Welcome to the February, 2010 issue of Connotation Press: An Online Artifact. This month we have exciting offerings in Nonfiction, Poetry, Food & Wine, Drama, Book Review, Essay on Art, and a new Featured Undergrad. Enjoy! see more...
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Steven Huff is the author of a collection of stories, A Pig in Paris (Big Pencil Press, 2008), and two collections of poems, The Water We Came From (FootHills 2003), and More Daring Escapes (Red Hen Press 2008). His chapbook Proof was named Editor’s Choice in the 2004 Two Rivers Review Chapbook Competition.
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In my Advanced Poetry Workshop, I’ve prefaced the current semester with an examination of several critical essays in the hope that my students and I might gain something like a grip on what our current period’s fashionable style looks and acts like, and why.
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.jpg) Ed Weathers was a magazine editor and writer for 27 years and has taught Professional Writing, Composition, and Literature and the Law at Virginia Tech since 2003. He has published more than 200 magazine articles, plus poems in a number of journals. He has won the American Bar Association's award for the nation's best article on legal issues and the City and Regional Magazine Association's
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Thom Ward is Editor/Production Director at BOA Editions, Ltd., an independent publishing house of poetry, poetry-in-translation and fiction. His own poetry collections include Small Boat with Oars of Different Size and Various Orbits, both with Carnegie Mellon University Press, and The Matter of the Casket, published in 2007 by Custom Words. His lives in upstate, New York.
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Book Review – Leap: poems
by Elizabeth Haukaas
104 pages
Lubbock: Texas Tech UP, 2009. ISBN-13: 978-0896726475 $11.36
Reviewed by Olivia Everett
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After the holidays, when the bitterness of winter sets in, I crave one dish above all others: soup. After a long day at work, while driving home in the silence of a frigid snowy evening, all I think about is putting on my flannel pj’s and curling up on the couch with a nice toasty bowl of soup. That first sip melts away the iciness of the day and warms my weary bones.
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Jacqueline Wright is a Los Angeles based writer/performer. Her plays have been produced/developed with Theatre of NOTE, Santa Clarita Rep, the Ensemble Studio Theatre (New York & Los Angeles), Ghost Road Company, ASK Theatre Projects, Occidental College, California Institute of the Arts, Playwrights Arena, Echo Theatre Company, 24th Street Theatre, The Virginia Avenue Project, and HBO's Comedy Arts Festival.
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John Wenke teaches American literature and literary writing at Salisbury University. His books include J. D. Salinger: A Study of the Short Fiction and Melville's Muse. He has published numerous stories, essays, chapters, and reviews. "The Divine Inert" will be part of an essay collection called Culture and Anarchy, Part Two.
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Jennifer Butcher is a native of southern Illinois, from the town of Carbondale. In May, she will graduate from Southern Illinois University with a degree in English, concentration in Creative Writing. She hopes to attend graduate school in the fall of 2010 to further pursue the study of poetry. Other than poetry, Jennifer loves children's literature and spends many hours in the pages of A.A. Milne, Laura Numeroff, and Don Freeman.
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