Essays

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

| 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

| Essays

Close Entanglements

| Commentary

A Poetics of Tectonic Scale

| Commentary, Essays

“I Made Myself Laugh and so I Forgot about the Point I Was Making”—on O’Hara, Bishop, and the Poetics of Delight

| Essays, SAL Essay Series

Sierra Nelson: “The Great Punctuation: Alice Notley & Mother-Bright-Appearance”