#connotation press

[lifeinpoetry]

If rising is a sin,

           still

                       we will rise.

                       If rising is a sin,

do not save our souls.

— Emily Yin, from “Spangled,” published on Connotation Press

[bostonpoetryslam]

I think I came to poetry originally as a way of telling what I couldn’t quite tell, which I think is a common experience. I have tried to become more clear and blunt recently, but I think part of the beauty of poetry in general is how it lets you come to its ideas mostly on your own, how it gives you breathing room.

Ruth Baumann, interviewed by Ösel Jessica Plante for Connotation Press

[lifeinpoetry]

Depression has no vanishing point. Instead it spreads out, until the horizon itself is defined by fog. You touch yourself but not even an ache, or a pulse arises. You not only feel nothing; you’ve become nothing. Sensationless, mouthless. Your ear buzzing with flies.

— Anita Olivia Koester, from “Venus is Mummified,” published in Connotation Press

[lifeinpoetry]

It took time, but I learned I am the entire forest.

— Jessica Lieberman, from “Patina,” published in Connotation Press

[bostonpoetryslam]

I think much of my poetry has come from what I’ve needed to work through—has been a sort of reclamation process, a way to be able to shape and control my narrative.

Ruth Baumann, interviewed by Ösel Jessica Plante for Connotation Press

[lifeinpoetry]

The poet does not forget or forgive: she haunts. She is unafraid of her anger, understands it as love. For herself.

Kristin Chang, from “Why I Write,” published in Connotation Press

[lifeinpoetry]

                  I am not the prayer                                 bracketing your breath

I am the god telling your body to be good

                       to me.

— Kristin Chang, from “The 'you' in my poems is always a woman,” published in Connotation Press

[tlhopkinson]

“Book Review: Footnote, by Trish Hopkinson” - by Janeen Pergrin Rastall via Connotation Press

“Book Review: Footnote, by Trish Hopkinson” – by Janeen Pergrin Rastall via Connotation Press

I’m so grateful and utterly blown away by this in depth and thoughtful review of my chapbook Footnote by Janeen Pergrin Rastall published by Connotation Press this week.

Rastall’s careful reading and insight captured so much of what I was after in this collection of poems. Her familiarity with the work of the writers and artists who inspired these poems was not only on point, but touching in so…

View On WordPress