Latest newsletter: "Henry Street [Dublin] at Christmas, 2012" in Bulb Culture Collective (@bulbculture.bsky.social) seancarlson.substack.com/p/henry-stre...

Happy holidays! Here's the story of a short video I shot in Dublin that went semi-viral during the first Covid Christmas. Thanks so much to the editors at @bulbculture.bsky.social for turning the light back on with this one: www.bulbculturecollective.com/read/henry-s...

Catching up on end-of-year best-ofs here! With @sweetoblivion.bsky.social including @oonaf.bsky.social on her "10 Irish writers you should read" list, dusting off my short review of her very deserving work — This Interim Time — for @commonmag.bsky.social: www.thecommononline.org/what-were-re...

The digital edition of the Missouri Review is now live for subscribers, including my essay on The Undertones: www.missourireview-digital.com/missourirevi...

New writing in the New England Review, the Irish Independent, Crannóg, and more: An essay on Cambodia and poetry from Ireland on the cuckoo flower and Polish mushrooms seancarlson.substack.com/p/new-writin...

Really hoping you'll all read my new essay, "Painting the Last Photograph," coming soon in @newenglandreview.bsky.social. Only in print ($22/issue), a full-year U.S. subscription is *today* "Pay What You Can" ($7, $10, $18, $25, or $38): middlebury-college-store.shoplightspeed.com/ner-pay-what...

If in Ireland, pick up today's @independent.ie where my poem "Elegant Spring" is this month's New Irish Writing selection! www.independent.ie/entertainmen...

When I went to a doom show and a physics lecture broke out. My bit on Earth and Stebmo playing Machines with Magnets. (Plus, a new album due out next year.) motifri.com/resonant-osc...

The print edition of NER 46.3-4 is on its way to subscribers and part one of our online preview is now live! Featuring 58 authors & translators—half of whom have yet to publish a book—you don't want to miss this double issue. Experience the online preview & subscribe: nereview.com/issue/vol-46...

New essay of mine coming soon in this beautiful issue!

Ahead of International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists 2025, CPJ recognizes five emblematic cases to underscore how elusive the path to justice is for journalists, and the tragic impact of their killings. cpj.org/2025/10/we-c... #EndImpunity #TruthNeverDies

☀️ We may have taken some time off this summer, but the Split Lip FAM never stops producing work! Check out the Summer/Early Fall Roundup of FAM accomplishments!🍁 buff.ly/b90zdTj

After years of reading the great literary magazine, Crannóg, I simply could not be more thrilled to have a poem of my own in this gorgeous new issue (No. 63), now available to order (€10 + shipping) through crannogmagazine.com.

NBCC member Sean Carlson reviewed Oona Frawley's essay collection "This Interim Time" for The Common's monthly "What We're Reading" series:

NBCC member Sean Carlson wrote an essay about music, memory, and aging anchored around the late-’70s punk band The Undertones for The Missouri Review: buff.ly/EoJtUrt

Here comes the summer! My essay, "Teenage Kicks," on music, discovery, and memory, anchored around The Undertones, is out now in the latest Missouri Review! Opening excerpt here: missourireview.com/article/teen... Full article in print and via Project MUSE here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/48/artic...

New writing in the Missouri Review, @commonmag.bsky.social, and @rteradio1.bsky.social: An essay on The Undertones, a review of Oona Frawley’s This Interim Time, and a debut short story, "Cricklewood" - my latest newsletter: seancarlson.substack.com/p/new-writin...

What a treat to read and recommend Oona Frawley's achingly gorgeous new essay collection This Interim Time for @commonmag.bsky.social's "What We're Reading" series: www.thecommononline.org/what-were-re...

I'll share a link once my essay, "Teenage Kicks," is live online, but if you'd appreciate the print edition, you can now order the summer issue of the Missouri Review here! secure.touchnet.net/C20067_ustor...

Just caught with this gorgeous ep of The Prompt ‘Shoes’ three wonderful pieces. @seancarlsen.bsky.social @zoecomyns.bsky.social loved Cricklewood Seán, lived there in the early 90s.

Today! Listen in from 7:30-8:00 p.m. on RTÉ Radio 1:

Tomorrow! Tune in to @wearetheprompt.bsky.social on @rteradio1.bsky.social: www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

"And in every case, the answer was not less journalism — but more."

This week is the week: My debut work of fiction, a short story titled "Cricklewood," will air on RTÉ Radio 1's @wearetheprompt.bsky.social at 7:30 p.m. this coming Sunday, July 6th. Hope you can listen in! Or come join us here in Listowel!

Congrats are in order! Both contributor @sean-carlson.bsky.social and contributor Lauren Hunt received the 2025 St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award for Literature 👏

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Best wishes to everybody in, or heading to, Listowel for Writers' Week. So sorry to be missing this year's festivities! #LWW25

I'm in awe to be included in this lineup: My first work of fiction, a short story titled "Cricklewood," will air on Irish national radio @rteradio1.bsky.social this summer — on Sunday, July 6th — as part of a new series, @wearetheprompt.bsky.social, presented by @zoecomyns.bsky.social!

Sometimes we could all use a living-room show with a toy dinosaur bubble machine. My little essay / review on Mirah's recent @undertowmusic.bsky.social stop in Providence: motifri.com/the-changing...

Congratulations to @gphibbett.bsky.social on receiving the 2025 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize!

We're enjoying poetry on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY ✨ Contributor @sean-carlson.bsky.social has a detailed poem on anger featured in @versedaily.bsky.social ✨ Find ANGER IS A FISHING TRAWLER here: buff.ly/scNAjzD

Today's poem is "Anger is a fishing trawler" by Seán Carlson from Elsewhere: A Journal of Place Subscribe to our substack and find out what you're missing. www.versedaily.org/2025/angeris...

Written after a conversation at John B's in Listowel and first published in @elsewherejournal.bsky.social, "Anger is a fishing trawler" is today's poem-a-day pick over at @versedaily.bsky.social! www.versedaily.org/2025/angeris...

“Against the insurmountable, music, like any art, need not deliver salvation to provide a salve.” @sean-carlson.bsky.social reviews Mariah Stovall’s I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both (Soft Skull Press). ➡️ buff.ly/815qRNy

"For a moment in time... emotional masculinity was all the rage." Thanks so much to @therumpus.net for the opportunity to revisit the onset of emo, browse the Punk Planet archives, and mull on the enduring power of Jawbreaker in light of Mariah Stovall's debut novel: therumpus.net/2025/04/22/u...

NBCC member @sean-carlson.bsky.social reviewed "Mood Machine" by Liz Pelly for Rhode Island's alt-monthly Motif Magazine:

I stopped by @lizpelly.bsky.social's book talk in Providence and ended up with a few words of my own on her debut Mood Machine and the intersection of music and technology — plus, context from @sugzone.bsky.social on establishing a localized streaming server at the venue. motifri.com/breaking-dow...

NBCC member @sean-carlson.bsky.social interviewed @stephenbrodsky.bsky.social from the band @caveinboston.bsky.social, including discussion of the poetry that influences his songwriting, for Rhode Island's alt-monthly Motif Magazine:

"The five o’clock bus is nearly full by the time it leaves Tralee eight minutes after the hour." That's the opening line of contributor @sean-carlson.bsky.social 's excellent new poem "Bus to Ballybunion," published in the winter/spring 2025 issue of Trasna. Read the piece here: buff.ly/RAdZ6Cr

"So much sorrow in this life comes from feeling like we are not in control. Independent means you are in control." My conversation with @stephenbrodsky.bsky.social of @caveinboston.bsky.social (and many other projects over the years) for R.I.'s alt-monthly Motif Magazine: motifri.com/laying-the-g...

Crisscrossing from Co. Kerry to Hong Kong to Rhode Island through a frame of Wong Kar Wai's film Chungking Express, an audio excerpt of my essay "False Cognates" is now live over at @newenglandreview.bsky.social. Listen, if you'd like: www.nereview.com/ner-out-loud...

"On St. Patrick’s Day of all days, may we remember the exile in every immigrant, from every land. It’s an Irish story, sure, but it’s also all our stories." www.nydailynews.com/2013/03/17/a...

Home and/or Home: Seán Carlson @sean-carlson.bsky.social Interviews Erin Fornoff and Gustav Parker Hibbett www.thecommononline.org/home-and-or-...

NBCC member @sean-carlson.bsky.social's interview with @erinfornoff.bsky.social ("We Are an Archipelago," 2025) and @gphibbett.bsky.social ("High Jump as Icarus Story," 2024) on their experiences growing up in the U.S. and writing poetry in Ireland, was published in The Common:

@sean-carlson.bsky.social interviews @erinfornoff.bsky.social and @gphibbett.bsky.social in this interview at a literary fest in County Kerry, Ireland.

i’m so grateful to @sean-carlson.bsky.social for transcribing and polishing this conversation between him, me, and @erinfornoff.bsky.social from last year’s Listowel Writers’ Week & finding a home for it in @commonmag.bsky.social 🏡♥️ so nice to see it digitally in print! ♥️

Thank you to Trasna for including my eensy-weensy dispatch, "Bus to Ballybunion," in their latest issue, full of beautiful work from Ireland and its diasporas: trasna.online/sean-carlson/

New writing in @newenglandreview.bsky.social, @ninthletter.bsky.social, @commonmag.bsky.social, and more — and remembering Brendan Costello, president of the nonprofit Irish American Writers & Artists and a friend: seancarlson.substack.com/p/new-writin...

I have read @commonmag.bsky.social since its very first issue, so it's especially sweet to see my conversation with @erinfornoff.bsky.social and @gphibbett.bsky.social in these pages. Such fun discussing their poetry and experiences in the U.S. and Ireland: www.thecommononline.org/home-and-or-...

For writers enamored with place, consider dwelling on the rudderless and the uncertain (and break out some Pogues!) for @elsewherejournal.bsky.social's Adrift edition. If you'd like, you can read my "alone, adrift, at sea" poem in the recent Trespass issue: www.elsewhere-journal.com/latest-issue...