#the sealey challenge

[kvothes]

✨sealey challenge reading list✨

as threatened: what i want to read in august for the sealey challenge. but first, a few thoughts:

i’m not going to truly and fully follow the challenge; 31 poetry books in 31 days means i spend very little time with each one, and i like to read more deeply. so i’m chipping away at some of my backlog, and rereading a few things that feel relevant, and also including some theory.

this is my personal list. it’s very informed by what i’m reading / curious about lately. this is not meant as a primer for anyone else, but please do take all of these as recommendations.

poetry

finish zong!, m. nourbese philip

lunch poems, frank o’hara (dreamt abt him recently)

i do everything i’m told, megan fernandes (met her recently) ✔️

beast meridian, vanessa angélica villarreal (met her recently)

the reckoning of jeanne d’antietam, matthew robert moore ✔️

almost obscene, raúl gómez jattin ✔️

eyes bottle dark with a mouthful of flowers, jake skeets (reread) (met him recently)

crush, richard siken (reread) ✔️

please make me pretty, i don’t want to die, tawanda mulalu (reread)

theory

read a lecture or two from madness, rack, and honey by mary ruefle ✔️

“my black joy is my primary aesthetic,” robin coste lewis

“a poem is a walk,” a. r. ammons

“the rejection of closure,” lyn heijinian

“some notes on organic form,” denise levertov

“projective verse,” charles olson

#the sealey challenge #poetry recs #mine #aug23

[teawiththegods]

✨Sealey Challenge - Day 2✨

Content Warning: Everything by Akwaeke Emezi

First poem already knocked me out.

#the sealey challenge #poetry collection #poetry #the majestic life of jess

[heartmailbox]

claire wahmanholm, from wilder

#claire wahmanholm #the sealey challenge

[rustbeltjessie]

Books I brought with me on vacation, to read for this year's Sealey Challenge: Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season by Forough Farrokhzad, Thrown in the Throat by Benjamin Garcia, Landscape with Sex and Violence by Lynn Melnick, Hotel Oblivion by Cynthia Cruz, Junkie Wife by Alexis Rhone Fancher, and The Prelude by Marty Cain. (August 12, 2023)

#rust belt jessie #books #the sealey challenge #poetry #to read #my photos #vacation

[ce-archerhelke]

(via The Sealey Challenge: wordtomydead)

#wordtomydead #concrete poetry #the sealey challenge #sadé powell #ugly duckling presse #mechanical typewriter #1940s typewriter #antique typewriter #things typewriters do really fucking well

[summerpalms-winterwritten]

#the sealey challenge #lana del rey #poetry #handwriting #tarot made me do it

[smokefalls]

Grief wakes the animal in me, and even though I know it is wrong, the anger feels powerful.

Traci Brimhall, “Murder Ballad in the Land of Nod” from Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod

#Traci Brimhall #Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod #quote #poetry #2022 reads #Sealey Challenge

[geryone]

Putting together my list of collections for the Sealey Challenge & pushing myself to select a lot of new titles!! Here’s a peak at my NetGalley poetry books that I’m hoping to read in the next two weeks

#I’ll start the challenge off by reading pig by sam sax as it’s the one I’ve been looking forward to the most #let me know if you’re attempting the Sealey challenge!!! would love to talk about it!!!

[gendzl]

I grabbed my second giant batch of poetry books from the library today. I've taken a cursory look at them all and it's not looking good, folks.

#I've picked thru and discarded nearly half as being blatantly Not To My Taste #I'm sure I'll bail out on more of the subtly bad ones as i encounter them #I've checked out something like 90 books of poetry in the last month trying to find THIRTY ONE i like enough to get thru #and it's still looking rather dicey 😬 #idk if most people use the sealey challenge to ~expand their horizons~ or not but i adamantly refuse to be miserable for this #i am PICKY and I LIKE IT THAT WAY #¶

[courtesansjewelbox]

Day 1 of (amended) Sealey Challenge

Read a handful of poems from Gary Snyder’s Turtle Island, partial cover pictured here:

And I annotated the poem “For Nothing.” I also riffed off a line in another poem and considered that my response poem of the day.

I didn’t annotate the book though because it’s a library copy, so I wrote it down in my journal. It’s a bit of a mess…

#sealey challenge #annotations #poetry reading month

[kvothes]

okay. sealey challenge update. i didn’t read every book of poetry on my list for the month of august and i accidentally read several that were not on my list lol but nonetheless, here are my favorite collections of poetry i read this month:

judas goat, gabrielle bates

the book, mary ruefle

the tribute horse, brandon som

pricks in the tapestry, jameson fitzpatrick

almost obscene, raúl gómez jattin

like things go away, alyson provax

#feeling. absurd insane about all of them #poetry recs #books #the sealey challenge #aug23

[teawiththegods]

✨Sealey Challenge - Day 1✨

Lord of the Butterflies by Andrea Gibson

Only a few poems in and I already know this is a collection I need to own and revisit over and over again.

#the Sealey challenge #poetry #poetry collection #the majestic life of jess

[heartmailbox]

my favorite read for the sealey challenge so far 💙

#the sealey challenge #claire wahmanholm #c

[northwindow]

reading 31 books of poetry this month for the sealey challenge-- what should i try? i have about half planned and half left to choose

#going ham on my library holds rn please recommend me stuff :)

[ce-archerhelke]

The Sealey Challenge: Magnetic Storms

Lyudmyla Diadchenko’s Magnetic Storms (Магнітні бурі), translated by Padma Thornlyre and printed by the micropress No Reply, rounds out this year’s Sealey Challenge for me. It is a beautiful volume: beautiful both in construction, thanks to No Reply, and in content, thanks to Diadchenko and Thornlyre. This came to Kickstarter right after Russia invaded Ukraine. It’s a hell of a time to bring…

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#TheSealeyChallenge #Lyudmyla Diadchenko #Magnetic Storms #poetry #poetry in translation #the Sealey Challenge #Ukrainian poetry

[summerpalms-winterwritten]

#poetry #the sealey challenge #black and white #writers and poets #aesthetic