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  • Featured Artist of the Month

    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 VI, Volume II : March 2010

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Welcome to the March, 2010 issue of Connotation Press: An Online Artifact. This month we have exciting offerings in Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction, Food & Wine, Travel, Drama, Book Review, and a new Featured Undergrad. Enjoy!  see more...

 

 
Campbell McGrath - Poetry & Interview

Campbell McGrath is the author of eight volumes of poetry, including Spring Comes to Chicago, Florida Poems, Seven Notebooks, and most recently Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Ecco Press, 2009), an epic poem of the American west. His poetry has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Harper’s

 
A Poetry Congeries, with John Hoppenthaler - March 2010

A Homage to Lucille Clifton (1936-2010)
 
The death of Lucille Clifton leaves a big hole in the poetry landscape, a hole not easily filled. 
 
Nicholas Baker - Scotland Discovered

Last week, we were sitting in our favorite bar in Soho with our friends Jimmy and Kara. They had just returned from a two week tour of Scotland, and were raving about it. Since Jimmy is French and Kara an American, we felt guilty to admit that us two Londoners had never made the 400 mile trip to Scotland in the 2 1/2 years we have been living in the U.K.

 
Diane Payne - Illusions

Diane Payne teaches creative writing at University of Arkansas-Monticello, where she is also the faculty advisor of Foliate Oak Literary Magazine. She is the author of two novels: Burning Tulips and A New Kind of Music.
 
Book Review: Mr. Agreeable, by Kirk Nesset

Book Review: Mr. Agreeable, by Kirk Nesset
98 Pages
Mammoth Books; 1st edition (September 21, 2009). ISBN 13: 978-1595390219 $11.95
Review by Adolfo Mejia
 
From Plate to Palate, with Amanda McGuire: March 2010

“One day you’ll own a pet and you’ll understand,” my step-mom, Hons, said to us kids when we were cornered on the staircase landing by her attack cat, Mr. Button. She swooped him up into her arms where he purred while loathingly staring us down. Technically, Mr. Button, the most stunningly beautiful Himalayan/Persian,

 
Fielding Edlow: The Something-Nothing

Fielding Edlow, a native New Yorker, has had her plays produced/workshopped in New York and Los Angeles with Naked Angels, NY Stage & Film, PSNBC, Dixon Place, The Culture Project, NY Fringe Festival and Home for Contemporary Arts. Her full-length play, The Something-Nothing was recently workshopped at
 
Kate Kimball - Leaving Zion

Kate Kimball is an MFA student at Virginia Tech.  She is originally from Salt Lake City, Utah.

 
Andi Stout introduced by Emily Mitchell: March 2010

Andi Stout is finishing her undergraduate degree in English at West Virginia University this semester where she hopes to continue her education in their MFA program. She is the recipient of two writing awards from WVU, including the Waitman Barbe Fiction Award (2009) for Sustained Joy,