The site Read a Little Poetry https://readalittlepoetry.com/ introduced me to #SealeyChallenge: Read a book of poetry every day in August https://www.thesealeychallenge.com/. I read poetry every morning but not a whole book. I do have a lot of poetry books waiting for me to get to them, though. Hmmm.... Anyone else doing this?
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#sealeychallenge All done. The challenge feels like a whirlwind tour of Europe: lots of fast looks and on to the next book. It’s worth it to get introduced to new writers, share with other readers, but I always feel like I will be rereading before I even form a definite opinion. My favorite so far is Appalachia by Charles Wright (close call with May Day and Open Field, Understory) My “never again” is the audible version of Leavesof Grass by Walt Whitman.
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All done - read my final book for Sealey Challenge. My scores from 1-5 for my readings this month average to 3, middle of the road for me. Some I really enjoyed and others I wouldn't read again if I knew what to expect. Two books from the library I immediately returned and chose something else for that day.
31/31: CRYING DRESS by Cassidy McFadzean (2024 House of Anansi Press) https://tinyurl.com/yc5ahtuh
"You comfort and calm me
A landscape like Iceland
The sound flowers make:
their tiny roots amplified"
New Bucolics
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For Sealey Challenge today, I finally got around to reading Loose Woman by Sandra Cisneros. I bought many years ago and just didn't get to it.
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Appalachia by Charles Wright (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1998) won the 1998 Pulitzer. Another used bookstore find that’s been on my shelf, it is apparently part of a trilogy by the author.
“All forms of landscape are autobiographical.”
30/31: DAYLIGHT by Roya Marsh (2020 MCD x FSG Originals @fsgbooks https://tinyurl.com/yrvkzbvz
"results say i’m hers
in history
in old law
in old English
say her great greats
owned my greatest
on this soil.
“wow,” she say
and i hold my tongue. tight. between molars.
’til it bloody and useless"
in broad daylight black girls look ghost
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Today for Sealey Challenge, I read "workwoman thoughts" by Vandana Devi. I always enjoy poetry about working life because I think it's a really interesting crossroads.
https://ghostcitypress.com/2022-summer-series/workwoman-thoughts
29/31: FO/UR by Jo Ianni (2023 Ex-Puritan / 2024 Apt 9 Press) https://tinyurl.com/4huw8nac
"be
am"
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Today for Sealey Challenge I read "Emergency Ruminations" by Abby Moeller.
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Unsuccessful day with Walt whitman’s Leaves of Grass. The audiobook sounded like an endless sermon on the perfect poet and poetry. He is the original list poet, with long lists of examples, so it’s hard to remember how a sentence started by the end of the list. I have read short excerpts by him, but this audio version was not accessible. I downloaded the Kindle version and I can’t match the chapter I was listening to. Both versions claim to be the original 1855 version.
28/31: NO MEETING WITHOUT BODY by Annick MacAskill (@annickmacaskill) (2018 Gaspereau Press) https://tinyurl.com/bdvyjnfe
"God bless it all, the whir, a sound like
promises and winter,
through Sherbourne and Castle Frank;
rarely are you this far east.
End of the day and you still love him,
him and his *fucking blue eyes.*"
Ode on the Afternoon
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#Sealeychallenge #poetry Today, I read Meltwater by Claire Wahmanholm (Milkweed Editions, 2023). A mother imagines the climate apocalypse, how it will affect her children and everyone else.
The fear was structural
as muscle. Like apples grown inside plastic molds
to resemble hearts or stars, babies were cut out
of us wearing fantastic shapes ….
… They grew to the size
of their cribs, no more.
read Karen Solie's 'The Road In Is Not the Road Out' for the #SealeyChallenge last night and wow - it was a challenge. I'd never heard of this Canadian poet. Intellectually fierce and demanding of the reader. #PoetryCommunity @poetry https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/70263/in-transit-the-poetry-of-karen-solie
Today I read an illustrated version of "All Our Wild Wonder" by Sarah Kay for the Sealey Challenge. A nice hopeful read today.
27/31: CREELAND by Dallas Hunt (2021 Nightwood Editions) https://bit.ly/33tr1D3
"next time, i will dance with
you, Raymond, and we
will stomp our boots so
hard we'll create sparks that
rise to the heavens, that
call forth clouds and yellow
thunder"
Dancing Yellow Thunder
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Today for Sealey Challenge I read the fall 2023 issue of Acorns haiku journal. Always enjoyable!
Hard to believe there are only a few more days in August. I have 4 more books lined up so I'm short by 1. I can find something but if anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear it!
26/31: THE LIFE OF TU FU by Eliot Weinberger (2024 New Directions) https://tinyurl.com/54vk9cm6
"Here the men sit and the women stand; the men stay home and the women climb the mountains, collecting firewood.
The landscape is beautiful, the weather terrible, and they call their temple Taking Poison."
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are you participating in the #SealeyChallenge to read a book of poetry a day? So far I've read collections, chapbooks, anthologies and magazines either from the library or in my personal stash. #poetry
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24-25/31 Open Field, Understory: New and Selected Poems by James Seay (Louisiana State University Press, 1997)
At the year’s end my wife and I build the small fire
of whim that began one year when all the corks
we were saving for we knew not what (compost
or some other conserving gesture) came to mind.
(From “The Fire of Both the Old and the New”)
