Join us for SAL’s 2018/19 Season!
May 8, 2018
We’re thrilled to announce select speakers for our 2018/19 Literary Arts Series and our brand new three-part Journalism Series. The Literary Arts Series presents original talks with the leading ...
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Required Reading: Viet Thanh Nguyen
May 2, 2018
As part of our Required Reading series, we share a list of three essential works from SAL’s featured writers. Up this time: Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar & author of The Sympathizer, Nothing Ev...
WITS Voices: Coming Out Trans While Teaching
By Cody Pherigo, WITS Writer-in-Residence I had the opportunity to come out as transgender in my classrooms this year, an action that was never on the table when I was in high school and still ...
“To Whisk the Moon,” by Audrey Papineau
May 1, 2018
To Whisk the Moon To whisk, to whisk, to whisk the moon To fly, to soar, to light up the moon, whoosh! Tap! Rattle tap tap! The tree, the tree, the tree under the moon. Try everything! To soar, to soa...
WITS Voices: Speaking rights in the writing classroom
By Alex Madison, WITS Writer-in-Residence On one of the final days of my fall WITS residency, I stood before a full class of seventh graders, hurrying to push through my fiction lesson so stude...
“Palimpsest,” by Suh Young Choi
April 19, 2018
Palimpsest 2016 A large church sanctuary. In the past few weeks, it’s seen too much. New pastor since the last one left for Fayetteville. New youth minister, since he’s leaving for Cabot. N...
WITS Voices: Writing Letters We May Never Send
By: Minh Nguyen, WITS Writer-in-Residence I teach high school juniors and seniors, and for one writing lesson, we focus on the epistolary format. I ask them to think of a person for whom they have ver...
Required Reading: Questlove
By Stephany Kim, SAL Intern Recognize Questlove, the drummer with the signature afro pick on The Tonight Show, but don’t know much about him? Well, grab your earbuds, groove out to the Grammy Award-...
Madeleine Albright’s Warning
April 5, 2018
“Why has international momentum toward democracy slowed, and why are so many charlatans seeking to undermine public confidence in elections, the courts, the media?” This is the urgent ques...
“My Name” by Selome Daniel Girma
April 4, 2018
My Name Yesterday my name was Engineer Selome. Today my name is Dr. Selome. “Hi, Engineer Selome,” they say as I keep on building as an artist who can’t get distracted. I love being ...