Each day reveals new reasons to seek what is found in poetry, and these needs influence our engagement with individual poems.  This selection of poetry from the past year, those that on this very hot July day seem particularly urgent to me, suggests the larger discussion found in each individual Congeries, as well those conversations along the growing arc of them.  These discussions, of course, expand, veer, and surprise when considered in the greater context of the many offerings Connotation Press: An Online Artifact provides.

It would be impossible to list each outstanding contribution to the Congeries here; rather, I've listed here just a few choices from each month.  It has indeed been a wonderfully odd and often beautiful year’s journey, and I hope that the following poems will provide you with the same sustenance I’ve found in them.  I’ll be back with a new Congeries in September; enjoy the summer!