Sheila E. Murphy
@shemurph.bsky.social
Poet, organizational consultant, researcher, and author
Don't miss Descent In Five (motions) by Tobey Hiller, just published by Sandy Press. It's a remarkable book!
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January 12, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Don't miss Descent In Five (motions) by Tobey Hiller, just published by Sandy Press. It's a remarkable book!
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www.sandy-press.com
Received sad news today that Ed Foster has left us. RIP.
January 12, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Received sad news today that Ed Foster has left us. RIP.
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Thanks to Bill Allegrezza for featuring this poem in Moss Trill today!
Thanks to Bill Allegrezza for featuring this poem in Moss Trill today!
Sheila E. Murphy
You Ain’t Gusto Gone To Makeshift SilenceSwish tail Vichyssoise Leekly midnight eloquent Elopement dramatist purgation North of Roth holdings chasteAs miniature flags flagging downHelp helplessly s…
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January 5, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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Thanks to Bill Allegrezza for featuring this poem in Moss Trill today!
Thanks to Bill Allegrezza for featuring this poem in Moss Trill today!
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Happy to have a poem in the inaugural Michigan-based new journal, The Dolomite Review.
Happy to have a poem in the inaugural Michigan-based new journal, The Dolomite Review.
The Dolomite Review | Literary Journal for Fiction, Poetry, and Essays
Discover The Dolomite Review, a literary journal offering fiction, poetry, and essays for readers in the United States.
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January 1, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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Happy to have a poem in the inaugural Michigan-based new journal, The Dolomite Review.
Happy to have a poem in the inaugural Michigan-based new journal, The Dolomite Review.
Delighted to have two pieces included in Noon: An Anthology of Short Poems (Volume 2), edited by Philip Rowland. This second volume is remarkable. Check it out.
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NOON: An Anthology of Short Poems (Volume 2) | Isobar Press
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December 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Delighted to have two pieces included in Noon: An Anthology of Short Poems (Volume 2), edited by Philip Rowland. This second volume is remarkable. Check it out.
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Highly recommend Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know.
Delicious and brilliantly entertaining.
Delicious and brilliantly entertaining.
December 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Highly recommend Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know.
Delicious and brilliantly entertaining.
Delicious and brilliantly entertaining.
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Thanks to Meia Geddes for including this poem of mine in Poetose. Honored to be there.
Thanks to Meia Geddes for including this poem of mine in Poetose. Honored to be there.
"Broth" by Sheila E. Murphy
"Broth" poem by Sheila E. Murphy
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November 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Thanks to Meia Geddes for including this poem of mine in Poetose. Honored to be there.
Thanks to Meia Geddes for including this poem of mine in Poetose. Honored to be there.
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“She knows she is surrounded by people pleasers who cringe as they watch her wrinkle her expression on Zoom then work to move her face muscles back to neutral smooth.” @shemurph.bsky.social
Bittering Up - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Manuel bonadeo on Unsplash by Sheila E. Murphy Hilda wields a curious power with her ritually unhappy face. She knows she is surrounded by people pleasers who cringe as they watch her wrinkle...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
“She knows she is surrounded by people pleasers who cringe as they watch her wrinkle her expression on Zoom then work to move her face muscles back to neutral smooth.” @shemurph.bsky.social
We Do Not Part by Han Kang is a life-changing read. Highly recommended.
November 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
We Do Not Part by Han Kang is a life-changing read. Highly recommended.
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Just released! The inaugural issue of Cherry Road Review. Kudos to Editors Charlotte Ungar & Maisie Bilston for a wonderful issue. Yours truly is happy to be included here. Enjoy the issue.
Just released! The inaugural issue of Cherry Road Review. Kudos to Editors Charlotte Ungar & Maisie Bilston for a wonderful issue. Yours truly is happy to be included here. Enjoy the issue.
Cherry Road Review
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November 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Just released! The inaugural issue of Cherry Road Review. Kudos to Editors Charlotte Ungar & Maisie Bilston for a wonderful issue. Yours truly is happy to be included here. Enjoy the issue.
Just released! The inaugural issue of Cherry Road Review. Kudos to Editors Charlotte Ungar & Maisie Bilston for a wonderful issue. Yours truly is happy to be included here. Enjoy the issue.
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"A wishy-washy wave of partial kindness inflected itself within the row of syllables Matthew methodically released into the ear canal of the woman limbo-ed on hold"
Love the use of sound in this piece from
@shemurph.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
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Love the use of sound in this piece from
@shemurph.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
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November 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
"A wishy-washy wave of partial kindness inflected itself within the row of syllables Matthew methodically released into the ear canal of the woman limbo-ed on hold"
Love the use of sound in this piece from
@shemurph.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
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Love the use of sound in this piece from
@shemurph.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
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Issue 37 is here l! Covert art by @writesofkathryn.bsky.social with
12 outstanding stories by
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social @jekwriter.bsky.social @thorntonforreal.bsky.social @maireadwrites.bsky.social @michelleross.bsky.social
@salgal.bsky.social @shemurph.bsky.social @stephieosaurus.bsky.social
12 outstanding stories by
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social @jekwriter.bsky.social @thorntonforreal.bsky.social @maireadwrites.bsky.social @michelleross.bsky.social
@salgal.bsky.social @shemurph.bsky.social @stephieosaurus.bsky.social
Issue 37 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Kathryn Kulpa Stories
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November 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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This morning, Jeff Harvey released Gooseberry Pie Lit 37, including two microfictions by yours truly plus other wonderful work!
This morning, Jeff Harvey released Gooseberry Pie Lit 37, including two microfictions by yours truly plus other wonderful work!
Issue 37 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Kathryn Kulpa Stories
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November 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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This morning, Jeff Harvey released Gooseberry Pie Lit 37, including two microfictions by yours truly plus other wonderful work!
This morning, Jeff Harvey released Gooseberry Pie Lit 37, including two microfictions by yours truly plus other wonderful work!
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The sixth day of our fourteenth issue includes poems by Frances Boyle, Sheila E. Murphy and Daniel Hubbard, and The art of writing #111 an interview with Ian Seed @francesboyle19.bsky.social @ianseedauthor.bsky.social talkingaboutstrawberries.blogspot.com
April 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The sixth day of our fourteenth issue includes poems by Frances Boyle, Sheila E. Murphy and Daniel Hubbard, and The art of writing #111 an interview with Ian Seed @francesboyle19.bsky.social @ianseedauthor.bsky.social talkingaboutstrawberries.blogspot.com
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The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Eight features the prose poetry of @ianseedauthor.bsky.social Ian Seed:
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The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Eight features the prose poetry of Ian Seed
A Feast Of Words And Images
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November 1, 2025 at 7:36 AM
The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Eight features the prose poetry of @ianseedauthor.bsky.social Ian Seed:
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The Starbeck Orion includes a few recent pieces by yours truly.
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The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Eight features the poetry of Sheila Murphy
A Feast Of Words And Image
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November 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The Starbeck Orion includes a few recent pieces by yours truly.
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The new issue of Word for / Word includes an excerpt from Untitled poem about a red box, plus work by @shemurph.bsky.social, @atlascorpus.bsky.social, and many others! Thanks to Jonathan Minton for the beautiful curatorship.
Word For/Word: A Journal of New Writing (Issue 45, Fall 2025)
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October 31, 2025 at 3:44 AM
The new issue of Word for / Word includes an excerpt from Untitled poem about a red box, plus work by @shemurph.bsky.social, @atlascorpus.bsky.social, and many others! Thanks to Jonathan Minton for the beautiful curatorship.
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Reposted by Sheila E. Murphy
Looking forward to this event on Thursday evening in Manchester! If you want to hear some great poetry (and a little bit of my first novel!) in a perfection location, please come down! @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social @ianseedauthor.bsky.social @sarahclareconlon.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Looking forward to this event on Thursday evening in Manchester! If you want to hear some great poetry (and a little bit of my first novel!) in a perfection location, please come down! @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social @ianseedauthor.bsky.social @sarahclareconlon.bsky.social
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My thanks to the @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
My thanks to the @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social
Dunes Literary Reading Series at Indiana University Northwest presented a reading by Geof Huth and yours truly on October 15, 2025. You can view the recorded video here:
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Dunes Literary Series: Sheila E. Murphy and Geof Huth - Indiana University
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October 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Dunes Literary Reading Series at Indiana University Northwest presented a reading by Geof Huth and yours truly on October 15, 2025. You can view the recorded video here:
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An international poetry journal based in the English Department of King’s College London
An international poetry journal based in the English Department of King’s College London
‘Audition’: a poem by Sheila E. Murphy – Wild Court
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September 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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An international poetry journal based in the English Department of King’s College London
An international poetry journal based in the English Department of King’s College London
Self-interview on Tom Fink's Dichtung Yammer site:
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Self Interview by Sheila E. Murphy
Let’s say it’s morning. When do you get up, and then what happens? Before lifting my physique from bed, I meditate for the first of two daily meditations. I used to be a confirmed night person, but…
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September 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Self-interview on Tom Fink's Dichtung Yammer site:
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