Two Months Later: Salaam Green’s The Other Revival Releases to Much Acclaim

Two months ago, on Juneteenth, Pulley released Salaam Green’s debut poetry collection The Other Revival. Since then, it has received wide acclaim.

Hudson Booksellers, a national chain of airport bookstores, now carries the collection at airports around the country, and hosted a release and signing party for Salaam at the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport. She’s been the Poet Laureate of Birmingham for several years.

Salaam also received a 2025 Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship and award, and will be reading from the collection at the National Book Festival in Washington D. C. on September 6th. A couple of weeks later, on September 17th, she will also read at the Rural Assembly Everywhere, a virtual conference held by an organization of the same name based in Whitesburg, Kentucky that works to amplify rural voices across America.

Southern revivals, traditionally, are religious gatherings. Salaam Green asks us to consider “the other revival” as a new kind of possibility – revivals we each host, focused on what we all need. The poems in The Other Revival ask us to consider new versions of how we lift our passions into communities, to celebrate and question historical events, to learn about how artists transform the world and to search for the glimmers of our own transformations. The Other Revival gives us all a new model of keeping history.

Salaam’s book was also recently requested by a judge of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes for consideration in the poetry category. The pool for this prize includes a variety of poetry collections released in 2025, and winners are usually announced in spring of the following year. Pulley wishes the best of luck to Salaam as the judging kicks off!

Read several of Salaam’s poems on poets.org, and find links to purchase The Other Revival online here.