From The More You Love the Motherland (memoir in progress):
- “Lost in the Underground Cathedral.” World Literature Today. (2022)
- “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 from Fugitive/Refuge (Copper Canyon 2024):
- “A Chronology of Roads.” New England Review. 2016
- “Never Describe the Sky as Azure.” Poetry. 2021.
- “Remorse for Temperate Speech.” Poetry. 2021.
- “Plague Psalm 90.” Image. 2021.
- “You Have Come Upon People Who Are Like Family,” “”A Map of Migration Routes.” Rumpus. 2018
- “Song for Refugees.” Poetry. May 2019.
- “Solstice Prayer.” Narrative. 2021.
- “Before the Mirror on New Year’s Eve.” Poetry. May 2019.
- “Devotional.” Poetry Society of America. 2016.
Poems from Ochre & Rust: New Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky (2023).
- Introduction. Lit Hub. 2023.
- To Y.K. Adroit. 2023.
- Elegy. Poetry Magazine. 2017.
- To Peter Vail. Jacket 2. 2008.
Poems from Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon, 2020)
- “When It Rains in Gaza.” Beloit Poetry Journal
- “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.”