Poet. Recent books with BOA Editions, Jacar Press. I work as a Medtech and caregiver, and teach part-time in the Western Connecticut State U MFA Program. Disability rights advocate, father, husband, obsessive Cleveland Cavs fan.https://bsky.app/profile/stdougherty.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/stdougherty.bsky.social/post/3mkzwobnykc2xMy collaborative chapbook with Jeremy Schraffenberger, now available: "The common denominator of these poems is compassion: resistance to cruelty, euphemism, and denial, walking with us from the land of the dead back to the land of the living." — Martín Espada https://checkout.square.site/merchant/MLG5YJ7P52SW8/checkout/4FHD33QEOMJARCA63XRT4MOO?fbclid=IwY2xjawRlkc1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFmblI4amJLcU56c1ZqMWpBc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHmU6T9WiG1B3mC1oiNSk82XdnpAJeexCxBX3d_KZhkOHqbjwD36hYB287Mth_aem_HzpBx87C3qZ_VI8F9rDNgw04 May 2026 14:58 +0000at://did:plc:dcuysts6pv554u5piwej3wiu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzwobnykc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/stdougherty.bsky.social/post/3mkvo4cvur22aI have a new essay up at SoFloPoJo: "Your father needs help, he’s at the end of the driveway.” It is my mother-in-law calling out. My wife thinks her father has fallen, and my wife and I come running. https://www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/essays-2026-27.html02 May 2026 22:14 +0000at://did:plc:dcuysts6pv554u5piwej3wiu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkvo4cvur22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/stdougherty.bsky.social/post/3mk754zhllk2pTomorrow LIVE and online from the Downtown Writers Center in Syracuse, NY. Anne Kaier and Lisa M. Dougherty read from their Propel Books! Hope to see some folks there. If you know anyone in the 315 please spread the word. https://www.ymcacny.org/blog/friday-april-24-700-pm-poets-anne-kaier-and-lisa-dougherty23 Apr 2026 23:11 +0000at://did:plc:dcuysts6pv554u5piwej3wiu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk754zhllk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/stdougherty.bsky.social/post/3mjnb6lms4k2uA new lyric poem of mine in the wonderful Hawaii Pacific Review. https://hawaiipacificreview.org/2026/04/16/sometimes-its-the-smallest-things/16 Apr 2026 20:36 +0000at://did:plc:dcuysts6pv554u5piwej3wiu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjnb6lms4k2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/stdougherty.bsky.social/post/3mjktibojis2xSo happy to have a new story up at Jason Teals wonderful Heavy Feather Review. https://heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/04/15/absent-bark/15 Apr 2026 21:25 +0000at://did:plc:dcuysts6pv554u5piwej3wiu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjktibojis2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/stdougherty.bsky.social/post/3mjcf6hjugc2yFor National Poetry month, Lisa's first full-length collection The Dead Tree Garden recently published by Propel Books Disability Series/Syracuse University Press: https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Tree-Garden-Propel-Poetry/dp/B0FQCXKYK4/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2YK8PW2VQ2ODL&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.yekUalQMTaT2ZrDMEC6wKonnxvxjyDfdsekeuZ3YUj7GjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.Ow7ZgS0PO0m2KloG6m84c6VwkRqXuOT4QFY2JRxQ6No&dib_tag=se&keywords=Lisa+M.+Dougherty&qid=1775997541&sprefix=lisa+m.+dougherty%2Caps%2C138&sr=8-212 Apr 2026 12:48 +0000at://did:plc:dcuysts6pv554u5piwej3wiu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjcf6hjugc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/stdougherty.bsky.social/post/3mivq3ua4gs2lCongratulations to Michael Bazzett on the publication of his new book! His language is a form of magic, traversing many worlds. https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/cloudwatcher-by-michael-bazzett/07 Apr 2026 11:59 +0000at://did:plc:dcuysts6pv554u5piwej3wiu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mivq3ua4gs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/stdougherty.bsky.social/post/3lg66j23ni22pGreat thanks to Azad Repiwar for translating my poem "Father" into Kurdish and having it published in the Kurdish lit journal LEWerger. The poem was originally published in the US journal The Blue Earth Review where it was a runnerup for their prize. The original in English is in the alt notes.20 Jan 2025 10:56 +0000at://did:plc:dcuysts6pv554u5piwej3wiu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg66j23ni22phttps://bsky.app/profile/stdougherty.bsky.social/post/3miayz3osq22g"Emily Dickinson’s one white dress is a copy. Of which there are actually two. Dickinson’s one white plus twin replica dresses—make three. Three white dresses are not literary lore. They are the beginning of a bedtime story:" https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/06/20/dickinsons-dresses-on-the-moon/30 Mar 2026 06:12 +0000at://did:plc:dcuysts6pv554u5piwej3wiu/app.bsky.feed.post/3miayz3osq22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/stdougherty.bsky.social/post/3miav2vdp5k2yone.jacarpress.com https://one.jacarpress.com/30 Mar 2026 05:02 +0000at://did:plc:dcuysts6pv554u5piwej3wiu/app.bsky.feed.post/3miav2vdp5k2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/stdougherty.bsky.social/post/3mhwdhssghk2uI have three Flash essays up at William Paterson University's MAP LITERARY for their new sites soft launch. https://mapliterary.wixsite.com/maplit/sean-dougherty26 Mar 2026 00:20 +0000at://did:plc:dcuysts6pv554u5piwej3wiu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhwdhssghk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/stdougherty.bsky.social/post/3mhwd6q6htc2uThese poems. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Mar 2026 00:15 +0000at://did:plc:dcuysts6pv554u5piwej3wiu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhwd6q6htc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/stdougherty.bsky.social/post/3mhrxc4gdwk2kA translation of my old poem "The Second O of Sorrow' into Portuguese with the original English and a cool working class photo https://singularidadepoetica.art/2025/10/14/sean-thomas-dougherty-o-segundo-o-do-sofrimento/24 Mar 2026 06:32 +0000at://did:plc:dcuysts6pv554u5piwej3wiu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhrxc4gdwk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/stdougherty.bsky.social/post/3mho7iuq4v22ySo happy to have a couple new lyric poems published alongside work by Alison Townsend, Matt Coonan and many more in Crystal S Gibbins's wonderful Split Rock Review www.splitrockreview.org/issue-22-toc https://www.splitrockreview.org/issue-22-toc22 Mar 2026 18:48 +0000at://did:plc:dcuysts6pv554u5piwej3wiu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mho7iuq4v22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/stdougherty.bsky.social/post/3mhh2qfotqs2xI'm so honored to have a couple new streetwise poems in the latest Bird Coat Quarterly, alongside Heather Hamilton, Cal Freeman, and a whole lot of good folks. https://www.birdcoatquarterly.com/blog/categories/issue-2319 Mar 2026 22:34 +0000at://did:plc:dcuysts6pv554u5piwej3wiu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhh2qfotqs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/stdougherty.bsky.social/post/3mhbndkbhd226One of my favorite Irish poets is Jessica Traynor. Highly recommended reading: https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/new-arcana-137917 Mar 2026 18:51 +0000at://did:plc:dcuysts6pv554u5piwej3wiu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhbndkbhd226https://bsky.app/profile/stdougherty.bsky.social/post/3mhbgaxygb22dHelp support an Irish poet on Saint Patrick's day, though this book has more to do with Kabbalah and Caregiving and Joy in the face of Death than anything. https://www.boaeditions.org/collections/sean-thomas-dougherty/products/death-prefers-the-minor-keys?_pos=5&_sid=e893bf294&_ss=r17 Mar 2026 16:44 +0000at://did:plc:dcuysts6pv554u5piwej3wiu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhbgaxygb22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/stdougherty.bsky.social/post/3mh6qzfx6nc2zBig gratitude to Marjorie Maddox Hafer for choosing and giving a fantastic reading of my poem "Dublin" for Public Radio station WPSU's Poetry Moment. https://radio.wpsu.org/2026-03-16/poetry-moment-dublin-by-sean-thomas-dougherty?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQPNDA5OTYyNjIzMDg1NjA5AAEe0-UiUcSulFbI3XdPV2jVgVxyTJd38ZbRhcm1A_xvSWQ-dFvoU1b5xqxHefA_aem_wjo8C8Vsx3X3LPsaI-8UAw16 Mar 2026 15:19 +0000at://did:plc:dcuysts6pv554u5piwej3wiu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh6qzfx6nc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/stdougherty.bsky.social/post/3mgwzrq27k22gPeople, this is like something I thought up high and drinking too much Jameson around a backyard fire, "Hey, imagine if Bruce covered Shane MacGowan?" And he did! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_Z3JL42L5Q&list=RDr_Z3JL42L5Q&start_radio=113 Mar 2026 13:34 +0000at://did:plc:dcuysts6pv554u5piwej3wiu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgwzrq27k22g