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The Sealey Challenge Day 31! Working the Roots by Amanda Bennett (prepublication)
This is a wonderful chapbook. I felt the seductive and intimate world of the womb and blood with sensual diction. There is a wonderful...
The Sealey Challenge Day 30: elegy for [lukas] by Luna Rey Hall (prepublication)
Luna Rey Hall has created a masterpiece by using punctuation to create mood and tension, instead of being used soley for pauses and...


The Sealey Challenge Day 29: handholding: 5 kinds, sonic textual engagements by Tracie Morris
I tried to write about this collection days ago and fell far short. I could not just glance and run. I did not know that there is a "talk...


The Sealey Challenge Day 28: Best New Poets 2023
If you need to have a variety of voices to use and teach with prompts--this is the place to go. There are prose poems, lyrical poems,...


The Sealey Challenge Day 27: the Ruins of Nostalgia by Donna Stonecipher
the Ruins of Nostalgia breaks the rule of repetition. I tell my students "do not repeat the same line or partial line--even, yes, even if...


The Sealey Challenge Day 26: Don't Tickle the Ghost: You might make it Woo... by Usborne Touchy-Feely Sounds
Don't judge. It's kind of like poetry--it gives joy. It's micro. It's for two micro-humans. I had fun. I don't even have them pressing...


The Sealey Challenge Day 25 (catching up on the blog) The Sunflower: Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void by Jackie Wang
Jackie Wang has an amazing poetry collection here! I will be using it to teach hybrid forms. I just tried lecturing about prose poetry...


The Sealey Challenge Day 23 & 24! The Bookstore Sisters, The Bookstore Wedding by Alice Hoffman
The Fairy Tale Magazine mentioned these gems and I decided why not include short stories in the mix of genres in the Sealey Challenge? I...


The Sealey Challenge Day 22! The Little Edges by Fred Moten
I started strong, became slightly skeptical, became enamored, and then finally read the back of the book. I want to see what I see--not...


The Sealey Challenge Day 21! Commuting: Have gone to Ithaca by Frank Quitely
There are so many plays on language that they are almost indescribable. There is more pleasure in saying and thinking the words than the...
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