it’s 1906 / my great grandfather Sam lays tefillin / for the last time then leaves / them on the bedside table, / a loosening; the leather straps / left to dangle
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Sarah Kaplan Gould is a Denver-born poet, ritual enthusiast, and educator living on occupied Cheyenne and Arapaho land. They are a member of the 2022-23 Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop Poetry Collective, and a graduate of LIU Brooklyn’s MFA program, where they focused on poetry and hybrid creative non-fiction. In addition to writing, they have spent much of the last several years teaching high school social studies, farming, and singing in community.
If you’re doing the sealey challenge this year — reading one book of poetry per day in the month of August — and looking for a few more books to explore this month, we have 10 poetry books by TSW authors that you could consider reading this month and beyond.