Writing – Photography by Emily O'Donnell

June 5, 2014August 19, 2014

TRAF Blog Post: Squonk Opera’s ‘Pneumatica’

Originally posted at http://www.3riversartsfest.org/2014/06/squonk-opera-returns-to-the-festival For over twenty years, Squonk Opera has been entertaining Pittsburgh with their eccentric blend of music and performance art. This year Squonk returns to the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival with their new show titled ‘Pneumatica.’ Lady Pneumatica will loom large above the crowd at Point State Park from June 13–15. … Continue reading TRAF Blog Post: Squonk Opera’s ‘Pneumatica’

December 20, 2013

Eulogy

A year ago I wrote an essay for a class. The essay was a response to the book Blue Nights by Joan Didion. A meditation on memory and how relationships shape memory and how memory shapes our relationships. The essay was about my best friends, written shortly after I discovered some frightening news about their … Continue reading Eulogy

October 25, 2013April 27, 2014

Article: Maxo Vanka Murals

The Grieving Mother, The Old Country and Social Injustice The Milvale Murals of Maxo Vanka By Emily O’Donnell Written for The Original Magazine: Issue 12 (2013) Atop a steep cliff, the church sits quietly looming over the constant construction and noise of cars that fill route 28. Located on the fringes of Milvale, it is … Continue reading Article: Maxo Vanka Murals

October 25, 2013October 25, 2013

Poetry: Penumbra

Penumbra The shadow on the moon blots out light, like ink on a page like fear in her heart Red shadows blood spilt over the starry expanse of sky, between the spaces the silence lies. The dead whisper their secrets where we cannot hear. The stars are failing as light is fading and her eyes … Continue reading Poetry: Penumbra

October 25, 2013

Poetry: Erasure

* Ground to the sun Real relations work And forms this living Effect of these synchronies I’m opening up to you Alone at the sentencing Not ours With value you can live on time In the hedge I am in love Tonight we’re self-grounded in-dependent circuit Spans of life can be traded (Emily O’Donnell … Continue reading Poetry: Erasure

October 25, 2013

Poetry: Ouroboros

Pulse racing the heart to the end – –Of a line that has no beginning It turns back on me as I chase Raindrops back to heaven Soil into earth. We bury ourselves in mist Unable to see through the veil Over eyes blind with vision. It keeps us going Faster until until … Continue reading Poetry: Ouroboros

October 25, 2013April 27, 2014

Essay: Fugues

Emily O’Donnell Fugues 2012 Fugue 1+2 * A fugue is a harmony of many voices, in music it speaks in a symphony. In psychology it speaks in discord, it speaks in silence, the forgetting of voices that are beloved. The forgetting of our own voice. The musical fugue speaks to us with eloquence; the … Continue reading Essay: Fugues