About Stephen O'Connor and Beloit Poetry Journal

Today's poem is "Above the Lake"

from Beloit Poetry Journal

Stephen O'Connor is the author of the short story collections, Here Comes Another Lesson and Rescue. His nonfiction books include: Will My Name Be Shouted Out?, a memoir and Orphan Trains, The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed, narrative history. He teaches in the writing MFA programs of Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence. For eight years he directed and taught in Teachers & Writers Collaborative’s flagship creative writing program at a public school in New York City. He has received a B.A. from Columbia University, and an M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, both in English literature.
Books by Stephen O'Connor:

Other poems on the web by Stephen O'Connor:
"5. Song of Songs"
"Biology"
"Cottage"
Stephen O'Connor's Home Page.
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Other poems from Beloit Poetry Journal in Verse Daily:
January 4, 2013: "In the Ear of Our Lord" by Brendan Constantine
January 3, 2013: "The Dream" by Roger Mitchell
January 2, 2013: "O Anchor" by Matthew Nienow
July 6, 2012: "Less" by Amelia Klein
July 4, 2012: "Lake Saganaga" by Jill Osier
July 3, 2012: "Kitty Got a Clinking Coming from the Races" by Charles Wyatt
May 10, 2012: "Less" by Kim Roberts
May 4, 2012: "Medicine" by Kim Roberts
February 11, 2012: "By Virtue of And" by Jami Macarty
July 14, 2011: "Untranslatable" by Rebecca Dunham
July 13, 2011: "With a big simile" by Muriel Nelson
October 24, 2010: "Root" by Karen Lepri
June 16, 2010: two poems from Bird Signs by Mary Molinary
June 15, 2010: "Hokkaido" by Lucia Perillo
March 6, 2010: "Seeds and Seeding" by Nathaniel Perry
September 10, 2009: "Destinations, VI." by Nick Courtright
June 22, 2009: "A Dog in Hanoi" by Joseph Duemer
February 25, 2009: "Evening" by Steve Wilson
December 8, 2008: ": Shadow : Dwelling : " by Jessica Goodfellow
September 13, 2008: "Difficult Speech: Welcome" by Molly Tenenbaum
September 12, 2008: "For the Night People" by Muriel Nelson
May 29, 2008: "A Song in There" by Betsy Sholl
May 27, 2008: "Apostrophe to What's Still Here" by Christine Marshall
February 12, 2008: "Jazz from Cripple City" by Stephen Kuusisto
December 27, 2007: "Fetching" by Christopher Matthews
December 26, 2007: "One of the Magi" by Greg Wrenn
September 14, 2007: "A Story About Things" by Heather Maki
September 13, 2007: "The Chapter of the Rending in Sunder" by Mia Nussbaum
September 10, 2007: "Extravagance" by Steve Wilson
March 25, 2007: "Lullaby" by Seth Abramson
March 24, 2007: "Directions" by Erin Malone
March 20, 2007: "Doing Hegel's Laundry" by Melissa Tuckey
December 7, 2006: "Ghost Train" by Rhoda Janzen
September 19, 2006: "Blue Visits" by Rane Arroyo
June 25, 2006: "The Mortgaging of Self Is Done" by Aimée Sands
June 20, 2006: "Sisyphus" by Malcolm Alexander
March 31, 2006: from The Book of Zeros by Sam Reed
March 30, 2006: "What You See If You Use Water as a Mirror" by Jessica Goodfellow
March 28, 2006: "St. Francis in Winter" by Marianne Boruch
March 27, 2006: "Marianne Boruch" by Matthew Thorburn
January 13, 2006: "from Gomorrah, a sequence" by Tony Brinkley
January 4, 2006: "For Orts" by Ander Monson
January 1, 2006: "Milkweed" by Susan Maxwell
September 8, 2005: "Roman Elegy" by Michael Snediker
September 7, 2005: "Faced with 8:38" and "8:38 is straw" " Mary Molinary
September 5, 2005: "Off in the darkness hourses moved restlessly" " Albert Goldbarth
July 23, 2005: "Elemental: Nitrogen" Suzanne Heyd
July 22, 2005: "The Blue-Gray Body of the Zambezi" Dawn Lonsinger
July 20, 2005: "Making History" and "A Disappearing Act" Karl Elder
March 4, 2005: "Catherine Blake" by Rebecca Dunham
March 3, 2005: "Cartographic" by Joshua Rivkin
March 2, 2005: "Turning 50" by Bruce A. Jacobs
August 28, 2004: "Obsolescence" by Leigh Anne Couch
August 27, 2004: "The Weight of the World" by Frank Steele
August 26, 2004: "For the Suicides" by Lola Haskins
August 25, 2004: "Half Life" by Reynolds Dixon
August 24, 2004: "The Last Ivory-Billed Woodpecker" by Bruce Tindall
June 11, 2004: "Famish" by Lisa Furmanski
June 8, 2004: "A Short History of the Republic" by John Haines
March 7, 2004: "Waning Moon" by Conrad Hilberry
March 5, 2004: "Portrait of the Family Without a Father" by Ken Victor
March 4, 2004: "At the Intersection" by Andrea Heny
March 1, 2004: "Marriage Bed" by Annie Boutelle
December 23, 2003: "Exactly at midnight" by Margaret Aho
April 8, 2003: "The Totality of Facts" by Allan Peterson

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