The Pursuit of It: Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom
“Who does stasis serve?”—an essay by Gabrielle Bates
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SAL Essay Series
Writers preview the Seattle Arts & Lectures Poetry Series
I Am Ready To Be Every Animal You Leave Behind
“Vuong shows the world for the truth of all its sharp and beautiful teeth.” —a visual essay Tessa Hulls
A THOUSAND IMAGINATIONS: What the Books of Alberto Ríos Say to Each Other
“Perhaps conversations among Ríos’ works are most evident in the ones about the border, where the elbow taps of solidarity acknowledge the tenuous ground upon which an idea that becomes a fence that becomes a wall is built.”—an essay by Donna Miscolta
A Book in a Tree Is a Love Poem and Also Not a Love Poem
“A watershed of shared thinking.”—Youth Responses to Natalie Diaz curated by Laura Da’
A Triptych on Toi Derricotte
“The poem will tell us the depths to which we will need to go.”—an essay by Bettina Judd
Still Loving the World
The “We” Behind the “I” in “Good Bones”—an essay by Kathleen Flenniken
To Be in the Truth of Us
Just Us attends to the ways the structural violence of whiteness shapes identity and interactions. —an essay by Dujie Tahat on Claudia Rankine
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