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Day 7 of the Sealey Challenge: Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: African American Narrative Poetry from Oral Traditions by Bruce Jackson (Second Edition)

I want to start with saying that I appreciate but do not appropriate this work. I am in awe and wonder and still feel that it is not my...

The Sealey Challenge: Day 11! Sight Lines by Arthur Sze

Sight Lines is masterful. I know this intuitively even if I am not grounded and do not know where the narrator is or even who the...

The Sealey Challenge: Day 10! Momently by Zach Savich

Momently is an interesting study in white space. There are small breaks between a few words in a set on a single line. The white space...

The Sealey Challenge Day 9! Fog and Smoke by Katie Peterson

Fog and Smoke is intriguing. Each poem is very narrative and with a lot of white space, they fill several pages each. What is interesting...

The Sealey Challenge: Day 8! Poyums Len Pennie by Salena Godden

Poyums Len Pennie was a pleasure to read. I've never read an entire collection written in Scots language before. The poems were rhymed...

The Sealey Challenge: Day 6! all one in the end--/water by Soham Patel

all one in the end--/water plays with the structures of language and the breakdown of its components to create poems that encapsule...

The Sealey Challenge: Day 5! My Ocean-ography by Harriet Levin

I don't call poetry a masterpiece often. I might say "good" or "good-enough." My Ocean-ography is a masterpiece in reimagined narrative...

The Sealey Challenge Day 4! Bonfire Opera by Danusha Lameris

Bonfire Opera is tantalizing and sizzling with both the erotic and with interactions. Relationships are explored, how people interact,...

The Sealey Challenge Day 3! Planet Drill by Jessica Laser

I feel that I'm cheating a lot this year--but I do every year. I bought a stack, a large stack of books in Iowa City and I've been...

The Sealey Challenge Day 2! Every Poem a Potion, Every Song a Spell by Stephanie Parent

Every Poem A Potion, Every Song a Spell by Stephanie Parent Querencia Press In the forward, Parent explains that “all these poems contain...

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