SAL Essay Series

Flight by Flame: On Chris Abani’s Smoking the Bible

The Many Desires of Kate Baer

Giving Prominence

An Intimate Provocation: Jenny Xie’s The Rupture Tense

The Scribbles, the Rubbish, and the Mirrored Words

Unmastering English: On the Work of Cathy Park Hong

When the Years are Gone: On Playlist for the Apocalypse by Rita Dove

Everywhere Is [Beautifully] Dreamed in the Poetry of Sherwin Bitsui: A Critical Found Response

There’s the Overthrow and There’s the Rebuild

The Pursuit of It: Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom

I Am Ready To Be Every Animal You Leave Behind

A THOUSAND IMAGINATIONS: What the Books of Alberto Ríos Say to Each Other

A Book in a Tree Is a Love Poem and Also Not a Love Poem

A Triptych on Toi Derricotte

Still Loving the World

Faith in the Particular

Time Flown

Now I Feel I Am On My Way

More of a River

Our Girls: Notes on Poetry and Palestinian Motherhood

Simply Where We Live

Something Silent in Us Strengthens

My Dear collateral damage

Not an Elegy

How to Listen to Water

That Ocean Inside Us

Close Entanglements

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

Like Sand, and Solid Ground

Daemond Arrindell: Moonlight, Gratitude, and Reading Ross Gay in this Political Moment