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Dan Murphy
@dmurphy.bsky.social
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/

www.dmurphy.online
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
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.
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
Happening now!
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
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
December 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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This is a fantastic book. Highly recommend.
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 1:22 AM
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
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
November 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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...
us02web.zoom.us
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)
HAPPENING TODAY!!!!

Great poetry, great cause.

FREE & ONLINE — anyone can join from anywhere.

REGISTER NOW!!!!
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:
Less than a month away!!!!

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

Register now at:
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
September 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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
September 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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
September 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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TONIGHT!
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
TONIGHT!
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
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