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Sean Thomas Dougherty @stdougherty.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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

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CURRENT | Public School Poetry

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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

"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.

White text on a dark gray background: "And 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 . . . Sean Thomas Dougherty, 'Green Hoodie'"

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Sean Thomas Dougherty @stdougherty.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"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"

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Oof !!!

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Kim Fahner @kimfahner.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

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.

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Sean Thomas Dougherty @stdougherty.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

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.

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Sean Thomas Dougherty @stdougherty.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

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

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SPLIT ROCK REVIEW — KIMBERLY ANN PRIEST

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Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose @poetlady74.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

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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Sean Thomas Dougherty @stdougherty.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

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Sean Thomas Dougherty @stdougherty.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

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

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Sean Thomas Dougherty @stdougherty.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

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/

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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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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

“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

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presencejournal.bsky.social @presencejournal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"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.

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It wasn't poetry Lisa Suhair Majaj

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Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

...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

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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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Sean Thomas Dougherty @stdougherty.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

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

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Sean Thomas Dougherty @stdougherty.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

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

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Essays 2026-27

SoFloPoJo Content: HOME ● INTERVIEWS ● REVIEWS ● SPECIAL ● VIDEO ● VISUAL-ARTS ● ARCHIVES ● CALENDAR ● MASTHEAD ● SUBMIT...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 08/07/2026

#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...

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Sean Thomas Dougherty @stdougherty.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

from one of my favorite books of prose poems

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 01/06/2026

#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...

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Sean Thomas Dougherty @stdougherty.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

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...

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Dueling Shovels: SIGNED COPIES (limited availability) - Final Thursday Press

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Sean Thomas Dougherty @stdougherty.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

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-...

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Essays 2026-27

SoFloPoJo Content: HOME ● INTERVIEWS ● REVIEWS ● SPECIAL ● VIDEO ● VISUAL-ARTS ● ARCHIVES ● CALENDAR ● MASTHEAD ● SUBMIT...

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Sean Thomas Dougherty @stdougherty.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

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-...

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Friday, April 24, 7:00 p.m. - Poets ANNE KAIER and LISA DOUGHERTY

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David Ward @davidww.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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...

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Sally Rosen Kindred | Public School Poetry

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Sean Thomas Dougherty @stdougherty.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

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...

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The Dead Tree Garden: Poems (Propel Poetry)

Amazon.com: The Dead Tree Garden: Poems (Propel Poetry): 9798992546231: Dougherty, The Dead Tree Garden Lisa M.: Books

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Sean Thomas Dougherty @stdougherty.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

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...

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Cloudwatcher by Michael Bazzett - Copper Canyon Press

Cloudwatcher by Michael Bazzett

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Sean Thomas Dougherty @stdougherty.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

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.

Father

Now I know why we men
are born with broad shoulders:
to carry this long grief
of our father’s going
hoisting it to our shoulders
like a coffin.
But how will I carry you
to the woods
when you lived
past the years
when I was a working man
and could lift with ease
the spade, the stone.
Now what I’ve earned
is the shame
of the son
who pushes his father’s
wheelchair
knowing it is the chair
holding me up.

Cover of the Kurdish lit journal LEWerger. Or maybe it is W LEWerger. It is issue and many folks appear on the rover including me and some poets I do not know, current an ancient.

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Sean Thomas Dougherty @stdougherty.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

"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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Dickinson’s Dresses on the Moon by Cori Winrock

June 20, 2025 – “The astronauts who planted their feet on the moon were outfitted in the same glaring white as a wedding dress.”

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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

“Follows a priest and a literary critic through Chile's 1973 coup d'etat and consequent military dictatorship.”

NIGHT IN CHILE

ROBERTO BOLAÑO

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 29/03/2026

#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...

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Sean Thomas Dougherty @stdougherty.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

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

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Jay Besemer @divinetailor.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

in one of james schuyler’s letters to frank o’hara, he quotes a joke made up by a kid in the family he’s staying with: “why did the nothing do nothing? because there was nothing to do.” i have been thinking about that for DAYS.

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

“It was a time of secrets not said at bars.” “Looking back I can hear them clear, those older men in collared shirts or uniforms, who sipped a pint and lingered.” "'Son, you see ...'" @seanthomasd.bsky.social in CRAFT www.craftliterary.com/2026/03/11/p...

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The Plough and the Stars by Sean Thomas Dougherty - CRAFT

What did I know of being a man, back in another century, as I sat in that bar off Massachusetts Avenue, with the older men talking about the Red Sox, and so-and-so’s wife passed on, the saint she was,...

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