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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 V, Volume II : February 2010

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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...

 

 
Featured Guest Editor - Steven Huff - February 2010

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.
 
A Poetry Congeries, with John Hoppenthaler - February 2010

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. 
 
Ed Weathers - Hitchhiker, Haunted

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
 
Thom Ward - Interview and Poetry

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.
 
Book Review - Leap:poems

Book Review – Leap: poems
by Elizabeth Haukaas
104 pages
Lubbock: Texas Tech UP, 2009. ISBN-13: 978-0896726475 $11.36
Reviewed by Olivia Everett
 
From Plate to Palate, with Amanda McGuire: February 2010

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.
 
Jacqueline Wright - Buddy Buddette

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.
 
John Wenke - The Divine Inert

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.
 
Jennifer Butcher introduced by Allison Joseph: February 2010

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.