Essays

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

Commentary, Essays, On Failure

On Rejection, the Language of Trauma, and the Rewards of Staying Open

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Can Poetry Be a Vehicle for Social Change?

Essays

Time Flown

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Like a Veil: on Humanness, Shame, and Mark Baumer

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Genre, Form, Captivity, and Restoration: Mary Rowlandson’s Creative Writing

Essays, SAL Essay Series

Now I Feel I Am On My Way

Essays, SAL Essay Series

More of a River

Essays, SAL Essay Series

Our Girls: Notes on Poetry and Palestinian Motherhood

Commentary, Essays, On Failure

Blessèd Delusions: Literary Follies and Visual Poems

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A Small Dislocation

Essays, SAL Essay Series

Simply Where We Live

Essays, SAL Essay Series

Something Silent in Us Strengthens