National Post (March 10) "Striking Imagery and Imaginative Surprises" (review of Zbigniew Herbert's The Collected Poems: 1956-1998)
2006
BRICK (#78 Fall) — "Anne Frank and the Search for Self" (essay)
National Post — "Poet Brings Playfulness, humour and intellect" (review of Paul Muldoon's The End of the Poem and Horse Latitudes)
Stand (U.K.) (181/2 Summer) — two poems
Ars Medica (vol.2, no.2 Spring 2006) — two poems
National Post (June 17) "Affirming a Triumphant Life" (article on Irving Layton)
National Post (May 27) "Night of the Poetry All-Stars" (article on the Griffin Award nominees)
National Post (April 1) "The Shaker-plain Voice of Elizabeth Bishop" (review of Elizabeth Bishop's Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments.)
2005
The Antigonish Review (141/142) — three poems
BRICK (#76, Fall) — "Rescuing Isaac" (essay)
Parchment (Fall) — "Kaplan's Scroll of Agony: Humanism Versus Nihilism" (essay)
2004
Queen's Quarterly (Winter) — "Varlam Shalamov: Poet of the Frozen Inferno" (essay)
The Danforth Review (autumn) "The Wringer-Washer" (poem)
AGNI (Summer) "A Violence from Within: Poetry and Terrorism" (essay)
2003
Globe and Mail (December 13) "The Crow Ascending" (review of Ted Hughes' Collected Poems)
Grain (Fall ) "Predictable" (poem)
Tikkun (January/February) "A Contemporary" (poem)
National Post (July 17) "Three Ages of a Master Poet" (review of Robert Lowell's Collected Poems)
Books in Canada (April) "Cat Music" (review of Szymborska's Nonrequired Reading)
2002
Books in Canada (November) "Wallace Stevens and the Poet's Mission" (essay)
Descant (Summer) 3 poems
ARC (Spring) two poems
Books in Canada (May) "Chihuahua" (poem)
Books in Canada (May) "Yiddish: A Nation of Words" (review)
Books in Canada (April) "Milosz at Ninety" (essay/review)
2001
Partisan Review (Fall) "The Necessity of Poetry" (essay)
Books In Canada (September) "Five Pieces for Irving Layton" (essay)
Canadian Jewish News (September 27) four poems
National Post (February) review of Ruth Wisse's The Modern Jewish Canon
2000
Brick (Spring, No.64) "Who Knows You Here?" (memoir)
The New Quarterly (Spring, Volume XX, No.1) "On a Tourist Beach in Bombay" (poem)