@sealeychallenge.bsky.social
a community challenge to read one book of poems every day for the month of august. challenge begins august 1! 📚 ✨#sealeychallenge linktr.ee/thesealeychallenge | thesealeychallenge.com
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!
05.08.2025 16:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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!
www.thesealeychallenge.com/s/Sealey-Cer...
#sealeychallenge #poetry
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 🫶
01.08.2025 22:57 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1love this! happy reading!
01.08.2025 22:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Welcome to DAY 1 of the 2025 #SealeyChallenge! 31 books of poetry in 31 days: let's goooooooo!
#sealeychallenge #poetry
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
31.07.2025 15:15 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Basking 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."
poets.org/poem/these-p...
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!
30.07.2025 17:13 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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.
30.07.2025 17:00 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0It's truly special—80,000 books, all poetry.
29.07.2025 21:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Love the idea of regionally curated lists—what poets from your neck of the woods could you read this summer?
29.07.2025 21:19 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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
29.07.2025 21:17 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2Yes! A sign for sure!
29.07.2025 18:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you’re looking for recommendations, we have a new 2025 recommended reading list up on our website — www.thesealeychallenge.com/start-here
26.07.2025 21:17 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“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
Poetry is a linguistic configuration of energy.
—Mary Ruefle
Art by Sophie McTear.
The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person.
—Czeslaw Milosz, “Ars Poetica?” trans. by Czeslaw Milosz and Lillian Vallee
Art by Allison Miller.
The celebration starts NEXT WEEK!! Can't wait to kick off an amazing month of reading with the whole #SealeyChallenge community!
23.07.2025 16:38 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Nicole Sealey says poetry today, with its salutary quality, is unique because it “invites us to pause, to find some semblance of beauty amid the ugliness of the moment.”
—Diego Báez
www.pw.org/content/poet...
select books that can be read in one day
reserve pockets of time for reading
spend time with poetry imperfectly
read chapbooks
A few quick tips to get you prepared for the upcoming #sealeychallenge:
22.07.2025 20:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Remember, the point of the Sealey Challenge isn't perfection—the point is to spend (more) time with poetry! Today’s #TuesdayTip is to prioritize enjoyment over perfection!
22.07.2025 20:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Chapbooks are great for shorter reads, and some folks commit to reading an hour a day, or even a poem a day—you can always modify and give yourself grace! There's no wrong way to #Sealeychallenge
22.07.2025 20:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“The Sealey Challenge, at heart, is a big, raucous, joyful celebration of poetry.” —Laura Sackton
Whether you're brand-new to the challenge or old hat, everyone is invited to read (more) 31 books in 31 days this August!
www.thesealeychallenge.com
Just requested 38 poetry books published in the last three years from my campus library in preparation for the @sealeychallenge.bsky.social
I got extra in case I start something and am not into it, which is bound to happen a few times.
Stack of library books listed in comments.
Went in for one book came out with a week’s worth of @sealeychallenge.bsky.social options (renewable online!). Hooray for libraries!
10.07.2025 20:27 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
(yawn) Hibernation is almost over! Just a couple of weeks until the 2025 #SealeyChallenge kicks off!
19.07.2025 20:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
