Jul 31
Saturday

  • It's: Connotation Press!

    Welcome to Connotation Press: An Online Artifact

    We hope your experience with our magazine is as compelling as the artists we're publishing. Your first step starts with just one click. And Awaaay We Go!  

  • 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 X, Volume I : July 2010

Saratoga Rahe introduced by Cynthia Cruz: May 2010
SaratogaRahe-BioPic Saratoga Rahe, a Junior at Sarah Lawrence College, is originally from Los Angeles, California. Her previous publications have been included in the 46th Annual 2003 Achievement Awards in Writing publication, conferred through the NCTE (National Council of Teacher of English),
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Walden Raines introduced by Dorianne Laux: April 2010

Walden Raines is a born again poet who moonlights as a software engineer in the self-publishing industry. Raised amongst the sound of washboards, banjos, and milk jugs in Southern Appalachia, his roots are not forgotten. Walden graduated from NC State in 2007 receiving a BS in Computer Engineering, a BS in Electrical Engineering,
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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.
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Patrick Link and Mika Rivera - Introduced by Katie Fallon : December 2009

Katie-Fallon.jpg It is my pleasure to introduce two talented young writers with bright futures: Patrick Link and Mika Rivera. Patrick and Mika were students in my undergraduate Creative Nonfiction course at Virginia Tech in the spring of 2009. Both submitted essays to the Norman Mailer College Writing Award for Creative Nonfiction, sponsored by the Norman Mailer Writers Colony and the National Council of Teachers of English, and both were selected as National Semifinalists, finishing in the top 3% of entries received.
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Michael T. Mayo - Introduced by Dorianne Laux : September 2009

Dorianne-Laux Introduction by Dorianne Laux

Michael T. Mayo’s poems are written in the grand but plain-speaking tradition of great narrative poets like Philip Levine and Joseph Millar, two of his influences. His tight, precisely drawn portraits reflect a deep connection to the physical world and an artist’s reverence for what demands attention in everyday life.

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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,

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Maximilian Hagen - Introduced by Maureen Seaton: January 2010

hagan-undergrad.jpg Maximilian Hagen’s poems have delighted and surprised me in all their various manifestations: verse dramas, prose poems, and compressed lyric narratives. They might be based on a loose memory or two, or not, and they are always imaginative romps and extraordinary in the way they see everything new. His language is straightforward, with an authority and equilibrium that enables him to steady the reader as he sets forth his quirky, unsettling, often hilarious images.
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Rachel Mangum - Introduced by Dorianne Laux : October 2009

Dorianne Laux Rachel Mangum writes love poems, quietly bold, stripped down to bone, skin, lips.  But even her poem “After the movie, Friday night”, about a group of Twenty-first century kids standing in line outside a movie house is a love poem, with its generous descriptions and lingered over details.  Magnum’s is a poetry of the body-- clothed, or unclothed, public or private-- the human form in all its manifestations is what she praises, preserves and adores.   Dorianne Laux
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