Want to read: Craftfulness by Rosemary Davidson and Arzu Tahsin 📚🧵🧶

📚 16/31 WHEN I WAS A GIRL, THERE WERE MOUNTAINS by Blake Hackler. Excerpt from “On The Other Side”: “Can you carry danger/in a backpack? Smoke/the last of summer/on the long hike to the summit?” #TheSealeyChallenge

📚 15/31 PORTAGE by Sarah Ann Winn. Excerpt from “Alma”: “Gorge of girl, shaped by erosion, gorgeous, engorged by trees..” ♥️ Another beautiful collection. #TheSealeyChallenge

📚 14/31 SEED, STAR, SONG by May Chong. Excerpt from “Tembeling”: “The new rubies/of wild cinnamon leaves, and/the jewelbox of jungle flowers/are this earth’s exclamation:/we are still alive.” ♥️♥️♥️ Every poem in this collection is gorgeous. #TheSealeyChallenge

📚 13/31 MOTHER IS THE NAME FOR GOD by Judith Kingston. Excerpt from “III. Pentheus, My Son: “I never knew love until I became a mother./I was gentle and meek as a maid,but now I am a fierce lioness.” Bacchae is sadder than I remembered. #TheSealeyChallenge

📚 12/31 WHEN I WAS A GIRL by Jennifer Jackson Berry. Excerpt: “the boy will be stiff if & only stiff/if the girl is light as a feather & not bored.” #TheSealeyChallenge

📚 11/31 NEGOTIATING WITH OBJECTS by Lisa M Cole. Excerpt from “After the Ever-Glow”: “The hearse. The hearsay./The hypothesis of your body:/a perfectly measured cake.” #TheSealeyChallenge

📚 10/31 BOTTOMLAND by Erin Elkins Radcliffe. #TheSealeyChallenge

📚 9/31 MEND by Kristin LaTour & Angel E. Perez. #TheSealeyChallenge

Want to read: Bad Habits by Amy Gentry 📚