Tag: April 2016

Green Eye (a brief elaboration)

Kevin J. O'Conner

Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to translate a poem. My Day #30 poem can be found here. I wanted to fix it up a bit more, however, as it felt incomplete. So—bonus round!—here is a somewhat more polished version, in which I worry less about preserving the exact meaning of the original. It’s not an out-and-out rewrite (even [...]

National Poetry Writing Month, Day #30

Kevin J. O'Conner2 Comments

Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to translate a poem. Seeing as how the closest thing I have to poetry in a foreign language is my small-ish collection of Japanese albums, and I do have experience translating Japanese, I chose as my poem a song by Nav Katze. Green Eye Reflections in water, adrift on a moonlit night [...]

Working on the new book, day 11

Kevin J. O'Conner

I’m up late. By the time I post this, it will be a few minutes past 1:30 in the a.m. At the last minute, I decided to skip the poetry reading I would normally have gone to; instead, I resumed looking at photos—this time my iPhoto library covering 2011–2015. Instead of going through the photos [...]

National Poetry Writing Month, Day #29

Kevin J. O'Conner3 Comments

Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is ‘to write a poem based on things you remember.’ Not a particularly unique prompt (particularly the ‘I remember…’ variant), but I gave it a shot: A list of random things I remember from childhood that ends up being all about TV in the end and could theoretically go on forever because I didn’t bother [...]

Working on the new book, day 10

Kevin J. O'Conner2 Comments

Despite getting some decent catch-up sleep last night, I did not feel like going through a bunch of photos several times over today, so I opted instead to copy the rest of the poems to the InDesign documents I set up a little while back. I did very little as far as actual layout is [...]