Essays

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

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.

Essays, SAL Essay Series

That Ocean Inside Us

Commentary, Essays

Lyric Consciousness

Essays

In Case of Emergency

Essays

On the Genesis of Self-Articulation and Solidarity

Essays

Self-Articulation and Solidarity: Asian Americans Writing the South