Signing off for some much-needed rest 😴💤 but keeping the spirit of poetry alive! Thank you to everyone who read, posted, shared, and engaged with poetry this August! We’ll see you same time next year for the next #SealeyChallenge!

How much poetry have we read together for the #sealeychallenge? Let's find out! forms.gle/fGpW8mzCirKa...

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You did it! Cheers to a wonderful month of reading poetry! Don’t forget to claim your golden sealies + #SealeyChallenge postcards for a job well done! (Psst perfection isn't a requirement) forms.gle/N9735imfCHq6...

August is about to draw to a close, and our final #TuesdayTip is this: return to these books again and again. Which books of poetry have you (or do you plan to) come back to over and over—and what made them so special?

BINGO!! If you want to play and win giveaway prizes, please check out the card here: static1.squarespace.com/static/60548... And submit for freebies here: forms.gle/wE7J7pSjpGEF...

Over the past 9 years of the Sealey Challenge, the number of books of poetry we've read in community must be in the hundreds-of-thousands! Today we've gathered up 25 recommendations shared by the 2025 #SealeyChallenge community. poetry.arizona.edu/blog/25-seal...

Happy Tuesday everyone! Today's #TuesdayTip is to listen to audiobooks or recordings of poetry readings on Voca. What's Voca? A treasure trove of poetry readings from the Poetry Center over the past 60+ years—all free, fully transcribed + captioned! voca.arizona.edu

One of the core values of the #sealeychallenge is to engage with diverse voices. What new voices have you read this summer?

“The Sealey Challenge is all about attention. And what better way to spend that attention than listening to the voices of BIPOC poets, voices that have always been here, whispering truths...” —Srijani Mitra @mitrasrupsha poetry.arizona.edu/blog/sealey-...

Thrilled to share this year's shiny new #SealeyChallenge postcards, designed by Tucson artist Sophie McTear! Get yours by visiting the Poetry Center, or requesting them online through our google form: forms.gle/UHGejuzT9SUk...

Today's #Tuesdaytip : Your local library and the libby app are great resources, if you want access to free books this Sealey Summer! And if you live in Tucson, you're welcome to one of the largest public poetry library collections in the world at the University of Arizona Poetry Center!

Ready, set, READ! For suggestions where to start, check out our new list on the Sealey Challenge website, curated by Nicole Sealey and University or Arizona Poetry Library staff: www.thesealeychallenge.com/start-here

Keep track of what you read this August with your Sealey Challenge certificate! www.thesealeychallenge.com/s/Sealey-Cer... #sealeychallenge #poetry

Stacks of books, lines from poems, recommendations, celebrations, and words of appreciation and encouragement: that's what the #SealeyChallenge is all about. Today marks another August wilding with poetry—welcome, everyone! And happy reading 🫶

Welcome to DAY 1 of the 2025 #SealeyChallenge! 31 books of poetry in 31 days: let's goooooooo! #sealeychallenge #poetry

Psst, have you heard of #SealeyChallenge BINGO? We've got a whole new series of challenges and some amazing giveaways! Get your bingo card here: www.thesealeychallenge.com/s/2025-Bingo...

The celebration starts tomorrow!! Can't wait to kick off an amazing month of reading with the whole #SealeyChallenge community! “The Sealey Challenge, at heart, is a big, raucous, joyful celebration of poetry.” —Laura Sackton

The Sealey Challenge starts tomorrow! @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #sealeychallenge

Basking in this June Jordan poem this morning: "I am a stranger learning to worship the strangers around me whoever you are whoever I may become." poets.org/poem/these-p...

The #SealeyChallenge is two short days away—and you can pre-celebrate by listening to the special 50th episode of Poetry Centered, hosted by @nicolesealey.bsky.social herself! Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1165454/epis...

Incredibly generous to have free access to poetry. Thank you for sharing!

Since the 2023 #SealeyChallenge, @nicolesealey.bsky.social has entrusted the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center with caring for this incredible month of reading poetry. Let's enter this poetic pilgrimage together as we pursue the radical joy of reading 31 books of poetry in 31 days.

Love the idea of regionally curated lists—what poets from your neck of the woods could you read this summer?

Don't forget about chapbooks! Today's #TuesdayTip is to include chapbooks in your Sealey Challenge reading! And if you live in Tucson, The Poetry Center has many chapbooks you can browse in-person

If you’re looking for recommendations, we have a new 2025 recommended reading list up on our website — www.thesealeychallenge.com/start-here

“Poetry is the only literary form that can accommodate such a rapid rate of reading; being able to jump seamlessly between voices like this can expand the way we think about the world.” — Laura Buccieri, Lithub

Poetry is a linguistic configuration of energy. —Mary Ruefle Art by Sophie McTear.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person. —Czeslaw Milosz, “Ars Poetica?” trans. by Czeslaw Milosz and Lillian Vallee Art by Allison Miller.

The celebration starts NEXT WEEK!! Can't wait to kick off an amazing month of reading with the whole #SealeyChallenge community!

Nicole Sealey says poetry today, with its salutary quality, is unique because it “invites us to pause, to find some semblance of beauty amid the ugliness of the moment.” —Diego Báez www.pw.org/content/poet...

A few quick tips to get you prepared for the upcoming #sealeychallenge:

Remember, the point of the Sealey Challenge isn't perfection—the point is to spend (more) time with poetry! Today’s #TuesdayTip is to prioritize enjoyment over perfection!

“The Sealey Challenge, at heart, is a big, raucous, joyful celebration of poetry.” —Laura Sackton Whether you're brand-new to the challenge or old hat, everyone is invited to read (more) 31 books in 31 days this August! www.thesealeychallenge.com

Went in for one book came out with a week’s worth of @sealeychallenge.bsky.social options (renewable online!). Hooray for libraries!

(yawn) Hibernation is almost over! Just a couple of weeks until the 2025 #SealeyChallenge kicks off!

Popping out of hibernation to say we're here on Bluesky! (And we'll see you in August of next year!) #sealeychallenge