Sean Carlson
work: independent projects
writing: family memoir of migration
upcoming: Catamaran Literary Reader, Presence, Image Journal, Modern Language Studies, Sobremesa Magazine, more
(Rhode Island / Co. Kerry)
subscribe? seancarlson.substack.com
- I started working on "Easter Week in Valencia" while with my family in Spain, and am overjoyed to see this poem now online and in print in the latest issue of Image Journal: imagejournal.org/article/east...
- New newsletter out tomorrow, if you'd like to subscribe today! seancarlson.substack.com
- RESCHEDULED! Jodie Noel Vinson, Emily Pittinos, John Cotter, and I are looking forward to reading from our work in the @newenglandreview.bsky.social — with a late addition of Sam Simas, too! Join us: Tue., Feb. 17th at 7 p.m. at Riffraff Bookstore & Bar (60 Valley St.) in Providence, Rhode Island.
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- With the blizzard blowing in, our planned readings from the New England Review (with Jodie Noel Vinson, Emily Pittinos, and John Cotter) at Riffraff Bookstore & Bar in Providence has been postponed. Will share our new date once confirmed.
- Friends in Austin, Texas: Prepare for the winter storm with a celebration of fire at First Light Books (on Fri., Jan. 23 at 6 p.m.), as independent food and art magazine Sobremesa releases its latest themed issue — including a new poem of mine, "Not poisonous but bitter." (Sorry not to be there!)
- Pre-orders now open (www.sobremesamagazine.com/shop/p/sobre...) for the next issue of Sobremesa Magazine (Vol. 5 - theme: FIRE! 🔥). Thrilled to have a poem on the blackthorn plant in here. Launch party on Fri., Jan. 23rd at First Light Books in Austin, Texas.
- Latest newsletter: "Henry Street [Dublin] at Christmas, 2012" in Bulb Culture Collective (@bulbculture.bsky.social) seancarlson.substack.com/p/henry-stre...
- Happy holidays! Here's the story of a short video I shot in Dublin that went semi-viral during the first Covid Christmas. Thanks so much to the editors at @bulbculture.bsky.social for turning the light back on with this one: www.bulbculturecollective.com/read/henry-s...
- Catching up on end-of-year best-ofs here! With @sweetoblivion.bsky.social including @oonaf.bsky.social on her "10 Irish writers you should read" list, dusting off my short review of her very deserving work — This Interim Time — for @commonmag.bsky.social: www.thecommononline.org/what-were-re...
- The digital edition of the Missouri Review is now live for subscribers, including my essay on The Undertones: www.missourireview-digital.com/missourirevi...
- New writing in the New England Review, the Irish Independent, Crannóg, and more: An essay on Cambodia and poetry from Ireland on the cuckoo flower and Polish mushrooms seancarlson.substack.com/p/new-writin...
- Really hoping you'll all read my new essay, "Painting the Last Photograph," coming soon in @newenglandreview.bsky.social. Only in print ($22/issue), a full-year U.S. subscription is *today* "Pay What You Can" ($7, $10, $18, $25, or $38): middlebury-college-store.shoplightspeed.com/ner-pay-what...
- If in Ireland, pick up today's @independent.ie where my poem "Elegant Spring" is this month's New Irish Writing selection! www.independent.ie/entertainmen...
- When I went to a doom show and a physics lecture broke out. My bit on Earth and Stebmo playing Machines with Magnets. (Plus, a new album due out next year.) motifri.com/resonant-osc...
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- New essay of mine coming soon in this beautiful issue!
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- After years of reading the great literary magazine, Crannóg, I simply could not be more thrilled to have a poem of my own in this gorgeous new issue (No. 63), now available to order (€10 + shipping) through crannogmagazine.com.
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- Here comes the summer! My essay, "Teenage Kicks," on music, discovery, and memory, anchored around The Undertones, is out now in the latest Missouri Review! Opening excerpt here: missourireview.com/article/teen... Full article in print and via Project MUSE here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/48/artic...
- New writing in the Missouri Review, @commonmag.bsky.social, and @rteradio1.bsky.social: An essay on The Undertones, a review of Oona Frawley’s This Interim Time, and a debut short story, "Cricklewood" - my latest newsletter: seancarlson.substack.com/p/new-writin...
- What a treat to read and recommend Oona Frawley's achingly gorgeous new essay collection This Interim Time for @commonmag.bsky.social's "What We're Reading" series: www.thecommononline.org/what-were-re...
- I'll share a link once my essay, "Teenage Kicks," is live online, but if you'd appreciate the print edition, you can now order the summer issue of the Missouri Review here! secure.touchnet.net/C20067_ustor...
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- Today! Listen in from 7:30-8:00 p.m. on RTÉ Radio 1:
- Tomorrow! Tune in to @wearetheprompt.bsky.social on @rteradio1.bsky.social: www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
- "And in every case, the answer was not less journalism — but more."
- This week is the week: My debut work of fiction, a short story titled "Cricklewood," will air on RTÉ Radio 1's @wearetheprompt.bsky.social at 7:30 p.m. this coming Sunday, July 6th. Hope you can listen in! Or come join us here in Listowel!
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- Best wishes to everybody in, or heading to, Listowel for Writers' Week. So sorry to be missing this year's festivities! #LWW25
- I'm in awe to be included in this lineup: My first work of fiction, a short story titled "Cricklewood," will air on Irish national radio @rteradio1.bsky.social this summer — on Sunday, July 6th — as part of a new series, @wearetheprompt.bsky.social, presented by @zoecomyns.bsky.social!
- Sometimes we could all use a living-room show with a toy dinosaur bubble machine. My little essay / review on Mirah's recent @undertowmusic.bsky.social stop in Providence: motifri.com/the-changing...
- Congratulations to @gphibbett.bsky.social on receiving the 2025 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize!
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- Written after a conversation at John B's in Listowel and first published in @elsewherejournal.bsky.social, "Anger is a fishing trawler" is today's poem-a-day pick over at @versedaily.bsky.social! www.versedaily.org/2025/angeris...
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- "For a moment in time... emotional masculinity was all the rage." Thanks so much to @therumpus.net for the opportunity to revisit the onset of emo, browse the Punk Planet archives, and mull on the enduring power of Jawbreaker in light of Mariah Stovall's debut novel: therumpus.net/2025/04/22/u...
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- I stopped by @lizpelly.bsky.social's book talk in Providence and ended up with a few words of my own on her debut Mood Machine and the intersection of music and technology — plus, context from @sugzone.bsky.social on establishing a localized streaming server at the venue. motifri.com/breaking-dow...
