Current research projects center on the now defunct Poetics Program at New College of California in San Francisco. A dissertation on the initial manifestation of the Poetics Program when the key figures were poets Robert Duncan, Diane di Prima, David Meltzer, Duncan McNaughton, and Michael Palmer in the 1980s is in progress, as is an anthology of critical work by students and teachers in each of the program’s several manifestations in the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s, and multiple collections of lectures, notes, and other prose texts by David Meltzer, drawn largely from his nearly thirty years of teaching there.

More generally, research interests include modern and post-modern USAmerican poetry and poetics (and the antecedents thereof), contemporary and historical poetic communities, small press publishing and distribution networks, pedagogies of poetry, poetics, creative writing, and literature writ large (as well as the institutions concerned therewith), practices and products of translation, and the political, mystical, magical, and material properties of language.