Sean Thomas Dougherty
@SeanLemonhead
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Erie Poet Laureate 2022, Fulbright Lecturer, books with BOA etc, WCSU MFA Mentor, Medical technician, caregiver, disability rights advocate, Loyal Cavs fan.
NW Pennsylvania, USA
Joined September 2021
"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 @SeanLemonhead in the Fall 2025 issue https://t.co/9qziijHdqd
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My wee story in the Mighty Micros issue. Thanks to Richard Jordan who gave me a heads up to submit here, and to Mary Grimm's great pieces that appeared this week too. https://t.co/gPespRjcVP
theheadlightreview.com
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...
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A woman watches her niece build a terrarium, recreating life behind glass. A meditation on care, control, and the fragile spaces we try to keep alive as everything around us leans toward collapse. #flashfiction by @SuzyEynon in the Fall issue https://t.co/9qziijGFAF
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My wee story in the Mighty Micros issue. Thanks to Richard Jordan who gave me a heads up to submit here, and to Mary Grimm's great pieces that appeared this week too. https://t.co/gPespRjcVP
theheadlightreview.com
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...
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One voice to talk to us. Yes listen. It carries away The second and the years --W.S Graham https://t.co/p5Z8mIoJKf
poetryfoundation.org
Waken into falling light. And hear the Black Maria Searching the town at night. And hear the higher town Weep a petition of fears At the poorhouse close upon The public heartbeat. Waken into falling...
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“Sometimes I watch her from the door, adrift in her long uncombed hair, the smoke rising from her mouth like noir.” —Sean Thomas Dougherty (@SeanLemonhead), “My eleven-year-old daughter asks for a pill” @boaeditions
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Had a poem of mine mentioned in this conversation with the wonderful director Charlie Kaufman and Poet Eva HD https://t.co/rCbpY94cPV
the-independent.com
The Oscar-winning ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ screenwriter has collaborated with poet Eva HD on a short film following ghosts through the streets of Athens. The pair talk to Kevin E G...
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“They could if they could put a price on every breath: one price for the exhale and another for each inhale. A price for opening one’s eyes. What price is it to be able to dream after working a double shift?”
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"How do we balance the weight of a heart, or a hand, with what the cost will be? The cost of a prescription for sunshine? The cost for a cup of rain?" #TodaysPoem #poetry The Weight of Money Sean Thomas Dougherty (@SeanLemonhead) (2025 Only Poems Daily)
onlypoemsdaily.com
the weight of money is more than can be measured
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"Oh desire, oh desperate need, oh the run from what could only be worse if kept / stagnant by inertia" A poem by 𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘁 in the Fall 2025 issue https://t.co/9qziijGFAF
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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." Full poem at Only Poems Daily, link in comments.
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My favorite singer in the world @lisaoneillmusic drops a political masterpiece just when we needed it most. https://t.co/LCIo1WvnaI
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For Gaza Something from the blood the way Y Or X shapes and shifts as if above The body is a cartography for all Who is not other. Who will be the one to Turn away or be the one to look And bear witness for the body on from Amsterdam Review, full poem and link in comments
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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: https://t.co/9qziijGFAF
#poetry #fiction #translations #finearts #amsterdam 🇳🇱
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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, Jacqueline Johnson, Marjorie Maddox etc. & I have two poems, scroll all the way down. https://t.co/RZgktmpdhI
aboutplacejournal.org
a literary journal published by the Black Earth Institute dedicated to re-forging the links between art and spirit, earth and society
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