Sealey Challenge

Signing off for some much-needed rest 😴💤 but keeping the spirit of poetry alive!

Thank you to everyone who read, posted, shared, and engaged with poetry this August!

We’ll see you same time next year for the next #SealeyChallenge!

2025 Sealey Challenge Survey The Sealey Challenge has been an informal month-long poetic challenge since 2017, and we're curious to learn more about the experience of those who have participated. Please complete the survey below...

How much poetry have we read together for the #sealeychallenge? Let's find out!

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You did it! Cheers to a wonderful month of reading poetry!

Don’t forget to claim your golden sealies + #SealeyChallenge postcards for a job well done! (Psst perfection isn't a requirement)

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August is about to draw to a close, and our final #TuesdayTip is this: return to these books again and again. Which books of poetry have you (or do you plan to) come back to over and over—and what made them so special?

BINGO!!

If you want to play and win giveaway prizes, please check out the card here: static1.squarespace.com/static/60548...

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25 Sealey Challenge Reads - Recommendations from the Community Over the past 9 years of the Sealey Challenge, the number of books of poetry we've read in community must be in the hundreds-of-thousands, and today we've gathered up 25 recommendations (in no particu...

Over the past 9 years of the Sealey Challenge, the number of books of poetry we've read in community must be in the hundreds-of-thousands! Today we've gathered up 25 recommendations shared by the 2025 #SealeyChallenge community.

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Happy Tuesday everyone! Today's #TuesdayTip is to listen to audiobooks or recordings of poetry readings on Voca. What's Voca? A treasure trove of poetry readings from the Poetry Center over the past 60+ years—all free, fully transcribed + captioned!

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One of the core values of the #sealeychallenge is to engage with diverse voices. What new voices have you read this summer?

My Sealey Challenge - A Celebration of BIPOC Poets The Sealey challenge has become a global poetic pilgrimage. There’s no formal registration, no rigid structure, just a simple, radical act: Read a poetry collection a day through the month of August. ...

“The Sealey Challenge is all about attention. And what better way to spend that attention than listening to the voices of BIPOC poets, voices that have always been here, whispering truths...”

—Srijani Mitra @mitrasrupsha

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Thrilled to share this year's shiny new #SealeyChallenge postcards, designed by Tucson artist Sophie McTear!

Get yours by visiting the Poetry Center, or requesting them online through our google form: forms.gle/UHGejuzT9SUk...

Today's #Tuesdaytip : Your local library and the libby app are great resources, if you want access to free books this Sealey Summer! And if you live in Tucson, you're welcome to one of the largest public poetry library collections in the world at the University of Arizona Poetry Center!

Ready, set, READ! For suggestions where to start, check out our new list on the Sealey Challenge website, curated by Nicole Sealey and University or Arizona Poetry Library staff:

www.thesealeychallenge.com/start-here

Keep track of what you read this August with your Sealey Challenge certificate!

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Stacks of books, lines from poems, recommendations, celebrations, and words of appreciation and encouragement: that's what the #SealeyChallenge is all about. Today marks another August wilding with poetry—welcome, everyone! And happy reading 🫶

love this! happy reading!

Welcome to DAY 1 of the 2025 #SealeyChallenge! 31 books of poetry in 31 days: let's goooooooo!

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Psst, have you heard of #SealeyChallenge BINGO? We've got a whole new series of challenges and some amazing giveaways!

Get your bingo card here: www.thesealeychallenge.com/s/2025-Bingo...

“The Sealey Challenge, at heart, is a big, raucous, joyful celebration of poetry.” —Laura Sackton

The celebration starts tomorrow!! Can't wait to kick off an amazing month of reading with the whole #SealeyChallenge community!

“The Sealey Challenge, at heart, is a big, raucous, joyful celebration of poetry.” —Laura Sackton

The Sealey Challenge starts tomorrow! @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #sealeychallenge

Basking in this June Jordan poem this morning:

"I am a stranger
learning to worship the strangers
around me

whoever you are
whoever I may become."

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Poetry Centered (Podcast) 50th episode hosted by Nicole Sealey

The #SealeyChallenge is two short days away—and you can pre-celebrate by listening to the special 50th episode of Poetry Centered, hosted by @nicolesealey.bsky.social herself!

Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1165454/epis...

Incredibly generous to have free access to poetry. Thank you for sharing!

Since the 2023 #SealeyChallenge, @nicolesealey.bsky.social has entrusted the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center with caring for this incredible month of reading poetry. Let's enter this poetic pilgrimage together as we pursue the radical joy of reading 31 books of poetry in 31 days.

It's truly special—80,000 books, all poetry.

Love the idea of regionally curated lists—what poets from your neck of the woods could you read this summer?

Don't forget about chapbooks! Today's #TuesdayTip is to include chapbooks in your Sealey Challenge reading! And if you live in Tucson, The Poetry Center has many chapbooks you can browse in-person

Yes! A sign for sure!

If you’re looking for recommendations, we have a new 2025 recommended reading list up on our website — www.thesealeychallenge.com/start-here

“Poetry is the only literary form that can accommodate such a rapid rate of reading; being able to jump seamlessly between voices like this can expand the way we think about the world.”

— Laura Buccieri, Lithub