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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
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
Seen in #Ljubljana:

“SVOBODA PALESTINI
FREE PALESTINE”

#freepalestine #peaceforpalestinians
August 14, 2025 at 1:51 AM
TWO WEEKS FROM TODAY: I’ll be reading from #EstateSale w the inimitable Robert Pinsky (@rpinsky.bsky.social) on Cecilia Woloch’s Zoom reading series. Limited space, & preregistration req, so sign up here, if interested: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
#poetsky
August 10, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Seen in the wild at Little City Books in Hoboken: ESTATE SALE sandwiched between a few #poets you’ve probably never heard of 😆 (!)

#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #booksky #sealeychallenge
August 3, 2025 at 3:42 AM
On my way to drop off some books at the Bookstore of Gloucester (Mass)—

THE THEORY OF POETRY

The air is an organic farm
for the practitioners of Paradise

Vincent Ferrini (1913-2007)

#poetsky #writingcommunity
July 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
“Only loudspeakers will spout joy.”—

from the #poem “This Land’s No Joy” by Nguyên Chí Thiên, translated from the Vietnamese by Huynh Sanh Thông & apropos of nothing in particular…
June 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Mahmoud Darwish
"Victim Number 48"

translated from the Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies
March 28, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Rest in peace, Michael Longley. Here’s a #poem from his collection, THE WEATHER IN JAPAN.
January 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
December 24, 2024 at 3:08 PM
A Charlie Simic kind of mood:
December 16, 2024 at 1:19 AM
As I put on my hat and vest to go string some lights, this moving classic by James Merrill, written just months before his death:
December 8, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Great to see @martinespadapoet.bsky.social on here! I admire so much of his work. Here’s one I’ve used to teach (about conceits) from his award-winning collection, FLOATERS: “Love is a Luminous Insect at the Window”
November 27, 2024 at 1:29 AM
Aphoristic #poem by Roberto Juarroz from “Third Vertical Poetry”
November 26, 2024 at 1:04 AM
That’s gotta be Boston City Hall 😆
November 22, 2024 at 12:09 PM
From the Polish poet, Ryszard Krynicki, translated by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Barańczak:
November 22, 2024 at 2:15 AM
November 13, 2024 at 9:45 PM
As the environment, our world, is about to face perhaps its biggest challenge yet, a modest eco poem of mine arrived in this environmental anthology published by Red Press (based in Scandinavia.) "Comhartha" was first published in TAB Journal and will be out again in my book (Spring 2025):
November 11, 2024 at 5:10 PM
apropos of nothing in particular in the news, my #poem "On America" first published in Panhandler Magazine & out next year in my forthcoming book, ESTATE SALE:
November 9, 2024 at 11:31 AM
Poets, friends: Black Box Reading w/ my friend Duy Doan next Tuesday night, Nov 12th starting at 7:00pm at 745 Comm Ave in Boston—my first one in years! It’s at the BU School of Theology, room 625. Come commiserate the state of things as I read unholy poems from my forthcoming book ESTATE SALE.
November 7, 2024 at 10:24 AM
With fear & elation, I made my deadline w/ the University of Utah Press. One step further toward seeing this #poetry collection out in the wild. 😅🍻
October 2, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Paw paws straight from my backyard trees. Was so great to finally taste them this year. #native #gardening #Massachusetts
September 30, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Posting my newly-adopted rescue dog, Duffy, for good vibes.
September 3, 2024 at 1:38 PM
So excited & grateful to share this! I have so many poets, friends, and family to thank for their generosity & support. I’ll get to them in the acknowledgments. 😀
August 21, 2024 at 2:12 PM
@shopoetryjournal.bsky.social has put out another great issue of work. So glad to be in it w/ thanks to its editors. #poetry #poems
August 15, 2024 at 1:49 PM