In the faint light of smoke drifting from the refinery and forsythia climbing along the chain-link fence, there is no burning gasoline can or the lost faces limping toward emergency rooms after being shot in the foot. (More …)
Sean Thomas Dougherty
Sean Thomas Dougherty was born in NYC and grew up in Brooklyn, NY, Toledo, OH, and Manchester, NH. Publisher’s Weekly describes Dougherty as “a blue-collar, Rust Belt romantic to his generous, enthusiastic core,” and Dorianne Laux praises him as “the gypsy punk heart of American poetry.” He is the author of 14 books including The Second O of Sorrow (BOA Editions, 2018, forthcoming), All You Ask for is Longing: New and Selected Poems (BOA Editions, 2014), Scything Grace (Etruscan Press, 2013), and Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line (BOA Editions, 2010). His awards include the 2015 Betsy Colquitt Poetry Award from Texas Christian University’s descant, two PA Arts Council Fellowships in Poetry, a Fulbright Lectureship to the Balkans, and an appearance in Best American Poetry 2014. He works at Gold Crown Billiards in Erie, Pennsylvania.
What We Will Not Save If When I Am Beside You
by Sean Thomas Dougherty
There are things that break and there are the things I have entered against and there are the things that no one promised. (More …)