Archive for December, 2010
Saturday, December 11th, 2010
“Drug Facts” by Brent Fisk
Brent Fisk DRUG FACTS (Continued) Warnings Allergy alert: Ibuprofen may cause a severe allergic reaction which may include: • bee hives • ego swelling • post-coital drip • electric shock. Stomach bleeding warning: Taking more than recommended may cause stomach bleeding or death, as many people use Ibuprofen to commit suicide but our legal and [...]
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Friday, December 10th, 2010
MISSING YOU, METROPOLIS by Gary Jackson
Review by Richard Vargas MISSING YOU, METROPOLIS by Gary Jackson Graywolf Press 250 Third Avenue North, Suite 600 Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401 ISBN 978-1-55597-572-2 2010, 85 pp., $15.00 www.graywolfpress.org Gary Jackson’s collection, Missing You, Metropolis, (selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize) explores the impact pop culture, as defined by [...]
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Thursday, December 9th, 2010
“I Like to Watch” by Alan Fox
Alan Fox I LIKE TO WATCH I like to watch my wife when she walks around our bedroom naked before preparing for the day or for the night. Perhaps she appeals to my sexual lust, or sense of aesthetics, or intimacy, careless of the hiding which otherwise rules our lives. Which is why I write [...]
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
“Film Color” by Drew Foti-Straus
Drew Foti-Straus FILM COLOR, 1950 In order to create color home movies, families could send their black and white film to companies which would add color to it using stencils and dyes. As I watch my mother’s family, on our living room television, I see the way the man who took their movie changed them. [...]
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
“Rome” by Toi Derricotte
Toi Derricotte ROME The man at the next table praises me for making more noise over the foccacia than most women make over sex –from Rattle #33, Summer 2010 Tribute to Humor
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Monday, December 6th, 2010
“City Limits” by J.Scott Brownlee
J. Scott Brownlee CITY LIMITS Once every year, we slaughter the bulls. We make burnt offerings to God while clans of poor Tejanos jump in old Ford trucks, waiting to melt the pools of asphalt for new roads. We take our time when we make love. We are proud soldiers who have twice toured Iraq: [...]
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Sunday, December 5th, 2010
2010 Pushcart Prize Nominees
Rattle is proud to announce the following nominees for the 2010 Pushcart Prize: Mario Chard – “The Barrel” (#34) Ed Galing – “Nursing Home” (#33) Reeves Keyworth – “On Telling the Dying to ‘Let Go’” (#33) Andrew Nurkin – “The Contest” (#34) Matthew Olzmann – “Rare Architecture” (#34) Patricia Smith – “Tavern. Tavern. Church. Shuttered [...]
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Saturday, December 4th, 2010
“Antilles. Lesser.” by Lynne Thompson
Lynne Thompson ANTILLES. LESSER. When you’re a girl and your pop-pop tells you he was born in the lesser Antilles, you don’t ask questions. Truth is, you don’t really know what Antilles are; barely know lesser although you do know about comparisons. You have book smarts: have read the oeuvre of Dumas pére & Dumas [...]
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Friday, December 3rd, 2010
“Lip Gloss, Belgium” by Jim Daniels
Jim Daniels LIP GLOSS, BELGIUM The phone company sent me six bills, postage 42 cents each, to tell me I owed 26 cents. Then they sent a bill saying I owed $6.26. When I called to object, I was phone-menued to a new dial tone. I borrow my neighbors’ dog for runs in the park [...]
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
“Soap” by Karina Borowicz
Karina Borowicz SOAP Even as a child I knew it and my parents couldn’t shield me from Sharon Tate and the Olympic Games massacre, the hijackings, the war in Lebanon not to mention the nuclear bomb and the bodies from Vietnam coming off the planes in coffins, some of them hobbling off on crutches and [...]
