“The Sealey Challenge, at heart, is a big, raucous, joyful celebration of poetry. It’s an invitation to immerse yourself in words. It’s a way to connect with other poetry readers. It’s an opportunity to make space for poetry in your life—whether that’s by reading one book of poetry a day, or one poem a day.”

- Laura Sackton, Book Riot 

10 new-to-me poets  I discovered thanks to the sealey challenge

“There’s a good chance I wouldn’t be a writer today, or at least not the writer I’ve become, without everything I’ve learned from The Sealey Challenge. Each year, it inevitably leads me to books which have ended up shaping my poetics writ large.”

- George Abraham, Triquarterly  

“I tried The Sealey Challenge as an experiment in devotion, as well as a curation exercise. Of course, in that spooky way, by reading all of this poetry, I found words to describe some of the corners of my more nebulous experiences.”

- Maneo Refiloe Mohale, The Johannesburg Review of Books