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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 2013 I won the Pocataligo Poetry Prize and was nominated twice for a Pushcart.
Here are links to my books of poetry on Amazon:
Dictation From Chrysanthemums (selected poems that contains most of my published work)
Zeitgeist (new book of poetry, 2025)
Thinking Machine (new book of poetry, 2025)
Zany Blackberry (new chapbook of poetry, 2025)
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/
“Nothing Secret”
https://www.hamiltonstone.org/hsr36poetry.html#oconnor
“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/
“Keats Reincarnated Converses Over Huevos Rancheros at the Jerusalem Olympics, 1892” (originally published under the pseudonym Conor O’Connor)
“Burning Out”