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The Sealey Challenge Day 30: "Not a Princess But (Yes) There was a Pea..." Rebecca Buchannon
"Not a Princess But (Yes) There was a Pea & Other Fairy Tales to Foment Revolution" by Rebecca Buchannon has clever and precise poetry....


The Sealey Challenge Day 29: "Mama Phife Represents" by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
This is a hybrid book. It is a memoir-in-verse with photos and letters included. It shows a mother's grief story and a mother's love...


The Sealey Challenge Day 28: "The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows" by John Koenig
I have to admit that this a clever idea. Lots of words--most I've never heard of that allow for small moments of explication through a...


The Sealey Challenge Day 27: poetic parts of "Return of the Jedi" by James Kahn
Some day you need to read the prose that made you fall in love with poetry. I recommend it. Darth Vader's last thoughts are some of my...


The Sealey Challenge Day 26: "How to be Drawn" by Terrance Hayes
I will not argue that Terrance Hayes is a genius. He is a word maverick and places social justice behind every turn. Emotion is laid bare...


The Sealey Challenge Day 25: "Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science" by Jessy Randall
I admit that I find the poems clever and witty with just hints of what these scientists' lives were like and what mattered most to them....


The Sealey Challenge Day 24: Chesapeake Prehistory (the chapter never ends) by Richard J. Dent
I am pretty sure I read this a year ago for the C.A.T. Archeology Technician Program and now I have the physical copy, flagging and...


The Sealey Challenge Day 23! The Eternal Haunted Summer: A Thirteenth Anniversary Edition
Okay--this is a cheat for 2 reasons. The first, my poem begins the anthology *bows* and the second, Lissa Sloan and The Fairy Tale...


A Mountaineer Can Be A Poet and Still Fire a Musket--thank you and plea
TheNewVerse.News : A MOUNTAINEER CAN BE A POET AND STILL FIRE A MUSKET (newversenews.blogspot.com) Thank you to The NewVerse News!...


The Sealey Challenge (Expanded) Day 22: "The Invisible Hour" by Alice Hoffman *POSSIBLE SPOILERS*
I admit that this was a guilty pleasure. It was one of those, oh, is the Owens family or... no, just iconic red boots. Those boots threw...
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