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Dan Murphy
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dad/poet/educator/tradesman/gardener/bodhrán player/former boxer 🇮🇪🇸🇮

Winner, The Agha Shahid Ali Prize in poetry, 2024 (ESTATE SALE: University of Utah Press, 2025)

https://uofupress.com/books/estate-sale/

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Confronting Fear with Poetry: A Conversation with Tracy K. Smith - The Rumpus
“Poems allow me to work toward momentary clarity or to see a problem through a metaphor that makes it something I can work upon or live with in a way that always feels like a blessing or some kind of ...
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January 14, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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POEM: You Who Wronged BY CZESLAW MILOSZ You who wronged a simple man Bursting into laughter at the crime, And kept a pack of fools around you To mix good and evil, to blur the line, Though everyone bowed down before you, Saying virtue and wisdom lit your way, Striking gold medals in your honor, Glad to have survived another day, Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date. And you'd have done better with a winter dawn, A rope, and a branch bowed beneath your weight.
January 9, 2026 at 3:48 AM
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The weak response from Can, EU and UN to Trump's flagrant crimes in Venezuela is striking.

It exposes that much of the world has been cowed.

Most notable exception: the Latin American left.

That is why the Trump Admin has gone to enormous lengths to defeat the left across the continent. 1/3
January 4, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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“I did not kill myself today. It was a Tuesday. And since you are reading this, neither did you. Neither of us were sent to war or had to hide in the basement.” —Sean Thomas Dougherty (@seanthomasd.bsky.social), “Poem Made of Fragments…” @boa-editions.bsky.social
POEM MADE OF FRAGMENTS WRITTEN ON VARIOUS PIECES OF PAPER—NAPKINS, SOCIAL WORK PAPERS, MED ORDER FORMS, THE BACK OF MED SUPPLY RECEIPTS, GAS RECEIPTS, AND SOME AFTER WAKING FROM DREAMS. I did not kill myself today. It was a Tuesday. And since you are reading this, neither did you. Neither of us were sent to war or had to hide in the basement. No one was standing under the streetlight at 3 AM. I tend to walk with my hood up, my head down. I tend to take my hood off if I see a cop. I tend to look away from bridges. The day the crocuses arrived I feel a part of me glanced up at the cardinal and flew away. Camus wrote, the moment that Sisyphus lets go of the stone, there is a moment he is free. But I say why doesn’t he sit down? Why doesn’t he refuse to go on? Is there not a Union in the afterlife? No wonder when we die, they used to say, “He punched his clock.” During the Balkan wars, who was the cellist—I googled it!—Vedran Smailovic, who brought a chair to the square in Sarajevo, sat down during the siege, and played Adagio in G Minor. Death prefers the minor keys. Vedran Smailovic is still alive. He is still playing in concert halls, but behind the veil he is forever playing in the square as the snipers look into their sights. And here is the ghost girl running through the halls again. Where has she come from? There are moments it seems I cannot even spell my name. As if I myself have been disappeared. Then I return. Sean, I write on the form that says I watched over humans tonight, and no one died. Is everything I write about your absence? How it hovers above you when you bend your head to read. When I was a boy, I used to love to take apart old radios. Not to see how they worked but to see how they looked like a miniature city, with tiny streets, skyscrapers of tubes, bodegas of fuses. Once, years ago, I walked far out onto the ice, and when I was out far enough that the world was only sky and clouds and frozen lake, I sat down. There is no anniversary for this day. I drive past the abandoned farmhouses. I am the sadness of horses standing in the rain. I learned to love you the way one learns to love the emptiness of winter fields. I tried to put you away in a drawer full of lost things. I found you in the coffee grounds this morning. And in this way, the voices drift, labyrinthine. An emptiness like a cathedral in my chest. I ramble along the tracks, a bit wary, a bit weary, headed towards nowhere I can name. There is nothing here to translate, sentence by sentence on this earth we are bandaged or bound to grieve. I lay down in the park, drowsy in the afternoon light. I begin to disappear. Leaving behind the weight I’ve carried. If you were to try and find me, all you would see in the grass is the hollow my body made. Sean Thomas Dougherty
December 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Okay!!! Posted on all platforms!!! This will be in print in the NYT Book Review on Sunday.
rezekjoe.bsky.social Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 28d
Friends!!! You know how obsessed I have become with Common Sense.

Tom Paine published that pamphlet 250 years ago this January. I published an essay about it TODAY, in the New York Times. Common Sense remains relevant as ever.

I hope you enjoy it. Gift article ⬇️⬇️⬇️
The Pamphlet That Has Roused Americans to Action for 250 Years
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Happening now!
davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social David Rosenthal @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social · Dec 13
TODAY!!!! DON’T MISS IT!!!!

Join us for live literature, and help raise funds for @translifeline.org

It’s FREE and ONLINE so anyone can join from anywhere!

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Bearded Bards Of BlueSky Online reading to raise funds for Tans Lifeline. December 13, 2025 Featuring: Jared Beloff Barlow Adams Dan Murphy upfromsumdirt Gregory Crosby J-T Kelly https://beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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TODAY!!!! DON’T MISS IT!!!!

Join us for live literature, and help raise funds for @translifeline.org

It’s FREE and ONLINE so anyone can join from anywhere!

REGISTER NOW at: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
Bearded Bards Of BlueSky Online reading to raise funds for Tans Lifeline. December 13, 2025 Featuring: Jared Beloff Barlow Adams Dan Murphy upfromsumdirt Gregory Crosby J-T Kelly https://beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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I'm reading tomorrow!
5-6:45 PM ET Saturday Dec 13th

A fantastic lineup that includes @monostich.bsky.social @readinstead.bsky.social and @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social @barlowadams.bsky.social and @dmurphy.bsky.social

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Dec. 13
December 13, 2025 2:00-3:45 pst/4:00-5:45 cst/5:00-6:45 est Register for Zoom link here Featuring: Jared Beloff Barlow Adams Dan Murphy upfromsumdirt Gregory Crosby J-T Kelly Hosted by: David...
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December 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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This is a fantastic book. Highly recommend.
dmurphy.bsky.social Dan Murphy @dmurphy.bsky.social · Dec 11
Today's the 5-month anniversary of the release of ESTATE SALE by @uofupress.bsky.social & while it had a kind of soft launch over the lazy summer, I'm pleased w the response this fall. If yr interested, here's a list of places where you can find a copy: dmurphy.online/estate-sale/ #writingcommunity
Estate Sale - Dan Murphy
Praise for Estate Sale “Early in Dan Murphy’s elegiac debut, Estate Sale, the poet writes: ‘There is only so much sweetness/in this world. I kiss and kiss and it’s gone. ‘Haunted by the inevitable gri...
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December 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Today's the 5-month anniversary of the release of ESTATE SALE by @uofupress.bsky.social & while it had a kind of soft launch over the lazy summer, I'm pleased w the response this fall. If yr interested, here's a list of places where you can find a copy: dmurphy.online/estate-sale/ #writingcommunity
Estate Sale - Dan Murphy
Praise for Estate Sale “Early in Dan Murphy’s elegiac debut, Estate Sale, the poet writes: ‘There is only so much sweetness/in this world. I kiss and kiss and it’s gone. ‘Haunted by the inevitable gri...
dmurphy.online
December 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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TWO WEEKS AWAY!!!!
Just look at that lineup!!!!

Join us for live literature, and help raise funds for @translifeline.org

It’s FREE and ONLINE so anyone can join from anywhere!

Info and registration at: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
Bearded Bards Of BlueSky Online reading to raise funds for Tans Lifeline. December 13, 2025 Featuring: Jared Beloff Barlow Adams Dan Murphy upfromsumdirt Gregory Crosby J-T Kelly https://beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Today’s Featured Poem:

“Turkeys & Church” by @dmurphy.bsky.social from Estate Sale published by @uofupress.bsky.social

Read here:
poems.com/poem/turkeys...
Turkeys & Church
Gently, they print their trinities in last night's snow
poems.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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TODAY - 3pm EST! #poetsky #poetrycommunity #poetryreading
November 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Hey #poets, #readers, enthusiasts—really excited to join @rpinsky.bsky.social this Sunday on Zoom (3PM EST) as we read work from recently-released collections. Poet Cecilia Woloch is hosting! Pre-registration req’d: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join us!
#writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Cecilia Woloch & Friends Poetry on Zoom with Robert Pinsky & Dan Murphy (rescheduled from Aug). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email ab...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Cecilia Woloch & Friends Poetry on Zoom with Robert Pinsky & Dan Murphy (rescheduled from Aug). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email ab...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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This one’s in the books. Wonderful readings from all six readers. Generous participation from the attendees. We have now brought the total amount raised for @translifeline.org to more than $2,400!

Join us on December 13th for one more installment featuring a great lineup (see my pinned post)
davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social David Rosenthal @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social · Nov 8
HAPPENING TODAY!!!!

Great poetry, great cause.

FREE & ONLINE — anyone can join from anywhere.

REGISTER NOW!!!!
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Bearded Bards Of BlueSky Online readings to raise funds for Tans Lifeline. November 8, 2025 Featuring: Todd Dillard Brian Spears Matthew E. Henry James McConachie David J. Bauman Jonathan Everitt https://beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Join us for the next reading on December 13 to raise funds for Trans Lifeline and listen to live lit from:
@readinstead.bsky.social
@barlowadams.bsky.social
@dmurphy.bsky.social
@upfromsumdirt.bsky.social
@monostich.bsky.social
@j-tkelly.bsky.social

Check out the link in my pinned post.
November 9, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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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."
www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-weight...
The Weight of Money by Sean Thomas Dougherty
the weight of money is more than can be measured
www.onlypoemsdaily.com
October 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970

The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside

Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23

They constantly let America down
October 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Now is an excellent time to register for this:
davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social David Rosenthal @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social · Oct 11
Less than a month away!!!!

Listen to live Lit and raise funds for @translifeline.org.

Register now at:
beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
Bearded Bards Of BlueSky Online readings to raise funds for Tans Lifeline. November 8, 2025 Featuring: Todd Dillard Brian Spears Matthew E. Henry James McConachie David J. Bauman Jonathan Everitt https://beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Hey, look who's (kinda) in the Boston Globe:
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/18/a...

Excited to read from my book ESTATE SALE tonight alongside two excellent poets, Nathanael O'Reilly & Antonina Palisano. 7pm at the Grolier in Harvard Sq. #poetsky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
Text from Boston Globe digital: Dan Murphy ("Estate Sale"), Nathanael O'Reilly ("(Un)belonging"), and Nina Palisano are introduced by Karl Kirchwey to read their poetry at 7 p.m. at Grolier Poetry Book Shop and virtually via Zoom. (Reservation is required.)
September 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
dmurphy.bsky.social
Hey, look who's (kinda) in the Boston Globe:
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/18/a...

Excited to read from my book ESTATE SALE tonight alongside two excellent poets, Nathanael O'Reilly & Antonina Palisano. 7pm at the Grolier in Harvard Sq. #poetsky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
Text from Boston Globe digital: Dan Murphy ("Estate Sale"), Nathanael O'Reilly ("(Un)belonging"), and Nina Palisano are introduced by Karl Kirchwey to read their poetry at 7 p.m. at Grolier Poetry Book Shop and virtually via Zoom. (Reservation is required.)
September 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Big congrats to @lukejohnsonpoet.bsky.social on the publication of his #poetry collection, DISTRIBUTARY. Can’t wait to dive into it, hopefully this weekend? 🤞😆 #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetsky
A poetry book on a wood counter: Distributary by Luke Johnson. The cover appears to be an atmospheric painting with dark coloring, a bird squawking, the moon centered, but distant, a figure holding an old lantern, maybe.
September 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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TONIGHT!
dmurphy.bsky.social Dan Murphy @dmurphy.bsky.social · Sep 19
Hey #poets/ #poetry readers—I’m reading from my book tomorrow at Lala Books in #Lowell, Mass. Poets Paul Marion & Nina Palisano will join me. Nina just had her book published, too. @akasomeguy.bsky.social chose it as winner of the 2024 Tomaž Šalamun Prize! Come by at 6:30. #poetsky #writingcommunity
September 19, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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TONIGHT!
dmurphy.bsky.social Dan Murphy @dmurphy.bsky.social · Sep 19
Hey #poets/ #poetry readers—I’m reading from my book tomorrow at Lala Books in #Lowell, Mass. Poets Paul Marion & Nina Palisano will join me. Nina just had her book published, too. @akasomeguy.bsky.social chose it as winner of the 2024 Tomaž Šalamun Prize! Come by at 6:30. #poetsky #writingcommunity
September 19, 2025 at 10:04 AM
dmurphy.bsky.social
Hey #poets/ #poetry readers—I’m reading from my book tomorrow at Lala Books in #Lowell, Mass. Poets Paul Marion & Nina Palisano will join me. Nina just had her book published, too. @akasomeguy.bsky.social chose it as winner of the 2024 Tomaž Šalamun Prize! Come by at 6:30. #poetsky #writingcommunity
September 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM