Hear me out: A first-year experience librarian [PDF], but for grad students.

Help me #TeamLowBar, I set my low bar too high!

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

I’ve got all the pieces of my sewing machine, my sewing basket, 2 sewing books, and 2 sewing classes on Blueprint/Once-and-Future-Craftsy, so GET READY FOR SEWING-RELATED CONTENT. 🧵

I think my aesthetic is that I’m the librarian at the boarding school all the dark academia kids wish they went to. Replace the blazers with cardigans and the wire-rims with cat’s eye, boom, me.

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

Here’s the truth about life, kids: not one of us has it figured out. Every person who looks like they have it together actually is a mess in at least one area of their life. Nobody knows everything, but everybody knows something. The only way we can get through it is together.

📚 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