August - 2024

The Sealey Challenge Day 31 Bonus: The Haunting of Hekate Cavendish by Paula Brackston

I was supposed to be finished with the audiobook for August 31, but I find... I am not. I am enjoying the book immensely when I wasn't...

The Sealey Challenge Day 31! Working the Roots by Amanda Bennett (prepublication)

This is a wonderful chapbook. I felt the seductive and intimate world of the womb and blood with sensual diction. There is a wonderful...

The Sealey Challenge Day 30: elegy for [lukas] by Luna Rey Hall (prepublication)

Luna Rey Hall has created a masterpiece by using punctuation to create mood and tension, instead of being used soley for pauses and...

The Sealey Challenge Day 29: handholding: 5 kinds, sonic textual engagements by Tracie Morris

I tried to write about this collection days ago and fell far short. I could not just glance and run. I did not know that there is a "talk...

The Sealey Challenge Day 28: Best New Poets 2023

If you need to have a variety of voices to use and teach with prompts--this is the place to go. There are prose poems, lyrical poems,...

The Sealey Challenge Day 27: the Ruins of Nostalgia by Donna Stonecipher

the Ruins of Nostalgia breaks the rule of repetition. I tell my students "do not repeat the same line or partial line--even, yes, even if...

The Sealey Challenge Day 26: Don't Tickle the Ghost: You might make it Woo... by Usborne Touchy-Feely Sounds

Don't judge. It's kind of like poetry--it gives joy. It's micro. It's for two micro-humans. I had fun. I don't even have them pressing...

The Sealey Challenge Day 25 (catching up on the blog) The Sunflower: Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void by Jackie Wang

Jackie Wang has an amazing poetry collection here! I will be using it to teach hybrid forms. I just tried lecturing about prose poetry...

The Sealey Challenge Day 23 & 24! The Bookstore Sisters, The Bookstore Wedding by Alice Hoffman

The Fairy Tale Magazine mentioned these gems and I decided why not include short stories in the mix of genres in the Sealey Challenge? I...

The Sealey Challenge Day 22! The Little Edges by Fred Moten

I started strong, became slightly skeptical, became enamored, and then finally read the back of the book. I want to see what I see--not...

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