 Recent sequences include Poet's Journey about the poet's relationship to both modern life and the imagination and also a Whitman Notebook, a meditation on reading Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" during the 200th anniversary of Whitman's birth.He has taught creative writing and literature throughout the United States, including at George Washington University, University of Maryland, Stanford University, Portland State University, and Lynchburg College as the Richard H. Thornton Writer in Residence, and during 2007–2011 as poet-in-residence in the fall at Wake Forest University.He currently divides his teaching between the Rainier Writer's Workshop M.F.A.