Poems

• Six poems at poets.org
• Five poems at Poetry Foundation
• Six poems at From the Fishouse

Recent Poems

• “Letter on Space & the Body” and “What I’m saying is…” – Orion (2022)
• “Parts of a Body House” – The New Republic (2022)
• “Touch Cave” – The Slowdown (2022, with audio)
• “Gnostic Spring, or That New York Times Article on Languishing” – Kenyon Review (2022)
• “To Gather Together” – The New Yorker (2021)
• “Assembled Audience” and “Jesus is the Reason” – Shenandoah (2021)
• “It’s Gunna Be All Right” – Orion (2021)
• “A Brief Eschatological Investigation” – Poetry Society of America (2021)
• “My List of True Facts” – The Believer (2021)
• “This Volatile Taxonomy” – Bennington Review (2020)
• “Eternal Return II” – Poetry (2020)
• “Song of Destruction / The Halation Effect” – Zocalo Public Square (2020)
• “Invitation to Tender” – Verse Daily (2020)
• “Light-Sensitive Puzzle Piece” – Jewish Book Council (2020)
• “Missing Parts” – Adroit Journal (2019, with audio)
• “What Follows is a Reconstruction Based on the Best Available Evidence” – Poem-A-Day from the Academy of American Poets (2019, with audio)
• “A Brief Ontological Investigation” – Poem-A-Day from the Academy of American Poets (2018, with audio)

Documentary Projects

• “Reimagining Magic City: Miami’s Built Environment at the Crossroads” – Virginia Quarterly Review (2021) w/ Anna Maria Barry-Jester
• “RNC CLE: Cleveland Up Close During the Republican National Convention” – Virginia Quarterly Review (2016) w/ Ryan Spencer Reed
• “This is Not a Requiem for Detroit” – Virginia Quarterly Review (2011) w/ Ryan Spencer Reed

Collaborations

• “In the Burrow of Science” (2021, soprano, violin, cello, marimba, and video) w/ Erika Meitner (lyrics), Charles Nichols (music), Zach Duer (video), and Ariana Wyatt (soprano), based on the research of Dr. Vanessa Diaz (psychologist) – write up here; video here
• “What Bends” (2017, electric violin, sonified data, computer music, narrated poetry, motion capture dance, animation, and processed video) w/ Erika Meitner (poetry), Charles Nichols (music), Rachel Rugh (choreography), and Zach Duer (video) – video here
• “In the Waiting Room of America” (2017, baritone voice, trumpet, trombone, and bass clarinet) w/ Erika Meitner (poetry) and Charles Nichols (music), performed by loadbang – video here

Etc.

• “Round Table: On Ephemerality & Documentation” (The Ilanot Review, 2021)
• “Interrupted Reading” (The Believer, 2020)
• “Episode 28: Poems for Mother’s Day,” Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People) (podcast, 2017)
• “On Sacred Spaces & Community: Jewish Poets Speak Out,” The Kenyon Review Blog (2017)
• The Sundress Blog: “Lyric Essentials: Nancy Reddy Reads ‘Walmart Supercenter’ by Erika Meitner” (2016)
• A feature on Erika Meitner and Adrienne Rich at the Jewish Women’s Archive: “Power Couples: Feminist Poets” (2016)
• NPM Daily piece for National Poetry Month on writing and gun violence (2014)
• Joy Katz and Erika Meitner discuss Lucille Clifton’s “the lost baby poem” with the Poetry Foundation’s “Poetry Off the Shelf” Producer Curtis Fox in “Happy Complicated Mother’s Day” (audio, 2013)