SAL Essay Series
Writers preview the Seattle Arts & Lectures Poetry Series
Writers preview the Seattle Arts & Lectures Poetry Series
“By stitching the mundane to the profound, Abani renders a reclamation of a tender masculinity, an understanding of the relationship between joy and trauma, and a pursuit of the sacred.” –Indira Dahlstrom
“To be vulnerable means also to know one’s own capacity for harm . . .”–Amy Klein
You full of night, night full of you.
“The trouble with wanting . . . is that the relationship between the public and private self’s desires is an ever-evolving matter.” –Margot Kahn
“Under Reginald Dwayne Betts’s watch, redaction becomes a beacon . . . a lightness under the weight shines through.” –Stacy D. Flood
Just tell me who the hell am I?
What powers did I, do I hold?
I feel like a child, younger than this girl; I’m
telling about parents as if I still had them . . .
We are puppets, all parts of us
connected by strings, by loose wishes
Wind and darkness, like the cuckoo
Who returns from far off lands