Daniel Donaghy

writer

Creative non-fiction Essay

“Fire” (The Sun, November 2023. Notable Essay, Best American Essays 2025)

Poems

”What Lingers in Ocoee” (Red Canary Magazine, February 12, 2025)

Two Poems (“Eagles with Eaglets on Webcam” and “Plan”) (New Letters, Vol. 90 nos. 1 & 2 Winter/Spring 2024)

“Tulsa Triptych” (Winner, Auburn Witness Prize, Southern Humanities Review, VOL 55.3 & 4, 2022)

Seven Poems (“I loved the day”; “My Daughter and the Waves of Ocean City, New Jersey”; “George”; “Our Block’s First Black Couple”; “Streetfighting”; “Elegy for My Mother”; “What Cement Is Made of” (Hartford Courant, Hartford, CT. “The Poems Of Daniel Donaghy: Poet Of The Inner City.” October 17, 2017)

Five Poems (“Somerset”; “What Cement Is Made of”; “Elegy for My Mother”; “Girl on a Playground Swing”; “Teaching My Daughter to Ride Her Bike, I Recall the One My Father Stole for Me from a Black Child”) and table of contents from Somerset

"My Mother in Connecticut” (Image)

“Start with the Trouble” (Image)

“The Spirit of the Promise” with an introductory note by Peggy Rosenthal (Image)

“Hope” with an introductory note by Melissa Poulin (Image)

“Hope” (Verse Daily)

“Stadium Traffic” on The Writers Almanac (September 29, 2009)

“Three Houses, Three Dogs” on The Writers Almanac (February 1, 2006)

Fiction

“Somebody Do Something” (Quarterly West; opens as .pdf)