Essays

Prose that encourages us to engage with books of poetry, individual poets, and issues of craft or poetics.

| Essays, Recent

A Sense of Location and an Act of Leave-Taking

| Essays, SAL Essay Series

Faith in the Particular

| Essays

Touching Time: The Poetry and Performance of Charles Simic

| Commentary, Essays, On Failure

On Rejection, the Language of Trauma, and the Rewards of Staying Open

| Essays

Can Poetry Be a Vehicle for Social Change?

| Essays

Time Flown

| Essays

Like a Veil: on Humanness, Shame, and Mark Baumer

| Essays

Genre, Form, Captivity, and Restoration: Mary Rowlandson’s Creative Writing

| Essays, SAL Essay Series

Now I Feel I Am On My Way

| Essays, SAL Essay Series

More of a River

| Essays, SAL Essay Series

Our Girls: Notes on Poetry and Palestinian Motherhood

| Commentary, Essays, On Failure

Blessèd Delusions: Literary Follies and Visual Poems