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510 - 808 - 310 - 520. Writer and teacher of writing, theoretically in that order. Looking for a shady place to rest.
Kind of excited to hang out with this pulpy, sultry 70’s copy of Walt Whitman … it had better be gay as hell or else I’m out #sealeychallenge
August 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Kind of excited to hang out with this pulpy, sultry 70’s copy of Walt Whitman … it had better be gay as hell or else I’m out #sealeychallenge
#sealeychallenge day idunno - the last week has been bananas and I hardly had time to breathe let alone read - but my neighbor had more books for me! “You still read poems right? Here have these. Oh yeah and a puzzle book. A puzzle is kind of like a poem.”
August 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
#sealeychallenge day idunno - the last week has been bananas and I hardly had time to breathe let alone read - but my neighbor had more books for me! “You still read poems right? Here have these. Oh yeah and a puzzle book. A puzzle is kind of like a poem.”
#Sealeychallenge day 6 that turned into day 7 cuz some collections demand it - “Unaccompanied” by Javier Zamora
Picked this up at the library yesterday. Commands attention from jump, demands to be read like a novel. Each poem feels so full and big hearted. Just tearing me apart over here.
Picked this up at the library yesterday. Commands attention from jump, demands to be read like a novel. Each poem feels so full and big hearted. Just tearing me apart over here.
August 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
#Sealeychallenge day 6 that turned into day 7 cuz some collections demand it - “Unaccompanied” by Javier Zamora
Picked this up at the library yesterday. Commands attention from jump, demands to be read like a novel. Each poem feels so full and big hearted. Just tearing me apart over here.
Picked this up at the library yesterday. Commands attention from jump, demands to be read like a novel. Each poem feels so full and big hearted. Just tearing me apart over here.
#sealeychallenge day 5 - Mary Oliver “New and Selected Poems”
Apropos of the poetry gods, my neighbor gave me this book this morning: “you like this kind of stuff, right?”
Been flipping through it in quiet moments through the day. It’s nice to carry a book of poetry around again.
Apropos of the poetry gods, my neighbor gave me this book this morning: “you like this kind of stuff, right?”
Been flipping through it in quiet moments through the day. It’s nice to carry a book of poetry around again.
August 6, 2025 at 3:47 AM
#sealeychallenge day 5 - Mary Oliver “New and Selected Poems”
Apropos of the poetry gods, my neighbor gave me this book this morning: “you like this kind of stuff, right?”
Been flipping through it in quiet moments through the day. It’s nice to carry a book of poetry around again.
Apropos of the poetry gods, my neighbor gave me this book this morning: “you like this kind of stuff, right?”
Been flipping through it in quiet moments through the day. It’s nice to carry a book of poetry around again.
#SealeyChallenge day 4 “A 10 peso burial for which truth I sign” by Gabriel Palacios
(Didn’t read anything yesterday because it was my kiddo’s birthday party, which was just frantic poetry in motion)
Nice to be rereading my friend’s collection, and finding new things to love about it.
(Didn’t read anything yesterday because it was my kiddo’s birthday party, which was just frantic poetry in motion)
Nice to be rereading my friend’s collection, and finding new things to love about it.
August 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
#SealeyChallenge day 4 “A 10 peso burial for which truth I sign” by Gabriel Palacios
(Didn’t read anything yesterday because it was my kiddo’s birthday party, which was just frantic poetry in motion)
Nice to be rereading my friend’s collection, and finding new things to love about it.
(Didn’t read anything yesterday because it was my kiddo’s birthday party, which was just frantic poetry in motion)
Nice to be rereading my friend’s collection, and finding new things to love about it.
#SealeyChallenge day 2 - 100 Classic Chinese Poems, translated by Qiu Xiaolong
Picked this up in a Shanghai bookstore a few years ago - all Tang Dynasty poets so the poems are lush, coy, romantic, witty - I read some to my 5 year old and she likes the pictures and tbh I do too
Picked this up in a Shanghai bookstore a few years ago - all Tang Dynasty poets so the poems are lush, coy, romantic, witty - I read some to my 5 year old and she likes the pictures and tbh I do too
August 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
#SealeyChallenge day 2 - 100 Classic Chinese Poems, translated by Qiu Xiaolong
Picked this up in a Shanghai bookstore a few years ago - all Tang Dynasty poets so the poems are lush, coy, romantic, witty - I read some to my 5 year old and she likes the pictures and tbh I do too
Picked this up in a Shanghai bookstore a few years ago - all Tang Dynasty poets so the poems are lush, coy, romantic, witty - I read some to my 5 year old and she likes the pictures and tbh I do too
A good one for imitation … and metaphor
August 2, 2025 at 5:17 AM
A good one for imitation … and metaphor
#sealeychallenge day 1 - Woman Without Shame by Sandra Cisneros
August 2, 2025 at 3:39 AM
#sealeychallenge day 1 - Woman Without Shame by Sandra Cisneros
You’ve inherited a movie theatre, what’s your first double feature?
Master and Commander (2003) and Hunter Killer (2018)
Master and Commander (2003) and Hunter Killer (2018)
July 21, 2025 at 12:28 AM
You’ve inherited a movie theatre, what’s your first double feature?
Master and Commander (2003) and Hunter Killer (2018)
Master and Commander (2003) and Hunter Killer (2018)
The average American has three friends.
May 2, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The average American has three friends.
Aspirational mood for thanksgiving - feet up, smokes out, velour and books and everything can wait because of course it can
(Happy bday Jimi)
(Happy bday Jimi)
November 28, 2024 at 1:08 AM
Aspirational mood for thanksgiving - feet up, smokes out, velour and books and everything can wait because of course it can
(Happy bday Jimi)
(Happy bday Jimi)
Took this thread to the library and am eager to jump into Milkman - thanks for the rec!
November 21, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Took this thread to the library and am eager to jump into Milkman - thanks for the rec!
#breadsky my emotional support sourdough loaf is fresh out the oven and crackling - will report back once it’s cooled and slathered in jam
November 19, 2024 at 5:24 PM
#breadsky my emotional support sourdough loaf is fresh out the oven and crackling - will report back once it’s cooled and slathered in jam
Right there with you
November 18, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Right there with you
Picking everything in the garden ahead of the first freeze of the season, expected tonight - prepping to bake, pickle, roast and can over the next two days 🌱
October 29, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Picking everything in the garden ahead of the first freeze of the season, expected tonight - prepping to bake, pickle, roast and can over the next two days 🌱
Post a perfect album from when you were 21
September 16, 2024 at 5:10 AM
Post a perfect album from when you were 21
Love expanding my ever metastasizing To Be Read pile via a library sale
March 26, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Love expanding my ever metastasizing To Be Read pile via a library sale
Spring semester starts tomorrow so of course I stayed up late reading Vonnegut and will likely spend most of the morning thinking about fate and joining the birds instead of lesson planning
January 17, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Spring semester starts tomorrow so of course I stayed up late reading Vonnegut and will likely spend most of the morning thinking about fate and joining the birds instead of lesson planning
First movie I saw in the theatre: my parents took me and a bunch of 2nd graders to see it for my birthday - I only remember being very excited to see Madonna and my mom being fairly uncomfortable about it
December 29, 2023 at 2:44 AM
First movie I saw in the theatre: my parents took me and a bunch of 2nd graders to see it for my birthday - I only remember being very excited to see Madonna and my mom being fairly uncomfortable about it
Okay I’ll play - fave pics of myself this tear
December 8, 2023 at 1:47 AM
Okay I’ll play - fave pics of myself this tear
The Maui fires & devastation in Lahaina are so intense - was just there & I took my daughter to play on the Lahaina banyan tree, which I climbed as a kid - I’m so sad that Old Lahaina is destroyed & so many hawns & kama’aina lost their homes and livelihoods - tryna figure out how to help
August 9, 2023 at 11:07 PM
The Maui fires & devastation in Lahaina are so intense - was just there & I took my daughter to play on the Lahaina banyan tree, which I climbed as a kid - I’m so sad that Old Lahaina is destroyed & so many hawns & kama’aina lost their homes and livelihoods - tryna figure out how to help