Sean Thomas Dougherty

I am pretty sure I was never taught this part in class and I went to school through 7th grade at majority Black schools.

The Anarchist Bakers Union!

Mary Oliver's Augusts Writing about a month across a lifetime

Yesterday’s newsletter on Mary Oliver’s Augusts:

Vietnamese-Japanese I believe. She's also the author of 2 incredible poetry collections published by Deep Vellum.

Bear Review | Sean Thomas Dougherty Poetry by Sean Thomas Dougherty in Bear Review. Bear Review is a journal of poetry and art based in Kansas City.

A performance piece I wrote a few years ago published in the terrific Bear Review

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David, I never heard of that writer. Is she Polish? That sounds like something I would love.

YouTube video by Michael Jr. Dog Name Theory | Michael Jr.#comedy #standup #laugh

Have you ever seen the comedian who talks about white people give their dogs human names but black people name their dogs, well you got to see it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVLZ...

West Trade Review: "Conversation at Birth" by Amy Thatcher Amy Thatcher is a native Philadelphian where she works as a public librarian. Her poems have been published by Guesthouse, Bear Review, and others.

"My mother smoked
in the hospital bed,
blunt as a book
of facts." westtradereview.com/onlineexclus...

People are going to die, and jobs will be lost. And then more people are going to die. And this Government really doesn't give a fuck.

I wish I could tell you of the fear and affect we are already feeling and the specific issues around Case workers and looking ahead for funding is scaring the shit out of all of us.

Of course the first AI model is some generic white blonde chic.

No Sign of Injury in the Sky: Two Poems - Words Without Borders The sky witnesses a world at the brink of rupture in these two poems by Sinan Antoon

The sky witnesses a world at the brink of rupture in these two poems by Sinan Antoon. Read “No Sign of Injury in the Sky: Two Poems,” translated from Arabic by Sara Elkamel, on WWB: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Sean Thomas Dougherty Fugue of Vodka Light GS with lines & variation from Lorna De Cervantes’ “From the Bus to E.L. at Atascadero State Hospital” The woman screams I want Vodka now! InsteadI offer her more coffee, but toni...

A new portrait caregiving poem

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Oh man-- "Time for her is not a treaty
She has signed."

Sean Thomas Dougherty: Three Poems - Cultural Daily Three poems by Sean Thomas Dougherty: "Here the machinery of night // is still. I walk the long hall / & listen for human words."

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The Measure of the World By attending to the vibrant specificity of Black life, poet Dionne Brand contests the cruel mathematics of empire.

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“What if you were to give each element its discrete thought, its discrete style, its particular imaginings? That’s what you tap into to compose lines of poetry, the separate and tiny concerns arrayed in the everyday which somehow come together in the big life of the world.”

Dionne Brand

so good

I thought it was the onion but I should know better by now.

Thank you Grant. Yes the treaty we are all asked to sign eventually.

Sean Thomas Dougherty Fugue of Vodka Light GS with lines & variation from Lorna De Cervantes’ “From the Bus to E.L. at Atascadero State Hospital” The woman screams I want Vodka now! InsteadI offer her more coffee, but toni...

A new portrait caregiving poem

anacapareview.com/sean-thomas-...

Maybe he will get deported?

“What about the people who can’t take care of themselves? My friend, I’m one of those people. Every day I don’t bring down something fatal on my head is another miracle. And every day I experience such a miracle, I want another one. Leave me alone. I’m in love with these miracles.” —Denis Johnson

God Looked Into the Torah and Created the World: Introducing the Poetry of Dan Alter No, I’m not going to write about ceasefires or foul-mouthed presidents.

The inaugural post of Calul is up! We are a Jewish journal, but we welcome all poets from all walks of life. Calul is Hebrew for inclusivity and that is what I hope the journal will stand for, for bridges, for friendships, for the very human in every poem.
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#OtD 18 Jul 1969 Black Panthers began the United Front Against Fascism Conference in Oakland, California, alongside the white anti-racist Young Patriots Organisation and Puerto Rican street gang-turned-radical group the Young Lords stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8997...,

Thank you so much Grant!

Different nation. Same struggles.

YouTube video by West Trade Review Sean Dougherty Reads "​Golden Shovel with Alejandra Pizarnik’s Sombras de los días a venir"

A reading by me and introduction to my new Golden Shovel in the West Trade Review summer issue,

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West Trade Review: Summer 2025 Collection of Online Exclusives West Trade Review: Fearless. Crafted. Impassioned.

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West Trade Review: Summer 2025 Collection of Online Exclusives West Trade Review: Fearless. Crafted. Impassioned.

westtradereview.com/Online-Exclu...