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Sean Thomas Dougherty
@seanthomasd.bsky.social
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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.
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Sean Thomas Dougherty @seanthomasd.bsky.social · 1d
thank you for publishing my poem and sharing my work. You are the best!
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Sean Thomas Dougherty @seanthomasd.bsky.social · 1d
that is a tiny prose poem.
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Sean Thomas Dougherty @seanthomasd.bsky.social · 1d
Thank you so much Matthew!
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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 2d
“Her memory
Is a mix-tape of the past & fantastic fabrications of
People who are dead. They return as grievances.”

“Golden Shovel” by @seanthomasd.bsky.social from the Summer 2025 collection of Online Exclusives.

Listen to Sean read:

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Sean Thomas Dougherty @seanthomasd.bsky.social · 2d
The Freedom issue of ABOUT PLACE just dropped with super fine work by Susan Terris, Nancy Mercado, Alexandra Teague, Laura- Gray Street, Pam Uschuk, Denise Duhamel, Jacquiline Johnson, and Marjorie Maddox, and so much more. I have a couple poems, scroll all the way down.

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Home – About Place Journal
a literary journal published by the Black Earth Institute dedicated to re-forging the links between art and spirit, earth and society
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Sean Thomas Dougherty @seanthomasd.bsky.social · 2d
"I'm not paying your fee.
Give the grant, the residency,
that place in a journal, that job
to someone else.
I'll be here under the Bodhi tree with Tu Fu.
He's sold a sheaf of poems."
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Sean Thomas Dougherty – Hanzi in the Rain - Shō Poetry Journal
I think I'm tiring of auditioning. / I'm not dancing for bread anymore.
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Sean Thomas Dougherty @seanthomasd.bsky.social · 3d
This poem by Spencer Reese blew me away.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/53297/margaret-56d232772fb16
Margaret
Once, quietly, she said to my mother, “I never knew the love of a man.” She had mentioned having a husband, but during the war they were separated in the chaos of Budapest, and later she lost track of...
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Sean Thomas Dougherty @seanthomasd.bsky.social · 4d
Jillena Rose:

"Bones are easier to find than flowers
in the desert, so I paint these:
Fine white skulls of cows and horses."

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55460/taos
Taos
Bones are easier to find than flowers in the desert, so I paint these: Fine white skulls of cows and horses. When I lie flat under the stars in the back of the car, coyotes howling in the scrub pines...
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Sean Thomas Dougherty @seanthomasd.bsky.social · 5d
Daneen Wardrop, another poet taken too soon. I love the last lines of this poem so much. poets.org/poem/name
name
name is a windy thing
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Sean Thomas Dougherty @seanthomasd.bsky.social · 7d
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2025-10
Red Ogre Review | Issue Thirty-Two
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Sean Thomas Dougherty @seanthomasd.bsky.social · 10d
www.onlypoems.net/lists/eleven...
11 Poetry Collections That Marry Mysticism and the Human Body — ONLY POEMS
Explore our list of recommended reading that explore the connection between spirituality and sexuality. Eleven stunning and thought-provoking collections of poetry to leave you entranced by poems devo...
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Sean Thomas Dougherty @seanthomasd.bsky.social · 10d
Bravo to Michael! Bazzett for winning the Stern Prize!

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American Poetry Review – News
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Sean Thomas Dougherty @seanthomasd.bsky.social · 11d
I agree, she writes so real about this life.
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Sean Thomas Dougherty @seanthomasd.bsky.social · 11d
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Jessica Whipple @jessicawhippl17.bsky.social · 11d
Spotted! @seanthomasd.bsky.social at The Ivy Bookshop
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Sean Thomas Dougherty @seanthomasd.bsky.social · 11d
that's so cool to see my book out in the world. Thank you so much for sharing this Jessica! Hope all is good on the otherside of the Commonwealth.
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Sean Thomas Dougherty @seanthomasd.bsky.social · 11d
www.polluxjournal.com/issue-5/lor-...
Lór O'Neill — Pollux Journal
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Sean Thomas Dougherty @seanthomasd.bsky.social · 11d
A whole lot of Addonizio

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Poetry of Kim Addonizio — ONLY POEMS
New poems from Kim Addonizio
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Sean Thomas Dougherty @seanthomasd.bsky.social · 12d
All of the last 20th century revolutionaries are fading into that good night.

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Black Liberation Activist Assata Shakur, 78, Dies in Cuba After Decades in Exile
The Cuban government has announced Assata Shakur died in Havana on Thursday at the age of 78. Shakur was a legendary figure within the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army.
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Sean Thomas Dougherty @seanthomasd.bsky.social · 12d
What a trio, and a particular shoutout to Jessica Traynor and her glorious poems.
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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 13d
🥳🥳🥳
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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 13d
It's publication day for our three brilliant September titles: @poetclare.bsky.social's Lives of the Female Poets, @jesstraynor.bsky.social's New Arcana, and @emiliejelinek.bsky.social's The Sky Around My Father, winner of the @mslexia.bsky.social Women's Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2024.
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Sean Thomas Dougherty @seanthomasd.bsky.social · 12d
she's crucial for me. I love all the Death poets.
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Sean Thomas Dougherty @seanthomasd.bsky.social · 12d
This is about to drop. An anthology to speak to power. I got a little poem in it alongside all kinds of great work.
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Sean Thomas Dougherty @seanthomasd.bsky.social · 12d
Thank you Mitchell for finding this. I so love basketball poems.
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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · 12d
GOTDAMN.
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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 14d
Today's Featured Poem:

"Basketball Sonnet with a Wish the Game Would Go On" by Cody Smith from River Hymnal published by Texas Review Press

Read here:
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Basketball Sonnet with a Wish the Game Would Go On
Even still he talks smack: I broke them ankles; you can't guard me; come and get it.
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Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 12d
“This is what life is: the passage of time. It’s not about how to pass the time, but about the acceptance of the time passing.”

Very much looking forward to seeing a major retrospective of Hsieh’s work, which opens next week at Dia Beacon. (His work also features in my next book).
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Matt Uhler @matt-uhler.bsky.social · 14d
“The world might set on fire
but here it has not yet.
The grills are lit–come
& eat with us. Come to
our table without handcuffs.”
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Sean Thomas Dougherty @seanthomasd.bsky.social · 14d
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Sean Thomas Dougherty | BoomerLitMag
Before CurfewTo answer you--finches, wrens,robins & sparrows, and crows join,rustling their wings, arguingon a telephone line. A blue housecacophonous with a cook-outand all that issummer music. A chi...
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