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Tag Archives: poetry

Mysterious Irish poetry: FOUND.

April 16, 2013 99.5 Caraid O'Brien contemporary irish poetry divine feminine female poets feminism Ireland Irish poetry poems poetry radio The Divine Feminine in Contemporary Irish Poetry The Next Hour WBAI 2 Comments

The Irish poetry that rescued me from radio hell… and then vanished.

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April 15, 2013 contemporary Irish poets divine feminine Ireland Irish literature Irish poetry Irish women poets literature Medbh McGuckian Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill poetry radio radio program radio show 4 Comments

Reading on Enders Island.

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December 30, 2012 Baron Wormser Beware the Hawk chris belden colin halloran Creative writing Enders Island Fairfield University literature MFA MFA program poet laureate poetry prose Reading Rainbow. Writing. 4 Comments

Spry is Live! (some favorites from the first issue of a new online journal.)

December 19, 2012 fiction flash journal literary literature new literary journal nonfiction poetry Reading Rainbow. Spry Spry Literary Journal sprylit Writing. 1 Comment

The short form: An interview with the editors of ‘Spry,’ a new literary journal

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October 5, 2012 editor fiction flash fiction interview lit mag new literary journal non-fiction poetry prose publishing Spry Spry Literary Journal submissions writer Writing. 12 Comments

Publicity for me and a fellow MFA alum.

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September 14, 2012 AJ O'Connell Bookstore colin halloran Fairfield University Fairfield University MFA fiction flier literature poetry Reading Rainbow. university bookstore war in afghanistan Writing. 2 Comments

Reading in Mystic tomorrow – with some very impressive writers.

July 18, 2012 Annabelle Moseley author Beware the Hawk david fitzpatrick Deborah Henry literature memoir MFA MFA program poetry Reading Rainbow. summer reading list Writing. 2 Comments

Announcement time: Stamford appearance and reading in Mystic.

July 16, 2012 appearances author Barnes & Noble Beware the Hawk book connecticut david fitzpatrick Fairfield MFA Fairfield University literature local author Mystic novel novella poetry pr publicity Reading Rainbow. speaker Stamford stamford town center talk vagabondage press Leave a Comment

Scavenger Hunt, Day 7: The List of Craig

I was sort of sad that no one wrote a haiku about this kind of bird of prey, but that's just me.
March 16, 2012 author Beware the Hawk bird of prey book craigslist fiction haiku marketing poetry promotion scavenger hunt Leave a Comment

Thoughts about poetry

January 9, 2011 Fair fiction MFA poetry Taylor Mali 2 Comments

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I’m A.J. O’Connell.


I'm an author & a journalist. Last year I published my first book. My second book will be released this summer.

My books.

Eagle&Arrow thriller novella Check it out! "The Eagle & The Arrow" is my newest book, the second in my Resistance Series. It will be released by Battered Suitcase Press on June 11. It's pulp fiction. (Real pulp fiction, though, not like the movie.) Beware the Hawk thriller novella
"Beware the Hawk" is my first book, published in 2012 by Vagabondage Press's Battered Suitcase Press.
Beware the Hawk

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  • @studiodog Okay. I'm getting my broomstick. Next time The Cackler comes by, I will be ready. 3 hours ago
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  • I figured out the book giveaway thingie on Goodreads. Hallelujah! goodreads.com/giveaway/show/… 3 hours ago
  • Unfortunately my favorite shorts aren't aging well. When I wear them I look like I should be talking to a ball named Wilson. #summer 13 hours ago
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