Author Archive
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
“The Promises Herein Contained” by Shane Rhodes
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Monday, February 6th, 2012
“A Battleship Examines Its Faith” by Saara Myrene Raappana
Saara Myrene Raappana A BATTLESHIP EXAMINES ITS FAITH I dream towels, dust streams, a downpour of talcum. I dream arid fields of sorghum. But down where I’m fattest: frogmen swimming on wave-wings, stoking my belly with the kindling of justice. Captain, I’m a billion-shot salute, but guns aren’t made to pull their own triggers. The [...]
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Sunday, February 5th, 2012
TWO FOR A JOURNEY by Carol Frith
Review by Nausheen Eusuf TWO FOR A JOURNEY by Carol Frith David Robert Books P. O. Box 541106 Cincinnati, OH 45254 ISBN 978-1934999837 2010, 96 pp., $18.00 www.davidrobertbooks.com Carol Frith’s two for a journey revolves around two central characters, the “two” of the title: the “I” of the poems, and the “you” who is addressed [...]
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Saturday, February 4th, 2012
“The Dog” by Marilyn Gear Pilling
Marilyn Gear Pilling THE DOG The six of us look as usual but we are all dogs Around that Christmas table of 1999. My sister Carves with the concentration of a sculptor Trying to free the angel from stone. This is usual. My brother carries the turkey to table Losing a wing. This is usual. [...]
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
“Your Village” by Patrick M. Pilarski
Patrick M. Pilarski YOUR VILLAGE slipknot, aerosol or invertebrate, a thing spineless drawn out in sections and rewired to complete the circuit hot light in each alcove, insomniac the green yellow eyes of a cat, blinking in the dark nothing put to sleep. –from Rattle #35, Summer 2011 Tribute to Canadian Poets
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
“The Ex-World” by Molly Peacock
Molly Peacock THE EX-WORLD Death had seemed so abrupt to X, like a TV show she loved being cancelled, or a pet lipstick color discontinued. Of course X knew these were minor examples! Their minority let X think about death. By now she’d lived through so many new shows just a hue different from old [...]
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
“On the Anniversary of His Wife’s Death” by Todd Outcalt
Todd Outcalt ON THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF HIS WIFE’S DEATH He thinks that time will heal. But this is fable. He tries to call her friends. But is not able. He wants to venture out. But is not stable. Her photograph remains upon the table. –from Rattle #35, Summer 2011
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
“Two Panels by Memling” by David D. Nolta
David D. Nolta TWO PANELS BY MEMLING from the Brukenthal Collection The dog loved the boy and the boy is dead. The man—his father—could not allow His son to be buried inside his head As if he had never lived. That’s how The artist, Memling, entered the picture (Figuratively speaking). [...]
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Monday, January 30th, 2012
Rattle #36 Winter Reading
On Sunday, January 15th, Rattle held a reading for issue #36 at the Church in Ocean Park, in Santa Monica, CA. Eight poets from the issue read samples of their work: Teresa Chuc Dowell Alan Fox Sonia Greenfield Bruce McBirney Peg Quinn Diana M. Raab Ephraim Scott Sommers Craig van Rooyen Teresa Chuc Dowell, a [...]
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Sunday, January 29th, 2012
“Teaching Slant Rhyme” by Leah Nielsen
Leah Nielsen TEACHING SLANT RHYME I have always wanted to write a poem in which lavender rhymes with vendor or scavenger but mostly cadaver, but the image—imagine a literary journal’s response — seems inadvertently humorous—and there seems no nonchalant way to pair them, to rhim them, as my students say, which is a marked improvement [...]
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Saturday, January 28th, 2012
“Housekeeping” by Rachel Lynn Nevins
Rachael Lynn Nevins HOUSEKEEPING Well, kiddo, we’re the only parents you’ll ever have, I’m sorry to say: your father, the artist, and me, the poet and oft-enraged student of Zen, sitting up in bed and yelling at your father, “Nirvana is not somewhere else!” An hour later you were conceived. And now, just look at [...]
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Friday, January 27th, 2012
“I Only Dance for My Mother” by Mathias Nelson
Mathias Nelson I ONLY DANCE FOR MY MOTHER She gives me the wine and I take the wine. I mop her floors and she walks on them while they’re still wet so I begin to dance to warn her of how easy one can slide. She watches grinning in her old green jacket before going [...]
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012
“Look at Us Living” by Megan Moriarty
Megan Moriarty LOOKING AT US LIVING Through the binoculars, we saw us moving through the foliage. The world was on rewind: a herd of horses ran backwards across a field. Yellow leaves kept climbing back to their branches. “What’s the opposite of fall?” I said, and he said “Spring.” Then it was August, then July, [...]
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
THE GREEN COTTAGE by Michelle Gillett
Review by Claire Keyes THE GREEN COTTAGE by Michelle Gillett The Ledge Press 40 Maple Ave Bellport, NY 11713 2010, 29 pp., $8.00 http://www.theledgemagazine.com The Green Cottage of Michelle Gillett’s chapbook appears to be an actual place that has gotten passed down to the poet’s generation. It stands for continuity but also as a place [...]
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
“Twister” by Kathryn Mockler
Kathryn Mockler TWISTER The Evangelical Christian was so busy tying up his shoelace that he failed to notice the twister fast approaching. When he finally stood up and saw dark clouds surrounded by a funnel-shaped force, he said to himself, “My Lord, is that Armageddon?” “No,” said the postman who had just put a large [...]
