Donal Mahoney - Poet

Donal Mahoney, a native of Chicago, lives in St. Louis, MO. He has worked as an editor for The Chicago Sun-Times, Loyola University Press and Washington University in St. Louis. He has had poems published in or accepted by The Wisconsin Review, The Kansas Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Commonweal, Public Republic (Bulgaria), Gloom Cupboard (U.K.), Revival (Ireland), The Istanbul Literary Review (Turkey), Black-Listed Magazine, Opium 2.0, Calliope Nerve, Haggard and Halloo, Rusty Truck, Pirene’s Fountain (Australia) and other publications.

Articles by Donal:  

• Why Did You Write That?

• The First of The Year

• Missouri is a Sorry State

• Not Far From Ferguson

Short fiction by Donal:

• In The Wake of Technology

• Goose Eggs

And be sure to stop by Donal’s blog:  

THE GRAVEDIGGER’S SON, DONAL MAHONEY 

 Read Donal Mahoney’s poetry:  

• Flicker Pink

• Mission Accomplished

• Shrimp in Lobster Sauce

• To a Neighbor Back from War

• Wedding Day

• The Prodigal

• Taxi Driver

• Kaleidoscope and Harpsichord

• Crackling Again

• Jimmy the Blind Man Says He’s in Love

• Consuela and Sean

• Collateral Damage

• Mostly Basie with a Little Bach

• PTSD

• Paddy Murphy’s Wake

• Parade in the Company Cafeteria

• An Agnostic’s Creed

• So Fingertips Kiss

• A Man with Children

• One Veteran’s Play

• Quincy, Illinois: 1962

• An Irish Enclave, 1956

• End of Summer

• The Old Padre and the Tarpon

• Officer Friendly

• Savannah Belle

• A Romeo’s Comeuppance

• Ash Wednesday

• Scenes from a Parish

• Hermit’s Confession

• Kissing Carol Ann

• Savor Truth

• Handyman

• Getting Older

• Big Meeting at the Corporate Office

• Man at the Bus Stop on Halloween

• Feline in Winter

• Mayan Apocalypse

• Maggie and Max

• The Zombie's Wife

• Father Spoke in Code

• Waiting for the Umpire

• Christmastime in America

• Feliz Navidad

• Body Art

• That Old-Time Religion

• The Whole Mad Swirl

• Woman in the Day Room Crying

• The Widow Murphy Sets Her Cap

• Paradise Found

• Pilots of the Dawn

• Why Not Do Away with Sundays

• The Farmer's Daughter

• The Odyssey of Pastor Harold Schnabel

• Lady Goulds

• Waterbugs, Roses and Me

• When My Wife Is in Her Garden

• 1956 State Championship Reunion

• New Yawp, New Yawp

• Not Far From Kabul

• Now or After

• Wrens in the Poplar

• Sparrows Live Forever

• Pistons in Her Haunches

• America in 4013

• The End is Near

• Two Koreas

• Butterflies

• Miss Carol's Dumplings

• Easter at the Nursing Home

• Marcia and the Locusts

• Postpartum Depression

• Monsanto's Gift to War

• Firstborn

• Bachelor's Song

• Woodpeckers and Cable News

• Preacher in the Duck Blind

• Homemade Cookies and Gin

• A Good Neighbor

• Take It From Butch

• The Lovely Women in my Life

• Siren of the Streets

• Zambezi in Zimbabwe

• Poppycock

• Philosophy 101: Who Knew?

• Scene from Yom Kippur 1972

• Continuity

• Songwriter's Nightmare

• Vocabulary Test

• Stumps in His Cabbage

• Well Done

• Three Women Wait for the Morning Bus

• Grandparents in a Zeppelin

• True Story on the Morning News

• What Me Worry?

• Gentleman's Club

• Father Comfort's Tearful Nora, 6

• Three Ways of Looking at a Father

• Herbie Gets Emails

• Thoughts While Waiting

• New Pickle on Christmas Eve

• Gift from the Daughter Who Disappeared

• Cats Are Poetry

• A Touch of Alzheimer's

• Waiting for the Same Thing

• At Bus Stops on Thanksgiving Day

• The Food Stamp Cafe

• What's Gonna Be, Asks Billy?

• Did You See Adam Lanza?

• That Laugh

• Another Thrilla in Manilla

• Phone Calls on New Year's Day

• Sibling Reunion

• Recliner Therapy

• Surprise, Surprise

• Without Benefit of Wimple

• Lunatic, Liar or Lord

• Her Trip Back There

• Stalactites and Stalagmites

• Midnight in the Garden of Envy

• Getting On

• We'll Feel Better, Dearie, Not to Worry

• That Valentine's Day in Manhattan

• The Skinny on Fatty's Cafe

• Old Batteries Can Surge

• An Olympic Gesture

• Man Around the House

• Plagiarism

• Unrequited Love

• Scrivener's Cauldron

• Every Child Needs a Father

• The Human Condition

• Winter in the Checkout Lane

• First Robin

• It's Many Miles from Easy

• Pygmies and the Dalai Lama

• When Men Had to Marry

• After Listening to World News Tonight

• Same Old Story

• First Warm Day

• Possum

• Wife After Showering

• Grounds for Separation

• Growing Old Together

• Just the Sheep the Goats and the Shepherd

• Letter to an Estranged Middle-Aged Son

• Mom and Pop

• Metaphorically Speaking

• Listen to the Muse

• When a Debutante Marries a Troll

• Dying at Midnight

• Funeral for the Last Parent

• The Widow Next Door

• First Day on Parole

• Ice Cream Honeymoon

• Found in an Attic: World War II Letter to a Wife

• Horns over Hooves

• Dancing on the Fourth of July

• The Constant Dinosaur

• The Language of the Xylophone

• Home Invasion Encore

• Old Stag Giddy

• Madman in Remission

• Hope and Mr. Neery

• Monks in the Orchard Picking Peaches

• Carousel of Marriage

• Weeds and Blooms

• Remembering His Third Wife

• Find Him

• Sunflowers

• Petals Drift

• No Paper This Morning

• The Ruby Throats

• The Spider and the Spray Can Man

• New York to Chicago: An Email Alert

• Those Border Niños Would Go Home, Too

• A Senior Citizen's First Email

• Pineapple Upside Down Cake

• Tom-Toms in the Night

• So You Come Back Tomorrow, Hear?

• The Drought

• Norman Doesn't Go to Ferguson, Missouri

• Twin Girls, 1948

• The Parish Carnival

• Big Bet at an Old Timer's Card Game

• Observer of Current Events

• Seamus and the Rest of Us

• So Many Hummingbirds

• Ruby Throat Madness

• The Samaritan Can Handle It

• Riding Schwinns in '56

• A Banquet in Autumn

• On Learning a New Word Late in Life

• Sundown at the Abbey

• Just in Time for Rosh Hashanah

• When Computers Crash

• Dead Brother's Note to Our Dad

• On Tippy Toes

• In the Desert of Iraq

• Seeing Through the Fog

• They Don't Know I'm Listening

• Splash

• Nightmare

• An Atheist on Sunday

• Pastor Homer Toots His Horn

• Helping a Blind Lady

• Folks You Can't Forget

• Midnight Conversation in a Bar

• Let’s Solve These Problems, America!

• Thousand-Legger at Midnight

• Young Man on a Bad Trip

• All Aboard

• Playing God

• Midnight Squatters

• Teddy Will Be Home for the Holidays

• Annual Physical

• A Death in the Family

• Judy's Father and Mine

• A Gift Logic Can't Buy

• Departures

• Ferguson in Black and White

• Ollie's Wine and Liquor

• A Caseworker's Nightmare

• Veterans Cemetery

• Conundrum

• A New Yo-Yo on Christmas Day

• Leprechauns in Pop's Fedora

• Thoughts While Waiting in the ER

• A Different New Year's Eve

• Agnostic Afloat

• In Concert Tonight

• Broken Marriage

• Let It Be on Monday, God

• This Maze This Woman

• Daughter They Dote On

• Danny the Pruner

• A Winter Buffet

• An Email on Sunday

• Chomping

• A Night in Morocco

• A Ticket to Somewhere

• What the Doctor Doesn't Say

• Big Walleye for Emma

• Bell and Star

• that's life

• Income Equality

• Answer Now

• Agnostic in Hospice

• Pecking Order

• Lady in the Snow

• The Quilters

• Conference on Homeland Security

• Sir Real

• Like Father Like

• Profit and Loss

• Swirls

• Another Spring

• When Carbon Paper Was King

• The Canyon Dwellers

• A Song in Her Valley

• Unplanned Parenthood

• Small Shoulders

• Seasons of the Year

• A Critic Comes to Dinner

• Makes Forever Shorter

• Wheelchair with a View

• Missiles and Land Mines

• Dazzle and Whirr

• Norma Jeane at a Bus Stop, 1943

• The Shish Kebab Genocide

• At the Hop

• A Singular Repast

• Guns and Cell Phones

• Family Picnic

• Nature Boy

• Loving Her

• OMG

• The Capitalist Way

• Tommy is the Man

• Monday Morning

• It's not for the Usher to Ask