Once again, here’s how our review process works: If you’d like to review any of these books or literary journals (or any from the full list), let us know, and we’ll mail it to you. Write a review of at least 600 words, and if we publish it, we’ll also send you the forthcoming copy or any back issue of Rattle as payment. Free books and a free magazine, just for doing a bit of service to the good of poetry.

The list is long this month, so don’t hesitate to ask for several books at once.

To request any of these books, just write to:

New books in March:

• Jamey Hecht – Limousine, Midnight Blue
• Michelle Boisseau – A Sunday in God-Years
• David Lee Garrison – Sweeping the Cemetery
• Mitchell L.H. Douglas – Cooling Board
• Ching-In Chen – The Heart’s Traffic
• Margo Klass & Frank Soos – Double Moon
• David James – She Dances Like Mussolini
• Mignon Ariel King – The Woods Have Words
• Ernest Loesser – Touched by Lightning
• Louis Phillips – The Kilroy Sonata
• Orlando White – Bone Light
• Jim Natal – Memory & Rain
• Louis Phillips -  The Woman Who Wrote “King Lear”
• Carine Topal – In the Heaven of Never Before
• Christopher Goodrich – Nevertheless, Hello
• Elizabeth Biller Chapman – Light Thickens
• Irene McKinney – Unthinkable
• Ernest Hilbert – Sixty Sonnets
• Tullio Pironti – Books & Rough Business
• Craig Santos Perez – from Unincorporated Territory
• Jennifer Kronovet – Awayward
• Louis Simpson – Struggling Times

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

Literary Magazines:

• Arts & Letters – 21
• First Class – 32
• Arkansas Review – 39.3
• Alaska Quarterly Review – 25.1-2
• Alaska Quarterly Review – 25.3-4

Congratulations to Brian Trimboli and Bruce Cohen — their poems “Things My Son Should Have Known Before He Died” and “The Jerry Lewis Telethon,” respectively, have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize by their Board of Contributing Editors. Brian and Bruce will join our other six nominees in waiting patiently by the phone for the winners to be announced in May.

Wish them luck, cross your fingers with us, and take a moment to enjoy their poems all over again.

Once again, here’s how our review process works: If you’d like to review any of these books or literary journals (or any from the full list), let us know, and we’ll mail it to you. Write a review of at least 600 words, and if we publish it, we’ll also send you the forthcoming copy or any back issue of Rattle as payment. Free books and a free magazine, just for doing a bit of service to the good of poetry.

The list is long this month, so don’t hesitate to ask for several books at once.

To request any of these books, just write to:

New books in February:

• Jamey Hecht – Limousine, Midnight Blue
• Brendan Constantine – Letters to Guns #
  
• Ted Kooser – Delights & Shadows
• Steven D. Schroeder – Torched Verse Ends
• Hudson Owen – Selected Poems
• Amy Lemmon – Saint Nobody #
  
• Dan Beachy-Quick – This Nest, Swift Passerine
  
• James Ragan – Too Long a Solitude
• Naomi Ayala – This Side of Early
• Jim Natal – Memory and Rain #
  
• Irene McKinney – Unthinkable: Selected Poems #
  
• Ernest Hilbert – Sixty Sonnets #
• Elizabeth Haukaas – Leap
• American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry
• Stanley Plumly – Old Heart
• Erinn Batykefer – Allegheny, Monongahela #
• Orlando White – Bone Light #
• Robert Cooperman – The Words We Used
• Dorian Brooks – The Wren’s Cry
• C.D. Collins – Self-Portrait with Severed Head
• Elise Paschen – Bestiary #
  
• Barbara Bloom – On the Water Meridian
• Charles Atkinson – Fossil Honey
• David Allen Sullivan – Strong-Armed Angels
• Amber Coverdale Sumrall – Refuge
• Rebecca Foust -  Mom’s Canoe *
  
• 23rd Street Poets Anthology *
• Arisa White – Disposition for Shininess *

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

Literary Magazines:

• Sycamore Review – 21.1
• Beloit Poetry Journal – 59.3
• Poetry – 2. 2009
• The Chattahoochee Review – 28.4
• The Carolina Quarterly – 59.1

Once again, here’s how our review process works:  If you’d like to review any of these books or literary journals (or any from the full list), let us know, and we’ll mail it to you.  Write a review of at least 600 words, and if we publish it, we’ll also send you the forthcoming copy or any back issue of Rattle as payment.  Free books and a free magazine, just for doing a bit of service to the good of poetry.

To request any of these books, just write to:

New books in January:

• John M. Daniel – The Ballad of Toby and Lark
• Samuel Western – A Random Census of Souls
• Christopher William Purdom – Corporate Geese*
• Maxine Kumin – Still to Mow
• Kim Addonizio – Ordinary Genius
• Lyn Lifshin – Light at the End: The Jesus Poems
• Agha Shahid Ali – The Veiled Suite
• Jim Powell – Substrate#
• Mary Ruth Donnelly – Weaving the Light*

* = chapbook
# = uncorrected proof

Literary Magazines:

• Seneca Review – 38.2
• Denver Quarterly – 43.2
• Chicago Review – 54.3
• Epoch – 57.3
• Redactions – 11

Rattle is proud to announce the following nominees for the 2008 Pushcart Prize:

• Denise Duhamel – “The Johari Window”
• Anthony Farrington – “How to Write an Erotic Letter”
• Joseph Fasano – “Mahler in New York”
• Bob Hicok – “Things Rich and Multiple and Alone”
• Hayden Sanier – “Self-Portrait with the Smithfield Ham…”
• Donald Mace Williams – “Wolfe”

In addition 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.