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Day 29-30 Song of My Softening by Omotara James. From “Museum of What Is Owed” - “There will be installations: video, visual, fresco, mixed media, for every unwanted hour I survived being unwanted.” Omotara James #OmotaraJames @thesealeychallenge #TheSealeyChallenge2025 #Poetry #Poems #Books

Day 28/31 - Helium by Rudy Francisco. From “ I Bet the Trees Are Thinking” - “If they’re willing to pay three dollars a gallon for gas, imagine how much we can charge them for oxygen.” #RudyFrancisco @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #TheSealeyChallenge2025 #Poetry #Poems #Books

Day 27/31 - We Are Owed by Ariana Brown. From “Why I Want To Know What Yanga Looked Like” - “…and when I speak about songs I am always speaking about freedom.” @arianathepoet @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #TheSealeyChallenge2025 #Poetry #Poems #Books

Days 25 & 26 - Something About Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha. From “In Case of Emergency” - “This is how you keep yourself safe, keep parts of yourself in different boxes. Trust no one with everything.” #LenaKhalafTuffaha @thesealeychallenge #TheSealeyChallenge2025 #Poems #Poetry #Books

Day 24/31 - Selena Didn’t Know Spanish Either by Marisa Tirado. From “Leave This Place” - “All I crave is the fullness from a canoe, the exhale from shore, to row memory, churning it thick…” #MarisaTirado @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #TheSealeyChallenge2025 #Poems #Poetry #Books

Day 23 savings time by Roya Marsh. From “i must tell you” - “I must tell you when i pray i keep one eye cracked & just a bit of space between my palms hoping a bit of God will seep through.” @champagnepoet #RoyaMarsh @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #TheSealeyChallenge2025 #Poems #Poetry #Books

Day 19 - 22 Blue Laws by Kevin Young. From, “Chamber Music” - “Upright Bass Love that place Where your hips hits Your waist & my head fits Perfect, rests Like music” #KevinYoung @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #TheSealeyChallenge2025 #Poems #Poetry #Books

18/31 - There Are Girls Like Lions. From “Loose Woman” - Sandra Cisneros. “ I’m an aim-well, shoot-sharp, sharp-tongued, fast-speaking, foot-loose, loose-tongued, let-loose, woman-on-the-loose, loose woman. Beware, honey.” @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #TheSealeyChallenge2025 #Poems #Poetry

Day 17/31 - EYES BOTTLE DARK with a MOUTHFUL of FLOWERS by Jake Skeets. From “Thieving Ceremony” - “To them we are flesh is still soot, still furnace, still jet, still a cornstalk and juniper tree left burning.” #JakeSkeets @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #TheSealeyChallenge2025 #Poems #Poetry

Day 14 - 16 - The Art of Losing edited by Kevin Young. From “Autumn Passage” - Elizabeth Alexander. “…the body that can no longer even make fever but nonetheless burns florid and bright and magnificent as it dims, as it shrinks, as it turns to something else.” #TheSealeyChallenge2025 #Poetry

Day 11 -13 - Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry by Nikky Finney. From “The Good Fight” - “You with your little ivory-tipped six shooter words, pointed at our dream-filled, churning-up-the-hill, wanting-to-be-better hearts…” #NikkeyFinney @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #TheSealeyChallenge2025

Day 10/31 - 1919 by Eve L. Ewing. From “this is a map” - “this is a map of my city, here are the places in my city where I dare not go.” #EveLEwing @thesealeychallenge #TheSealeyChallenge2025 #Poems #Poetry #Books

Day 9/31 - You Can Be The Last Leaf by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat. From, “I Don’t Believe in Greats” - “I’m aware some people suffer enough torment to become a lighthouse then live on to old age incapable of seeing what lights their way.” #MayaAbuAl-Hayyat @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #TheSealeyChallenge

Day 8/31 - Papi Pichón by Dimitri Reyes. From, Papi Pichón as “Boy Finding His Way”. “Either way, the question stands, what is it to be Indio when the many shades of brown become another gray area?” @dimitri__reyes @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #TheSealeyChallenge2025 #Poems #Poetry #Books

Eddie Palmieri, a trailblazing and innovative pianist, composer, producer and bandleader who became the first Latino artist to win a Grammy Award, died Wednesday. He was 88. 📸 Photo from 1988 by Frans Schellekens/Redferns via Getty Images

RIP the brilliant Eddie Palmieri. I got to interview him a few years ago on the BA podcast. This live album is one of the most blown-out, flamethrowing salsa records ever made.

Grammy-winning bandleader and pianist Eddie Palmieri, whose pounding rhythms forged a new style for Latin music, has died.

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...

Day 7/31 - Dear God, Dear Bones, Dear Yellow - Noor Hindi. From “Confession” - “My family comes from a land that does not exist on colonizers’ maps.” @noorkhindi @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #TheSealeyChallenge2025 #Poems #Poetry #Books

Day 6/31 - Receta - Mario José Pagán Morales. From “True Story, 1986” “I’m often torn between flying and landing not sure which one is more graceful” @mario_jose_pagan_morales @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #TheSealeyChallenge2025 #Poems #Poetry #Books

Day 5/31 - Erase The Patriarchy edited by Isobel O’Hare. From “Chris Sacca: No Imbalance of Power” by Elizabeth Mehl Greene. - “I knew well to dispute the welcome of strong women in our industry.” @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #TheSealeyChallenge2025 #theSealeyChallenge #Poems #Poetry

Day 4/31 - Amelia: Poems of Love and Resistance - Rafael Landrón. From “Coney Island” - “…you can never own a hurricane. You can’t own the feeling right before that drop.” Rafael Landrón @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #TheSealeyChallenge2025 #Poems #Poetry #Books

Day 3/31 You Better Be Lightning - Andrea Gibson. From “Wellness Check”. - “Is my attention on loving, or is my attention on who isn’t loving me?” #AndreaGibson @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #TheSealeyChallenge2025 #Poems #Poetry #Books

Day 2/31: Poppies for Palestine - El Ibrahim Dawud & Katalina Rodriguez - ELKAT Productions. From “Together” by Muhammad Eli. “The watermelon reminds me of the Palestinian flag. The flag reminds me of a kite flying in the sky.” @thesealeychallenge #TheSealeyChallenge2025 #Poems #Poetry #Books

Day 1/31 Finna by Nate Marshall. From “sweet breath”. “…this pet name we exchange will make the voyeur think animal or abomination & i have no reason to correct when what we on this eve could be either or both.” #TheSealeyChallenge2025 #Poetry #Poems #NateMarshall @sealeychallenge.bsky.social

“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

Poets, writers, storytellers! Join us June 29th! #WritingWorkshop #AYearIntoYou #LiveBigGirl For more info: livebiggirl.wixsite.com/livebiggirl

🌟 A Year Into You — Journals & Monthly Writing Workshops. 📚 How It Works: ✨ Purchase any journal from the A Year Into You series & receive FREE access to a monthly generative writing workshop. Each journal = one free workshop! ➡️ Grab your journal here: bit.ly/Livebiggirl #AYearIntoYou #LiveBigGirl

Our next workshop is Sunday, May 25th Our theme this month is INJUSTICE! For more info on our workshops and journals, click here: livebiggirl.wixsite.com/livebiggirl

Still working on your 30/30? Still celebrating National Poetry month? Join us tomorrow! The celebration continues! Theme: The Body. Sign up here: livebiggirl.wixsite.com/livebiggirl Vanessa Chica Karina G-Lopez RebeCa Lois #NationalPoetryMonth #NPM2025

Current Read: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. #Fiction #Poets @oceanvu.studio #CurrentRead

The great poet and museum leader Kevin Young has been fired as director of the Smithsonian NMAAHC news.artnet.com/art-world/di...

Friends y Familia! Join me on Saturday, April 5th, 6 pm, for the launch of my new poetry collection, JAILBREAK OF SPARROWS, at Raven Used Books in Shelburne Falls. Books will be on hand for sale and signing.

This #WorldPoetryDay, we celebrate the profound impact of poetry as a form of artistic expression and mirror to our shared human experiences. The Thread highlights New America Fellows and acclaimed poets @kaysarahsera.bsky.social and @clintsmithiii.bsky.social. ✒️

NEW BOOK ALERT! Current Read: Animal Fiero Y Tierno/Fierce and Tender Animal by Ángela María Dávila. #Poets #PuertoRicanLiterature #ÁngelaMaríaDávila #RoqueRaquelSalasRivera @centropr @roquesalasrivera

Haven’t had a chance to join? Next workshop: March 30th - writing, sharing and being in community. For more information or to purchase books go here: bit.ly/Livebiggirl See you on zoom! ✍🏾

Protect your peace.

“We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of the public schools, and the number of people who can [and] do read worthwhile books.” W. E. B. Du Bois - February, 1953

We had such a lovely writing experience yesterday! Our next workshop is on March 30th, from 11:00 AM to 12:15 PM. EST. Theme: A Taste of Home. How It Works: Workshop is FREE if you've purchased a journal. For each journal purchased, a free workshop. For more info or books: bit.ly/Livebiggirl

Literacy is activism. Reading is a political act. Books are tools for liberation.

Banned Book Alert! From Variety: Trump Bans Julianne Moore's Children’s Book From Schools “It is a great shock for me to learn that my first book, ‘Freckleface Strawberry,’ has been banned by the Trump Administration from schools run by the Department of Defense,” Moore wrote. amzn.to/41kLzg2

Looking for a writing community? Here’s an option. Last sunday of every month, a themed topic.

Join us! This month we write love letters, to ourselves, to those no longer here, or to anyone who needs it. #WriteYourStory Get your tickets here for the next workshop. www.paypal.com/instantcomme... If you already purchased a prompt journal, the workshop is FREE! ☺️

Thank you Mayari Literature! #sixwordlovestories #Poets #writers

“I do not waste time or language on our enemies, beloved. But if I ever did, I would tell them that there is a river between what they see and what they know. And they don’t have the heart to cross it.” - Hanif Abdurraqib - There’s Always This Year. #Writers #Poets #Quotes #HanifAbdurraqib

Truth.

This.

Joy. #RossGay #Onbeing