September 15, 20132013 Rattle Poetry Prize Winners
Rattle is proud to announce the winner of the 2013 Rattle Poetry Prize:
“The Fire This Time”
by
Roberto Ascalon
Seattle, WA
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Finalists:
“A Poem for Women Who Don’t Want Children”
Chanel Brenner
Santa Monica, CA
“My Mother Told Us Not to Have Children”
Rebecca Gayle Howell
Lubbock, TX
“Baby Love”
Courtney Kampa
New York, NY
“What He Must Have Seen”
Stephen Kampa
Daytona Beach, FL
“Man on Mad Anthony”
Bea Opengart
Cincinatti, OH
“Laundry List”
Michelle Ornat
Elma, NY
“Man on the Floor”
Jack Powers
Fairfield, CT
“Basic Standards Test”
Danez Smith
St. Paul, MN
“Who Breathed in Binders”
Patricia Smith
Howell, NJ
“Of You”
Wendy Videlock
Grand Junction, CO
These eleven poems will be published in the Winter issue of Rattle this December. Each of the Finalists are also eligible for the $1,000 Readers’ Choice Award, to be selected by entrant and subscriber vote (the voting period is December 1, 2013 – February 15, 2014).
Another nine poems were selected for standard publication, and offered a space in the open section of a future issue. These poets will be notified individually about details, but they are: Jacqueline Berger, Daniel Bohnhorst, Jackleen Holton, Sharon Kessler-Farchi, Michael Meyerhofer, Kathleen Nolan, Charlotte Pence, Sam Sax, and Timothy Schirmer.
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 record 2,105 entries and well over 8,000 poems, and it was an honor to read each of them.