POET AND PERFORMER
"Dougherty's vision is dynamic and brilliant." 
Publisher's Weekly
"Sean Thomas Dougherty is the Miles Davis of the sentence" Peter Markus
“This is what my friend Sean Thomas Dougherty might say. He is a white man, who works the night shift and writes beautiful poems about being alive in this cruel world. He once wrote a poem about Biggie Smalls that made me believe he was from my neighborhood. And no matter how sad his songs have been, they make me believe there is a world just past suffering. And when I read him, even when he is suffering between those lines, I imagine the writing has given him some of that place that is more heaven than purgatory. Reginald Dwayne Betts Newsletter
“The poems in Death Prefers the Minor Keys offer a meditation on life, death, and grieving.” Read Nick Hilbourn’s review in Rain Taxi Review
Read Sean’s poem, Sometimes it is the ordinary, in The Night Heron.
“Dougherty brings his A-game to this book which offers narratives, ruminations, and images of pain, caretaking, love, and survival.” Read Sean’s interview with Luke Rolfes in Laurel Review
Watch Sean’s discussion with Boa’s Peter Connors on Writers and Poets YouTube
“What Sean Thomas Dougherty accomplishes with this sizable collection of prose poems is miraculous” – Read Shawn Pavey’s review of Death Prefers the Minor Keys in Pedestal Magazine
“If you want to write, there is always time even when there is never time .” Read Sean’s interview with Tiffany Troy about Death Prefers the Minor Keys in Tupelo Quarterly.
Read Sean’s interview with Dinty Moore about his new book in Brevity
Sean’s new book, Death Prefers the Minor Keys, Boa Editions, LTD, will be released September 19. Click here to order.
Watch Sean read One Sentence on Pain from Death Prefers the Minor Keys at the Silo City Reading Series in Buffalo
Publisher’s Weekly has selected Death Prefers the Minor Keys as one of the top 10 poetry releases for Fall, 2023. Read 3 poems from Sean’s new book on Cultural Daily.
Read Sean’s poems, Elegy and Górecki in the current issue of The Westchester Review.
Read Sean’s interview in Forbes Magazine with Matthew Carey Salyer about his latest book, The Dead Are Everywhere Telling Us Things.
Read the review of The Dead Are Everywhere Telling Us Things by Luisa A. Igloria in the current Rhino Review. The Dead Are Everywhere Telling Us Things can be purchased here from Jacar Press.
Watch the Facebook Live reading with Sean, Reginald Dwayne Betts and Joe Weil. Hosted by the American Poetry Museum
Read Sean’s viral poem Why Bother?
