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Dan Murphy @dmurphy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

People of #Massachusetts’ 6th: it’s Election Day! Please #vote! I’m using mine for Tram Nguyen @teamtram.bsky.social, a real progressive who’s not shaped or funded by the elite, and knows what a real fight looks like. #ma6 #primary

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I will be dust again The book tells me And will be fine. —Katharine Coles #SmallPoemSunday

DISORDER

I will be dust again
The book tells me

And will be fine. All
One can do: pulling

Herself together, why
-ever she ought to.

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Dan Murphy @dmurphy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Happy to have one of my #poems find a home in TRASNA: trasna.online/summer-2026/ (a reprint of "Mac Tíre Deireanach na hÉireann" from ESTATE SALE, which just had its 1st birthday last month.) If interested in the book: dmurphy.online/estate-sale/ #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetsky

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Dan Murphy @dmurphy.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

So grateful for this interview & for the publication of my book with such a great press. It's almost 9 months old! To celebrate #poetrymonth, please consider buying it here: uofupress.com/books/estate... 😆

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University of Utah Press | Estate Sale

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Dan Murphy @dmurphy.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I love a lot of poems & poets. This is one by Liam O'Flaherty which I've loved since I first read it over a decade ago. Happy #WorldPoetryDay!

Rock Flowers

I said to the flowers:
“isn’t it a bleak spot you’ve been given
to be breathing in
and wedged at the edge of a cliff
with nothing but the mossy rock
and the dirt of the birds,
a place that takes, full of fog
and a raging sea.
The sun doesn’t beam here
from Monday to Saturday
to brighten your hearts.”
The rock flowers said:
“We don’t care, my dear,
we’re spellbound
by the music of the sea.”

Liam Ó Flaithearta, translated from the Irish by Dan Murphy

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

The weak response from Can, EU and UN to Trump's flagrant crimes in Venezuela is striking. It exposes that much of the world has been cowed. Most notable exception: the Latin American left. That is why the Trump Admin has gone to enormous lengths to defeat the left across the continent. 1/3

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

“I did not kill myself today. It was a Tuesday. And since you are reading this, neither did you. Neither of us were sent to war or had to hide in the basement.” —Sean Thomas Dougherty (@seanthomasd.bsky.social), “Poem Made of Fragments…” @boa-editions.bsky.social

POEM MADE OF FRAGMENTS WRITTEN ON VARIOUS PIECES OF PAPER—NAPKINS, SOCIAL WORK PAPERS, MED ORDER FORMS, THE BACK OF MED SUPPLY RECEIPTS, GAS RECEIPTS, AND SOME AFTER WAKING FROM DREAMS. I did not kill myself today. It was a Tuesday. And since you are reading this, neither did you. Neither of us were sent to war or had to hide in the basement. No one was standing under the streetlight at 3 AM. I tend to walk with my hood up, my head down. I tend to take my hood off if I see a cop. I tend to look away from bridges. The day the crocuses arrived I feel a part of me glanced up at the cardinal and flew away. Camus wrote, the moment that Sisyphus lets go of the stone, there is a moment he is free. But I say why doesn’t he sit down? Why doesn’t he refuse to go on? Is there not a Union in the afterlife? No wonder when we die, they used to say, “He punched his clock.”

During the Balkan wars, who was the cellist—I googled it!—Vedran Smailovic, who brought a chair to the square in Sarajevo, sat down during the siege, and played Adagio in G Minor. Death prefers the minor keys. Vedran Smailovic is still alive. He is still playing in concert halls, but behind the veil he is forever playing in the square as the snipers look into their sights. And here is the ghost girl running through the halls again. Where has she come from? There are moments it seems I cannot even spell my name. As if I myself have been disappeared. Then I return. Sean, I write on the form that says I watched over humans tonight, and no one died. Is everything I write about your absence? How it hovers above you when you bend your head to read. When I was a boy, I used to love to take apart old radios. Not to see how they worked but to see how they looked like a miniature city, with tiny streets, skyscrapers of tubes, bodegas of fuses. Once, years ago, I walked far out onto the ice, and

when I was out far enough that the world was only sky and clouds and frozen lake, I sat down. There is no anniversary for this day. I drive past the abandoned farmhouses. I am the sadness of horses standing in the rain. I learned to love you the way one learns to love the emptiness of winter fields. I tried to put you away in a drawer full of lost things. I found you in the coffee grounds this morning. And in this way, the voices drift, labyrinthine. An emptiness like a cathedral in my chest. I ramble along the tracks, a bit wary, a bit weary, headed towards nowhere I can name. There is nothing here to translate, sentence by sentence on this earth we are bandaged or bound to grieve. I lay down in the park, drowsy in the afternoon light. I begin to disappear. Leaving behind the weight I’ve carried. If you were to try and find me, all you would see in the grass is the hollow my body made. Sean Thomas Dougherty

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Okay!!! Posted on all platforms!!! This will be in print in the NYT Book Review on Sunday.

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David Rosenthal @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

TODAY!!!! DON’T MISS IT!!!! Join us for live literature, and help raise funds for @translifeline.org It’s FREE and ONLINE so anyone can join from anywhere! REGISTER NOW at: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

Bearded Bards Of BlueSky

Online reading to raise funds for Tans Lifeline.

December 13, 2025
Featuring:
Jared Beloff
Barlow Adams
Dan Murphy
upfromsumdirt
Gregory Crosby
J-T Kelly

https://beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

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David Rosenthal @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This is a fantastic book. Highly recommend.

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Dan Murphy @dmurphy.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Today's the 5-month anniversary of the release of ESTATE SALE by @uofupress.bsky.social & while it had a kind of soft launch over the lazy summer, I'm pleased w the response this fall. If yr interested, here's a list of places where you can find a copy: dmurphy.online/estate-sale/ #writingcommunity

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Estate Sale - Dan Murphy

Praise for Estate Sale “Early in Dan Murphy’s elegiac debut, Estate Sale, the poet writes: ‘There is only so much sweetness/in this world. I kiss and kiss and it’s gone. ‘Haunted by the inevitable gri...

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David Rosenthal @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

TWO WEEKS AWAY!!!! Just look at that lineup!!!! Join us for live literature, and help raise funds for @translifeline.org It’s FREE and ONLINE so anyone can join from anywhere! Info and registration at: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Today’s Featured Poem: “Turkeys & Church” by @dmurphy.bsky.social from Estate Sale published by @uofupress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/turkeys...

poems.com

Turkeys & Church

Gently, they print their trinities in last night's snow

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David Rosenthal @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

This one’s in the books. Wonderful readings from all six readers. Generous participation from the attendees. We have now brought the total amount raised for @translifeline.org to more than $2,400! Join us on December 13th for one more installment featuring a great lineup (see my pinned post)

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David Rosenthal @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Join us for the next reading on December 13 to raise funds for Trans Lifeline and listen to live lit from: @readinstead.bsky.social @barlowadams.bsky.social @dmurphy.bsky.social @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social @monostich.bsky.social @j-tkelly.bsky.social Check out the link in my pinned post.

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Sean Thomas Dougherty @stdougherty.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

The Weight of Money by Sean Thomas Dougherty "Is worth mentioning is one gram. But a Benjamin is a liter of blood. I often remind my kids that a Happy Meal costs a quarter of an hour. Your bicycle was a week’s wage." www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-weight...

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The Weight of Money by Sean Thomas Dougherty

the weight of money is more than can be measured

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970 The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23 They constantly let America down

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David Rosenthal @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Now is an excellent time to register for this:

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Dan Murphy @dmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Hey, look who's (kinda) in the Boston Globe: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/18/a... Excited to read from my book ESTATE SALE tonight alongside two excellent poets, Nathanael O'Reilly & Antonina Palisano. 7pm at the Grolier in Harvard Sq. #poetsky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Text from Boston Globe digital: Dan Murphy ("Estate Sale"), Nathanael O'Reilly ("(Un)belonging"), and Nina Palisano are
introduced by Karl Kirchwey to read their poetry at 7 p.m. at Grolier Poetry Book Shop and virtually via
Zoom. (Reservation is required.)

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Dan Murphy @dmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

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Dan Murphy @dmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Big congrats to @lukejohnsonpoet.bsky.social on the publication of his #poetry collection, DISTRIBUTARY. Can’t wait to dive into it, hopefully this weekend? 🤞😆 #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetsky

A poetry book on a wood counter: Distributary by Luke Johnson. The cover appears to be an atmospheric painting with dark coloring, a bird squawking, the moon centered, but distant, a figure holding an old lantern, maybe.

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Dan Murphy @dmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

TONIGHT!

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Dan Murphy @dmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Hey #poets/ #poetry readers—I’m reading from my book tomorrow at Lala Books in #Lowell, Mass. Poets Paul Marion & Nina Palisano will join me. Nina just had her book published, too. @akasomeguy.bsky.social chose it as winner of the 2024 Tomaž Šalamun Prize! Come by at 6:30. #poetsky #writingcommunity

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Robert Pinsky @rpinsky.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

At Boston U.. 7:00. this Monday, September 15, 2025, some wonderful poets, my former students, conspire to make me happy and embarrassed.

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Robert Pinsky @rpinsky.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Delighted to share the rescheduled date for the reading with @dmurphy.bsky.social and Cecilia Woloch & Friends Poetry on Zoom. This event will now be held on Sunday, November 23rd at 3pm EST (12pm PST). Register using the link below: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Happy Pub Day to TERMINAL SURREAL and the beautiful soul that will always be Martha Silano 🩷💜 @marthasilano.bsky.social @acrebooks.bsky.social

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Sean Thomas Dougherty @stdougherty.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Reprise of Four Poems in the wonderful Public School Poetry. www.publicschoolpoetry.com/sean-thomas-...

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Sean Thomas Dougherty | Public School Poetry

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Robert Pinsky @rpinsky.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

UPDATE: Robert regrets to share that due to unforeseen circumstances, he will be unable to read at tomorrow’s event with Cecilia Woloch & Friends Poetry on Zoom and @dmurphy.bsky.social . More information re: event status, rescheduling, etc. will be shared shortly. Please stay tuned.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

This book is epic as it is excellent. I can’t recommend it enough. An essential read about a singular person, life and mind.

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

🌸COVER REVEAL🌸 for MORE FLOWERS & it’s a beauty! I’m grateful to so many: @triohousepress.org, @krisbigalk.bsky.social, @natashakane.bsky.social & to @fascicles.bsky.social, @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social, & @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social for their kind, generous words! Pre-order link in comments!

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Dan Murphy @dmurphy.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

TWO WEEKS FROM TODAY: I’ll be reading from #EstateSale w the inimitable Robert Pinsky (@rpinsky.bsky.social) on Cecilia Woloch’s Zoom reading series. Limited space, & preregistration req, so sign up here, if interested: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetsky

CECILIA WOLOCH & FRIENDS POETRY ON ZOOM PRESENTS A CELEBRATION OF NEW BOOKS BY
ROBERT PINSKY
3-TIME US POET LAUREATE
& DAN
MURPHY
WINNER OF THE AGHA SHAHID ALI PRIZE IN POETRY
SUNDAY, AUGUST 24
NOON PACIFIC * 3PM EASTERN* 9 PM PARIS
FOLLOWED BY A BRIEF READING BY CECILIA AND A Q&A * ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED

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Dan Murphy @dmurphy.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Seen in the wild at Little City Books in Hoboken: ESTATE SALE sandwiched between a few #poets you’ve probably never heard of 😆 (!) #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #booksky #sealeychallenge

A bookcase at Little City Books bookstore in Hoboken, NJ. Estate Sale by Dan Murphy sits between multi-colored bindings of poetry books (mostly) arranged in alphabetical order, including titles by John Milton, Marianne Moore, Paul Muldoon, Tomas Q. Morín, Eileen Myles, Richie Hofmann and Pablo Neruda.

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David Rosenthal @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

This is a fantastic book of poetry. Definitely get yourself a copy.

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Dan Murphy @dmurphy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

A year ago today, @uofupress.bsky.social called & let me know they’d be publishing my book of #poetry. The elation! Today, it’s 4 sale online—just in time 4 the #SealeyChallenge. & if you don’t participate in that, that’s cool, too—you can still have a quiet, slow read 😀: dmurphy.online/estate-sale/

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Estate Sale - Dan Murphy

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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

It goes on. Stories I wrote about long months ago continue to be repeated and the world is watching. MAY 2025 on MSNBC after winning the Pulitzer Prize.

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