Event
Riverwood Poetry Series
The series takes place in person on the second Wednesday of the month from September 2024 through May 2025. Each night typically begins with a poetry reading featuring regionally or nationally known poets, followed by an open mic featuring readers with one poem (one page).
On Wednesday, April 9, at 7 PM, Riverwood Poetry Series @ Real Art Ways will host Sean Thomas Dougherty.
Authors’ books will be available to buy for book signing and conversation. Food and drinks will be available for purchase. Bring a friend!
This monthly event is free of charge. Ample parking is available via the 56 Arbor parking lot.
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“Dougherty’s vision is dynamic and brilliant.” – Publisher’s Weekly
“Sean Thomas Dougherty is the Miles Davis of the sentence.” – Peter Markus
Sean Thomas Dougherty was born in NYC and grew up in Brooklyn, NY, Toledo, Ohio and Manchester, NH. He comes from a diverse family with an African American stepfather and a mother of mixed European descent. He says his extended family is diverse “as the true face of America.” Publisher’s Weekly describes Sean Thomas Dougherty as “A blue-collar, Rust Belt romantic to his generous, enthusiastic core,” and Dorianne Laux praises him as “the gypsy punk heart of American poetry.” He is the author of 13 books, including The Second O of Sorrow (Boa Editions, 2018, All You Ask for is Longing: Poems 1994-2014 (Boa Editions), Scything Grace (2013 Etruscan Press) and Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line (2010 BOA Editions) which was a finalist for Binghamton University Milton Kessler’s literary prize for the best book by a poet over 40, and his awards include a Fulbright Lectureship to the Balkans, two PA Arts Council Fellowships in Poetry and an appearance in Best American Poetry 2014. His latest book from Boa Editions, The Second O of Sorrow, was released in 2018. Known for his dynamic readings, he has performed at hundreds of venues, universities, and festivals including the Detroit Art Festival, the Dodge Poetry Festival, the Old Dominion Literary Festival and across Albania and Macedonia where he appeared on national television, sponsored by the US State Department. Sean is a writing mentor with the MFA program in creative writing at Western Connecticut State University. He lives in Erie, Pennsylvania, works as a Med Tech, tours, hustles, and writes poems about stuff that happens in his city between the lake and the highway and elsewhere.
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About Riverwood Poetry Series
The Riverwood Poetry Series, Inc. is a non-profit arts organization committed to promoting and appreciating poetry in Connecticut. RPS, Inc. is invested in providing entertaining and thought-provoking programming while responding to the needs of our neighbors through community outreach and collaboration.
From their Facebook page: “The Riverwood Poetry Series has innovated many programs since our inception, all free to the public. We provide entertaining and thought-provoking poetry in a relaxed atmosphere.”
