#TheSealeyChallenge Follow along on IG @imaginarydani. I’ll be posting all the books I read and reactions in my Stories. Day 1 Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky Day 2 Cease by Beth Bachmann “whether or not we know how to kill holy mercy we know how to bleed” – from “shame” Day 3 boy/girl/ghost by torrin…
Category: What I’m Reading
The Year I Read 100 Poetry Books
Just like writing a poem every day for thirty days changes you, suddenly you realize reading a high volume of poetry changes you too. It tunes your ear, it refines your senses.
“I grow green with hope”: on Reading The Tradition by Jericho Brown
The first book I read after AWP was Jericho Brown’s new collection, The Tradition. Please is still (and will probably forever be) my favorite book by Jericho Brown, but The Tradition doesn’t disappoint. Jericho Brown’s poems are some of the “cleanest” I’ve ever read. By that I mean, his economy of language is excellent. Some…
