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6/31
Alycia Pirmohamed – Another Way to Split Water
“How I know I have returned from dreaming: / if I reach out, I will touch oranges. // I prefer ghosts.” (Lapse)

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August 6, 2024 at 5:25 PM
zuzusunshine.bsky.social
Today's book for #TheSealeyChallenge! And I spent far too long wondering what white substance is in the tiny bowl on the floor in the bottom left corner before realizing that it's on the cover of a King Arthur catalog.
January 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
bookgaga.bsky.social
15/31: TIME IS A MOTHER by Ocean Vuong (2022 Penguin Audio) https://tinyurl.com/y7yhkp9e & https://tinyurl.com/4xpecfus

"Where I’m from it’s only midnight for a second
the trees look like grandfathers laughing in the rain."

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Time Is a Mother
Check out this great listen on Audible.ca. The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong "Take your time with these poems, and return to them often.”�...
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August 15, 2023 at 12:55 PM
adharper.bsky.social
16/31
Thom Gunn – Fighting Terms
"I may return, meanwhile I'll look elsewhere: / My want may modify to what I've seen." ('Wind in the Street')

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August 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(3/61) “no matter how much ice / the white man tried to baptise you in / and just how cold his gold / chains left you” —Tayi Tibble, “Mahuika,” (Rangikura) Alfred A. Knopf #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Tayi Tibble’s Rangikura: a painting of a women with long, black and purple tresses, wearing pink transparent sunglasses and holding a tiny paper umbrella in a pink drink, with butterflies and white sparkles around her
August 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(19/61) “Maybe some things have gone / too far now— / pastel winds, those bomb-ass leaves and sketched echoes” —Kenzie Allen, “In Which I Become (Pocahontas)” (Cloud Missives) @tinhouse.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Kenzie Allen’s Cloud Missives: a series of blue polyhedra on blue shelves
August 19, 2025 at 9:04 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(23/61) “the Telly Savalas pinball machine / on Rivington Street / girls playing spit” —Tina Cane, “The Fifth Thought” (Once More with Feeling) Veliz Books #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Tina Cane’s Once More with Feeling: a black-and-white photograph of early-to-mid-twentieth century New York City storefronts and tenement apartments above.
August 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
bookgaga.bsky.social
4/31: BEAST BODY EPIC by @amandaearl.bsky.social (2023 AngelHouse Press) tinyurl.com/3xvbf33x

"My quest was to return home
like Dorothy in the Emerald City
Didn't Alice eventually want to come
back through the looking glass"

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The poetry work Beast Body Epic by Amanda Earl (AngelHouse Press) sits on a blue/purple and earth-toned crocheted afghan. The poetry work Beast Body Epic by Amanda Earl, open to a selection, is held up in front of a blue/purple and earth-toned crocheted afghan.
August 4, 2024 at 2:47 PM
bookgaga.bsky.social
22/31: INDIE ROCK by Joe Bishop (2023 University of Alberta Press) tinyurl.com/ynkru34e

"To also go where the best of you goes,
the haloed expanse where your vision stays,
Digger, my friend, this man can dream."

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22nd selection for The Sealey Challenge 2023 (reading 31 poetry works in the month of August): Poetry collection Indie Rock by Joe Bishop (University of Alberta Press) sits on a purple desktop with a round piece of red brick and a small notebook with cartoon dogs on the cover. Airedale puppy Mavis sits nearby. Handwritten transcription of the poem "Dear Digger" from the poetry collection poetry collection Indie Rock by Joe Bishop (University of Alberta Press) - the collection is held open on a purple desktop with a round piece of red brick, an uncapped black pen rests on the notebook and coffee in a blue cup sits nearby. Airedale puppy Mavis sits next to the desk, looking particularly interested since a small dog cookie sits next to the notebook! Close-up of a handwritten transcription of the poem "Dear Digger" from the poetry collection poetry collection Indie Rock by Joe Bishop (University of Alberta Press)
August 22, 2023 at 2:03 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(28/61) “This sentence, / like all others, reaching for you / out of metaphor.” —Natalie Wee, “Skin Hunger, with Waves” (Beast at Every Threshold) Arsenal Pulp Press #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Natalie Wee’s Beast at Every Threshold: a painting of a fox sliced into segments by a cat’s cradle held by two white disembodied hand
August 29, 2023 at 4:48 PM
adharper.bsky.social
14/31
Charles Boyle – The Age of Cardboard and String
“And no, / it wasn’t us (with crumbs on our lips) / who stole the cookies from the cookie jar.” (The Age of Cardboard and String)

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August 14, 2024 at 5:34 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(51/61) “for i too have wrestled a man to the / floor i have punched my own brother / i have licked his blood from the wall later that night” —India Lena González (fox woman get out!) #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of India Lena González’s fox woman get out!: a photograph of bare legs and feet standing in grass and wildflowers behind an orange haze
September 21, 2024 at 9:32 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(61/61) “it was december when you first saw them. they were singing, they / have been singing ever since.” —Ire’ne Lara Silva, “it was december” (Cuicacalli / House of Song) Saddle Road Press #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Ire’ne Lara Silva’s Cuicacalli / House of Song: an abstract painting of chains of red hashmarks and bronze, gray, and green rock-like objects outlined and daisy-chained together in dark blue against a mustard background
October 1, 2023 at 1:23 AM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(57/61) “Am I of my people? Do I please my lord? / My hair was bared, but someone veiled named me Ghazal.” — @sarahali.bsky.social, “Ghazal Ghazal” (Theophanies) Alice James Books #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Sarah Ghazal Ali’s Theophanies: a black and white collage of a robed and bearded figure with long hair crossing their arms and bending over to emit a spectral white beam from their face which causes plants to grow in bare ground
September 26, 2024 at 11:25 PM
bookgaga.bsky.social
16/31: SELVAGE Kate Siklosi (2023 Invisible Publishing) https://tinyurl.com/hmjhr89y

"in the buoyant salinity of silence
pools of cool fierce joy
tiny structures of light
distill broken bloodlines into
a surface gleaming with collision
a universe wound into a ball"

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16th selection for The Sealey Challenge 2023 (reading 31 poetry works in the month of August): Poetry collection Selvage by Kate Siklosi (Invisible Publishing), with a striking cover showing stylized tree roots, sits amidst tree roots, moss and needles Poetry collection Selvage by Kate Siklosi (Invisible Publishing), open to a section of the poem "radicle", is held up with a lake and far shore visible in the background
August 16, 2023 at 1:08 PM
kymminbarcelona.bsky.social
Day 22 of #thesealeychallenge with Charles Coe, from last night’s 5th Annual Ifeanyi Menkiti Memorial Reading. #thegrolierpoetrybookshop
August 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
nc-exlibris.bsky.social
#thesealeychallenge day 6-8
“Desire is dead, long live desire.” @graywolfpress.bsky.social @sealeychallenge.bsky.social
August 9, 2025 at 2:25 AM
tamaldulce.bsky.social
Day 13

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Cover of Eduardo C Corral's book of poetry, "guillotine".
August 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(42/61) “What do you teach? / Poetry. // I hate poetry, the officer says. / I only like writing / where you can make an argument” —Solmaz Sharif, “He, Too” (Customs) @graywolfpress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Solmaz Sharif’s Customs: a watercolor of a red square.
September 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(36/61) “The man will be white and wearing a large woolen hat, / black as the night / I’d miss save for the light leaking from the moon” —DeMisty D. Bellinger, “The Woman Was Leaving” (Peculiar Heritage) Mason Jar Press #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of DeMisty D. Bellinger’s Peculiar Heritage: a multi-colored line drawing of a woman’s profile in red, green, and blue
September 6, 2023 at 12:05 AM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(38/61) “The fireplace cold as an empty bowl. / The bedsheets stiff like the wind.” —Cathy Song, “Birthmarks” (Picture Bride) Yale University Press @yalebooks.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Cathy Song’s Picture Bride: a collage of a photograph of a woman with black short hair and a white shirt inside a drawn oval mirror with her family arrayed on either side of her but obscured by a blue wash and a black floral pattern.
September 10, 2024 at 7:43 PM
barbaramcveigh.bsky.social
I was wondering what #TheSealeyChallenge was. Now I know. If I had only known sooner. Good on you @bookgaga.bsky.social
bookgaga.bsky.social Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · Aug 11
11/31: QUARRELS Eve Joseph (2018 Anvil Press) https://tinyurl.com/44daresy

"The capon exploded out of the pressure cooker & stuck in the kitchen ceiling. It hung there like a black chandelier. People took turns trying to pull it out with no success."

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11th selection for The Sealey Challenge 2023 (reading 31 poetry works in the month of August): Poetry collection Quarrels by Eve Joseph (Anvil Press) sits on a wooden dining room table with a piece of quartz used as a paperweight sitting on the corner of the book Poetry collection Quarrels by Eve Joseph (Anvil Press) - book is held open with a piece of quartz as a paperweight, to a poem selection that includes the excerpt "The capon exploded out of the pressure cooker and stuck in the kitchen ceiling."
August 11, 2023 at 5:28 PM
bookgaga.bsky.social
You're welcome. I really enjoyed rereading this collection for #TheSealeyChallenge!
August 18, 2023 at 4:24 PM
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17/31: RUIN by Neil Surkan (2023 knife | fork | book) tinyurl.com/bdh2hw9h

"I've come to the mirror and seen
myself for the first time

in years, not as I fear
others judge me mid-chore

or with love"

Reflection

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Poetry collection Ruin by Neil Surkan (knife | fork | book), with its elegantly simple cover, sits on a notebook page next to a handwritten transcription of the poem "Reflection" from that collection
August 17, 2024 at 2:00 PM
adharper.bsky.social
11/31
Adelaide Ivánova –the hammer and other poems (translated by Francisco Vilhena and Rachel Long)
“there was the arrival / and then the silence / through sand cobweb dust / moss mould spiders” (the visit)

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August 11, 2024 at 4:43 PM