Forty-seven essays: one essay per president plus a preamble and outro

first serial publications in Brevity (ed. Dinty W. Moore), Los Angeles Review (ed. Ann Beman), Evansville Review (ed. Rachel Wyatt), Fourth Genre (ed. Marcia Aldrich), The Normal School (ed. Steven Church), Bellingham Review(ed. Brenda Miller) and others.

Short, lyric essays are intriguing, yet accessible. The popularity of Maggie Nelson (Bluets, The Argonauts), Claudia Rankine (Citizen), Heather Christle (The Crying Book) and many other prose poem/ lyric essay hybrid books demonstrates the appetite for this form