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September 1, 2026 at 6:55 AM
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Seeing and Looking by 🎯Damon Potter

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#SealeyChallenge 26/31Seeing and Looking by 🎯Damon PotterThe other side of this duplex book — ingenious design by Omnidawn& thoughtful & often funny (in a sad way) or sad (in a funny way) exploration of mortality & white male privilege. 🙏🏻sponsor me (under name: dianalogbooks) or donate direct to #FeedGaza — links in bio or via @openpoetrybooks #TheSealeyChallenge2025#TheSealeyChallenge #31BooksIn31Days #31BooksInAugust #poetry {Image 1 description}[book sits on blue velvet couch]Cover art is a photo by Carolyn Ho of art by Truong Tran — closeup of a sculptural piece from his “Targets” series: curved concentric bands of pastel blue, pink, cream, white, grey, red, wood, black. Text is all centered.[near the top, inside a wood curve, in black:]Omnidawn logoFurther down toward the center of the cover, inside the red curve, the title is on 3 lines.[in very large grey]SEEING [smaller, yellow:]a n d [very large yellow:]LOOKING[in the white section, near the bottom, inside dark grey:] damon potter The isbn & barcode is tucked into the white section at lower right edge{Image 2 description}[poem on p 55, part “iii,” in Seeing and Looking shown][top margin:] DAMON POTTER//i should be more like a blackberry thing prickingaggressive the boorish and meanand holding my fruit out to summer bowls: this country is racist and i receive clout bodily safetybecause i am white white folks dont say it we write our books about what we pick up or about fruit
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August 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
31/31: CRYING DRESS by @cassidymcfadzean.bsky.social (2024 House of Anansi Press) tinyurl.com/yc5ahtuh

"Putting on last winter's coat to find
the gloves that, missing all this time, no longer fit"

Severance

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August 31, 2024 at 12:49 PM
August 29, 2024 at 12:39 PM
27/31: CREELAND by Dallas Hunt (2021 Nightwood Editions) bit.ly/33tr1D3

"tender like your vocal cords
straining, stretching,
a voice overburdened,
quivering"

Rueful

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August 27, 2024 at 1:42 PM
26/31: THE LIFE OF TU FU by Eliot Weinberger (2024 New Directions) tinyurl.com/54vk9cm6

"They say when a goose flies south it holds a twig in its beak to keep from making a sound the hunters might hear."

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August 26, 2024 at 1:10 PM
25/31: DARWIN'S BEES AT NOTRE DAME by Kim Fahner (2019) tinyurl.com/yvrk56t9

"and then, hopeful and persistent,
two hundred thousand tiny honey bees,
all gossamer wings, all wonder -
new sparks rising."

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August 25, 2024 at 11:58 AM
24/31: I CAN FOCUS IF I TRY by Michael Flatt (2023 knife | fork | book) tinyurl.com/yc85trtb

"The sensory depth added to a space by birdsong."

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August 24, 2024 at 9:43 PM
23/31: VIRGIN by Analicia Sotelo (2018 Milkweed Editions) tinyurl.com/3m6kfaez

"I hate how everyone is either a tiny black horse or a big fat gnat, sans fucking purpose."

Philosopher King

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August 23, 2024 at 11:17 PM
22/31: THE ALBERTINE WORKOUT by Anne Carson (2014 New Directions) tinyurl.com/d98h7d3z

"Her bad taste in music, although several times remarked on, is not a problem."

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August 22, 2024 at 12:09 PM
15/31: OBITS. by tess liem (2018 Coach House Press) tinyurl.com/4m7aue67

"it's OK. Here:
feel the space between your body & your shadow."

My body in three movements (coda, note to self)

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August 15, 2024 at 12:51 PM
11/31: THE LONG DEFEAT by Patrick Connors (2024 Mosaic Press) tinyurl.com/5n95auu8

"A mist blurs the trees like a dream
and covers what lies beyond them.
But you keep walking."

Country Road

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August 11, 2024 at 1:22 PM
8/31: A BALTIC FRIDAY EARLY IN GREY by Adele Graf (2017 above/ground press) tinyurl.com/39ndzn7e

"what inside prison that the visitors see
in its to it deep mind
a Baltic Friday early in grey"

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August 8, 2024 at 1:05 PM
7/31: REMEDIES FOR CHIRON by m. patchwork monoceros (2023 Radiant Press) tinyurl.com/4be24895

"If only in the morning silences, you are breath steadily falling
between my uneven exhales."

Rise

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August 7, 2024 at 1:06 PM
6/31: DEVIANT by Patrick Grace (2024 University of Alberta Press) tinyurl.com/4h82zcxf

"How long ago was it, just last week
the streetlight burst again when I passed

underneath."

Heatwave

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August 6, 2024 at 12:40 PM
5/31: INCREMENTALLY by Penn Kemp (2023 @hempressbooks.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/2s3jp2j6 & tinyurl.com/mr38jebt

"he’s falling further into the trappings of passionate
intensity with gay abandon"

A Ban

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August 5, 2024 at 1:59 PM
2/31: THE SIZE OF PARADISE by Dale Martin Smith (2024 @knifeforkbook.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/bdms2j7s

"Night's cool exchange of cars and voices."

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August 2, 2024 at 2:54 PM
22/31: INDIE ROCK by Joe Bishop (2023 University of Alberta Press) tinyurl.com/ynkru34e

"To also go where the best of you goes,
the haloed expanse where your vision stays,
Digger, my friend, this man can dream."

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August 22, 2023 at 2:03 PM
19/31: MONITORING STATION BY Sonja Ruth Greckol (2023 University of Alberta Press) https://tinyurl.com/3jy3yth3

"now we are more more smiles quips smart talk runny noses shining
bigger fears bigger complications"

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Monitoring Station
Feminist experimental lyric poetry that embodies the passage of a damaged world across generations.
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August 19, 2023 at 12:18 PM
12/31: WHO IS YOUR MERCY CONTACT? by Ronna Bloom (2022 espresso/paperplates books) https://tinyurl.com/3u3kmpkf

"O, how the cows moo
in solace."

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August 12, 2023 at 12:27 PM
7/31: Selections from Cincinnati Review (Spring 2023), including Allison Adair, Brittany Cavallaro, Dean Rader, Jiewan Yang + more https://tinyurl.com/3urtr36y

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August 7, 2023 at 1:41 PM
4/31: COSMIC HORROR by James Knight (2022 Hem Press) https://tinyurl.com/2wfckef7

"the correct word for dog is wolf
the correct word for wolf is machine
the correct word for machine is womb"

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August 4, 2023 at 2:10 PM