Sean Thomas Dougherty

Issue 4.1 Table of Contents — ballast

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.

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SEAN THOMAS DOUGHERTY: The Woman Wants To Know About The Weather Creative Non-Fiction By Sean Thomas Dougherty The Woman Wants To Know About The Weather If it snows her father won’t visit. They will spend Thanksgiving apart. Don’t start teary eyeing. It’s n…

I have two new Caregiving Essays up at Francine Witte's wonderful FLASH BOULEVARD.

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Thank you so much Patricia for sharing my wee essays.

Poem 'Cloudberries' by Michael Longley

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

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The Indianapolis Review A Quarterly Journal of Poetry and Art

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.

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Portrait of Craniometry as Tag — The Mersey Review 'Portrait of Craniometry as Tag' by Sean Thomas Dougherty

An absurdist little essay I wrote for the UK's Mersey Review.

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Filth? He seems the beautiful performance that involved two people getting married to joyrous Americans. As opposed to the alternative performance by a pedophile.

Irish man held in ICE detention says he fears for his life and asks Ireland for help Seamus Culleton describes conditions as ‘torture’ as he pleads with taoiseach to raise his case with Donald Trump

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.

I'm going to do that too, thanks for this heads up on this John.

The Drawer of Small Storms — The Mersey Review 'The Drawer of Small Storm' by Veronica Tucker

A strange surreal gem by Veronica Tucker in the UK's Mersey Review.

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what the fuck really is happening in Massachusetts and why?

‘There is one story we never tell’: will old family photos bring joy to my ailing mother – or remind us of dark secrets? As Alzheimer’s tightens its grip, we have started making our way through the hundreds of albums in my childhood home. But some are too painful to revisit

This writing is heartbreakingly beautiful: unflinching but so considered and kind. ‘Perhaps a person’s life force is like a campfire, and we keep it burning by telling our stories around it. There is one story we never tell any more.’ 🥇 @stephenkelman.bsky.social

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There was something in the way he asked / that sounded like he was talking about the past

This is a terrible idea.

Please no.

This is such a strange trade. Harden is essentially an evil basket case, but he could turn Cleveland into lob city 3.0. RIght now though the Cavs seem to have turned a corner and trading Hunter was a step closer to cohesion. Why bring in the old man?

YouTube video by RTÉ - IRELAND’S NATIONAL PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA Manchán Magan - 'Mothaím Uaim Mothú' | Shine Your Light - Solstice

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Thank you so much Elizabeth, hope all is good with all your words this cold winter in Rochester

YouTube video by The National The National - 'Light Years'

Grown up music

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I Am in a Room Alone — The Headlight Review with the only music of the morning traffic, those who must rise to drive to labor, and a window often curtained and closed, and in winter, the radiator hissing, the kind from another century, the kind...

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#OtD 30 Jan 1972 the Bloody Sunday massacre took place when British soldiers fired on unarmed civil rights protesters in the Bogside, Ireland, killing 14. Protesters had been opposing the policy of internment stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1028...

Sublimation opens with my concrete poem! 💙

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Fumigation by Zyklon B. Right here in the USA.

Death Fluorescence by Julia Bouwsma (Pre-Order) | Sundress Publications In this triumphant and visually stunning collection, poet Julia Bouwsma expertly crafts an exploration of life on this Earth woven with the wonders of parasitic worms, Jewish identity, and the persist...

“To be lit by Death Fluorescence is to enter a world both familiar and strange even to those who live it, a series of verbal matryoshka opening the language, by one of America’s most inventive and investigative poets." —Sean Thomas Dougherty sundress-publications.square.site/product/deat...

Brevity's new issue launched this morning. Flash essays from Nicole Walker, Alex Sokol, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Shuly Cawood, Thomasin LaMay, Charles Montgomery, Derek Maiolo, José Orduña, Josh Martin, Liz Sauchelli, Margaret Grayson, and Rocky Halpern. Artwork by Michael Todd Cohen.
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That threat right there is legally simple assault