In New Orleans, he was a member of the creative writing teaching team at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Riverfront. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, The New Republic, The New Orleans Review, Mississippi Review, and other literary magazines. He has been a scholar at the Sewanee and Bread Loaf writers conferences, and a finalist for the Yale Younger Poets Award. He is a contributor to Intersections, the Press Street collection of New Orleans Writing and Art.