FARMINGTON – The UMF Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program welcomes nationally-renowned performance poet Sean Thomas Dougherty as the next author in its 2011-12 Visiting Writers Series.
Dougherty will read from his work at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 16 in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a signing by the author.
Dougherty is the author or editor of 12 books of poetry and mixed-genre writing that bring his working class life experiences to life. His works include “Except by Falling” (Pinyon Press 2000), winner of the Pinyon Press Poetry Prize; “Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line” (BOA Editions 2010), a finalist for Binghamton University’s literary prize for the “best book by a poet over 40”; and his forthcoming “All I Ask For Is Longing: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014.”
Dougherty’s work has been nominated nine times for the Pushcart prize. He has also received two Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowships in Poetry and a Fulbright Lectureship to the Balkans.
Dougherty is currently serving as a part-time creative writing professor at Cleveland State University.
