Lit Shark Reads Jennifer Givhan’s ‘Girl with Death Mask’ (Sealey Challenge #2)

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Happy Tuesday, readers, writers, and shark fans! Welcome back for Day 2 of our take on The Sealey Challenge! If you missed Day 1, it’s here.

Founded by Nicole Sealey in 2016, The Sealey Challenge marked its tenth anniversary on August 1st… and the fact that it was the tenth year of Sealey, right after the tenth issue of Lit Shark Magazine came out, just feels SO RIGHT. The whole point of the challenge is to read more poetry during August, with an ultimate goal of reading 31 books in 31 days. Chapbooks, full-length collections, and, in our humble opinion, poems online when you can’t afford the full book—it all counts. Enjoy the poetry for the beauty of poetry, and you win!

Our Book for Day 2 of The Sealey Challenge:
Girl with Death Mask by Jennifer Givhan

Girl with Death Mask by Jennifer GivhanGirl with Death Mask

Jennifer Givhan

Blue Light Books/Indiana University Press (2018)

94 pages

ISBN-13: ‎978-0253032799

Available on Amazon

 

If you’d like to read our mini review of the book and a few poems from it, check out our brand new, baby shark Substack.

Please also be on the lookout for Lit Shark’s full-length reviews of Jennifer Givhan’s novels, The Sleeping Sisters and River Woman, River Demon, when we review them in September and October!

What to Expect on Substack:

While we’re just sharing the book recommendation here, on Substack we will share a mini book review, a few sample poems, and several writing prompts.

Our Editor-in-Chief is also doing her own Sealey Challenge, so we’ll also be shouting out the books that she’s selected (guaranteed different titles and different poets), as well, if you’d like DOUBLE the recommendations this month.

We hope you’ll join us over there!

Best Ways to Follow Along:

Our website will have the book recommendation and where to find it.

Our Instagram will have a fun photo of the book in question.

Our Substack will have a slightly deeper dive into the work. (Today’s post is live now.)

Buy Lit Shark a Ko-Fi will keep a catalogue of the posts if you fall behind and/or want to support!

 

Have a fin-tastic Sealey Challenge, everyone!
We hope many of our readers, writers, and shark fans will join in on the fun.

Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. You will not be charged extra, but a portion of your purchase will help support Lit Shark’s causes in inclusive and accessible literature and writing resources, as well as our growing movement in conversation education, rescue, and revitalization.

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Written By McKenzie Lynn Tozan

McKenzie Lynn Tozan (she/her/hers) lives and writes in Europe with her family (originally from the Midwest). In addition to being the Editor-in-Chief of Lit Shark Magazine and the Banned Book Review, she is a novelist, poet, and book reviewer. She received her MFA in Poetry from Western Michigan University and her BA in English/BS in Education from Indiana University South Bend, where she began her work in publishing. Her poems have appeared in Rogue Agent, Whale Road Review, Young Ravens Review, The Birds We Piled Loosely, and Encore Magazine, among others; and her book reviews and essays have appeared in The Rumpus, Green Mountains Review, Memoir Mixtapes, The Life Collective, Her Journal, Motherly, and more. When not writing, she enjoys reading, appreciating nature, and spending time with her husband and three children.

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