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bookgaga.bsky.social
What an amazing, intoxicating, mind-blowing and heart-clutching time I had reading 31 works of #poetry in 31 days for this year's #SealeyChallenge (@sealeychallenge.bsky.social): bookgagabooks.ca/2026/09/04/r... ... and 25/31 works were Canadian penned and published!
Most of the 31 works of poetry I read in 31 days to tackle the 2026 Sealey Challenge Handwritten list of the 31 works of poetry I read in 31 days for the 2026 Sealey Challenge
September 4, 2026 at 2:40 AM
stefankarlsson.bsky.social
My #kidlit take on the #SealeyChallenge is complete!

Read about the wonderful books I discovered & some things I learned here: stefankarlssonwrites.wixsite.com/author/post/...

Featuring #poetry books by @kennnesbitt.bsky.social, @brianbilston.bsky.social, @poetnikki.bsky.social, & more!
31 Days of Children’s Poetry: My KidLit Sealey Challenge
What can you discover by reading a children’s poetry book every day for a month? For the Sealey Challenge, I set myself the goal of reading 31 children’s poetry books in 31 days. Join me as I share th...
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September 2, 2026 at 5:37 PM
meilin-logan-poet.bsky.social
#sealeychallenge complete! 31 days of #poetry books and chapbooks in August. Was my first time undertaking the challenge. Check out the fun “sealie” to commemorate my challenge completion!

My advice for future challenge-takers: a short thread with three tips.
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September 2, 2026 at 12:43 AM
meilin-logan-poet.bsky.social
That’s it for my advice for completing the #sealeychallenge - any other tips about completing the challenge that might help others?
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September 2, 2026 at 12:43 AM
zeegirl.bsky.social
I know it's September, but I'm not done with the #sealeychallenge Las trabajadoras por Mónica Nepote "Un cuerpo es, finalmente, muchas voces." @neponita.bsky.social
La portada de Las trabajadoras. Es mas alta que ancha y hay flores color naranja y el titulo en color cafe oscuro. A page of poetry from Las trabajadoras por Mónica Nepote with the gorgeous line, "Un cuerpo es, finalmente, muchas voces."
September 2, 2026 at 12:57 AM
stefankarlsson.bsky.social
For the final day of my #KidLit version of the #SealeyChallenge, I read this fabulous collection of John Agard’s poems from @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social. I couldn’t have chosen a better ending to my reading challenge 💚

I’ll share some thoughts on my Sealey experience soon—stay tuned! 😊
#poetry
Book Cover for The Poetry World of John Agard Poem titled “Hurry-Hurry Mek Bad Curry” by John Agard
September 1, 2026 at 4:48 PM
leonardcrohn.bsky.social
well I didn’t fail either spectacularly or immediately (I did fall 3 short of 31), and I don’t know if it fixed me but I did read way more poetry this month than I had in the past few years combined, and spent more time reading than I had in recent months. so it at least improved me
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leonardcrohn.bsky.social noah @leonardcrohn.bsky.social · Aug 1
attempting the #sealeychallenge this month. I’ll either fail spectacularly and immediately, or it will fix me
September 1, 2026 at 5:22 AM
leonardcrohn.bsky.social
28. Ecodeviance by CAConrad

closing out the month with a reminder that poetry is a thing you do and live!

(I tried like 4 times to upload pics but the app kept crashing)

#sealeychallenge
September 1, 2026 at 5:18 AM
melissashepherd.bsky.social
#sealeychallenge day 31, last day: Incarnadine by Mary Szybist. “I had the happy idea to create a void in myself. / Then to call it natural. Then to call it supernatural.”
September 1, 2026 at 3:22 AM
pipagaopoetry.bsky.social
Day 31 of the #SealeyChallenge: The Blue Clerk by Dionne Brand

Starting with Dionne Brand and ending with Dionne Brand. 😌💧💙

And with that, my first Sealey Challenge! 😭✨ #SealeyChallenge2026
A hand holding up a copy of Dionne Brand's The Blue Clerk, poems, which features a closeup of the margins for two pages saddlestitched together. The title is in blue. VERSO 6 The seeds or spores of a fern are carried on the back of the leaf. Because a fern does not have a flower, sex occurs when rain falls and the spores fall to the ground and sprout and then some intricate and complicated thing that has taken millennia to develop happens.
September 1, 2026 at 6:56 AM
dianalog.bsky.social
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#sealeychallenge BINGO ✅

If I hadn’t fallen so far behind this month I could’ve done more, but there’s always next year ☺️
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August 31, 2026 at 10:27 PM
cincinnatusc.bsky.social
#SealeyChallenge 2026, Day 31/31: from Where Sun Meets Shadow by Felicity Sidnell Reid, "Cezanne's Card Players"
Cezanne’s Card Players Who are these characters, knees wide under the table? Strangers with impassive faces, eyes cast down intent on the fall of cards. So minimal is movement it might be a still life but for an imminent caress of a roughened finger as one player weighs the odds. A boy’s anxiety for his father keeps him alert on tiptoe. And leaning against the wall a detached observer, his pipe unlit, watches for something to happen. Cezanne painted his people tense, pinned—silent in the moment before some inexorable crisis. I’m reminded of cottage summers— those evenings when, backs slumped, hands cradled a flange of cards above the scarlet, painted surface of the table. Fingers drummed, feet thrummed impatient. Faces convulsed with laughter confronted others full of anger or despair. As cards drifted pale and slilppery into the lamp-lit pool, reddened light smeared the players’ cheeks, bulging with the noisy glee of tricoteuses. Were these games or battles full of fury? A friendly fight or one risking death? And was a similar outburst of emotion prisoned behind that implacable moment in this painting— one that the artist sought to capture five times over…. Cover of Where Sun Meets Shadow by Felicity Sidnell Reid
September 1, 2026 at 7:02 AM
dianalog.bsky.social
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#SealeyChallenge complete!

Just under the wire 😅

Gratitude to @nicolesealey.bsky.social for originating & to @sealeychallenge.bsky.social for carrying the torch. Happy 10 years!

#TheSealeyChallenge2026
#TheSealeyChallenge #31BooksInAugust

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On a white surface, my stack of 31 books are piled from bottom up in read-order (except The Lost Words is at the base b/c it’s big & Charismatic Spirals sits face-out b/c it’s small — the tower threatened to topple when these 2 were inserted chronologically — they each have a blue arrow drawn on to show where they belong) so that all spines are seen. There are yellow placeholders (labeled in blue, w/asterisks) for the audiobooks I don’t have physical copies of. (1) We Are Not Where We Are - Matt Donovan & Jenny George (2) Love Works - Janice Mirikitani (3) Three Syllables Describing Addiction - Kate Daniels (4) Night Owl - Aimee Nezhukumatathil (5) Night Watch - Kevin Young (6) _two-headed woman_ - Lucille Clifton (7) Green of All Heads - Aracelis Girmay (8) _asterisk_ - Jenny George (9) To Those Who See - Gwen Frostic (10) Enough Rope - Dorothy Parker (11)* The Lost Words - Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris (12) Life on Mars - Tracy K. Smith (13) How to Continue - Matthew Zapruder (14) Lives of the Poets - Beau Beausoleil & Ama Bolton (15) I Am Minor - Ryan Nakano (16) Ocean of Clouds - Garrett Hongo (17)* Charismatic Spirals - Will Alexander (18) Love That Dog - Sharon Creech (19)* 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem - Nam Le (20) Rogue Nun - Dana Levin (21) Equilibrium - Tiana Clark (22) Milk and Honey - Rupi Kaur (23) Perennial Counterpart - Yongyu Chen (24)* Where to Begin - Cleo Wade (25) A Fire in My Hands - Gary Soto (26) Sonnets for a Missing Key - Percival Everett (27)* Echo Echo - Marilyn Singer (28) The Haw Lantern - Seamus Heaney (29) _the witch doesn’t burn in this one_ - amanda lovelace (30) Splendor: Trans Poets - many! (31) KNOT - Forrest Gander & Jack Shear Half a full bookshelf (with books in the shape of “I” & “Y” atop), part of a chair & a glimpse of a couch are visible in the background.
September 1, 2026 at 6:55 AM
bearinroses.bsky.social
i listened to THE HURTING KIND by Ada Limón on libby whilst crocheting a blanket and cuddling a pigeon. all done with this year's #sealeychallenge !

#sealeychallenge2026 #31 #poetry #pigeonsky
a gray-black-white pigeon lying in my lap with a crocheted blanket the cover of the poetry book THE HURTING KIND by ada limón. the cover art depicts a dark bird on a wire, pointing downwards.
August 31, 2026 at 11:43 PM
bearinroses.bsky.social
i read FOREST OF NOISE by Mosab Ahu Toha on libby

#sealeychallenge #30 #sealeychallenge2026 #poetry
the cover of FOREST OF NOISE, poetry by mosab abu toha, illustratex with a child's painting of a hand with splayed fingers with leaves on them, like trees.
August 31, 2026 at 9:10 PM
catherineredford.bsky.social
I finished the #sealeychallenge! And I went out with a bang, reading ‘Skinship’, the superb new collection from @corrintachibana.bsky.social. These poems explore returns and identity, echoes and changes, relationships and cultures.
August 31, 2026 at 5:27 PM
adharper.bsky.social
Book 31/31

Courtney Conrad - I Am Evidence (Bloodaxe / Mslexia)
"Transactions end with blessings every time, except when customers ask, _tek off likkle something nuh_." ('Mommy Carry Mi Guh Coronation Market')

#SealeyChallenge #poetry
August 31, 2026 at 6:39 PM
bookgaga.bsky.social
And that's all folks - 31 days of wonderful, engrossing poetry in the #SealeyChallenge #TheSealeyChallenge @sealeychallenge.bsky.social ... including learning so much from other contributors!

Our regular #TodaysPoem programming resumes tomorrow!
August 31, 2026 at 1:44 PM
stefankarlsson.bsky.social
My #KidLit version of the #SealeyChallenge is nearly complete!

Yesterday I read this whimsical, wild, & wonderful book of woodsy poems written by Rachel Piercey & beautifully illustrated by Freya Hartas🌳🐻

I love how these poems share the wise ways of nature with kids 💚 #poetry
Book cover for Wisdom of the Woods: 40 Nature Poems Passed Down from Bear to Bear Illustration by Freya Hartas and poem by Rachel Piercey titled “Woodland Homes”
August 31, 2026 at 6:31 PM
carolinemdavies.bsky.social
#SealeyChallenge 2026, Day 31/31: The I of my Storm by Sarah Wedderburn @greenbottlepress.bsky.social
"Our father in blackberries just beyond reach/of my bramble-torn fingers."
August 31, 2026 at 2:40 PM
sabrinahughes.bsky.social
Day 31 Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing by Topaz Winters (2019) #SealeyChallenge2026 #SealeyChallenge
August 31, 2026 at 12:40 PM
mnkraft.bsky.social
#sealeychallenge 31/31:

I felt this collection was a good choice for the first day of school for students. All the poems were excellent, but I was amazed by what middle school-aged students contributed. I have a few sets of metaphor dice and so many ideas to share with teachers!!!
A paperback copy of Poetry by Chance: An Anthology of Poems Powered by Metaphor Dice edited by Taylor Mali on top of a wooden table.
August 31, 2026 at 8:38 PM
bookgaga.bsky.social
"Depression is a room full of cereal bowls."

#SealeyChallenge @sealeychallenge.bsky.social 31/31
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Me and You and Awkward Silence by @jacobalvarado.bsky.social from I Can Make It All Up To You (2024 @knifeforkbook.bsky.social) www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p193/J...
Poetry chapbook I Can Make It All Up To You by Jacob Alvarado (knife fork book) stands upright next to a blue cup of coffee
August 31, 2026 at 1:43 PM
missy-misanthrope.bsky.social
#SealeyChallenge
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#BookSky 📚💙

31/31 - Season to Season by Clive James

Many thanks to @sealeychallenge.bsky.social for a wonderful prompt. It's been a lovely month reading through old favourites and discovering new favourites that others have posted.
August 31, 2026 at 10:48 AM
amyrea.bsky.social
The last day of the 2026 #SealeyChallenge! My final book is Victoria Chang's amazing and devastating With My Back to the World, about art, grief, and depression. A stunning book to end the challenge with.
August 31, 2026 at 12:14 PM