Essays

Prose that encourages us to engage with books of poetry, individual poets, and issues of craft or poetics.

Essays

A Book in a Tree Is a Love Poem and Also Not a Love Poem

Essays, Recent

The Music of the Zone

Essays

Through Armantrout’s Looking Glass: The Poem as Wonderland

Essays, Recent

Going in Fear of Negation: What Happens When We Stop Saying ‘No’?

Essays, Recent, SAL Essay Series

A Triptych on Toi Derricotte

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The Territory Is Also the Map

Essays, SAL Essay Series

Still Loving the World

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Magical Realism and the Sociology of Possibility

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To Be in the Truth of Us

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A Sense of Location and an Act of Leave-Taking

Essays, SAL Essay Series

Faith in the Particular

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Touching Time: The Poetry and Performance of Charles Simic