"The fact he tells these stories tells me he wants to keep on breathing. He hasn’t given up yet. And when he sits outside staring at the sky, I see him gripping the wheel, turning down a back road, big wheels kicking up a hurricane of mud." @seanthomasd.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

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"After the longest night, tomorrow we sing up the dawn. There is a rejoicing that, even in the darkest time, the sun is not vanquished" - Dacha Avelin

So glad to have a couple poems up at Richard Long's 2Rivers with all of these fine poets. Link in the comments:

For example. 4th book. Waterbaby (2021) Copper Canyon Press.

My "Al's Story" is Story of the Month up at Thirteen Bridges " He looked perfectly balanced, a tripod of head, elbows bent and then his body leaning forward on the stool. Hell, he looked angelic. " www.thirteenbridgesreview.com/december-202...

Big gratitude to Deirdre Fagan and crew for including my poem alongside work by all these fine folks in the brand new issue of Orange Blossom Review: Susan Demarest, Gary Duehr, Roy Bentley, Jen Hallaman, Wendy Wisner, Joemario Umana, Joanna Garbutt, Lisa K. Buchanan, and Kelsey Erin Shipman.

My poem from the new beautifully done Nixes Mate

If anyone is looking for some Monday prose poem reading here is the archive at The Prose Poem, out of the UK. theprosepoem.com/issues/

"Do you know how many beautiful things can be seen in a single second? How you can blow up a second like a balloon and fit infinity inside of it? " Andrea Gibson poets.org/poem/chemo-r...

Gratitude to Terry Kennedy and staff at storySouth for publishing this dialogue with John Hoppenthaler and his students. Plus five new poems of mine. storysouth.com/stories/can-...

Reminds me of this by @seanthomasd.bsky.social thepedestalmagazine.com/sean-thomas-...

Pitch perfect.

A new short story! www.thirteenbridgesreview.com/december-202...

A couple of very cool brief prose poems by Syracuse's Madison Lazenby. The first is a hermit crab prose poem using CCTV, and the second a Haibun. In the latest Red Orgre Review. ogre.red/issues/2025-...

when I was an editor decades ago I used to ONLY respond to things on Sundays. It was my day off. The internet was young. Everything was snail mail. On Monday morning, I'd walk to the corner mailbox with a big bag of SASE's. I'd drop those envelopes of hope and sadness into the mail slot.

3/5 Pushcart Prize "Fallen Trees" by Ray Carey "The Things We Cannot Recall " by @seanthomasd.bsky.social "My Neighbor Uses Poison" @martin65.bsky.social "Indoor Wood" by Cela Xiè "Arabic in America" by Jake Zuppa

One from the archives www.poetryfoundation.org/featured-blo...

I SO love this poem by Theodora Ziolkowski in the latest Josephine Quarterly. www.josephinequarterly.com/theodora-zio...

“You must start with something small and easier to manage, like melancholy.” @seanthomasd.bsky.social in @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/what-is-the-...

Great poetry journal, currently taking submissions. www.publicschoolpoetry.com

“a pair of my daughter’s jeans (washed and washed again, packed away for Goodwill), / I found old gum deep in the pocket and a tiny note folded so hard, the blue ink barely blurred: // I’m friends with mean girls and I feel like I’m drowning” —Jennifer Martelli, “Stone-colored Birds”

the brilliantly subversive Unbroken www.theunjournals.com/unbroken47

What an essay on one of our greatest www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxion...

"I am not a poker player, but I recently came across An Introduction to Poker in a second-hand bookshop, and it seemed the sort of book which might be useful to a poet." www.poetryireland.ie/writers/arti...

"If / I were there I too would be nothing / But inside my body is a bearing were / One to arise." A poem by 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 @seanthomasd.bsky.social in the Fall 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

"I first consider a question or a poetic problem, I think in metaphor almost before I register what the thing is. It’s the reason you end up writing poetry. Looking at a vase you’re like, “Oh too late!” The metaphor is immediately what you see. And that’s just always been the way that my mind work"

I wonder if this is why I write and am drawn to long poems: "I realize that historically the function of painting large pictures is painting something very grandiose and pompous. The reason I paint them, however ... is precisely because I want to be very intimate and human." Mark Rothko

The great Sean Thomas Dougherty (also a Public School Poetry contributor in Issue #1!) word-singing the unmeasurable grams we're forced to measure

Today on FLASH BOULEVARD, the wonderful Gary Fincke. Enjoy. flashboulevard.wordpress.com/blog/

Time for some Friday afternoon backyard reading!

How could I not love a poem about the dead by Michael Bazzett? tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/t...

Highly recommended reading right here www.ninemile.org/propel

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...

"How many grams does it take to sing the blues? How many grams does it take to shine?" #TodaysPoem #poetry The Weight of Money by Sean Thomas Dougherty (@SeanThomasD.bsky.social) (2025 Only Poems Daily) www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-weight...

Thinking about the resurgence of Nationalism and flag waving I am reminded of this poem by Ada Limón 'A New National Anthem' ‘my bones are your bones, and your bones are my bones’ #poetry #poemoftheday #LoveKnowsNoBorders #PeopleNotFlags

"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...

My favorite singer in the world @lisaoneillmusic.bsky.social drops a political masterpiece just when we needed it most. "Oh, to be wild like the roses Oh, to be red with delight My blood is red out of fury The wind doesn’t blow this far right" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbm-pNGPuo8

New story, "Becoming a Member," up @south85journal.bsky.social! Thanks to @lesliepwriter.bsky.social and her crew for giving it a home, and to @kimmagowan.bsky.social for looking at an early draft. www.south85journal.com/becoming-a-m...

Oh hell yes. The new issue of Bending Genre just dropped with fab work by my friends in words Francine Witte, Jill Crammond, Carolee Bennet, and many more writers! All free and online. bendinggenres.com

Poetry!

RIP Baron Wormser www.mainepublic.org/show/poems-f...

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. aboutplacejournal.org

Our Fall 2025 issue is OUT NOW! Featuring an #interview with Keetje Kuipers and works by Sean Thomas Dougherty, Suzy Eynon, Jason Bentsman, Chelsea Dingman, and many more. Read here: bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #fiction #translations #finearts #amsterdam 🇳🇱

Two new poems in Sweet for your poem sweet-tooth. sweetlit.org/sean-thomas-...

Meitner!