Writing Our Flaws, Our Failures, and Our Glorious Shine

In his newest book, Death Prefers the Minor Keys, a series of brief prose meditations, many first composed on the backs of medical forms while on break as a third-shift medical technician, Sean Thomas Dougherty explores illness, survival, and the moments of grace and beauty to be found in a broken world. He is interviewed here by Dinty W. Moore on the line between prose poem and flash essay and how “the simple act of opening a pill vial … anything that deals with the lived life and labor can...