The Monroe: Life at a Residence Hotel

(March 28, 2018)

Parkmerced: A City within San Francisco

(December 5, 2017) 

How MacArthur Boulevard Takes You Through the Heart of Oakland 

(December 11, 2017) 

Fruitvale: Transit and Community

(January 8, 2019) 

Has Mission Bay Finally Arrived? 

(February 7, 2019)

Remember the 55 Sacramento? 

(March 21, 2012)

Quiet Wisdom: The Poetry Of Rolf Jacobsen 

Cortland Review 

The Poet-Scientist: The Poetry of Miroslav Holub 

Caveat Lector

Short Poems: Nothing to Take Away

Cortland Review 

The Eye of the Storm: Micropoems

Discovering Fire

“The Poetry of Buildings” - A review of Elegy for the Departure by Zbigniew Herbert. San Francisco Bay Guardian (print newspaper), March 1999.

“The Other Labyrinth” - A review of Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges. San Francisco Bay Guardian (print newspaper), October 1999.

“Singing the Dragon” - A review of Night Errands: How Poets Use Dreams, edited by Roderick Townley. San Francisco Bay Guardian (print newspaper), December 1998.

“Rainbow’s End” - A review of Wonder, the Rainbow, and the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences by Philip Fisher. San Francisco Bay Guardian (print newspaper), February 1999.

“What Happened to Religion” - A review of The Secular Mind by Robert Coles. San Francisco Bay Guardian (print newspaper), May 1999.

“Small Draughts: The Poems Of Braided Creek” - A review of Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry by Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser. The Cortland Review (Winter 2005) 

“Spanish Darkness: Lorca's Duende” - A review of In Search of Duende by Federico Garcia Lorca. The Cortland Review (February 1999)

The Sword of Cliché: Choosing a Topic

Frogpond

Word Choice in English-Language Haiku: The Uses of Roots

Frogpond

Word Choice in English-Language Haiku: The Use of Foreign Words

Frogpond

The “Ancient Enemy”: Death in Art and Haiku

Modern Haiku 

Loading a Gun: Imagery in Haiku 

Frogpond

Ambassador of Haiku: The Poetry of Garry Gay

Modern Haiku

Writing Haiku: The Two-Line Form

Frogpond 

Glossy Black Painting: Notes on Modern Art and Haiku

Mariposa

“The Inspiration of a Moment”: Calder’s Mobiles and Haiku

Frogpond

Simple Ingredients: New Yorker Cover Art and Haiku 

Simply Haiku 

The Trickster: An Introduction to Patrick Gallagher's Haiku

Chrysanthemum

The Twin Pleasures of Kigo 

Mariposa

Leaping Haiku

Mariposa

The Function of Dreams in The Lord of the Rings

Amon Hen (Bulletin of the Tolkien Society) - No. 207

Unlikely Twins: Baggins and Miss Marple

Amon Hen (Bulletin of the Tolkien Society) - No. 210

"An Old Meeting of Ways"

Minas Tirith Evening-Star (Journal of the American Tolkien Society) - Vol 40, No. 3