From The More You Love the Motherland (memoir in progress):
- “Singing the Darkness: On Russia, Suffering, and Poetry” Image (2017)
- “The Paperless ‘Palestinian’ and the Russian P’liceman” The Margins (2017)
- “Farther and Farther in Sokolniki” The Smart Set (2017)
- “The High Rise on Desolation Row” At Length (2017)
- “My Life with ‘Barge Haulers on the Volga’” Kenyon Review Online (2017)
- “This is Autumn, My Friend.” Massachusetts Review (2017)
- “In the Den of the Voice.” World Literature Today (2018)
The Long Road of Peace (essays on Northern Ireland, justice, and peace):
- “The Wall of Silence: On Trying to Talk About Palestine, Israel and the USA.” Lit Hub. February 2021.
- “The Peace Walls.” Kenyon Review. March/April. 2021.
- “To Change the Script: Alan McBride, Gerry Adams, and Five Minutes of Heaven.” Massachusetts Review. 2021.
- “To Expand the Moral Imagination in the Time of Coronavirus.” LitHub. March 2020.
- “The Elusive Lure of Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland.” Lit Hub. 2019.
- “Imagining Iraq.” Lit Hub. 2018.
- “Same As It Ever Was: Orientalism Forty Years Later.” Lit Hub. 2018.
Poems for a Future Book:
- “Song for Refugees.” Poetry. May 2019.
- “Before the Mirror on New Year’s Eve.” Poetry. May 2019.
Poems from Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon, 2020)
- “Shrapnel Map” (Green Linden)
- “No Road/”Innocents Abroad” (BathHouse Journal)
- “Checkpoint” (Kenyon Review, Academy of American Poets)
- “Isdoud” (for Fady Joudah) (Kenyon Review, Academy of American Poets)
From Pictures at an Exhibition (2016)
- “The Old Haunts (A Guided Tour)” (Jacket)
- “The Peasant Cart (Along Griboyedov Canal)” and Iconostasis of the Museum of Atheism and Religion” (Diagram)
- “Dear Lattice of Peasant Ribs” (Crazyhorse)
- “When You Meet the Roma at the River.”
From Sand Opera (2015)
From To See the Earth (2008)
- “Ashberries: Letters.” (New England Review, Best American Poetry 2002)
- “Primer for Non-Native Speakers” (Literal Latte)
- “Post-Soviet Sestina” (Diagram)
- “Days of 1993″ (Prairie Schooner)
- “one more story he said“
- “The Ballad of Skandar” (Poetry)
- “Stopping by Krispy Kreme” (Tin House)
- “For the Fifty, Who Formed PEACE With Their Bodies.”