Essays

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

| Essays

A Small Dislocation

| Essays, SAL Essay Series

Simply Where We Live

| Essays, SAL Essay Series

Something Silent in Us Strengthens

| Essays, SAL Essay Series

My Dear collateral damage

| Essays

Autoportret

| Essays, SAL Essay Series

Not an Elegy

| Commentary, Essays, On Failure

Thirty-One Tiny Failures and One Labyrinth: On Parenting and Writing

| Essays, SAL Essay Series

How to Listen to Water

| Commentary, Essays, On Failure

Failures are special because they belong to us.

| Essays

The Biography of a Poem

| Commentary, Essays, On Failure

It is no small thing to discover fresh words for old wounds.

| Commentary, Essays, On Failure

There’s no way you’ll ever be able to get this right.