Sean Thomas Dougherty

Delighted that my poem 'Nomen Nudum' is published in the October Edition of the legendary The Honest Ulsterman! 🖤 #poetry #poetrysky Read it here: www.humag.co/poetry/nomen...

"The second woman says, you’ll look so gorgeous with black hair. We’ll look like sisters. The first woman says, yes. Then they are quiet for a moment. I can hear the winds of autumn outside rising." www.cgreview.org/magazine/hair-dye

The Lit new issue of Public School with new poems and peer written essays by Joseph Chapman, Justin Hamm, Karen Finneyfrock, Karen Holman, Katie Hartsock, Lauren Camp, Mike Santora, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Sehee S. Oh, and Zach Savich www.publicschoolpoetry.com/current

"Really, how many of us have spent the entire weekend in one pair of sweatpants, lounging around the house, putting off chores, or nursing a recent breakup." @stdougherty.bsky.social writes about his experiences at work, a residential facility for traumatic brain injuries. Link in thread.

"Met him at the low bar of the evening me sitting there nursing another rum & detachment when in he slips through the thinnest crack in the door like an unpaid gas bill that tells you you got two more days to figure it all out"

Oof !!!

Kim Echlin’s Tell Others: Storytelling for a World in Crisis is a book I think everyone should read. It made me think about how literature offers us hope as humans, how it can be powerful as a force for change, & it made me think about the many stories that are out in the world. Highly recommend.

Monday July 20th at 7 PM in Ridgefield CT I'm reading with the extraordinary Charles Rafferty for Barb Jennes Poetry in the Garden series. The reading takes place at the beautiful Keeler Tavern Museum 152 Main Street.

Such wonderful music in this poem by Kimberly Ann Priest www.splitrockreview.org/kimberly-ann...

Thanks to @robmclennan.bsky.social for publishing my poem about my grandmother and lightening bugs on Dusie <3 FYI: my grandmother pulled through that illness. I'm headed to PA tomorrow to see her and my grandfather (75 yrs of marriage!). Every day is a gift and I've been luckier than most.

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Any one I know in Connecticut? keelertavernmuseum.org/events/595/poetry-workshop-with-sean-thomas-dougherty/

For those young folks lamenting ICE never forget the US government has long had versions of a secret police force.

What a wonderful story! “Sometimes I try to speak to her in words she’ll understand and appreciate, to meet her where she is. Mostly I use Vonnegut, but her dad relies on Asimovan to get his point across. " losangelesreview.org/the-aggregate-of-our-joy-by-elizabeth-rosen/

“Her memory  Is a mix-tape of the past & fantastic fabrications of  People who are dead.” Excerpt from this week’s #FlashbackFriday, Sean Thomas Dougherty’s poem “Golden Shovel with Alejandra Pizarnik’s Sombras de los días a venir," from Summer 2025 edition. buff.ly/5LrEZfh #WritingCommunity

"There should be one word for this that means, 𝘖𝘭𝘥 𝘍𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘳. That means, 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘶𝘮𝘢... Because this I know in the measurement of time there must be calculus for mercy." Sean Thomas Dougherty "The Poverty of English" in Presence 2026.

It wasn't poetry Lisa Suhair Majaj

"you were a half written poem/you had a chance at wholesome" www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv1pDzPINrc

Instant Irish classic www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q1tQCG3_T8

...her hand lifts, two fingers separating as if they remember the path: forehead, chest. The small private choreography that once meant: keep us safe. Her hand drops to her side. She sees me watching and her face closes, polite and empty. READ @ausiastsel.com in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social

This.

This is a story I did not know.

Such a terrific use of the child's POV in this brief story by Ya Lan Chang on Bull Lit.

"No one gives a shit. Like Neruda, we extol the glories of tomatoes, even if our odes may never be as good." #microessay #flashfiction www.cincinnatireview.com/micros/the-w...

The old woman puts the Earle grey tea bag into the blue cup of hot water. “Your father needs help, he’s at the end of the driveway.” It is my mother-in-law calling out. My wife thinks her father has fallen, and my wife and I come running. www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/essays-2026-27.html

#OtD 8 Jul 1822 English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley died aged just 29 when his boat sank. After the Peterloo massacre he wrote: "Rise like Lions after slumber… Shake your chains to earth like dew… Ye are many—they are few!" More about Peterloo: workingclasshistory.com/2018/11/07/e...

Brand new essay up at Rowan University's Flashglass www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-...

from one of my favorite books of prose poems

I love how this little poem tumbles forwards www.cincinnatireview.com/micros/born-...

An absolutely classic essay that does so much with so few words. biblioklept.org/2014/02/25/t...

My book of poetry, Devil’s Backbone, which reckons with whiteness, is now available for pre-order. I'm grateful to @stdougherty.bsky.social, @akasomeguy.bsky.social, @mehpoeting.bsky.social, & Angela Jackson Brown for endorsing it. @blueskypoetry.bsky.social wildhousepublishing.com/devils-backb...

#OtD 1 Jun 1940 the Greek anarchist feminist and poet Katerina Gogou was born. She opposed the military dictatorship, supported workers' struggles and the burgeoning LGBT movt, and was frequently subjected to police violence. Commemorated by this design: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/t-s...

Canadian books and poets to read and celebrate www.cbc.ca/books/litera...

My collaborative chapbook with Jeremy Schraffenberger, now available: "The common denominator of these poems is compassion: resistance to cruelty, euphemism, and denial, walking with us from the land of the dead back to the land of the living." — Martín Espada checkout.square.site/merchant/MLG...

I have a new essay up at SoFloPoJo: "Your father needs help, he’s at the end of the driveway.” It is my mother-in-law calling out. My wife thinks her father has fallen, and my wife and I come running. www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/essays-2026-...

Lovely poem by @seanthomasd.bsky.social

Tomorrow LIVE and online from the Downtown Writers Center in Syracuse, NY. Anne Kaier and Lisa M. Dougherty read from their Propel Books! Hope to see some folks there. If you know anyone in the 315 please spread the word. www.ymcacny.org/blog/friday-...

A new lyric poem of mine in the wonderful Hawaii Pacific Review. hawaiipacificreview.org/2026/04/16/s...

So happy to have a new story up at Jason Teals wonderful Heavy Feather Review. heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/04/15/a...

So many cool examples from our latest issue, but I'll just post here @mehpoeting.bsky.social writing about @sallypoet.bsky.social's poetry, and Sally's essay on Stephen Legget's poetry. www.publicschoolpoetry.com/pages/sally-... www.publicschoolpoetry.com/pages/steven...

For National Poetry month, Lisa's first full-length collection The Dead Tree Garden recently published by Propel Books Disability Series/Syracuse University Press: www.amazon.com/Dead-Tree-Ga...

Congratulations to Michael Bazzett on the publication of his new book! His language is a form of magic, traversing many worlds. www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/cloudw...

Great thanks to Azad Repiwar for translating my poem "Father" into Kurdish and having it published in the Kurdish lit journal LEWerger. The poem was originally published in the US journal The Blue Earth Review where it was a runnerup for their prize. The original in English is in the alt notes.

"Emily Dickinson’s one white dress is a copy. Of which there are actually two. Dickinson’s one white plus twin replica dresses—make three. Three white dresses are not literary lore. They are the beginning of a bedtime story:" www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/06...

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#OtD 29 Mar 1933 a mob of right-wing religious zealots destroyed the HQ of the Revolutionary Workers' Groups in Dublin following a three-day siege. It was one of many attacks by mobs whipped into anti-communist hysteria by the Catholic Church stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1011...

I have three Flash essays up at William Paterson University's MAP LITERARY for their new sites soft launch. mapliterary.wixsite.com/maplit/sean-...

These poems.