• Patricia Lockwood – “When We Move Away from Here, You’ll See…” (#35)
• Jan LaPerle – “She Rings Like a Bell Through the Night” (#35)
• Christopher Crawford – “So Gay” (#35)
• Heather Bell – “Love Letter to the Gulf Coast Oil Spill” (#35)
• M.L. Liebler – “Underneath My American Face” (#36)
• Dick Allen – “Knock on the Sky and Listen to the Sound: On Zen Buddhism and Poetry” (#36)

For more information on the Pushcart Anthology, and the nomination process, visit www.pushcartprize.com.

Pia Aliperti
Atlanta, GA
“Boiler”

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Tony Barnstone
Whittier, CA
“Why I Am Not a Carpenter”

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Kim Dower
Los Angeles, CA
“Why People Really Have Dogs”

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Courtney Kampa
Oak Hill, VA
“Self-Portrait by Someone Else”

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M
Portland, OR
“To a Husband, Saved by Death at 48″

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Andrew Nurkin
Highstown, NJ
“The Noises Poetry Makes”

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Charlotte Pence
Knoxville, TN
“Perfectly Whatever”

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Laura Read
Spokane, WA
“What the Body Does”

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Hayden Saunier
Doylestown, PA
“The One and the Other”

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Diane Seuss
Kalamazoo, MI
“What Is at the Heart of It…”

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Craig van Rooyen
San Luis Obispo, CA
“The Minstrel Cycle”

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Jeff Vande Zande
Midland, MI
“The Don’ts (An Incomplete List)”

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Bryan Walpert
Palmerston, New Zealand
“Objective Correlative”

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Anna Lowe Weber
Altoona, PA
“Spring Break 2011″

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Maya Jewell Zeller
Spokane, WA
“Honesty”

The 15 finalists will be published in Rattle #36, which releases in December 2011.  The $5,000 winner will be chosen by popular vote among eligible subscribers (those active prior to 9/15/2011), and announced on February 15th.

Another four Semi-Finalists were selected for standard publication, and offered a space in Rattle #37. These poets will be notified individually about details, but they are: Sarah Cortez, Patrick Dutcher, Christine Poreba, and Ali Shapiro.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the competition, which would not have been a success without your diverse and inspiring poems. We received a total of 1,670 entries and well over 6,000 poems, and it was an honor to read each of them.

• 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 Tavern,” (#34)

For more information on the Pushcart Anthology, and the nomination process, visit www.pushcartprize.com.

Patricia Smith
Howell, NJ
for
“Tavern. Tavern. Church. Shuttered Tavern,“

Honorable Mentions:

Michele Battiste, Boulder, CO — “Once More, With Feeling”

Heidi Garnett, Kelowna, BC — “Sin of Unrequited Love”     

Valentina Gnup, Portland, OR — “We Speak of August”

francine j. harris, Ann Arbor, MI — “Katherine with the lazy eye. short. and not a good poet.”

Courtney Kampa, Oak Hill, VA — “Avant-garde”

Courtney Kampa, Oak Hill, VA — “The Miscarriage”

Devon Miller-Duggan, Newark, DE — “Old Blue”

Andrew Nurkin, Highstown, NJ — “The Contest”

Laura Read, Spokane, WA — “This Time We’ll Go to Kentucky Fried Chicken”

Scott Withiam, Cambridge, MA — “The Petty Snow”

The 11 winning poems will be published in Rattle #34, which releases in December 2010.

Another 12 poems were selected for standard publication, and offered a space in the open section of Rattle #35.  These poets will be notified individually about details, but they are: Amanda Auchter, Heather Bell, Christeene Fraser, Linda Gottlieb, Daniel Leamen, Alison Luterman, Megan Moriarty, and Terry Spohn, along with additional poems by Patricia Smith and Scott Withiam.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the competition, which would not have been a success without your diverse and inspiring poems.  We received a total of 1,697 entries and well over 6,000 poems, and it was an honor to read each of them.

• Heather Bell – “Love” (#31)
• Terrance Hayes – “Model Prison Model” (#31)
• Lynne Knight – “To the Young Man…” (#32)
• Howard Price – “Crow-Magnon” (#32)
• Alison Townsend – “The Only Surviving Recording…” (#32)
• Patricia Smith – “Motown Crown” (#32)

In addition to a chance at representing RATTLE in the anthology, each of their poems will be featured on our blog during the first week in January. For more information on the Pushcart Anthology, and the nomination process, visit www.pushcartprize.com.

Lynne Knight
Berkeley, CA
for
“To the Young Man Who Cried Out ‘What Were
You Thinking’ When I Backed into His Car“

Honorable Mentions:

Michelle Bitting, Pacific Palisades, CA – “Mammary“

Carolyn Creedon, Charlottesville, VA – “How to Be a Cowgirl in a Studio Apartment“

Mary-Lou Brockett-Devine, Niantic, CT – “Crabs“

Douglas Goetsch, Edmond, OK – “Writer in Residence, Central State”

David Hernandez, Long Beach, CA – “Remember It Wrong“

John Paul O’Connor, Franklin, NY – “Beans“

Howard Price, Morro Bay, CA – “Crow-Magnon“

Patricia Smith, Howell, NJ – “Birthday”

Alison Townsend, Stoughton, WI – “The Only Surviving Recording of Virginia Woolf’s Voice“

Emily Kagan Trenchard, Brooklyn, NY – “This Is the Part of the Story I’d Rather Not Tell”

The eleven winning poems will be published in Rattle #32, which releases in December 2009. Another 19 poems were selected for standard publication, and offered a space in the open section of Rattle #33.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the competition, which would not have been a success without your diverse and inspiring poems.

Short list this month, but we still have well-over 100 review copies looking for homes, so don’t hesitate to ask for several books at once.

To request any of these books, just write to:

New books in June:

• Robert Krut – The Spider Sermons
• Novica Tadic – Dark Things
• Cameron Mount – Evening Watch*
• Samiya Bashir – Gospel
• Mark Van Aken Williams – Circus by Moonlight

* = chapbook
# = uncorrected proof (i.e., softcover
books w/o cover art; may be typos)

Literary Magazines:

• Wisconsin Review – 43.2
• Quercus Review – 9
• Iconoclast – 102