His poems have been published in Ploughshares, Crazyhorse, New England Review, Denver Quarterly, North American Review, Green Mountains Review, Missouri Review, and elsewhere. Essays of his have been published in The Southern Review, Paideuma, African American Review, The Wallace Stevens Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and elsewhere. He is the founding editor of Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz and Literature, and co-editor of Jazz Poetry Anthology Vol.1 and Vol. 2, as well as author of A Bibliographic Guide to Jazz Poetry and Jazz Poetry: From the 1920’s to the Present.