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Day 26: "for an okay free woman" by Lester Paldy
I read the first five-ten poems and thought that the book would only be about nature's beauty. The poems were very specific, rich in...


Day 25: "the volcano sequence" by Alicia Suskin Ostrinker
If you like poem cycle or sequences this the collection for you. Artful, rebellious, lyrical--all describe. The Torah and the G_d is...


Day 24: "The Northway" by Lisa Bellamy
Again, a bit of a cheat--but a good one. Lisa was, sometimes is, my instructor at The Writers Studio. Of all of my courses, there (I went...


Day 23: "The Last Shift" by Philip Levine
I must say that I was introduced to Philip Levine's work in The Writers Studio. Somehow, I never encountered it before. This particular...


A Jim Byrnes Concert!!!!
I have to admit that Covid-17 has been awful. The death toll keeps rising. I disinfect disinfectant. But, exciting things are happening...


Day 22: "The World Doesn't End" by Charles Simic
Well, I've circled back around to Simic. This book is much more of what I know. This collection is made up of prose poems and prose poems...


Day 21: "Femme's Dictionary: Poetry" by Carol Guess
Oh, Goddess. That's what I've got to say. This poetry collection takes on the role of femme and butch discourse in the lesbian and...


Day 20: "Bliss" by Grace Cavalieri
To start, Bliss is a wonderful collection that everyone should read--not just poets. My book is signed--how that I happened I know not....


Day 19: "Render: An Apocalypse" by Rebecca Gayle Howell
Render: An Apocalypse is tenderly brutal. Farm life is described in detail and captures the brutal and desperate wants of both the humans...


Day 18: "Ostinato Vamps" by Wanda Coleman
For a long moment, I thought I had just read this collection and that I must have already used it in the Sealey Challenge. But, I have...
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