I have published poetry in The Notre Dame Review, Permafrost, Slant, Bayou, The Tulane Review, Glassworks, Flare: The Flagler Review, Yemassee, Hawaii Pacific Review, Anderbo, Luna Luna, Poetry City, USA, Literary Juice, Pif Magazine, The Broke Bohemian, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Midway Review, Postcard Poems and Prose, Fourth River Review, and Eunoia among other journals. In 2025, I published a chapbook of poems entitled Cruchwrap Truth, available for purchase from Bottlecap Press. In 2013, I won the Pocataligo Poetry Prize and was nominated twice for a Pushcart.
See below for links to some of my poems published in journals and magazines:
“Dear F. Scott”
https://www.pifmagazine.com/2022/02/dear-f-scott/
“Labyrinth”
https://www.pifmagazine.com/2021/08/labyrinth/
“Season”
https://mistakehouse.org/article/season/
“Triptych”
https://mistakehouse.org/article/triptych/
“Interior”
https://mistakehouse.org/article/interior/
“Headlines”
https://www.wildviolet.net/2021/01/17/headlines/#.YBIBJ2RKiik
“Gauze”
https://hawaiipacificreview.org/2017/09/07/gauze/
“The Great Frost (after Virginia Woolf’s Orlando)
https://maydaymagazine.com/the-great-frost-after-virginia-woolfs-orlando-by-kevin-j-b-oconnor/
“Easter Evening” and “Association #3”
http://www.lunalunamagazine.com/blog/poetry-by-kevin-oconnor
“Nation”
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/apoetry-202.html
“The Son”
http://www.rowanglassworks.org/flash-glass-2015/the-son-by-kevin-oconnor
“Litany” (originally published under the pseudonym Conor O’Connor)
https://dialogist.org/v1i2-conor-oconnor
“Ode to Chimes”
https://postcardpoemsandprose.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/ode-to-chimes-by-kevin-oconnor/
“Thrush”
https://postcardpoemsandprose.wordpress.com/2014/03/17/3196/
“Starry Night”
http://midwayjournal.com/starry-night/
“Troubadours”
https://eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2020/07/07/troubadours/
“You or Yourself in Red” (the first poem I ever published!)
http://www.wildviolet.net/world_voyage/red.html
“Kitchen Flight”
http://issue4.thequotablelit.com/poetry/kitchen-flight/
“Chinese Finger Trap”
https://www.pifmagazine.com/2018/03/chinese-finger-trap/
“Burning Out”