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(61/61) “his father’s sparse crop / turns him inside out. / A pocket that aches / to be filled / Calico and honey / sell slow on the frontier” —Laura Da’, “Auction of the Bonded” (Instruments of the True Measure) The University of Arizona Press #61WomenPoets #WOC #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Laura Da’s Instruments of the True Measure: a painting of an abstracted, dark, geometric sky with crescents of light blue tiles, over a warped green tree and grey hills
September 30, 2026 at 9:01 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(60/61) “So many people / are interested in how you may multiply, even if puberty / made you cry” — @asaldrake.bsky.social, “To Someone Who’s Heard I Love You Too Many Times” (Maybe the Body) Tin House Books #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Asa Drake’s Maybe the Body: a painting of pink flowers and a snake curled around a bell jar with a brown and white rabbit sitting inside it
September 29, 2026 at 5:04 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(59/61) “the Black witches know that / the terror is not in the moon” —Lucille Clifton, “In Salem” (An Ordinary Woman) Random House #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Lucille Clifton’s An Ordinary Woman: the title and author in vertically and horizontally staggered purple script with the first letter of each word in red
September 28, 2026 at 11:30 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(58/61) “The water is trending higher these days with or without / my paper moon and the wings in my corner” —Abigail Chabitnoy, “All the Daughters” (In the Current Where Drowning is Beautiful) @weslpress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Abigail Chabitnoy’s In the Current Where Drowning is Beautiful: a photograph of an abstract swirl of white material
September 27, 2026 at 7:04 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(57/61) “My lungs grow black lilies / while I play Bach’s Ich ruf zu dir / on the spinet in the Harlem room.” — @jmaebarizo.bsky.social l, “Sunday Women on Malcom X Boulevard” (Tender Machines) @tupelopress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of J. Mae Barizo’s Tender Machines: a black and white photograph of a city skyline at night
September 26, 2026 at 8:21 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(56/61) “a spoon to carve out the child / from rice & malaria / a bag of bones to sink the body / a scythe to kill someone with / a map of the moon to go thereafter” —Mông-Lan, “A Bamboo Knife” (One Thousand Minds Brimming) Valiant Press #61WomenPoets #WOC #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Mông-Lan’s One Thousand Minds Brimming: a photograph of two women in white robes, pants, gloves, and hats astride bicycles in a city street
September 25, 2026 at 6:36 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(55/61) “our new lover / in the final episode of ‘Santa Barbara’ / will lean over a scented candle / and call us a ‘bitch.’” —Marilyn Chin, “How I Got That Name” (The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty) @milkweededitions.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Marilyn Chin’s The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty: a photograph of water in a round, stained green receptacle reflecting the sky
September 24, 2026 at 4:59 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(54/61) “men spitting watermelon seeds / the shape of my dime-store mood ring” —Kimberly Blaeser, “Reliquary” (Copper Yearning) Holy Cow! Press #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Kimberly Blaeser’s Copper Yearning: a photograph of a pond with water lilies and dark reeds reflecting a blue sky with dark pink clouds
September 23, 2026 at 5:09 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(53/61) “would grandmother’s diamonds / close their heartsparks / in the corner of the closet / yellow like the eyes of cockroaches?” —Toi Derricotte, “Poem for My Father” (Captivity) @upittpress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Toi Derricotte’s Captivity: a grille of five, slanting black bars against a red background
September 22, 2026 at 5:03 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(52/61) “All night the millennial ice, all night the dread, / all night the saving eminence that won’t wake up // and the darker eminence that will.” —Quan Barry, “Galilee” (Water Puppets) @upittpress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Quan Barry’s Water Puppets: a photograph of a fiery flare from a pipe at the top of metal scaffolding rising out of the water against a blue sky.
September 21, 2026 at 4:38 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(50/61) “On omma’s death day, / I forgo the forbidden: // peaches, garlic, red spice” —Bo Hee Moon, “Gijesa (기제사): November 10, 1992” (Birthstones in the Province of Mercy) @milkweededitions.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Bo Hee Moon’s Birthstones in the Province of Mercy: a painting of several greenish pagoda-style buildings
September 20, 2026 at 3:51 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(51/61) “She decided she would keep it— / the anger that was not yet contempt / for you—like a balloon tied to the wrist, / casting its little shadow, little stigma.” —Willie Lin, “Object Lesson” (Conversation Among Stones) @boa-editions.bsky.social #WOC #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Willie Lin’s Conversation Among Stones: a painting of hazy, somewhat oval white shapes against a red background
September 20, 2026 at 3:51 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(49/61) “My name, Camille, means witness at the sacrifice.” —Camille Dungy, “New Address” (America, A Love Story) @weslpress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Camille Dungy’s America, A Love Story: a photograph of a night sky with stars
September 18, 2026 at 8:58 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(48/61) “You said / There’s a pack of dogs inside me / threatening to eat its leader who is wounded. / I said Let them.” —Brynn Saito, “First Incarnation” (The Palace of Contemplating Departure) @redhenpress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Brynn Saito’s The Palace of Contemplating Departure: a painting of a red canoe in an aqua sea under a dark sky
September 17, 2026 at 4:42 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(47/61) “a mouse in / the house, her lover says / it has a very tiny heart, / you need only chase / it until it tires” —Shin Yu Pai, “This Is Not My Story” (Adamantine) White Pine Press #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Shin Yu Pai’s Adamantine: a black-and-white photograph of a graffiti’d stone sculpture of a hand rising out of desert earth under a cloud-streaked sky
September 16, 2026 at 8:58 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(46/61) “Clicks of the keyboard sound like high heels walking / nowhere in particular.” — @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social, “Firefly Ars Poetica” (Night Owl) Ecco #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s Night Owl: a painting of two trees reflecting in the water against a sunset and a dark-blue sky speckled with stars
September 15, 2026 at 4:40 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(45/61) “He has the receipts: / a scar on his breast / that I’ve cleaned like a smudge on a window.” —Hafizah Geter ( @hafizah.bsky.social), “Naming Ceremony” (Un-American) @weslpress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Hafizah Geter’s Un-American: a painting of a pregnant black woman with her hair clipped in the back of her head, wearing a gold necklace, pearl earrings, a gold pearl bracelet, and a satiny, aqua-colored bathrobe
September 14, 2026 at 5:08 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(44/61) “Why would this Portuguese sailor come over to me and in his broken English point to the tattoo of a geisha as if I would identify with it. And I did a little.” —Kimiko Hahn, “B-O-A-T” (The Narrow Road to the Interior) W. W. Norton & Company #WOC #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Kimiko Hahn’s The Narrow Road to the Interior: a watercolor of light blue trees with white blossoms in a green field under an orange and red sky
September 13, 2026 at 6:00 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(43/61) “You film it, disaffected by the cold and the faces turning like leaves in a blue autumn.” — @aditimachado.bsky.social, “Material Witness” (Material Witness) Nightboat Books #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Aditi Machado’s Material Witness: a red, dotted outline portrait of a person’s head and shoulders
September 12, 2026 at 5:27 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(42/61) “You are no one’s enigma / or experiment.” —Amy M. Alvarez, “How to Date a White Boy” (Makeshift Altar)
@kentuckypress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Amy M. Alvarez’s Makeshift Altar: a photograph of an alter with black African mask, two small golden bowls, gold chains, and a headdress of black plants, white feathers, and red roses, against a pink background.
September 11, 2026 at 4:25 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(41/61) “The sea is there, and during / the rainy / season you cannot ask / for more / water or salt.” —Rosamond S. King, “In search of a word” (Rock-Salt-Stone) Nightboat Books #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Rosamond S. King’s Rock-Salt-Stone: a photograph of a cluster of small black mounds in front of the corner of a sandy-looking beige and orange wall
September 10, 2026 at 5:17 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(40/61) “driven across the country / with half-filled suitcases in a beat-up sedan— / warming my hands in a blurry Denny’s, / my mother giving me medicine with ice cream” — @jennyqi.bsky.social, “Little Fires” (Focal Point) Steel Toe Books #61WomenPoets #WOC #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Jenny Qi’s Focal Point: a photograph of orange clouds in a blue sky funneling toward a point over a darkened landscape
September 9, 2026 at 4:11 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(39/61) “I paid off the debt with a stone that I knew to be worthless.” —Isabelle Baafi, “One side of a conversation with the bailiff at my door” (Chaotic Good) @weslpress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Isabelle Baafi’s Chaotic Good: an abstract painting of a red figure stepping out of a lavender ring with other small black-and-white figures still inside it, into a blue, aquatic landscape bordered by reaching red hands.
September 8, 2026 at 6:53 PM
tinamariecox.bsky.social
Got my official seal for completing The Sealey Challenge in August. I read 31 books of poetry, one for every day of August! This is my 3rd year completing this reading challenge and as always, I read some amazing books!
#thesealeychallenge #poetry #books #tinamariethinkstoomuch #ReadingChallenge
September 7, 2026 at 8:35 PM
simeonberry.bsky.social
(38/61) “whose smile never swam inside / an ultrasound hum the throat swallowed / before it became breath” —Jasminne Mendez, “Inheritance” (City Without Altar) @noemipress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets
The cover of Jasminne Mendez’s City Without Altar: a photograph of two crooked hands inside panty hose grasping white flower blossoms
September 7, 2026 at 6:04 PM