I put up my spooky front door wreath over the weekend.

*casually driving around neighborhood to see if anyone has fall/spooky decor out yet*

#SealeyChallenge 21 of 31 Am/Are I (2020) by Billie R. Tadros Via Francis House an experimental tiny chapbook that adds the capital A to Art

#SealeyChallenge 20 of 31 American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes Reread via audiobook (university library) because hearing these poems read by the author made them more powerful

#SealeyChallenge 19 of 31 Poems Are the Only Real Bodies (2013) by Jennifer Tamayo via @bloofbooks.bsky.social

#SealeyChallenge 18 of 31 SPIN (2009) by Zachary C. Bush via kendra steiner editions Limited edition handmade in cellophane by a former colleague

#SealeyChallenge 17 of 31 CRUSH (2005) by @richard-siken.bsky.social One of my favorite favorites

#SealeyChallenge 16 of 31 Wish You Were Here (2013) Matthew Dickman via SPORK PRESS

#SealeyChallenge 15 of 31 Nightsink, Faucet Me A Lullaby (2019) by Alexa Doran via Bottlecap Press An exquisite reread from a poet friend

#SealeyChallenge 14 of 31 You're My Favorite (2022) by Lauren Saxon via @thirtywestph.com

(forgot to share) #SealeyChallenge 13 of 31 Fire Sermons (2021) by @rayehendrix.bsky.social via @ghostcitypress.bsky.social A reread because I love these poems so much.

The life of a showgirl, you say? #IYKYK #ToriAmos

#SealeyChallenge 12 of 31 SIVVY by Lauren Davis via @whittlemicropress.bsky.social IMHO, required reading for all #Plath fans (it's erasure poems from her letters):

#SealeyChallenge 11 of 31 Un-Becoming (2018) by Charnell Peters via @thirtywestph.com

#SealeyChallenge 10 of 31 Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) by T.S. Eliot Illustrations by Edward Gorey (1982) AN ABSOLUTE DELIGHT

Are you living your best life? No? You need chapbooks.

#SealeyChallenge 9 of 31 The Way The Body Had to Travel (2014) by Emily Lake Hansen 🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️ a reread that feels like part of my own memory

#SealeyChallenge 8/31 waveforms: a short course in piano tuning by Andrea L. Hackbarth @smallharborpub.bsky.social Cleverly arranged prose poems (pun intended)

#SealeyChallenge 7/31 Wildcold (2016) by Ruth Baumann via Slash Pine Press Tiny poems with monumental weight.

#SealeyChallenge 6/31 Lies I Tell Myself (2018) by Sarah Suhr via dancing girl press & studio 'For a woman, there is always a sense of loss.'

#SealeyChallenge 5/31 Easy Exit to Eleventh Street By Kate Belt (2019) via @ghostcitypress.bsky.social

#SealeyChallenge 4/31 Collections from a Shipwreck (2022) by Jane-Rebecca Cannarella via @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social a haunting reread of prose poems

#SealeyChallenge 3/31 This Is How I Will Tell You I Love You by Amanda Dissinger (2015) via Bottlecap Press

#SealeyChallenge 2/31 a simple verb by jj rowan @jayjayrowan.bsky.social @bloofbooks.bsky.social a much needed reread ❤

#SealeyChallenge 1 Regenerate: Poems of Mad Women (2018) by @sfmontgomery.bsky.social

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🚨Final Hours of our Giveaway🚨 we will draw two winners tonight 7/30

Every day you should read a poem.

To enter: reply with your favorite assigned reading. Was it a novel, poem, essay? Two winners will be randomly selected around July 30. One winner will get a prize package from me & one will get a prize package from @allisonwrites.bsky.social cc: @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social

Beginning the latest by @tashacoryell.bsky.social Who's inside the box?!

With sadness, jamming on the one in my Gordon Gatrell.

Wildlings! The Revolution (Issue) of @feralpoetryandart.bsky.social is here! Look at that spectacular cover art by Lauren Silex - don't you love it? Many thanks to all our contributors. Enjoy! feralpoetry.net/issue-twenty... #poetry #NewIssue #art

At that age where blistering heat feels therapeutic as I get in a car that's been baking in the sun.

the vibes at taco bell are unreal

Thank you, @suzannehicks.bsky.social!

Alert the poets (7/11/25)

Carla Hayden, the ex-Librarian of Congress who was fired by Trump, has a new role as senior fellow with the Mellon Foundation

A draft is never final, it's just abandoned.

Lifetime Movie watching time: MURDER IN NASHVILLE (A woman gets swept up in a whirlwind romance with the son of a wealthy power player in the country music scene. However, things take a sinister turn when other women turn up dead, and dark family secrets come to light.)

Rejections from 5 journals later...(+ 2 waiting) and I need more places to submit to!

Rewatching THE GOLDEN GIRLS in the year of our Lord 2025

“The idea of an American Dream feels warped to me”: An Interview with Janet Dale and Allison Renner pinehillsreview.com/2025/07/02/j...

Interview out now about GREEN LIGHT pinehillsreview.com/2025/07/02/j... cc: @allisonwrites.bsky.social @pinehillsreview.bsky.social @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social

And to @theferocity.bsky.social reading THIS CLASSIC Addonizio poem with his whole chest on Vibe Check this week:

Alert the poets! There is an American Meteor Society.

Running the 'clean' cycle on my coffee maker. Am I an adult?

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this