Michael Patrick O'Connor (1950, Lackawanna, New York – June 16, 2007, Silver Spring, Maryland) was an American scholar of the Ancient Near East and a poet.
[1] In 1997 he joined the faculty of Catholic University of America and was appointed an Ordinary Professor in 2002.
[2][4] He proposed that the metre of Hebrew verse was based on constraints in syntax, rather than feet.
[5] He published poems throughout his career, including a book of poetry called Pandary in 1989.
[2] O'Connor was a Catholic, he died of complications of liver cancer on June 16, 2007, at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, MD.