Essays (a selection)
- "Breath into Fire: Feminism and Poetry Readings." pro-fusion 1, Apr. 1995 and Mid-American Review 12, No. 2, 1992.
- "On Writing Poetry." 14850 Magazine. Feb. 1993 and A View from the Loft 10, No. 9, April 1988.
- "The Writer as Performer." A.I.D. Review 3, No. 1, 1987.
- "Pearls for Eyes and White Geese Flying: The Waste Land and A Woman Is Talking to Death." A.I.D. Review 1, No. 1, 1985.
- "In Their Own Voices." Feminist Teacher 1, No. 1, Fall 1984.
- "Women and the Man-made Cliche." Aim 4, No. 1, Jan./Feb. 1977 and The Phoenix 2, No. 3, Oct. 1976.
- "Fielding, Austen, and Hardy: The Humor, Absence, and Tragedy of Sex." Insight. May 1974 and May 1972.