Deirdre O'Connor

Books

Memorizing the Wind (2026), forthcoming from Terrapin Books.

The Cupped Field (2019), selected by Marilyn Nelson for the Able Muse Book Award.

Before the Blue Hour (2002), selected by Marie Howe for the Cleveland State Poetry Center Poetry Prize.

Selected Poems Online

“Ode to September” in Anacapa Review

“My Father’s Dementia” and “Aubade at Six Months” in Diode

“Ode to the Contents of a Drawer in Pittsburgh” and “Ode to Kittens” in Up The Staircase Quarterly

“Prison Record” in The Fourth River

“Nocturne with Shaved Head” in On the Seawall

“Déjà vu” on Verse Daily

“At the Dentist’s” on American Life in Poetry

“The Bear” in SWWIM

“The Hands and the Clock” in Rust + Moth

“Ode to an Afternoon,” “The Final Scene,” and “Smoke” in Houseguest

“Neighborhood Elegy” and “The Darkest Place” in Cordella

“On Seeing An Exhibition of Rudolf and Leopold Blaschka’s Glass Marine Invertebrates” in Guesthouse

“Domestic Sestina” in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

“Vision at a Dublin Airport Hotel” in Really System

“Translation” in Poetry