Other Writing

Memoir

Memoir pieces have appeared in The Kenyon Review, New American Writing, Guest Poetry Journal, Esquisse(s) and Zen Monster.

Journals

Poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Verse, The Kenyon Review, Orion, The Massachusetts Review, Pequod, Slope, The Antioch Review, New England Review, The Colorado Review, Volt and ZYZZYVA.

Anthologies

The Addison Street Anthology: Berkeley’s Poetry Walk
Robert Hass and Jessica Fisher, eds., Heyeck Press

A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology
Robert Coles, ed., The New Press

The Best American Poetry of 1994
A.R. Ammons, ed., Scribner’s

Blood and Bone: Poems by Doctors
Coulehan, J. and Belli, A., eds., University of Iowa Press

The Discovery of Poetry: A field guide to reading and writing poems
Francis Mayes, ed., Harvest Books

Orpheus and Company: Contemporary poems on Greek Mythology
DiNicola, D., ed., University of New England Press

Primary Care: More Poems by Physicians
Coulehan, J. and Belli, A., eds., University of Iowa Press

Strange Attraction: A ZYZZYVA Anthology
Junker, H., ed., University of Nevada Press

Verse and Universe: Poems about Science
Kurt Brown, ed., Milkweed Editions

Vespers: Contemporary American Poems of Religion and Spirituality
Van Cleave, R. and Suarez, V., eds., University of Iowa Press

A Cast Iron Aeroplane That Can Actually Fly: Commentaries from 80 American Poets on Their Prose Poetry
Peter Johnson, ed.

Psychoanalytic Pieces

“Listening: Poetry as Depth Perception,” Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 17:2, 189–204. (2020)

“Starvation and ‘The Dead Baby’.” Fort Da. 23:41–65. (2017)

“Topographies: Psychic landscapes in the poetry of Seamus Heaney and Tomas Tranströmer.” American Imago. 72: 385–406. (2015)

“Now we’re out of time: thoughts on endings in poetry in psychoanalysis.” American Imago. 70:607–632. (2013)

“The Case of Stevie.” International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 88: 1–8. (2007)

“Hello/Goodbye.” ZYZZYVA. Winter issue. (2007)

“Reflections of Possibility; Or, Poetry and Science: A Life” Isotope. Spring issue. (2006)

“Generating Words: One Approach to Teaching Clinical Writing.” The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. 74: 835–852. (2005)

“Bringing ‘The Dead’ to Life: Reading James Joyce.” Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. 2: 109–115. (2000)

“Linking lost voices: Reading ‘The Dead’.” International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 80:133–142. (1999)

“Experiencing Language: Some thoughts on poetry and psychoanalysis.” The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. 66:683–700. (1997)