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)

• Poems and Poetics at Elective Affinities (2014)
• Poems at Diode (2014)
• Poems and interview at Congeries (2013)
• “When I Was a Child, I Lived as a Child, I Said to My Dad” (Matter, 2013)

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.”