Month: April 2021

The Importance of Connotation

Words only hold meaning in context. Speak any word in a place where no one else understands that language and it holds no meaning. That is true for the denotation (a word’s literal or most common meaning) as well as for connotation (whatever else it signifies along with its...

Poem sold to Star*Line!

 My poem "The Pelagic Colossus" has just sold to Star*Line. That's a nice bit of news to get during National Poetry Month. Look for it in one of the next two issues. ...