Sean Thomas Dougherty
@stdougherty.bsky.social
Poet. Recent books with BOA Editions, Jacar Press. I work as a Medtech and caregiver, and teach part-time in the Western Connecticut State U MFA Program. Disability rights advocate, father, husband, obsessive Cleveland Cavs fan.
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...
SPLIT ROCK REVIEW — KIMBERLY ANN PRIEST
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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.
rob mclennan@robmclennan.bsky.social · 3w agoTuesday poem #693 : Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose : My 91-Year-Old Grandmother in the Hospital, Again / @poetlady74.bsky.social @rattlepoetry.bsky.social ; dusie.blogspot.com/2026/07/tues...
Any one I know in Connecticut? keelertavernmuseum.org/events/595/poetry-workshop-with-sean-thomas-dougherty/
Poetry Workshop with Sean Thomas Dougherty — Calendar — Keeler Tavern Museum
Keeler Tavern Museum in Ridgefield, CT provides educational and cultural programs on colonial life, exhibitions and public events in our carriage house, and a garden for hosting special events.
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For those young folks lamenting ICE never forget the US government has long had versions of a secret police force.
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 3w ago#OtD 14 Jul 1967 Black anarchist Martin Sostre was arrested at his bookstore in Buffalo, New York and charged with “sale of narcotics, riot, arson, and assault.” The charges were fabricated as part of the COINTELPRO. He was sentenced to 41 years stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8578...
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/
The Aggregate of Our Joy by Elizabeth Rosen - The Los Angeles Review
We weren’t surprised when we got the call from the guidance counselor at Avery’s middle school. We’d anticipated it ever since Avery began speaking in Carl Sagan quotes. It didn’t take a fortune telle...
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“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.
"you were a half written poem/you had a chance at wholesome" www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv1pDzPINrc
Rising Appalachia- Chance at Wholesome (Official Music Video)
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...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
The Bread
Ausiàs Tsel My son leaves the bread upside down because he is six and the world is a surface you can rearrange. It’s a barra—too long for the plate, too warm for patience—resting on the tab…
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This is a story I did not know.
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 4w ago#OtD 11 Jul 1945 anti-fascist Spanish Civil War fighter, Agustín Soler, who had been jailed in a British internment camp with Nazis, killed himself in protest. Many Spanish exiles who fought in the French resistance were similarly detained in the UK stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8311...
"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 World Is Going to Sh*t, but We Can Still Be Grateful for Tomatoes - The Cincinnati Review
Web and Media Editor Bess Winter: Is there anything better on a summer's day than a sliced tomato, preferably salted and peppered? D. Dina Friedman's
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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
Essays 2026-27
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#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-...
Lake Lightning for R by Sean Thomas Dougherty
Tonight like some kind of calligraphy scrawled across the night sky, out over the lake, like an electrocortical of light, which is to say a sign, an omen the old ones would say, and tonight the man...
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An absolutely classic essay that does so much with so few words. biblioklept.org/2014/02/25/t...
“The Death of the Moth” — Virginia Woolf
“The Death of the Moth” by Virginia Woolf Moths that fly by day are not properly to be called moths; they do not excite that pleasant sense of dark autumn nights and ivy-blossom which t…
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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...
Devil's Backbone - Wildhouse Publishing
Julie L. Moore’s Devil’s Backbone is a fearless, morally urgent reckoning with American history, white supremacy, and the self. Moore confronts inherited cruelties, national hypocrisy, and personal re...
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#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...
Meet the 2026 CBC Poetry Prize readers | CBC Books
The longlists for the CBC Literary Prizes are chosen by a team of writers from across Canada. Meet who will be reading the submissions to the 2026 CBC Poetry Prize, which is open until June 1.
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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...
Dueling Shovels: SIGNED COPIES (limited availability) - Final Thursday Press
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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-...
Essays 2026-27
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