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Diana A
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Arrived home today after volunteering at The Bookmark (used bookshop of Friends of @oaklibrary.bsky.social ) to the best kind of mail from @bullcitypress.com 📚📦

Thanks to @emilydickinson.bsky.social for hosting Matt Donovan & Jenny George during ✨TIS last week🤍
Shiny new poetry books shown (on wood) are: We Are Not Where We Are: an erasing of Thoreau’s Walden - Matt Donovan & Jenny George The Syllables Describing Addiction: poems - Kate Daniels Equilibrium- Tiana Clark * : poems - Jenny George Slightly out of frame to the left is a very pretty librarybound copy of Orbital: A Novel - Samantha Harvey … thanks to Oakland Public Library
September 25, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Finished Part 1 of the ED Marathon w/ @emilydickinson.bsky.social today: 2.5 hours of joy (reunited w/ @katebbeall.bsky.social @kasylongauthor.bsky.social @anitaholmes.bsky.social + more) & the kickoff for the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival 2025.
Have you registered (for free)?
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September 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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#SealeyChallenge complete 🎉

Thanks for another amazing August, @sealeychallenge.bsky.social & @nicolesealey.bsky.social

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My Sealey Challenge stack of books sits in sun on a wooden dresser with an ornate circular silver mirror behind. All the spines show, they’re in order read from bottom up. 3 yellow spacers have added blue “*[Title]” labels on them & a vertical addition on the right side reads “The *s denote audiobooks, library books I had to return before August 31, & a book I passed on to my brother🩵”
September 2, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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#SealeyChallenge 31/31!

Salt the Water by Candice Iloh🌇🌃

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[library book sits on wood] Cover art by Eben Nwaokpani shows a black person crouched on mossy rocks at the edge of a large body of water. Over them lean some pink tree leaves/flowers. In the distance, seemingly rising directly out of the water, is a half-ruined city skyline. A few puffy white clouds are in the turquoise & pink sky & in the foreground. Koi swim in the water close to the viewer. 6 pink butterflies flit around the head of the person & upward. [in small black at the top edge:] “Iloh is a writer to watch.” —Jason Reynolds [in huge white, weaving behind & in front of some picture elements:] SALT THE WATER [medium-size, in white, at the bottom, justified right:] CANDICE ILOH [small, italicized:] National Book Award Finalist and Michael L Printz Honoree
September 1, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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#SealeyChallenge 30/31

The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket by @kinsaledrake.bsky.social 🪢🌌

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[library book sits on dark velvet couch] Cover illustration by Erin Kirk is a red & purple SW landscape/horizon (spires & other rock formations) under a huge, pink, light blue, then deep blue starry sky, all enclosed in a purple & pink-studded frame w/ pink flowers, a blooming cactus, & turquoise jewelry surrounding it. All text is centered. [in large, very light pink, in the light blue cloudy sky portion:] THE SKY WAS ONCE A DARK BLANKET [below the horizon line, in medium, light blue:] KINSALE DRAKE [below, in small pink:] THE NATIONAL POETRY SERIES [same pink, below, tiny:] SELECTED BY JACQUELINE ALLEN TRIMBLE
August 31, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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#SealeyChallenge 29/31

How I Discovered Poetry by Marilyn Nelson 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒💜

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[book sits on wood] Cover art is 3 b&w family photos clipped up on 2 (drawn) lines with (drawn) clothespins. Photo on the upper right is Marilyn and younger sister Jennifer on the Pacific coast. Photo on the bottom left is Marilyn's mama and daddy, Johnnie and Melvin Nelson, Melvin's aunts Edith and Effic, Marilyn, and Jennifer; on the bottom right is Marilyn, Mama, and Jennifer in the Painted Desert. In very faint grey cursive in the white background, all the titles of the poems in the book are printed. [slightly to the left but also overlapping the top right photo, in large dark grey cursive:] how i discovered poetry [rest of text is justified right & at the bottom. In dark grey medium-size print:] marilyn nelson [in small golden-brown:] illustrations by Hadley Hooper Coretta Scott King Award seal attached at bottom left. It’s a black circle & triangle with silver design & lettering, reading, clockwise from 9, “Peace,” “Non-Violent Social Change,” “Brotherhood,” “HONOR”; above HONOR are 5 tiny religious symbols, above them an open book w/ a person’s face visible behind it (from the eyes up); above that a flying dove w/branch.
August 31, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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#SealeyChallenge 28/31

GHOST :: SEEDS by Sebastian Merrill🛶🌱

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[book sits on blue velvet couch] All text is in curving black on a pastel green river-rock-shaped space, slightly to the right & downward on the cover. The rock is surrounded by concentric bands of alternating pink & turquoise rippling outward to the edges (& becoming more rectangular as they travel outward). [small print following the upper rounded edge of the rock:] Winner of the X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize [huge, centered & growing big then small then big then small to echo/fit the rock edges:] GHOST :: SEEDS [medium size, in the lower left round corner of the rock:] Sebastian Merrill A circular silver seal in the upper right corner (with a black triangle, an open book inside, & a large pink dot over the left edge of the book & triangle corner) reads: Stonewall Honor Book American Library Association
August 30, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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#SealeyChallenge 27/31

Naomie Anomie: A Biography of Infinite Desire by @alohajha.bsky.social 🐇💁🏻‍♀️

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[book sits on wood] Cover art by Hasegawa shows a pale-skinned womanly figure with a white bunny head (or very realistic mask). She’s wearing a puffed-sleeve, tea-length yellow dress & yellow heels. She holds a small yellow cube TV or computer (or medical machine/monitor?) screen with antenna & yellow wires on her left shoulder, like you’d hold a boombox. Her body is turned back toward the viewer, but she seems to be about to walk away. She’s in a dessert landscape with cacti & other grasses/plants, a pile of brown rocks to the right, a glimpse of a sea and beach to the left, a blue & white clouded sky above. [large black text, centered in the sky:] NAOMIE ANOMIE [medium yellow, slightly italicized:] A Biography of Infinite Desire [Running vertically down the right edge, over the dessert in smaller white, italicized:] POEMS BY JENNIFER HASEGAWA
August 29, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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#SealeyChallenge 25/31

Looking and Seeing by Truong Tran 🎯

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[book sits on blue velvet couch] Cover art is a photo by Carolyn Ho of art by Truong Tran — closeup of a sculptural piece from his “Targets” series: curved concentric bands of wood, blue, red & white. Text is overlayed vertically. [In silver, in a straight black margin running next to the spine:] truong tran Further toward the center of the cover, the whole title is on 1 line, inside the blue curve. [in very large cream]LOOKING [smaller, brick red:]a n d [very large grey:]SEEING [toward the right edge, near the end of the blue curve, in white:] Omnidawn logo The isbn & barcode is tucked into the red section at lower right edge
August 26, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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#TheSealeyChallenge2025 BINGO
Thanks, @sealeychallenge.bsky.social 💌

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👆🏻please click to see the poems by
⭐️Christian Lehnert (translator: Richard Sieburth)
⭐️Elizabeth Barrett Browning
⭐️Terrance Hayes
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⭐️@mosababutoha.bsky.social
Bingo card with diagonal line from upper left to lower right highlighted/completed. From left to right, the squares marked w/yellow Xs are: poem in translation / poem that rhymes / [free space: Sealey Challenge logo] / sonnet (that breaks the rules)! / poem that haunts you
August 26, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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#SealeyChallenge 24/31

Helen of Troy, 1993 by Maria Zoccola⚡️🥚

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[library book sits on blue velvet couch] Cover art is a zoom in on the painting Helen of Troy by Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys (Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool): Helen’s nose, eyes (gaze directed right & upward), furrowed brow, & red hair, severely parted. All text in white & centered. [on her hair, just over the center part:] POEMS [just above her eyebrows, half behind her curly bangs:] HELEN of TROY, 1993 Across the bridge of her nose:] Maria Zoccola
August 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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#SealeyChallenge 22/31

So to Speak by Terrance Hayes 🎨✍🏾

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[book sits on blue velvet couch] Cover art is Robed, by Terrance Hayes, unfinished 2020 painting based on photograph by Adrian Boot, Marvin Gaye last UK photo session at his West London Apartment 1980. Gaye sits in a white robe on a gray couch; he’s leaning over his bare legs, holding his bare toes on the dark brown floor. His face is tilted upward so that he gazes toward the viewer. [Large blue text across the top:] TERRANCE HAYES [tiny black text, justified left, next to Gaye’s head & just above the couch:] Author of LIGHTHEAD, Winner of the National Book Award [just under the couch, to the right of Gaye’s left hand & foot & next to little orange, black & white Penguin icon, in tiny yellow:] Penguin Poets [in large yellow, starting just under Gaye’s right foot, & justified right:] SO TO SPEAK
August 24, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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#SealeyChallenge 21/31

Forest of Noise by @mosababutoha.bsky.social🤚🌳

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[ebook cover on the left 2/3rds; view of a mossy tree trunk, green branches & leaves reaching into the sunny blue sky on the right 1/3rd] Cover art, on a light cream background, is a finger-painted brown forearm and hand w/green fingerprints like leaves all over the fingers & thumb. All text in black. [above the hand, justified left:] FOREST of NOISE [below the hand & slightly to the right, small:] poems [below, next to the forearm, justified right, large:] MOSAB ABU TOHA
August 22, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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#SealeyChallenge 20/31

Wing-borne by Gwen Frostic 🌬️🪽

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[book sits on blue velvet couch] Cover has a yellow textured spine that extends ~1” inward. Remainder of cover space is brown. Linocut prints in light tan and very dark brown depict a bird in flight (or 3 birds?) over wind lines over rolling hills over grass heads in the foreground. Title text (in very dark brown, like the lead bird), sitting just over the field grass at the bottom, looks hand-designed for this project (the W is made up of 2 wings, eg; the hyphen is distant-flying-bird-shaped) & reads: Wing-borne
August 21, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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#SealeyChallenge 19/31

You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World edited by Ada Limón 🗺️

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[book sits on wood] Cover art by Enikö Katalin Eged looks like black paper cutouts or shadow puppets on a turquoise background: a leaping deer, various plants, a bird in flight, a crescent moon, 3 stars. All text echoes the art (shadow puppet-like cut-outs for each letter) — cover design by Mary Austin Speaker. [in large white, with the nature figures surrounding it:] YOU ARE HERE [below the art, in red, slightly smaller:] POETRY IN THE NATURAL WORLD [below that in black, smaller:] EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY [below, in black, & on the left, tiny:] 24TH POET LAUREATE OF THE UNITED STATES [immediately to the right, in white, medium size:] ADA LIMÓN
August 21, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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I totally read out of (…from a place of? …for?) anxiety/dread.
A shelf-talker index card (next to a PSYCHOLOGY label) in Green Apple Books on the Park says “ALL BOOKS ARE SELF-HELP, TECHNICALLY.”
August 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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#SealeyChallenge 18/31

Dear Animal, by MK Chavez🦌🐇🔥

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[book sits on blue velvet couch] Cover art by Larassa Kabel is a b&w (& brown) nearly photorealistic image of a jackalope (rabbit with antlers) head/bust on a black background. A sharp, FAFO gleam in its big black eyes. [In white, to the left over the black background:] WINNER OF THE [image of a fist clutching an ink-dripping fountain pen inside a square white border. Below that, in its own border:] PEN OAKLAND [below & without borders:] JOSEPHINE MILES AWARD [Below the art, in the gray margin, all text is in black. Large:] DEAR ANIMAL, [to the right of the title, medium size:] MK CHAVEZ [also to the right of the title, just under author’s name, small:] POEMS
August 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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#SealeyChallenge 17/31

Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by @chenchenwrites.bsky.social 🌜🫂

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[book sits on wood] Cover art is a saturated watercolor or gauche painting by Vincent Chong, “Moonlight Photosynthesis,” depicting 2 masculine human figures sitting in a spoon-like embrace atop a clothes washing machine. The pink person sits in front of & between the legs of the blue person, whose blue arms are wrapped around the pink chest. Their faces are close to each other, their feet entwined. On the dryer next to the washing machine, sits a content-looking green cat. Behind them all looms a dark gray mountain & a purple sky with a white crescent moon. [In huge, centered, white-outlined block letters full of shifting, complementary & contrasting colors from the painting, in the foreground over most of the painting:] YOUR EMERGENCY CONTACT HAS EXPERIENCED AN EMERGENCY [in small red:] POEMS [in bigger white, along the bottom edge:] CHEN CHEN
August 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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#SealeyChallenge 16/31

Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey🌿🪦🌊

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[book sits on blue velvet couch] Cover photo is of a monochromatic ombré—from extremely light (near white) blue to black-blue—calla lily flower & stem. [in black in a silver circle/seal, upper left:] WINNER of the PULITZER PRIZE All other text is in white. [In middle, large, crossing over the lily stem between words:] NATIVE GUARD [slightly to the right of the stem, all text centered beneath the “UA” of GUARD from here down. In small cursive:] Poems [medium-large:] Natasha Trethewey [image of a gold CD] [tiny cursive:] Includes a CD of poems read by the author
August 17, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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#SealeyChallenge 15/31

Then the War by Carl Phillips🌳🌌

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[library book sits on wood] Cover photo is looking up/out through tree branches/leaves (full dark in silhouette) to small bits of night-blue-green light. All text in white & centered. [tiny, at the top:] "Carl Phillips combines beauty and insight... An exquisite collection." —RON CHARLES, The Washington Post [medium size:] CARL PHILLIPS [huge:] THEN THE WAR [small:] AND SELECTED POEMS, 2007-2020 [in black in a gold circle/seal, bottom right WINNER of the PULITZER PRIZE
August 16, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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#SealeyChallenge 14/31

For Every One by Jason Reynolds 🌟

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[book sits on wood] Cover art is “Brothers and Sisters,” a painting by Jeff Koegel: even, vertical stripes of different, mostly earth-tone colors on khaki background look sort of like 3/4 of a flag. In the top left cut-out quadrant, large raised lettering reads [in tan:] FOR [white:] EVERY ONE [red brown:] JASON [dark brown:] REYNOLDS In small white typewriter-font, running sideways down the 2nd vertical (gray) stripe from the right: A poem. A nod. A nothing to lose.
August 16, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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#SealeyChallenge 12/31

“On the Pulse of Morning” by Maya Angelou💜🪽

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[chapbook sits on wood] Cover is brick red. Text in gold. [under 2 horizontal gold lines, the upper 1 thicker, & over another horizontal gold line, small:] THE INAUGURAL POEM [large, centered:] ON THE PULSE OF MORNING [dingbat that looks like overlapping ~s] [medium, over 2 horizontal gold lines, the lower 1 thicker:] MAYA ANGELOU
August 14, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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#SealeyChallenge 10/31

Those Who Ride the Night Winds by Nikki Giovanni 🌬️💫

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[book sits on my jean-covered lap, on a plane] Cover image is a photo of a relatively young Giovanni. She’s pictured from waist up, smiling, wearing a nubby red scarf over a dark blue-green sweater, with a bit of pastel green collar peeking out at her neck, holding an open manuscript. An ivy covered brick wall behind her. Photo is centered, slightly below vertical midpoint of the cover, on a middle white column. Small orange margins to the right & left. All text is in large black, centered within the white column. [above the photo:] THOSE WHO RIDE THE NIGHT WINDS [below the photo:] POEMS NIKKI GIOVANNI
August 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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#SealeyChallenge 9/31

Wickerwork by Christian Lehnert (translator: Richard Sieburth)🌱🕸️

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August 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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#SealeyChallenge 8/31

Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen 📖

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[book sits on wood] Cover illustration (on most of the bottom half of the otherwise brick-red cover) is by Enrique Chagoya, “Line Essence Color” (1997). Color spit bite aquatint with drypoint, soft ground and hard ground etching. Head, neck, & shoulders of a human figure with many eyes lips, some noses, & a couple ears drawn all over & above the face. 2 sketched arms & hands (1 w/8-9 fingers) & a calf & foot are overlayed. To the left & right of this figure are 2 less detailed, femme human figures in gray areas. Above all of these is a horizontal line, above which are, spread evenly out, 3 simple human busts (no details): the farthest right bust has an empty speech bubble coming from its head. [Above the illustration, in yellow & white text, stretching across the middle:] Sleeping with the Dictionary [at the very top edge, slightly right, under an angled black bar:] Harryette Mullen
August 10, 2025 at 6:55 AM