Features Published on March 30, 2023 SAL Essay Series written by Staff 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 RÃos 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
