Dan O'Brien
@bydanobrien.bsky.social
Plays, poems, prose http://danobrien.org
Published two years ago, but a new shipment of copies still brings a thrill — thanks to those who’ve been reading 🙏🏻 @acrebooks.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Published two years ago, but a new shipment of copies still brings a thrill — thanks to those who’ve been reading 🙏🏻 @acrebooks.bsky.social
No Kings 🐔 Santa Monica
October 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
No Kings 🐔 Santa Monica
10 years today since my poetry collection New Life—a companion to War Reporter—was published by @cbeditions.bsky.social in London (and not long after by @hangingloosepress.bsky.social in Brooklyn) 🙏🏻 Here’s a lovely review in The Rumpus therumpus.net/2016/01/29/n...
October 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
10 years today since my poetry collection New Life—a companion to War Reporter—was published by @cbeditions.bsky.social in London (and not long after by @hangingloosepress.bsky.social in Brooklyn) 🙏🏻 Here’s a lovely review in The Rumpus therumpus.net/2016/01/29/n...
My childhood memoir turned two yesterday. Thank you to all who’ve been reading (& listening to the audiobook) 🙏🏻 @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social A nice review here by @jamesbpcook.bsky.social in the @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
October 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
My childhood memoir turned two yesterday. Thank you to all who’ve been reading (& listening to the audiobook) 🙏🏻 @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social A nice review here by @jamesbpcook.bsky.social in the @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
Thank you @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for this chat with christopher oscar peña about my ‘True Story: A Trilogy’ @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social and chris‘s ‘Three Plays’ @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social — & thank you @markarmstrong4.bsky.social @scavengerjunta.bsky.social @lisaampleman.bsky.social 🙏🏻
October 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Thank you @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for this chat with christopher oscar peña about my ‘True Story: A Trilogy’ @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social and chris‘s ‘Three Plays’ @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social — & thank you @markarmstrong4.bsky.social @scavengerjunta.bsky.social @lisaampleman.bsky.social 🙏🏻
The start of my poem for my brother in the latest @southernreview.bsky.social — very grateful to editor Jessica Faust 🙏🏻
October 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The start of my poem for my brother in the latest @southernreview.bsky.social — very grateful to editor Jessica Faust 🙏🏻
Here’s the start of a longer poem of mine in the new issue of @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social, a journal I love — very grateful to poetry editor @andrewdavidking.bsky.social and editor @ovillalon.bsky.social 🙏🏻 www.zyzzyva.org/2025/09/10/i...
October 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Here’s the start of a longer poem of mine in the new issue of @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social, a journal I love — very grateful to poetry editor @andrewdavidking.bsky.social and editor @ovillalon.bsky.social 🙏🏻 www.zyzzyva.org/2025/09/10/i...
Well she’s written her own sketch shows, co-created and co-written TV shows, co-written an audio book, co-written screenplays and more than a few TV pilots along the way . . . but, drumroll please, this is my wife’s first proper book and it sold at auction in the spring ✨
September 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Well she’s written her own sketch shows, co-created and co-written TV shows, co-written an audio book, co-written screenplays and more than a few TV pilots along the way . . . but, drumroll please, this is my wife’s first proper book and it sold at auction in the spring ✨
Excited to visit the University of Alabama at Birmingham next month to read in the BACHE Visiting Writers' Series calendar.uab.edu/event/dan-ob...
September 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Excited to visit the University of Alabama at Birmingham next month to read in the BACHE Visiting Writers' Series calendar.uab.edu/event/dan-ob...
Another book birthday — Survivor’s Notebook is two today. Thank you to @acrebooks.bsky.social & to readers 🙏🏻
“[A] deeply compelling portrait of life as a cancer survivor . . . [O’Brien] understands how our human songs are ‘made melodic with pain.’” ― Plume Poetry
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
“[A] deeply compelling portrait of life as a cancer survivor . . . [O’Brien] understands how our human songs are ‘made melodic with pain.’” ― Plume Poetry
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
September 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Another book birthday — Survivor’s Notebook is two today. Thank you to @acrebooks.bsky.social & to readers 🙏🏻
“[A] deeply compelling portrait of life as a cancer survivor . . . [O’Brien] understands how our human songs are ‘made melodic with pain.’” ― Plume Poetry
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
“[A] deeply compelling portrait of life as a cancer survivor . . . [O’Brien] understands how our human songs are ‘made melodic with pain.’” ― Plume Poetry
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
In the Sunday Times today—thanks for reading & for the kind words 🙏🏻 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
In the Sunday Times today—thanks for reading & for the kind words 🙏🏻 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
My second poetry collection ‘Scarsdale’ is 11 years old today. Still available from @cbeditions.bsky.social in the UK, and Measure Press in the US.
www.cbeditions.com/obrien2.html
www.amazon.com/Scarsdale-Da...
www.cbeditions.com/obrien2.html
www.amazon.com/Scarsdale-Da...
September 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
My second poetry collection ‘Scarsdale’ is 11 years old today. Still available from @cbeditions.bsky.social in the UK, and Measure Press in the US.
www.cbeditions.com/obrien2.html
www.amazon.com/Scarsdale-Da...
www.cbeditions.com/obrien2.html
www.amazon.com/Scarsdale-Da...
A starry launch of three books, somehow two years ago today 🙏🏻 @acrebooks.bsky.social @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social youtu.be/KVQgoNAZB6s?...
September 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A starry launch of three books, somehow two years ago today 🙏🏻 @acrebooks.bsky.social @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social youtu.be/KVQgoNAZB6s?...
From ‘metadata from a changing climate’ by @ianletourneau.bsky.social @gaspereaupress.bsky.social — an elegiac, haunting, vivid collection … “At the river’s edge, we ask why. / The river whispers why not.”
September 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
From ‘metadata from a changing climate’ by @ianletourneau.bsky.social @gaspereaupress.bsky.social — an elegiac, haunting, vivid collection … “At the river’s edge, we ask why. / The river whispers why not.”
It's cultural insanity that Americans choose to live like this.
August 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
It's cultural insanity that Americans choose to live like this.
Very much enjoyed Zooming into Richard Skinner’s Faber Academy Life Writing Reading Group today to discuss A Story That Happens, a book that in many ways I continue to write 🙏🏻 @cbeditions.bsky.social @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social @faberacademy.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Very much enjoyed Zooming into Richard Skinner’s Faber Academy Life Writing Reading Group today to discuss A Story That Happens, a book that in many ways I continue to write 🙏🏻 @cbeditions.bsky.social @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social @faberacademy.bsky.social
Delivery of some more pamphlets. Publisher says it’s a bit of a bestseller for them. Thank you to everyone who’s been ordering & reading 🙏🏻 If you’re curious, check out the excerpts in American Theatre magazine and The Arts Fuse (@calquepress.bsky.social)
July 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Delivery of some more pamphlets. Publisher says it’s a bit of a bestseller for them. Thank you to everyone who’s been ordering & reading 🙏🏻 If you’re curious, check out the excerpts in American Theatre magazine and The Arts Fuse (@calquepress.bsky.social)
‘40 Questions About a Political Play’ (published by @calquepress.bsky.social) excerpted in @americantheatre.org — many thanks to editor @robkendt.bsky.social 🙏🏻
July 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
‘40 Questions About a Political Play’ (published by @calquepress.bsky.social) excerpted in @americantheatre.org — many thanks to editor @robkendt.bsky.social 🙏🏻
Thank you to @csvich.bsky.social for featuring ‘40 Questions About a Political Play’ on her podcast Day for Night 🙏🏻 @calquepress.bsky.social
July 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Thank you to @csvich.bsky.social for featuring ‘40 Questions About a Political Play’ on her podcast Day for Night 🙏🏻 @calquepress.bsky.social
My copies have made the transatlantic and transcontinental journey and arrived safely on the west coast. My thanks again to Calque Press, aka James & Marian Womack, for publishing the pamphlet so beautifully. calquepress.com/products/pre...
July 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
My copies have made the transatlantic and transcontinental journey and arrived safely on the west coast. My thanks again to Calque Press, aka James & Marian Womack, for publishing the pamphlet so beautifully. calquepress.com/products/pre...
It’s nice to see copies of the pamphlet arriving from across the pond. Thanks for ordering, friends 🙏🏻 calquepress.com/products/pre... @calquepress.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
It’s nice to see copies of the pamphlet arriving from across the pond. Thanks for ordering, friends 🙏🏻 calquepress.com/products/pre... @calquepress.bsky.social
Keep an eye out for ‘The New Bath Guide or Memoirs of the Blunderhead Family’ by my great-great-great-etc.-granddad Christopher Anstey. Last time I was in Bath there were loads ;)
July 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Keep an eye out for ‘The New Bath Guide or Memoirs of the Blunderhead Family’ by my great-great-great-etc.-granddad Christopher Anstey. Last time I was in Bath there were loads ;)
Grateful to @richardnskinner.bsky.social for including 'A Story That Happens' in his Life Writing Reading Group at Faber Academy. Very much looking forward to speaking with the group later this summer. @cbeditions.bsky.social @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social
June 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Grateful to @richardnskinner.bsky.social for including 'A Story That Happens' in his Life Writing Reading Group at Faber Academy. Very much looking forward to speaking with the group later this summer. @cbeditions.bsky.social @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social
Published a year ago today — thank you @poetrylondon.bsky.social 🙏🏻
June 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Published a year ago today — thank you @poetrylondon.bsky.social 🙏🏻
June 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM