A change of pace for today's Polka. We read "Losers on Both Sides of the Family" by Raquel Gutie'rrez in Southwest Reconstruction.

Today, we read "Wonder" in Another Phase by Eloise Klein Healy! It's tight.

Okay--for those of you out there still breathing and needing a bit of Sealey oomf, we have "The Moon Shines Equally" in Still Water Carving Light by Peggy Shumaker.

Let's read "Kickball" in basic vocabulary by Amy Uyematsu. The poet's name is not capitalized on the cover, so I've used both capitals and lowercase letters.

Let's read "Rembetika" in Who Drowned Here. This was translated by Francesca Bell.

Let's read "In Plain Sight" in Bright Stain!

I admit that my poem is included in Moon Water published by Spell Jar Press. I hadn't read these two poems though.

It's a tough time. I'm interning at the Shoop Site (the number 1 most important Paleoindigenous site in the east coast of the US--just takes time between grad school and writing and politics and survival. I'm doing the Sealey Challenge Polka with you though. 31 different books--31 different poems. I took photos but am reading them as the same time as you. Let's support the authors and celebrate. These are all from the poetry library I'm creating in West Virginia. NOW--onto th