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SAL Essay Series

Writers preview the Seattle Arts & Lectures Poetry Series

March 30, 2023

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Two Languages / One Community,
Together in Poetry

San Francisco-based poet Michael Warr and poet/translator Chun Yu co-founded Two Languages / One Community in 2015.

February 2, 2023

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Life List

A series of poems by BIPOC poets that engage with birds, curated by Sean Hill.

November 17, 2022

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Native Poets Torchlight Series

In which Guest Editor Jennifer Elise Foerster celebrates contemporary Native American poets.

November 2, 2022

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On Failure

In which writers investigate the practice of failure.

September 10, 2022

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One More Thing

Conversations with contributors and other writers curated by Helene Achanzar

July 17, 2022

book reviews

June 5, 2023

Deep Empathy and Dreamlike Transformation: On Gabriella R. Tallmadge’s Sweet...

". . . the speaker reckons with how to love and live in a marriage that is dissolving."

by Claire Tuna

May 5, 2023

An Empire Elsewhere

Ceballos captures the violent reality oppressed and exploited people face due to U.S. involvement in their home country’s economy...

by Nanya Jhingran

April 28, 2023

Each Time You Enter You’ll Carry a Mouthful of Names

"Whereas Bilotserkivets speaks of the immediacy of survival,–what do I and You have to do in order to get...

by Nanya Jhingran

April 12, 2023

Damaged and Open: On Sara Moore Wagner’s Hillbilly Madonna

"Struggle against the patriarchy is coupled with a critique of the faith that has made itself an organic part...

by Gabi Graceffo

interviews

Interview // “Color is a Way of Entry”: A Conversation with Christine Herzer

Published by Alexa Luborsky

"I work with language (in its many shapes/contexts, e.g., words, the news; visible/invisible; etc.) and towards finding language capable of holding paradox, of holding everything (like a painting, like...

June 2, 2023

Interviews

Interview // “The Poet as Urban Planner”: A Conversation with Josh Feit

Published by Alexa Luborsky

"Poetry gives you the room to explore these weird juxtapositions where you're talking about a transit-oriented development, and you're simultaneously talking about Athena. She rides a chariot, and we're...

May 20, 2023

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