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Thrilled to announce my new poetry chapbook is open for pre-orders!
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November 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Thrilled to announce my new poetry chapbook is open for pre-orders!
#poetry
#BookSky💙📚
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My neighborhood, Bryant, in south Minneapolis
October 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
My neighborhood, Bryant, in south Minneapolis
Kobo Spooky Season sale is featuring one of my books! Here's my newsletter post about it: eocampaign1.com/web-version?...
October 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Kobo Spooky Season sale is featuring one of my books! Here's my newsletter post about it: eocampaign1.com/web-version?...
Sealey Challenge 8/31/25
“Tender the Maker,” Christina Hutchins, Utah State U Press 2015
Exquisite poems of memory and loss.
ALSO: missed the 1st 2 days of Challenge, so a second shoutout, to “Green Acre,” Cody Shrum, Choeofpleirn Press 2024
Poems of family, home.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“Tender the Maker,” Christina Hutchins, Utah State U Press 2015
Exquisite poems of memory and loss.
ALSO: missed the 1st 2 days of Challenge, so a second shoutout, to “Green Acre,” Cody Shrum, Choeofpleirn Press 2024
Poems of family, home.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
September 1, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Sealey Challenge 8/31/25
“Tender the Maker,” Christina Hutchins, Utah State U Press 2015
Exquisite poems of memory and loss.
ALSO: missed the 1st 2 days of Challenge, so a second shoutout, to “Green Acre,” Cody Shrum, Choeofpleirn Press 2024
Poems of family, home.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“Tender the Maker,” Christina Hutchins, Utah State U Press 2015
Exquisite poems of memory and loss.
ALSO: missed the 1st 2 days of Challenge, so a second shoutout, to “Green Acre,” Cody Shrum, Choeofpleirn Press 2024
Poems of family, home.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
Sealey Challenge 8/30/25
“A Guide to Forgetting,” Jeffrey Skinner, Graywolf Press 1988
Gorgeous poems, collection ending with a lovely sonnet sequence (a beautiful sestina in there too)
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“A Guide to Forgetting,” Jeffrey Skinner, Graywolf Press 1988
Gorgeous poems, collection ending with a lovely sonnet sequence (a beautiful sestina in there too)
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
August 31, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Sealey Challenge 8/30/25
“A Guide to Forgetting,” Jeffrey Skinner, Graywolf Press 1988
Gorgeous poems, collection ending with a lovely sonnet sequence (a beautiful sestina in there too)
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“A Guide to Forgetting,” Jeffrey Skinner, Graywolf Press 1988
Gorgeous poems, collection ending with a lovely sonnet sequence (a beautiful sestina in there too)
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
Sealey Challenge 8/29/25
“catalog of unabashed gratitude,” Ross Gay, U Pittsburgh Press 2015
Wow, these poems are gorgeous!
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“catalog of unabashed gratitude,” Ross Gay, U Pittsburgh Press 2015
Wow, these poems are gorgeous!
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
August 30, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Sealey Challenge 8/29/25
“catalog of unabashed gratitude,” Ross Gay, U Pittsburgh Press 2015
Wow, these poems are gorgeous!
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“catalog of unabashed gratitude,” Ross Gay, U Pittsburgh Press 2015
Wow, these poems are gorgeous!
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
Sealey Challenge 8/28/25
“Things as It Is,” Chase Twitchell, Copper Canyon Press 2018
These deceptively simple poems by the Zen Buddhist writer swerve into “truth and mystery,” sudden brief glimpse of kenshō emerging from the ordinary.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“Things as It Is,” Chase Twitchell, Copper Canyon Press 2018
These deceptively simple poems by the Zen Buddhist writer swerve into “truth and mystery,” sudden brief glimpse of kenshō emerging from the ordinary.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
August 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Sealey Challenge 8/28/25
“Things as It Is,” Chase Twitchell, Copper Canyon Press 2018
These deceptively simple poems by the Zen Buddhist writer swerve into “truth and mystery,” sudden brief glimpse of kenshō emerging from the ordinary.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“Things as It Is,” Chase Twitchell, Copper Canyon Press 2018
These deceptively simple poems by the Zen Buddhist writer swerve into “truth and mystery,” sudden brief glimpse of kenshō emerging from the ordinary.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
Sealey challenge 8/27/25
“Furious Lullaby,” Oliver de la Paz, Crab Orchard Series in Poetry, Southern Illinois University Press, 2007
A whole book of aubades, plus poems to body parts, plus letters to the beloved, ending with a glorious lullaby.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“Furious Lullaby,” Oliver de la Paz, Crab Orchard Series in Poetry, Southern Illinois University Press, 2007
A whole book of aubades, plus poems to body parts, plus letters to the beloved, ending with a glorious lullaby.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
August 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Sealey challenge 8/27/25
“Furious Lullaby,” Oliver de la Paz, Crab Orchard Series in Poetry, Southern Illinois University Press, 2007
A whole book of aubades, plus poems to body parts, plus letters to the beloved, ending with a glorious lullaby.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“Furious Lullaby,” Oliver de la Paz, Crab Orchard Series in Poetry, Southern Illinois University Press, 2007
A whole book of aubades, plus poems to body parts, plus letters to the beloved, ending with a glorious lullaby.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
Sealey Challenge 8/26/25
“Against Love Poetry,” Eavan Boland, W. W. Norton 2001
Gorgeous poems full of stunningly beautiful images and lines.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“Against Love Poetry,” Eavan Boland, W. W. Norton 2001
Gorgeous poems full of stunningly beautiful images and lines.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
August 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Sealey Challenge 8/26/25
“Against Love Poetry,” Eavan Boland, W. W. Norton 2001
Gorgeous poems full of stunningly beautiful images and lines.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“Against Love Poetry,” Eavan Boland, W. W. Norton 2001
Gorgeous poems full of stunningly beautiful images and lines.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
Sealey Challenge 8/25/25
“Little River of Amazements: New and Selected poems,” Mary Kay Rummel, Blue Light Press 2024
Reflections on the poet’s immigrant background, life in then out of the convent, art, music, places. A big book—took me days to read and savor.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“Little River of Amazements: New and Selected poems,” Mary Kay Rummel, Blue Light Press 2024
Reflections on the poet’s immigrant background, life in then out of the convent, art, music, places. A big book—took me days to read and savor.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
August 26, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Sealey Challenge 8/25/25
“Little River of Amazements: New and Selected poems,” Mary Kay Rummel, Blue Light Press 2024
Reflections on the poet’s immigrant background, life in then out of the convent, art, music, places. A big book—took me days to read and savor.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“Little River of Amazements: New and Selected poems,” Mary Kay Rummel, Blue Light Press 2024
Reflections on the poet’s immigrant background, life in then out of the convent, art, music, places. A big book—took me days to read and savor.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
Sealey Challenge 8/24/25
“Sir Orfeo,” English, late 13th-early 14th c, trans JRRTolkien, Ballentine Books 1980
Haven’t read this delightful verse tale for awhile—Middle English of this text (unlike Chaucer’s) too hard for me. I like Tolkien’s little translation!
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“Sir Orfeo,” English, late 13th-early 14th c, trans JRRTolkien, Ballentine Books 1980
Haven’t read this delightful verse tale for awhile—Middle English of this text (unlike Chaucer’s) too hard for me. I like Tolkien’s little translation!
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
August 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Sealey Challenge 8/24/25
“Sir Orfeo,” English, late 13th-early 14th c, trans JRRTolkien, Ballentine Books 1980
Haven’t read this delightful verse tale for awhile—Middle English of this text (unlike Chaucer’s) too hard for me. I like Tolkien’s little translation!
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“Sir Orfeo,” English, late 13th-early 14th c, trans JRRTolkien, Ballentine Books 1980
Haven’t read this delightful verse tale for awhile—Middle English of this text (unlike Chaucer’s) too hard for me. I like Tolkien’s little translation!
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
Sealey Challenge 8/24/25
Bhagavad Gita trans. Juan Mascaró, Penguin Books 1962
I have bern re-reading this over several days but of course can barely touch the surface of this magnificent text esp since I do not come fr this cultural/religious tradition. Superb.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
Bhagavad Gita trans. Juan Mascaró, Penguin Books 1962
I have bern re-reading this over several days but of course can barely touch the surface of this magnificent text esp since I do not come fr this cultural/religious tradition. Superb.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
August 24, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Sealey Challenge 8/24/25
Bhagavad Gita trans. Juan Mascaró, Penguin Books 1962
I have bern re-reading this over several days but of course can barely touch the surface of this magnificent text esp since I do not come fr this cultural/religious tradition. Superb.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
Bhagavad Gita trans. Juan Mascaró, Penguin Books 1962
I have bern re-reading this over several days but of course can barely touch the surface of this magnificent text esp since I do not come fr this cultural/religious tradition. Superb.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
Sealey Challenge 8/22/25
“The Beauty,” Jane Hirchfield, Knopf 2015
These spare, graceful poems are by turns enigmatic, wise, witty.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“The Beauty,” Jane Hirchfield, Knopf 2015
These spare, graceful poems are by turns enigmatic, wise, witty.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
August 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Sealey Challenge 8/22/25
“The Beauty,” Jane Hirchfield, Knopf 2015
These spare, graceful poems are by turns enigmatic, wise, witty.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“The Beauty,” Jane Hirchfield, Knopf 2015
These spare, graceful poems are by turns enigmatic, wise, witty.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
Sealey Challenge, 8/21/25
“The Triumph of Achilles,” Louise Glück, 1985. I read it in The Ecco Press compendium “Louise Glũck:The First Four Books of Poems”
Marvelous, dreamlike poems of tormented relationship.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“The Triumph of Achilles,” Louise Glück, 1985. I read it in The Ecco Press compendium “Louise Glũck:The First Four Books of Poems”
Marvelous, dreamlike poems of tormented relationship.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
August 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Sealey Challenge, 8/21/25
“The Triumph of Achilles,” Louise Glück, 1985. I read it in The Ecco Press compendium “Louise Glũck:The First Four Books of Poems”
Marvelous, dreamlike poems of tormented relationship.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“The Triumph of Achilles,” Louise Glück, 1985. I read it in The Ecco Press compendium “Louise Glũck:The First Four Books of Poems”
Marvelous, dreamlike poems of tormented relationship.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
Sealey Challenge 8/20/25
“Elegy,” Mary Jo Bang, Graywolf Press 2007
The pain of a mother confronting the death of her son.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“Elegy,” Mary Jo Bang, Graywolf Press 2007
The pain of a mother confronting the death of her son.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
August 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Sealey Challenge 8/20/25
“Elegy,” Mary Jo Bang, Graywolf Press 2007
The pain of a mother confronting the death of her son.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“Elegy,” Mary Jo Bang, Graywolf Press 2007
The pain of a mother confronting the death of her son.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
Sealey Challenge 8/19/25
“I Wish I Had a Heart Like Yours, Walt Whitman,” Jude Nutter, U Notre Dame Press 2009
Scalding, moving reflections on war and violence as part of the human experience.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“I Wish I Had a Heart Like Yours, Walt Whitman,” Jude Nutter, U Notre Dame Press 2009
Scalding, moving reflections on war and violence as part of the human experience.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
August 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Sealey Challenge 8/19/25
“I Wish I Had a Heart Like Yours, Walt Whitman,” Jude Nutter, U Notre Dame Press 2009
Scalding, moving reflections on war and violence as part of the human experience.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“I Wish I Had a Heart Like Yours, Walt Whitman,” Jude Nutter, U Notre Dame Press 2009
Scalding, moving reflections on war and violence as part of the human experience.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
Sealey Challenge 8/18/25
“Canticle of the Night Path,” Jennifer Atkinson (great teacher), Parlor Press 2013, New Measure Poetry Prize
organized A to Z, groupings of five, the marvelous in fabulizing wordplay interwoven with fables and legends of Mary Magdalene.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“Canticle of the Night Path,” Jennifer Atkinson (great teacher), Parlor Press 2013, New Measure Poetry Prize
organized A to Z, groupings of five, the marvelous in fabulizing wordplay interwoven with fables and legends of Mary Magdalene.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
August 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Sealey Challenge 8/18/25
“Canticle of the Night Path,” Jennifer Atkinson (great teacher), Parlor Press 2013, New Measure Poetry Prize
organized A to Z, groupings of five, the marvelous in fabulizing wordplay interwoven with fables and legends of Mary Magdalene.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“Canticle of the Night Path,” Jennifer Atkinson (great teacher), Parlor Press 2013, New Measure Poetry Prize
organized A to Z, groupings of five, the marvelous in fabulizing wordplay interwoven with fables and legends of Mary Magdalene.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
Sealey Challenge 8/17/25
“Medicine Year,” Thomas R. Smith, Paris Morning Publications 2022
Poems of love and healing during a year of pandemic and personal challenge
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“Medicine Year,” Thomas R. Smith, Paris Morning Publications 2022
Poems of love and healing during a year of pandemic and personal challenge
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
August 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Sealey Challenge 8/17/25
“Medicine Year,” Thomas R. Smith, Paris Morning Publications 2022
Poems of love and healing during a year of pandemic and personal challenge
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“Medicine Year,” Thomas R. Smith, Paris Morning Publications 2022
Poems of love and healing during a year of pandemic and personal challenge
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
Sealey Challenge 8/16/25
“Imago, Dei,” Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose, Rattle 2022
These poems from a “recovering evangelical” are by turns searing, funny, heartbreaking.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“Imago, Dei,” Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose, Rattle 2022
These poems from a “recovering evangelical” are by turns searing, funny, heartbreaking.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
August 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Sealey Challenge 8/16/25
“Imago, Dei,” Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose, Rattle 2022
These poems from a “recovering evangelical” are by turns searing, funny, heartbreaking.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“Imago, Dei,” Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose, Rattle 2022
These poems from a “recovering evangelical” are by turns searing, funny, heartbreaking.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
Sealey Challenge 8/15/25
“The Father,” Sharon Olds, Kopf 1992
A daughter reacts viscerally and with raw honesty to her dying then dead father.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“The Father,” Sharon Olds, Kopf 1992
A daughter reacts viscerally and with raw honesty to her dying then dead father.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
August 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Sealey Challenge 8/15/25
“The Father,” Sharon Olds, Kopf 1992
A daughter reacts viscerally and with raw honesty to her dying then dead father.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“The Father,” Sharon Olds, Kopf 1992
A daughter reacts viscerally and with raw honesty to her dying then dead father.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
Sealey Challenge 8/14/25
“Every Single Thing,” Joanie McLean, Wayfarer Books 2021
These gorgeous poems explore the liminal spaces where the built human world meets the natural—but the ecstatic recognition that nature encompasses it all, every single thing.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“Every Single Thing,” Joanie McLean, Wayfarer Books 2021
These gorgeous poems explore the liminal spaces where the built human world meets the natural—but the ecstatic recognition that nature encompasses it all, every single thing.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
August 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Sealey Challenge 8/14/25
“Every Single Thing,” Joanie McLean, Wayfarer Books 2021
These gorgeous poems explore the liminal spaces where the built human world meets the natural—but the ecstatic recognition that nature encompasses it all, every single thing.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry
“Every Single Thing,” Joanie McLean, Wayfarer Books 2021
These gorgeous poems explore the liminal spaces where the built human world meets the natural—but the ecstatic recognition that nature encompasses it all, every single thing.
#BookSky💙📚
#SealeyChallenge
#poetry