Essays

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

Essays

Close Entanglements

Commentary, Essays

A Poetics of Tectonic Scale

Commentary, Essays

“I Made Myself Laugh and so I Forgot about the Point I Was Making”—on O’Hara, Bishop, and the Poetics of Delight

Essays, SAL Essay Series

Sierra Nelson: “The Great Punctuation: Alice Notley & Mother-Bright-Appearance”

Commentary, Essays, Gallery

Jill Twist: The Only Thing, a Photo Essay

Essays, SAL Essay Series

Daemond Arrindell: Moonlight, Gratitude, and Reading Ross Gay in this Political Moment

Essays

Zach Savich from Diving Makes the Water Deep

Essays

Richard Kenney: “Be Still My Heart: A Closer Look at Biology in Relation to Metrical Forms”

Archive, Essays, New Series

Gill Dennis: “Unchained”

Essays

Sandra Beasley: “Flint and Tinder – Understanding the Difference Between ‘Poetry of Witness’ and ‘Documentary Poetics'”

Essays

Emily Warn: “The Almost Wilderness – Remembering Denise Levertov”

Essays

Derek Mong: “Walt Whitman’s iPad”