My pics @SealeyChallenge #31BooksInAugust #TheSealeyChallenge #TheSealeyChallenge2022
Day 1 Worth More Standing: Poets and Activists Pay Homage to Trees. Christine Lowther, editor. @CaitlinPress. Such an evocative, provocative essential anthology! Poets, both settler and Indigenous, pay tribute to trees through reflections on the past, connections to the present, and calls for the protection of our future.
Day 2 Resistance Anthology: Righteous Rage in the Age of Me Too. University of Regina Press. Sue Goyette #editor https://uofrpress.ca/Books/R/Resistance…
Day 3 Charlie Petch, Why I Was Late. “To be performed with dulcimer.” “Things You Didn’t Know about Me” Self-referential, engaging fun Performative poetry like Nerve Centre but stronger.
Day 4 Voicing Suicide. Editor, Daniel C. Scott http://ekstasiseditions.com/recenthtml/voicingsuicide.htm… This collection of poems offers important explorations by writers who speak of it without bars.
Day 5 Heartwood: Poems for the Love of Trees. Editor, Lesley Strutt. https://poets.ca/publications/heartwood/. This anthology continues my theme of activism through poetry to raise awareness about our threatened environment.
Day 6 Junie Désil. Eat salt/gaze at the ocean: poems “scudding back & forth through history” “There isn’t a pastness”/
Day 7 Missing link: On the Storm/In the Struggle. Editor, Adebe DeRango-Adem. https://poets.ca/on-the-storm-in-the-struggle-poets-on-survival/ @adebe_
Day 8 Don Mee Choi, DMZ Colony “It can take billions of years for light to reach us through the galaxies, which is to say, History is ever arriving.”
Day 9 Amanda Gorman Call Us What We Carry. “Lumen means both the cavity of an organ, literally an opening & a unit of luminous flux Literally a measurement of how lit The source is Illuminate us”.
Day 10 No Sleep ‘til Eden. Richard-Yves Sitoski is a poet to watch! Owen Sound Poet Laureate’s collection reaches out from printed word to multimedia, all for ecopoetics!
Day 11 Susan McMaster, Crossing Arcs: Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me, Black Moss Press: poignant, powerful & funny a la fois.
Day 12 P.S. by Penn Kemp and Sharon Thesen @GapRiotPress
Day 13 Harold Rhenisch, Landings: #Poems from Iceland @
Essential, elemental #poetry of the first & most ancient order
Day 14 Susan McCaslin, gorgeous Heart Work @EkstasisEditions
Day 15 Patricia Keeney. ORPHEUS IN OUR WORLD @NeoPoiesisPress. Contemporary inspired readings reclaiming ancient hymns
Day 16 Daphne Marlatt, THEN NOW @talonbooks “verbal pathways”
Day 17 Diane Seuss, Frank: sonnets: so good!
Day 18 D.A. Lockhart. Go down Odawa way Kegedonce Press @WRiverLockhart wazhashkpoetry.com
Day19 @Tanis MacDonald MOBILE @bookhugpress “La Donna E Mobile” and so is this peripatetic collection!
Day 20 @SheriDWilson, grand LOVE LETTERY TO EMILY C @FrontenacHouse
Day 21 Susan Musgrave, Origami Dove @McClellandBooks
Day 22 Margaret Christakos, charger @talonbooks https://talonbooks.com/books/charger
Day 23 Kevin Andrew Heslop, The correct fury of your why is a mountain
Day 24 Joy Harjo, Poet warrior: a memoir
“The imagining needs praise as does any living thing.
We are evidence of this praise.”@SealeyChallenge #31BooksInAugust #31Books31Days #TheSealeyChallenge
Day 25 Yusuf Saadi, Pluviophile“…do the dead hide inside
poems, in the corridor between stanzas, curling fetal @NightwoodEd
Day 26 Louise Gluck, Faithful and virtuous night “What remains is tone, the medium of the soul.”
Day 27 Anne Simpson, Light falls through you. Beautiful!
Day 28 Carl Phillips, Pale colors in a tall field
Day 29 Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother
Day 30 Sadiqa de Meijer, The outer wards & Alfabet / alphabet: a memoir of a first language. I couldn’t choose just one, so here are both!
Day 31 POETS in RESPONSE to PERIL! An anthology of Canadian poets in support of Urkaine: https://rsitoski.bigcartel.com/
And SO Many MORE!
Penn Kemp 