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#TheSealeyChallenge 2026 reading roundup
Dear Readers (especially readers of poetry):
Aug 31
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Cati Porter
6
3
Remembering Mae Wagner Marinello
July 22, 1941-August 8, 2026
Aug 28
•
Cati Porter
14
5
1
So, I’m doing a thing.
Introducing CP Creative and Mile Square Press!
Aug 27
•
Cati Porter
12
6
3
Brad Keeler's Birds of America
When I was a little girl, after my grandmother died, I inherited several bird figurines.
Aug 17
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Cati Porter
8
1
Oh no, not another post about The Odyssey!
A close reading of the "complicated" first line as translated by different scholars
Aug 5
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Cati Porter
10
2
1
The art of losing: First houses, first friendships
Hi readers,
Aug 5
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Cati Porter
9
2
July 2026
Progress on War and Peace
In which we find the tides have turned (meaning, I got some reading done!)
Jul 31
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Cati Porter
7
2
I smell fire but no one else does.
Will I be the hero who saves the family from imminent death?
Jul 28
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Cati Porter
11
8
1
Are you the same you that existed ten, twenty, fifty years ago?
Existential angst + joy on a milestone birthday
Jul 20
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Cati Porter
8
17
1
A conversation with Claude
There is so much controversy around the use of AI: Don’t use it for generative writing, but maybe it’s okay (?) to use as a tool in revision. It’s bad…
Jul 17
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Cati Porter
8
3
3
A brief treatise on the Tootsie Roll
It’s Tootsie-Roll-O’Clock at my desk and I am fresh out.
Jul 7
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Cati Porter
3
4
2
Dear America
Dear America, I am still your daughter.
Jul 4
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Cati Porter
12
2
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