- "The Woman in the Wall: Answering the Knock in the Middle of the Night," Catapult
- On Bulletboys' "Smooth Up in Ya," March Shredness
- "Stuck Inside Nobel with the Memphis Blues Again," Boulevard
- "Dust in the Wind," Tin House
- "Taking Back Tuesday: Emo Revival Vs. Emo Nostalgia," Westword
- "What Ryan Adams' 1989 Can Teach Taylor Swift (About Love)," Riverfront Times
- "After Midnight in Bloomington," The Journal
- "A Hole in the World," Hobart
- "Ode to Milwaukee," Great Lakes Review
- "Mom and Pot," XO Jane
- "Almost Grown Up with Jimmy Eat World," Speakers in Code
- "System Failure," Quarterly West
- "The Scrambler," Ninth Letter