“Can I get an amen?”: A Conversation with Sean Thomas Dougherty by JOHN HOPPENTHALER
Five Poems by SEAN THOMAS DOUGHERTY:
Ballad of the Old Pool Hustlers | Golden Shovel of Naomi Shihab Nye’s I still have everything you gave me | Golden Shovel with a line from Jason Scheiderman’s Elegy VIII | Golden Shovel with lines from Justin Hamm’s Gratitude for the Poets | Golden Shovel with lines from Larry Levis’s The Widening Spell of the Leave
The Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition accepts one-poem submissions and honors poet and critic Randall Jarrell, who taught at what is now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for nearly eighteen years. He was a 1996 inductee of the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame who left behind nine books of poetry, four books of literary criticism, four children’s books, five anthologies, a bestselling academic novel, a translation of Goethe’s Faust, Part I, and a translation of Chekhov’s The Three Sisters, produced on Broadway by The Actors’ Studio.
The 2024 competition was judged by poet Mackenzie Kozak.