Doug Flaherty
Doug Flaherty has published in the New Yorker, The Nation, North American Review, and scores of others. Doug has published five full-length books and six chapbooks. Work has appeared a dozen anthologies.
Flaherty has read at thirty universities. He received the MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop. He has an MA from the University of Mass-Amherst. Doug grew up in Lowell, Mass. He taught poetry and American Literature for thirty-five years at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh.
PoetryAttitude In Blue — for Carlene
Last week I painted the cat blue. Now we sit up until dawn discussing Kierkegaard. Strange, because my cat formerly hated philosophy. I have…
PoetryToby, Tobias Dog
He mouths a left-over thigh, whines a new path in the grass, tries to tell himself about bone, tongue-licking the marrow to taste of…
Art, Photography, Showcasedigital/mixed media art
Sit Down Beside Me Girl of Our Dreams or Nightmares Mother of Flowers Dressed To Kill Self Portrait with Alterations Beatific Vision Girl with…
PoetryAfter Crossing Bobtail Creek
There are voices in me so old, I cannot decipher. Like divers they speak to each other under water. They bubble up grains of…