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@thesisterjanet.bsky.social

Reader. Writer. Teacher. Human. Memphis & GCSU Alumna. Chapbooks: Green Light: The Gatsby Cycle & ghosts passing through

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I put up my spooky front door wreath over the weekend.

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a black cat with a pumpkin head is sitting down . ALT: a black cat with a pumpkin head is sitting down .

*casually driving around neighborhood to see if anyone has fall/spooky decor out yet*

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#SealeyChallenge 21 of 31

Am/Are I (2020)
by Billie R. Tadros

Via Francis House

an experimental tiny chapbook that adds the capital A to Art

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#SealeyChallenge 20 of 31

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

by Terrance Hayes

Reread via audiobook (university library) because hearing these poems read by the author made them more powerful

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#SealeyChallenge 19 of 31

Poems Are the Only Real Bodies (2013)
by Jennifer Tamayo

via @bloofbooks.bsky.social

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#SealeyChallenge 18 of 31

SPIN (2009) by Zachary C. Bush via kendra steiner editions

Limited edition handmade in cellophane by a former colleague

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#SealeyChallenge 17 of 31

CRUSH (2005) by @richard-siken.bsky.social

One of my favorite favorites

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#SealeyChallenge 16 of 31

Wish You Were Here (2013) Matthew Dickman

via SPORK PRESS

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#SealeyChallenge 15 of 31

Nightsink, Faucet Me A Lullaby (2019) by Alexa Doran

via Bottlecap Press

An exquisite reread from a poet friend

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#SealeyChallenge 14 of 31

You're My Favorite (2022) by Lauren Saxon via @thirtywestph.com

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#SealeyChallenge 13 of 31

Fire Sermons (2021) by @rayehendrix.bsky.social

via @ghostcitypress.bsky.social

A reread because I love these poems so much.

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a boy and a girl are sitting at a desk in a classroom looking at each other . ALT: a boy and a girl are sitting at a desk in a classroom looking at each other .
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The life of a showgirl, you say? #IYKYK #ToriAmos

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#SealeyChallenge 12 of 31

SIVVY by Lauren Davis via @whittlemicropress.bsky.social

IMHO, required reading for all #Plath fans (it's erasure poems from her letters):

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#SealeyChallenge 11 of 31

Un-Becoming (2018)

by Charnell Peters

via @thirtywestph.com

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#SealeyChallenge 10 of 31

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) by T.S.Β Eliot

Illustrations by Edward Gorey (1982)

AN ABSOLUTE DELIGHT

10.08.2025 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Are you living your best life? No? You need chapbooks.

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#SealeyChallenge 9 of 31

The Way The Body Had to Travel (2014) by Emily Lake Hansen

πŸ§œβ€β™€οΈπŸ§œβ€β™€οΈπŸ§œβ€β™€οΈπŸ§œβ€β™€οΈπŸ§œβ€β™€οΈ

a reread that feels like part of my own memory

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#SealeyChallenge 8/31

waveforms: a short course in piano tuning by Andrea L. Hackbarth

@smallharborpub.bsky.social

Cleverly arranged prose poems (pun intended)

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#SealeyChallenge 7/31

Wildcold (2016) by Ruth Baumann via Slash Pine Press

Tiny poems with monumental weight.

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#SealeyChallenge 6/31

Lies I Tell Myself (2018) by Sarah Suhr via dancing girl press & studio

'For a woman, there is always a sense of loss.'

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#SealeyChallenge 5/31

Easy Exit to Eleventh Street

By Kate Belt (2019) via @ghostcitypress.bsky.social

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#SealeyChallenge 4/31

Collections from a Shipwreck (2022) by Jane-Rebecca Cannarella via @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social

a haunting reread of prose poems

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#SealeyChallenge 3/31

This Is How I Will Tell You I Love You by Amanda Dissinger (2015) via Bottlecap Press

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#SealeyChallenge 2/31

a simple verb by jj rowan

@jayjayrowan.bsky.social @bloofbooks.bsky.social

a much needed reread ❀

02.08.2025 12:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
The cover of REGENERATE by Montgomery featuring a drawing of a woman's torso

The cover of REGENERATE by Montgomery featuring a drawing of a woman's torso

DaIsy Buchanan Comes to Tea (poem from REGENERATE)

DaIsy Buchanan Comes to Tea (poem from REGENERATE)

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Regenerate: Poems of Mad Women (2018) by @sfmontgomery.bsky.social

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πŸ˜‰

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🚨Final Hours of our Giveaway🚨

we will draw two winners tonight 7/30

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Every day you should read a poem.

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