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    Featured Artist of the Month

    Please enjoy all the great offerings we have this month in the categories of non fiction, poetry, drama, food & wine, essay on art, book review, and featured undergrad. Our artist of the month feature will return in March. 

  • The Written Artists Section

    The Written Artists Section

    Our Written Artists section is off the hook! Check out the Featured Guest Column hosted by John Hoppenthaler and all the great artists in the Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Drama sections. And don't miss the new play, Buddy Buddette, and the interview that proceeds it, with writer Jacqueline Wright.

  • The Undergraduate Section

    The Undergraduate Section

    Our Featured Undergrad section is unique in that our Undergrads are nominated by their teachers. This month's Featured Undergrads section includes work by Jennifer Butcher as nominated by Allison Joseph. see more...

Issue X, Volume I : July 2010

CONNOTATION PRESS EXCLUSIVE - ORDINANCE 14
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"TRIO FORM FILM COMPANY THAT LOOKS TO THE FUTURE"

By John Stanley

Charles Evered is a nationally known playwright who has made the move into directing film. Marty James is a show biz veteran who produces, edits and continues working as an actor and David Ho is a well respected post production guru and music whiz. However, when the three of them get together they’re known as “Ordinance 14,” and they’re already a force to be reckoned with.
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Sue Brannan Walker - Poetry
Walker Sue Brannan Walker, Ph.D., is Poet Laureate of Alabama, the Stokes Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the Stokes Center for Creative Writing, and Professor of English at the University of South Alabama
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A Poetry Congeries, with John Hoppenthaler - July 2010
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I’ve never been a fan of birds.  I mean, I remember once, when I was around six or seven, a bird rocketing out from tree limbs to peck at my head.  It drew blood. 
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A Note from Kaite Hillenbrand: Poetry Editor
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Farmers’ markets are buzzing right now with all sorts of berries, flowers, veggies, and hand-raised meat, and this month’s poetry column is similarly rich in offerings—we’re chock full of style, beauty, and gristle.
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"Shake" Interview by Liz Warner with Joshua Fardon & Kiff Scholl
Shake Liz Warner is an author, actress & radio personality. She is the Voice of the Peoples Choice Awards, blogging daily with entertainment commentary & opinion on People's Choice. 
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Amy De Vore - Fiction
Devore Amy De Vore is a Los Angeles native who has been inspired by the writings of Charles Bukowski, Kurt Vonnegut, Toni Morrison, and JD Salinger specifically, as well as many, many others. She has had short stories published in Requin and Foliate Oak,
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Cai Qijiao - Poetry in Translation
CaiQuijiao Cai Qijiao stands out as a rare poet who extricated himself from the meshes of Socialist Realism under Mao Zedong, survived social ostracism before and during the Cultural Revolution, and persisted in writing individually inspired, high-quality poetry. 
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Nicholas Baker - Dubai Discovered
NickDubai While researching our upcoming trip to Dubai, I kept coming across superlatives: Dubai is the fastest growing city in the history of mankind. Burj Dubai is the tallest building in the world. Burj al Arab, the iconic sail-shaped building is the only seven star hotel in the world (with a fleet of white Rolls Royce's). 
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From Plate to Palate with Amanda McGuire: July 2010
.Amanda-McGuireLemonade, hot dogs and burgers. These are the foods most people associate with summer. I, on the other hand, obsess about desserts come July. 
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A Note from Robert Clark Young: Creative Nonfiction Editor
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This month I’m proud to present four very different pieces that emerge from the same genre, four essays that demonstrate how diverse and strong and vibrant this enormous species known as creative nonfiction can be.
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Richard J. Cronborg - Creative Nonfiction
Cronborg Richard J. Cronborg is a self-taught artist who searches for universal themes which evoke specific emotions from the viewer. He is interested mainly in sexuality and mortality in his narratives.
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H. L. Hix - Poetry
HixH.L. H. L. Hix teaches at the University of Wyoming.  His recent poetry books include Chromatic, a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award; God Bless (2007), a “political/poetic discourse” built around sonnets and sestinas and villanelles composed of quotations from George W. Bush
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Melissa Harkness - Fiction
Harkness Melissa Harkness is a current graduate student in the Creative Writing for the Performing Arts program at the University of California, Riverside. Her screenplay, Shotgun, was named a Finalist in the 2010 Write Movies International Screenplay Competition
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Book Review – The Lost Books of the Odyssey, by Zachary Mason
ZacharyMason-BookReview Book Review – The Lost Books of the Odyssey
by Zachary Mason
228 pages
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. ISBN-13: 978-0-374-19215-0 $24.00
Reviewed by Patrick Racenberg
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