The Scribbles, the Rubbish, and the Mirrored Words
“Don Mee Choi’s words point us toward a world beyond the American imagination.” —Woogee Bae
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SAL Essay Series
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Unmastering English: On the Work of Cathy Park Hong
“Hong’s essays and poems ask how to write about a country’s murderous onset, when the bloody order continues?”—Paul Hlava Ceballos
When the Years are Gone: On Playlist for the Apocalypse by Rita Dove
“This is a collection about preservation.”—an essay by Luther Hughes
Everywhere Is [Beautifully] Dreamed in the Poetry of Sherwin Bitsui: A Critical Found Response
“Origin is first origin”—an essay by Natalie A. MartĂnez
There’s the Overthrow and There’s the Rebuild
“Poems don’t replace the organizing—they supplement it.”—an essay by Troy Osaki
The Pursuit of It: Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom
“Who does stasis serve?”—an essay by Gabrielle Bates
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 RĂos Say to Each Other
“Perhaps conversations among RĂos’ 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’