In Conversation // Something to Sing, But Nothing to Say—Jesse Nathan and H. L. Hix
“Poetry can be a means of facilitating one’s experience of the continuity that is ‘underneath’ the artificially-imposed partitionings.”
Author: Staff
DIANE MEHTA
Pot-pourri à Vaisseau, from Sèvres
We make the soul composite when throwing shapes
with hearts and hands, as if hearts could understand.
M. SOLEDAD CABALLERO
Two Poems
When you escaped, I cackled like I was
the one who fled
Field Note: Birds of Prey on the Highway
“What I have discovered in my adult life, in my driving and commuting life, is that I love birds of prey.” —M. Soledad Caballero
Life List
A series of poems by BIPOC poets that engage with birds, curated by Sean Hill.
SAL Essay Series
Writers preview the Seattle Arts & Lectures Poetry Series
Flight by Flame: On Chris Abani’s Smoking the Bible
“By stitching the mundane to the profound, Abani renders a reclamation of a tender masculinity, an understanding of the relationship between joy and trauma, and a pursuit of the sacred.” –Indira Dahlstrom
A Poet of the American Storm: On Landscape with Bloodfeud by Wendy Barnes
“To be vulnerable means also to know one’s own capacity for harm . . .”–Amy Klein
JESSICA JOHNSON
Of Knowledge: The Vast, Provisional Body
You full of night, night full of you.
The Many Desires of Kate Baer
“The trouble with wanting . . . is that the relationship between the public and private self’s desires is an ever-evolving matter.” –Margot Kahn