August - 2023

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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