Julie Sheehan (born in Iowa) is an American poet.
She graduated from Yale University, and Columbia University.
She lives on Long Island, New York, with her son, and is currently Director of the MFA in Creative Writing & Literature program as well as an assistant professor at Stony Brook Southampton.
I hate you truly. Truly I do.
Everything about me hates everything about you.
The flick of my wrist hates you.
...
This morning, fog banked in, refractory,
of course. Except for one gull, all else blank.
Then dress shoes, lit candles in the heels, flanked
an apse in the dead poet's memory.
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My son's in his Watch This years. "Watch this!" He throws
open the screen door, races through the kitchen,
returns in a pant. "See that?" Although I'm watching,
I don't. "I'm back before the screen door closed."
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