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(61/61) “Say to the animal: heavy is / an apology inside the wind.” — @maidervang.bsky.social, “Death in Captivity, a Surrender” (Primordial) @graywolfpress.bsky.social #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
October 1, 2025 at 3:45 AM
(59/61) “the brimstone and bile of this book left open / to Bosch's realm beneath the left hand of God, / my foxed legacy of human bonfire.” —Kimiko Hahn, “Unearthly Delights” (Foreign Bodies) W. W. Norton & Company #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
September 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
(58/61) “Witness, / if you can, listen: I slurped the frog-leg soup / gone bad. Held a brass spoon like a barrel / to my mouth.” —Vievee Francis, “Break Me and I’ll Sing” (The Shared World)
@nupress.bsky.social #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
September 28, 2025 at 2:58 AM
(57/61) “I knew this family was strange. What’s with this boy who loves flowers? The crowds of people whispered. Football players tied him up.” —Marianne Chan, “Winter Flowers in Biddle City” (Leaving Biddle City) @sarabandebooks.bsky.social #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
September 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
(56/61) “The secret / is to give a little / wine before killing.” —Toi Derricotte, “Tender” (Tender) @upittpress.bsky.social #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
September 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
(56/61) “The secret / is to give a little / wine before killing.” —Toi Derricotte, “Tender” (Tender) @upittpress.bsky.social #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
September 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
(53/61) “when the horse of my body / stopped, I walked. // Nights of unspeakable stars.” —Danielle Legros Georges, “Crossings” (Three Leaves, Three Roots) @beaconpress.bsky.social #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
September 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
(52/61) “Amin’s killings were called simply // a natural byproduct / of events” —Hope Wabuke, “If Not David” (The Body Family) @haymarketbooks.org #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
September 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
(50/61) “There is no country / where the dead don't float.” — @lesannsai.bsky.social, “Ño” (Have You Been Long Enough at Table) Tin House Books #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
September 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
(49/61) “At first, the rain comes in whispers: / thin slants on the windows, then it scrawls / across the glass like long graffiti” —Dorsía Smith Silva “The Awakening of Hurricane María” (In Inheritance of Drowning) @cavankerrypress.bsky.social #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
September 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
(47/61) “Fill the glass; light the wick, / prick three drops upon a sheet.” —Emma Trelles, “Novena Poderosa” (Tropicalia) Notre Dame Press #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
September 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
(46/61) “Like cartographers, the Language poets / hold tight to their non-sequitur ships.” —Alison C. Rollins, “Cognitive Mapping” (Black Bell) @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
September 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
(45/61) “The body is flat and dull as a pie pan” —Elizabeth Woody, “Twy-Twy” (Luminaries of the Humble) The University of Arizona Press #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
September 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
(44/61) “Yes, I say, for calligraphy, for the golden threads of our mouths.” —Sahar Muradi, “How Do You Laugh in Dari?” (OCTOBERS) @upittpress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
September 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
(43/61) “the endless why and why and why / my mother cannot answer, her mouth closed, a gesture / toward her future: cold lips stitched shut” —Natasha Trethewey, “Southern Gothic” (Native Guard) Ecco #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
September 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
(42/61) “What do you teach? / Poetry. // I hate poetry, the officer says. / I only like writing / where you can make an argument” —Solmaz Sharif, “He, Too” (Customs) @graywolfpress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
September 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
(41/61) “The snipers are distracted, sexting their girlfriends. // The snipers’ eyes are blinded by smoke from our burning tires.” — @lenakt.bsky.social, “Variations on a Last Chance” (Something About Living) @uakronpress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
September 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
(40/61) “My vegetative brother lives. / But who wanted this?” —Dipika Mukherjee, “Buddha Sharanam Gachchami” (Dialect of Distant Harbors)
@cavankerrypress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
September 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
(39/61) “My friend, who lost her husband / twice, first in death / and then in betrayal, orders / the pinot noir.” —Jennifer Chang, “A Conversation between Women” (An Authentic Life)
@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
September 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
(38/61) “I went wading / into stars, pulling my dress up // to my knees—I get like this / when it precipitates: fall // like salt” —Tacey M. Atsitty, “A February Snow” [(At) Wrist] @uwiscpress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
September 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
(37/61) “The historical marker does not say: You could hear / the body's heels knocking against the trunk” —Janice N. Harrington, “With the Walls Remaining” (Yard Show) BOA Editions, Ltd. #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
September 7, 2025 at 1:37 AM
(36/61) “learned to roll my hair with funeral programs” —Tara M. Stringfellow, “Only Read from Exodus” (Magic Enuff) The Dial Press #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
September 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
(35/61) “you think I do nothing / all day / I am busy loving / human beings” —Marcie R. Rendon, “Dream Songs” (Anishinaabe Songs for a New Millennium) @uminnpress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
September 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
(34/61) “Your right knee is a haunted staircase” —Stella Wong, “Need” (Stem) @princetonupress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
September 4, 2025 at 7:38 AM
(33/61) “She goes before me, / shining darkly, into a city— // of gold, of salt—that I will never see.” —Danusha Laméris, “Daughter” (Blade by Blade) @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
September 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM