Canadian books and poets to read and celebrate www.cbc.ca/books/litera...

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...

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-...

Lovely poem by @seanthomasd.bsky.social

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-...

A new lyric poem of mine in the wonderful Hawaii Pacific Review. hawaiipacificreview.org/2026/04/16/s...

So happy to have a new story up at Jason Teals wonderful Heavy Feather Review. heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/04/15/a...

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...

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...

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...

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.

"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...

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

#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...

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

These poems.

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.

A translation of my old poem "The Second O of Sorrow' into Portuguese with the original English and a cool working class photo singularidadepoetica.art/2025/10/14/s...

“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...

So happy to have a couple new lyric poems published alongside work by Alison Townsend, Matt Coonan and many more in Crystal S Gibbins's wonderful Split Rock Review www.splitrockreview.org/issue-22-toc

I'm so honored to have a couple new streetwise poems in the latest Bird Coat Quarterly, alongside Heather Hamilton, Cal Freeman, and a whole lot of good folks. www.birdcoatquarterly.com/blog/categor...

One of my favorite Irish poets is Jessica Traynor. Highly recommended reading: www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/...

Help support an Irish poet on Saint Patrick's day, though this book has more to do with Kabbalah and Caregiving and Joy in the face of Death than anything. www.boaeditions.org/collections/...

Lovely brief line breaks too. Makes the whole poem feel as if it's quietly catching its breath after every phrase or turn of thought.

Big gratitude to Marjorie Maddox Hafer for choosing and giving a fantastic reading of my poem "Dublin" for Public Radio station WPSU's Poetry Moment. radio.wpsu.org/2026-03-16/p...

“And you there Borstal Boy,” they’d named me for the tough look of my quiet face. “You should learn a trade.” Love this flash essay by @seanthomasd.bsky.social

As a patron who will sometimes sit and drink till close, I appreciate how this piece captures the type of community that can be found in a good pub.

People, this is like something I thought up high and drinking too much Jameson around a backyard fire, "Hey, imagine if Bruce covered Shane MacGowan?" And he did! www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_Z3...

How quickly I click on a @seanthomasd.bsky.social story! Never been disappointed.

I am very honored to have a new flash essay and craft note up at Craft. Big gratitude to Jacqueline Doyle and staff for their fantastic edits. The essay is about my days as a young man at the Plow & the Stars bar in Cambridge, MA. www.craftliterary.com/2026/03/11/p...

Highly recommended reading here, the moving new book of poems by Robert Fanning from the always on point Dzanc Books. www.dzancbooks.org/all-titles/p...

#OtD 7 Mar 1962 bagel bakers in NYC and Nassau country won a month-long strike for better conditions, winning more paid holidays and increased wages stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1072...

Killer labor poem by Nancy Hastings in Drexel University's new issue of Paper Dragon. drexelpaperdragon.com/when-minimum...

New fiction up at Thirteen Bridges: www.thirteenbridgesreview.com/december-202.... Check it out to support fellow writers!

The new loaded issue of ONE just dropped. Including a poem by me, Katherine Soniat | Jennifer K. Sweeney | Gloria Ogo | Israel Okonji | Molly Kirschner | Robert Fanning | Peter Cashorali | Kathleen McGookey | Matt Zambito | J.R. Solonche | Tina Barr | and more! one.jacarpress.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

Loved this flash from @rachelmhollis.bsky.social Brava!

'“I’m a neurosurgeon,” a man’s voice says when I finally decide to pull over and answer the unknown number that’s been calling, calling, calling while I’m driving and lost in a rainstorm.' A beautiful flash essay from @gailfolkins.bsky.social and featured in Short Reads literary magazine.

Some recently-acquired books of poetry I'm enjoying lately @bethanyjarmul.bsky.social @seanthomasd.bsky.social

A beautiful little film with a poem by one of my favorite poets Ireland's Jessica Traynor www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE1D...

The stacked new issue of Chris Tysh's journal of innovative poetics Three Fold just dropped with new work by Melba Joyce Boyd, Anselm Berrigan, Susan Wheeler, Marjorie Welish and three new poems by me too, and much more! threefoldpress.org

Serbian poet Rade Drainac writes about that damning hunger that cannot be satiated My hunger is infinite and my hands always empty. Down city streets at night I carry the moon on my fingers. (Tr. Charles Simic)

Valentine's Day may be over but I have a new love poem in the new issue of Ballast Journal. The issue also includes wonderful work by Robert Carr, Dennis Henrichson, Alicia Potee, Melissa Mack, and many more. www.ballastjournal.com/issue-41-tab...

I have two new Caregiving Essays up at Francine Witte's wonderful FLASH BOULEVARD. flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2026/02/14/s...

I had the privilege of hearing Michael Longley read this poem at what was his last reading. Enda, his wife of 60 years, was sitting in the 2nd row listening to every word 'dawn and dusk can kiss once a year' Cloudberry kisses #poetry #poemoftheday #valentinesday

The new Indianapolis Review just dropped! Bless Natalie for all her hard work for years on this wonderful journal. New work by Karen Kovacik, Chelsea Dingham, David Moolten, Alyssa Jewell, Maureen Alsop and more. Also I have a persona poem in the issue. theindianapolisreview.com

An absurdist little essay I wrote for the UK's Mersey Review. themerseyreview.com/issues/8/portraitofcraniometryastag

I emailed the Irish consulate and asked the taoiseach not to go to the White House on St. Patrick’s Day unless he’s coming out of it with Seamus Culleton.