#TheSealeyChallenge right now I'm finishing entries #5 & #6: Afterland by Mai Der Vang and The Adamant by Mary Ruefle

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Finished "All the Names Given" by Raymond Antrobus. This in my top 10 reads of the year so far

As usual, had no idea about the poet's backstory before reading. And, what a wonderful surprise to read from another black/white poet of the Jamaican diaspora. One who brings such beautiful, textual images of deafness with the use of closed captions in the book itself (inspired by Christine Sun Kim).

Stoked to read his other works cuz The Perseverance is the one he's known for.

#TheSealeyChallenge #books

Today's poetry selection is: "Grit" by silas denver melvin

20% into "New Poems by Wendell Berry (2006); and, I got some inspo already.

Berry, from 'How to Be a Poet (to remind myself)':

"like prayers prayed back to the one who prays,
make a poem that does not disturb
the silence from which it came"

my response, "What About Us: Freaks?":

But what about disruption?
The anarchy of language;
Break barriers as police batons break bones.
Through those cracks and fissures, light can be shone.

#poetry #TheSealeyChallenge #wendellberry

first book for #TheSealeyChallenge is "New Poems by Wendell Berry (2006)"

gonna try to slip some 'Women In Translation' stuff in there (rereading Collected Works of Sappho would count, yeah?) :QueerCatHeart_Lesbian: