgia Review, Summer 1988.
  • "The Moments that Matter" (essay review on the fiction of Mary Hood and David Huddle), The Georgia Review, Spring 1987.