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The Sealey Challenge Day 17: Orange Roses by Lucy Ives
I believe that this collection has strong imagery and uses white space well. I find it hanging close to the extreme lyrical (versus...


The Sealey Challenge Day 16: In Canaan by Shane McCrae
A chapbook that beats emotion into the reader. While I can speak of form, I feel that to speak on topic too much is appropriation. I...


The Sealey Challenge Day 15: A Rose By Any Other Name by Mary McMyne
I admit that this book inspired a great passion in me. I listened to the audiobook enrapt by the characters and how strong their emotions...


The Sealey Challenge Day 14: you Chantal Neveu translated by Erin Moure
you is intriguing. I thought that each page was a complete list poem and a continuation of the previous poem. The lists of images and...


The Sealey Challenge Day 13: Midwinter Constellation
Midwinter Constellation is considered a collaborative poem separated by stars. There is a meandering, image-based flow state that is...


The Sealey Challenge Day 12: Panics by Barbara Molinard
Panics was translated by Emma Ramadan. I find this an incredibly intriguing hybrid. Close to both flash fiction and poetry, Molinard...


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...
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