Blue Opening: Poems

Longlisted for the 2026 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry

Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Poetry Finalist

“A profound poetic talent.”—Ada Limón

Blue Opening, Chet’la Sebree’s brilliant, illuminating poetry collection, grapples with origins—of illness, of language, of the universe—as the speaker contemplates whether she, too, can be a site of origin through motherhood. Navigating chronic health challenges alongside grief and questions about the nature of knowledge and religion, she searches persona...