#sealeychallenge — Public Fediverse posts

"I februari stod levandet still.
Fåglarna flög inte gärna och själen
skavde mot landskapet så som en båt
skaver mot bryggan den ligger förtöjd vid."

#SealeyChallenge 24/31
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Ansikte mot Ansikte by Tomas Tranströmer from The Deleted World (2011 House of Anansi Press) https://houseofanansi.com/products/the-deleted-world

"In February life stood still.
The birds refused to fly and the soul
grated against the landscape as a boat
chafes against the jetty where it's moored."

#SealeyChallenge 24/31
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Face to Face by Tomas Tranströmer, translated by Robin Robertson from The Deleted World (2011 House of Anansi Press) https://houseofanansi.com/products/the-deleted-world

"That's who I want to be,

on my way anywhere. AI interjects 'nowhere.'
Garbage trucks groan from the lane.

Ha! I could be dead but I'm not."

#SealeyChallenge 23/31
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Midsummer, Here I Am by Maureen Scott Harris from The Fullness (2026 Anstruther Press) https://www.anstrutherpress.com/#/the-fullness-by-maureen-scott-harris/

"Goddamn there's always such a big temptation
To be good, to be good
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby
It's a deal, it's a deal

#SealeyChallenge 22/31
#TodaysPoem #poetry
God's Away on Business by Kathleen Brennan and Tom Waits from Blood Money (2002) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTMN6OMDTnKl-Oj9TfkHTVMG7UIqvRy0F

"Tuesday I left my house and a whole lot of leaves from last fall
sped ahead like they were running to catch up with something."

#SealeyChallenge 21/31
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Holy Week by @ronnabloom from In a Riptide (2025 Brick Books) https://www.brickbooks.ca/shop/in-a-riptide-by-ronna-bloom/

"While they're falling, they reach into each other's chests to pull out a handful of sounds: the doppler effects of ambulance sirens, the hum of a highway, TV static, a raccoon chewing on a plastic wrapper."

#SealeyChallenge 20/31
#TodaysPoem #poetry
by Alex Deng from Terminal Velocity (2026 Anstruther Press) https://www.anstrutherpress.com/#/terminal-velocity-by-alex-deng/

"Natural forces work
away at us, collect our sediment and misplaced

teaspoons. We sit with our legs swinging
over the edge and the edge begins to relent."

#SealeyChallenge 19/31
#TodaysPoem #poetry
by Jaime Forsythe from Yield (2026 Wolsak & Wynn) https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/yield

"No Wi-Fi, I jones for fresh apps
fraught and swiping
the touchscreen for any old download."

#SealeyChallenge 18/31
#TodaysPoem #poetry
I Walk Dripping from a Sea Journey on the Highway Across America in Tears to the Door of Your Cottage in the Western Night by David O'Meara from Masses on Radar (2021 Coach House Books) https://chbooks.com/Books/M/Masses-on-Radar

"Fall; white ash clinging
to dark pants' hem. Grandad's acting
like a kid again."

#SealeyChallenge 17/31
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Dropping Grandad off at the bridge by Freddy Hyun Smith (2026 Opaat Press / @annickmacaskill) https://annickmacaskill.com/2026/06/20/dropping-grandad-off-at-the-bridge-by-freddy-hyun-smith/

"We hear *as if*. We are together, erring. You are not disappearing into privacy. Hallucination, too, is social. We must sometimes adjust our antennae, no?"

#SealeyChallenge 16/31
#TodaysPoem #poetry
from Transcription by Ben Lerner (2026 McClelland & Stewart) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/books/review/ben-lerner-transcription.html

"We dove into the quarry blind,
somersaulted off pinpoints of rock,
snatched birds out of the sky

on the way down."

#SealeyChallenge 15/31
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Back Then by Blair Trewartha from Half-Earth (2026 Palimpsest Press/Anstruther Books) https://palimpsestpress.ca/books/half-earth-blair-trewartha/

"and swallowed in sinking sands
of sorrow,
I thirst for the oasis
that was you."

#SealeyChallenge 14/31
#TodaysPoem #poetry
XVII by Jeevan Bhagwat from The Radha Poems (2025 Silver Bow Publishing) https://www.silverbowpublishing.com/jeevan-bhagwat.html

"The shade is down all the way she prefers to see out
If she could extend an arm through the porthole and pull the clouds over them
O Heavenly Comforter"

#SealeyChallenge 13/31
#TodaysPoem #poetry
by C.D. Wright from Rising, Falling, Hovering (2008 Copper Canyon Press) https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/rising-falling-hovering-by-c-d-wright/

"in this world of many people
i think my heart is made
from a nursery of glass illusions
with no two heartbeats ever the same"

#SealeyChallenge 12/31
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Shame Shadows by Louise Bak from dig.desire Vixen issue (1997 series edited by @JenniferLoveGrove.bsky.social) https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/202/300/danforth/2006/06-09/features/interviews/lovegrove.htm?nodisclaimer=1

"the chance I found
there, in that gap

between the mountains,
where sunshine burst

past the penumbra,
beyond its shadow revealing

the outline of a bridge
where I saw, I could cross."

#SealeyChallenge 11/31
#TodaysPoem #poetry
The Bridge Between the Mountains by Shannon Arntfield from Python Love (2025 University of Alberta Press) https://ualbertapress.ca/9781772127959/python-love/

"Not dead, not yet, I
focus on the nearest thing:
stain on the curtain,
sound of frantic breathing:

Oh,
mine"

#SealeyChallenge #TheSealeyChallenge 10/31
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Hematomania by AJ Dolman from Crazy/Mad (2024 Gordon Hill Press) https://ghp-pql.com/products/crazy-mad

"It's best not to settle on
any given life, try them all.
Canoodle with the idea of loving
everything you almost were."

#SealeyChallenge #TheSealeyChallenge 9/31
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Retrograde by Jordan Williamson from Love's Little Dojo (2025 Pinhole Poetry) https://pinholepoetry.ca/pastpublications/ & https://miramichireader.ca/2025/09/itty-bitty-reviews-issue-3/

"Park statue
Of a person giving birth / If iced tea works / Vestibular lilacs / All
Of the earth is my life"

#SealeyChallenge 8/31
#TodaysPoem #poetry
MISSING SOMETHING by Aisha Sasha John from total (2025 McClelland & Stewart) https://flyingbooks.ca/item/ssARrWrToAYWIjFmzzpcrA

Okotoks based publisher Frontenac House publishes a set of poetry books each year! Here is our review of the 2025 quintet.

#SealeyChallenge #poetry #booksky
albertaviews.ca/frontenac-ho...

"She the focal point
of the photograph
around which all
the other faces spin
and from which I
seek resemblance"

#SealeyChallenge #TheSealeyChallenge 7/31
#TodaysPoem #poetry
from The Great-Grandmothers by Laurie Graham from Calling It Back to Me (2026 McClelland & Stewart) https://www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/calling-it-back-to-me-by-laurie-d-graham

"Cum să devin o floare
and what would my label read:
thriving or threatened
language or flower?"

#SealeyChallenge #TheSealeyChallenge 6/31
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Pe De Rost by Adriana Oniță from Descântec For My Split Tongue (2026 Palimpsest Press) https://palimpsestpress.ca/books/descantec-for-my-split-tongue-adriana-onita/

+ #SealeyChallenge 5/31
https://www.audible.ca/pd/Marigold-and-Rose-Audiobook/B0B1L6ZFDF

"She felt she would never be perfect as Rose was. Who’s my good baby, Mother would say at mealtime. Rose could drink out of a cup. For the most part, Rose was the answer. Next to Marigold’s name there were a lot of needs improvement boxes checked. Marigold was not good at the cup. Milk spurted out of her mouth all over her bib."

#SealeyChallenge #TheSealeyChallenge 5/31
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Marigold and Rose by Louise Glück (2022 Farrar, Straus and Giroux) https://carcanetblog.blogspot.com/2022/09/marigold-and-rose-louise-gluck.html

Here's some Alberta poetry recommendations for anyone doing the #SealeyChallenge (reading one poetry book every day of August)!

You can find reviews for all of them at:
albertaviews.ca/category/dep...
#BookSky #Reading #SummerReading #Alberta

"Just keep children provided

with toys, games, a gentle lie
so they won't see panic packed in your eye

when they look up and ask
Where are we going?"

#SealeyChallenge #TheSealeyChallenge 4/31
#TodaysPoem #poetry
How to Pack for Internment (150 Pounds) by Kevin Irie from Evacuations (2026 University of Alberta Press) https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/06/kevin-irie-evacuations.html

"18. a word written on the edge of my wall,
tyranny. oh, I mean tranny, a freudian slip."

#SealeyChallenge #TheSealeyChallenge 3/31
#TodaysPoem #poetry
The Things I Found at the End of the World by Arielle Twist (2026 Opaat Press / @annickmacaskill) https://annickmacaskill.com/2026/06/25/the-things-i-found-at-the-end-of-the-world-by-arielle-twist/

"It is spring
And as landfill we don't make much in the way of sound. A trick to arouse

The perception of separate notes beyond the fundamental frequency
We are all on hands and knees looking for."

#SealeyChallenge 2/31
#TodaysPoem #poetry
from Choral Coral Carol by James Lindsay (2026 Knife Fork Book) http://www.knifeforkbook.shop/store/p203/JAMES_LINDSAY_Choral_Coral_Carol.html

"Isn't this what I've always
wanted - not absolution but acknowledgment,
not a soapbox but a touchstone, minus
the cheesy synth, someone to hold the ladder
when I need something from the top shelf?"

#SealeyChallenge 1/31
#TodaysPoem #poetry
I'm Not Being Hard on Myself, You're Being Hard on Yourself by Lisa Richter from Sublunary (2026 University of Alberta Press) https://ualbertapress.ca/9781772128543/sublunary/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bookgaga/115096018866742688

From last year's #SealeyChallenge, to kick off this year's #poetry challenge ...

Still lots of #poetry gloriousness to enjoy in the #SealeyChallenge home stretch: https://bsky.app/profile/poemtoday.bsky.social/post/3lxeth2vhsk2t