Still Loving the World
The “We” Behind the “I” in “Good Bones”—an essay by Kathleen Flenniken
All posts tagged: SAL Essay Series
Faith in the Particular
“Barot widens the circumference of lived experience in all its bittersweet rings.” —an essay by Jane Wong on the poems of Rick Barot
Time Flown
“Rekdal’s poems show characters amidst great transformations, and more importantly, allow the reader to change alongside them.”
Bill Carty on Paisley Rekdal’s Nightingale
Now I Feel I Am On My Way
Gabrielle Bates on Mary Ruefle’s Dunce
More of a River
“How can poetry, with only words at its disposal, work on us the way the world works on us?”
Jason Whitmarsh on the poetry of Richard Kenney
Our Girls: Notes on Poetry and Palestinian Motherhood
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha on the poems of Naomi Shihab Nye
Simply Where We Live
“Concrete gestures toward beauty, fragile investments in progress. Literal seeds sown.”
Alex Madison on Here: Poems for the Planet
Something Silent in Us Strengthens
“In the time we have remaining, Kaminsky asks that we commit to exaltation as an honest response to our beleaguered world.”
Kristen Millares Young on Ilya Kaminsky
My Dear collateral damage
“That language, rescued from the machinery of war, can offer the consolation of being looked upon in relation . . . to whom you are beloved.”
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha on Solmaz Sharif
Not an Elegy
“Through lamentation and joy, Smith’s poems lean their head back and sing, Not yet.”
Image: “Dreams In Black and White”, 2013, courtesy of the artist, Shikeith