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Janet @thesisterjanet.bsky.social · 16d

I put up my spooky front door wreath over the weekend.

Janet @thesisterjanet.bsky.social · Sep 8

*casually driving around neighborhood to see if anyone has fall/spooky decor out yet*

a black cat with a pumpkin head is sitting down .

ALT: a black cat with a pumpkin head is sitting down .

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Janet @thesisterjanet.bsky.social · Sep 8

*casually driving around neighborhood to see if anyone has fall/spooky decor out yet*

a black cat with a pumpkin head is sitting down .

ALT: a black cat with a pumpkin head is sitting down .

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Janet @thesisterjanet.bsky.social · Aug 23

#SealeyChallenge 21 of 31

Am/Are I (2020)
by Billie R. Tadros

Via Francis House

an experimental tiny chapbook that adds the capital A to Art

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Janet @thesisterjanet.bsky.social · Aug 23

#SealeyChallenge 20 of 31

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

by Terrance Hayes

Reread via audiobook (university library) because hearing these poems read by the author made them more powerful

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Janet @thesisterjanet.bsky.social · Aug 23

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Poems Are the Only Real Bodies (2013)
by Jennifer Tamayo

via @bloofbooks.bsky.social

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Janet @thesisterjanet.bsky.social · Aug 19

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SPIN (2009) by Zachary C. Bush via kendra steiner editions

Limited edition handmade in cellophane by a former colleague

Janet @thesisterjanet.bsky.social · Aug 17

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CRUSH (2005) by @richard-siken.bsky.social

One of my favorite favorites

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Janet @thesisterjanet.bsky.social · Aug 17

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Wish You Were Here (2013) Matthew Dickman

via SPORK PRESS

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Janet @thesisterjanet.bsky.social · Aug 16

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Nightsink, Faucet Me A Lullaby (2019) by Alexa Doran

via Bottlecap Press

An exquisite reread from a poet friend

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Janet @thesisterjanet.bsky.social · Aug 14

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You're My Favorite (2022) by Lauren Saxon via @thirtywestph.com

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Janet @thesisterjanet.bsky.social · Aug 14

(forgot to share)

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Fire Sermons (2021) by @rayehendrix.bsky.social

via @ghostcitypress.bsky.social

A reread because I love these poems so much.

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Janet @thesisterjanet.bsky.social · Aug 14

a boy and a girl are sitting at a desk in a classroom looking at each other .

ALT: a boy and a girl are sitting at a desk in a classroom looking at each other .

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Janet @thesisterjanet.bsky.social · Aug 12

The life of a showgirl, you say? #IYKYK #ToriAmos

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Janet @thesisterjanet.bsky.social · Aug 12

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SIVVY by Lauren Davis via @whittlemicropress.bsky.social

IMHO, required reading for all #Plath fans (it's erasure poems from her letters):

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Janet @thesisterjanet.bsky.social · Aug 11

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Un-Becoming (2018)

by Charnell Peters

via @thirtywestph.com

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Janet @thesisterjanet.bsky.social · Aug 10

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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) by T.S. Eliot

Illustrations by Edward Gorey (1982)

AN ABSOLUTE DELIGHT

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Reposted by Janet

Bull City Press @bullcitypress.com · Aug 9

Are you living your best life? No? You need chapbooks.

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Janet @thesisterjanet.bsky.social · Aug 9

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The Way The Body Had to Travel (2014) by Emily Lake Hansen

🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️

a reread that feels like part of my own memory

Janet @thesisterjanet.bsky.social · Aug 8

#SealeyChallenge 8/31

waveforms: a short course in piano tuning by Andrea L. Hackbarth

@smallharborpub.bsky.social

Cleverly arranged prose poems (pun intended)

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Janet @thesisterjanet.bsky.social · Aug 7

#SealeyChallenge 7/31

Wildcold (2016) by Ruth Baumann via Slash Pine Press

Tiny poems with monumental weight.

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Janet @thesisterjanet.bsky.social · Aug 6

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Lies I Tell Myself (2018) by Sarah Suhr via dancing girl press & studio

'For a woman, there is always a sense of loss.'

Janet @thesisterjanet.bsky.social · Aug 5

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Easy Exit to Eleventh Street

By Kate Belt (2019) via @ghostcitypress.bsky.social

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Janet @thesisterjanet.bsky.social · Aug 4

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Collections from a Shipwreck (2022) by Jane-Rebecca Cannarella via @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social

a haunting reread of prose poems

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Janet @thesisterjanet.bsky.social · Aug 3

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This Is How I Will Tell You I Love You by Amanda Dissinger (2015) via Bottlecap Press

Janet @thesisterjanet.bsky.social · Aug 2

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a simple verb by jj rowan

@jayjayrowan.bsky.social @bloofbooks.bsky.social

a much needed reread ❤

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