September 2018 - Poetry
FGE - September 2018
Ten poems to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Connotation Press: An Online Artifact. I am very excited. I have always loved the symmetry of 5 being both half a square and half a circle. I think a strong poem matches that cadence. Double that, and you have our feature: what follows is work by 10 poets who I believe are trying to balance the tension the square and circular, fashion a symmetry between opposing
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Keith S. Wilson is an Affrilachian Poet, Cave Canem fellow, and graduate of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop
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LeConté Dill was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles, the granddaughter of sojourners of the 2nd Wave of the
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Nana Boateng is a recent grad from Berea College with a B.A. in English Writing. She is passionate about enhancing the
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Mikko Harvey is the author of Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit (House of Anansi, 2018). You can find his poems in places such as
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Diana Khoi Nguyen’s debut collection, Ghost Of (Omnidawn, 2018), was selected by Terrance Hayes for the
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Chet’la Sebree is the author of Mistress, selected by Cathy Park Hong and forthcoming from New Issues Poetry and Prose in
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D.M. Aderibigbe's first book, How the End First Showed won the 2018 Brittingham Prize in Poetry and is forthcoming from
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Britt Ashley is a queer femme from Texas who makes poems and biscuits. Her work has appearing or is forthcoming in
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Bianca Lynne Spriggs, Ph.D., is an award-winning writer and multidisciplinary artist from Kentucky. An Assistant Professor of
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Joy Priest grew up in Louisville, Kentucky across the street from the world’s most famous horseracing track. She is the
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