July 24, 2019

Benjamin Aleshire | @benjamin_aleshire

Good Manners by Benjamin Aleshire, poem written in red type on yellow paper

benjamin_aleshire Wept with a customer, clutching each other in the street while no one understood what was happening between us. She’s in love with a 62-year-old man, and even tho he’s so much older his muscles are tight from all the work he does and it turns her on. But at first he kept saying, Hey, I’m just using you. Like he was pushing her away. They fell in love anyway, and he finally told her the truth: leukemia, maybe a few years left—the doctors are helpless, there’s nothing for them to even cut out. So in a letter she joked with him that living too long is bad manners, anyway. Now I feel empty and full at the same time. But you can’t carry this around with you and be as lonely as I am; I had to exorcise it with a ritual of words to wash it away, and then a whiskey in Vesuvio that tasted like water or somehow, sand. I bought a white rose from the bum sucking his gums at the other end of the bar and didn’t even know why—gave it away to Tony across the street at Specs who looked at me all strange. City Lights again today, it’s not like I have a choice. #poetry #poem #poetforhire

from Rattle #64, Summer 2019
Tribute to Instagram Poets

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Benjamin Aleshire: “I make my living by traveling around the world and writing poems for strangers on a manual typewriter in the street. I post on Instagram to let people know where I’ll be setting up, and also as a way of sharing some of the stories behind the poems in the caption, the reasons why strangers wanted what they wanted—which I see as an opportunity for flash-prose, and also a method of exorcising people’s stories, so I don’t have to walk around with their pain clanging around in my skull.” (web)

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July 31, 2019

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We’re bringing a new poet into your pocket every week with the Rattlecast. Part interview and part reading, with a prompt-based open mic, it’s a casual way to hangout with Rattle editor Timothy Green and all of our friends in poetry around the world. The Rattlecast livestreams—usually Sundays at 8pm ET / 5pm PT, though the schedule sometimes varies. Please go to our YouTube channel and click “Subscribe.” Every show is simulcast to Facebook and Twitter. An audio version is available on iTunesSoundcloudSpotify, Amazon, and other podcasting apps—search for “Rattlecast” on your favorite.

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Archive

Ep. Guest Audio/Video
#269 Brody Parrish Craig YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#268 Joseph Millar YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#267 B.A. Van Sise YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#266 Jim Tilley YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#265 Andrea Hollander YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#264 Philip Metres YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#263 Ron Riekki YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#262 Molly Peacock YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#261 Dorianne Laux YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#260 Ori Fienberg YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#259 Susan Terris YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#258 Chris Anderson YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#257 Siddharth Dasgupta YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#256 Jennifer Hambrick YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#255 Suzanne Lummis YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#254 Chera Hammons YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#253 Kari Gunter-Seymour YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#252 Maaz Bin Bilal YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#251 Erin Murphy YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#250 Christine Potter YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#249 Annie Finch YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#248 Alan Shapiro YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#247 Nancy Miller Gomez YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#246 Julie Kane YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#245 Julie Marie Wade YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#244 Timothy Liu YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#243 Richard Garcia YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#242 Gerald Locklin Tribute YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#241 Kim Stafford YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#240 George Bilgere YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#239 Doug Ramspeck YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#238 José E.O. Reyes YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#237 Raymond Hammond YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#236 James Crews YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#235 Erica Reid YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#234 Michael Meyerhofer YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#233 Sally Ashton YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#232 Joshua Eric Williams YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#231 George David Clark YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#230 Rimas Uzgiris YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#229 Diana Goetsch YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#228 Tim Seibles YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#227 Miracle Thornton YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#226 Matthew Buckley Smith YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#225 Debra Marquart YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#224 Gaetan Sgro YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#223 Greg Kosmicki YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#222 Bob Hicok YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#221 Joshua Mensch YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#220 Carrie Shipers YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#219 Prartho Sereno YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#218 Jamaica Baldwin YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#217 Christina Kallery YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#216 Brian Turner YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#215 Maryann Corbett YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#214 Jane Hirshfield YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#213 Arthur Russell YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#212 Anders Carlson-Wee YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#211 Penny Harter YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#210 Lana Hechtman Ayers YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#209 Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#208 Pedro Poitevin YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#207 Jane Clarke YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#206 Natalie Padilla Young YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#205 Dante Di Stefano YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#204 Ana María Caballero YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#203 Sasha Stiles YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#202 Bruce Weigl YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#201 Virgil Suárez YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#200 NFT Poets YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#199 Barbara Hamby YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#198 Ruth Bavetta YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#197 Shawn R. Jones YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#196 Francesca Bell YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#195 Anne Casey YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#194 Frank Dullaghan YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#193 Michael Favala Goldman YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#192 New Voices YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#191 Tresha Faye Haefner YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#190 Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#189 Alexis Rhone Fancher YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#188 Dick Westheimer YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#187 John W. Evans YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#186 Rachel Custer YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#185 Jennifer Reeser YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#184 James Davis May YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#183 Abby E. Murray YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#182 Sarah Etlinger YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#181 Open Lines YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#180 Michael Dylan Welch YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#179 Nicelle Davis YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#178 A.E. Hines YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#177 Sonia Greenfield YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#176 Angela Voras-Hills YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#175 Emily Ruth Hazel YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#174 John Brehm YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#173 Dion O’Reilly YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#172 Elaine Sexton YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#171 Joan Kwon Glass YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#170 Rick Lupert YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#169 Nicole Caruso Garcia YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#168 David James YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#167 David Bowles YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#166 Jeannine Hall Gailey YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#165 Cindy Veach YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#164 Robert Pinsky YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#163 Nikita Parik YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#162 Bruce Bennett YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#161 Jill Kandel YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#160 Jessy Randall YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#159 January Gill O’Neil YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#158 Rachel Mallalieu YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#157 Linda Nemec Foster YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#156 Prisoner Express YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#155 Cati Porter YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#154 Raquel Franco YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#153 Heather Altfeld YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#152 Anna M. Evans YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#151 Troy Jollimore YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#150 Alexis Sears YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#149 Katie Bickham YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#148 Mark Gibbons YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#147 Campbell McGrath YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#146 Nancy Miller Gomez YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#145 Alexis V. Jackson YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#144 Mike White YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#143 Chris Anderson YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#142 Erin Murphy YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#141 Janice N. Harrington YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#140 Kate Gale YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#139 Todd Davis YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#138 Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#137 Kim Stafford YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#136 Susan Vespoli YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#135 Kevin Clark YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#134 Kashiana Singh YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#133 Roberta Beary YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#132 Marjorie Saiser YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#131 Zilka Joseph YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#130 William Logan YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#129 Lester Graves Lennon YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#128 Bill Glose YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#127 Marcela Sulak YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#126 Grant Quackenbush YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#125 Amanda Newell YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#124 José A. Alcántara YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#123 Sophia Naz YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#122 Jim Daniels YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#121 Tishani Doshi YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#120 David Kirby YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#119 Brittney Corrigan YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#118 Ananda Lima YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#117 Clemonce Heard YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#116 Ernest Hilbert YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#115 Jenny Qi YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#114 Joseph Fasano YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#113 Mark Jarman YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#112 Marissa Davis YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#111 Deborah P Kolodji YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#110 Vince Gotera YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#109 Gil Arzola YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#108 Brendan Constantine YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#107 Marcela Sulak YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#106 Edison Jennings YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#105 Maria Gillan YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#104 Roy Bentley YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#103 Jack Ridl YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#102 Ace Boggess YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#101 Bro. Yao (Hoke S. Glover III) YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#100 Alison Luterman YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#99 Tina Parker YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#98 Wyn Cooper YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#97 Lance Larsen YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#96 Melissa Balmain YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#95 Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#94 Kerrin McCadden YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#93 Martin Willitts Jr. YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#92 Michael Mark YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#91 Tanya Ko Hong YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#90 Janée J. Baugher YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#89 Eugenia Leigh YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#88 Kim Addonizio YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#87 Alice Pettway YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#86 Denise Duhamel YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#85 Lois Baer Barr YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#84 Wendy Videlock YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#83 Anthony Tao YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#82 A.E. Stallings YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#81 Derek Sheffield YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#80 Rebecca Starks YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#79 Alison Townsend YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#78 Russell Brakefield YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#77 Dana Gioia YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#76 Jennifer Jean YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#75 Alexis Rotella YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#74 Marjorie Lotfi YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#73 Skye Jackson YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#72 Amy Miller YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#71 Sarah P. Strong YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#70 Alan W. King YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#69 Jim Peterson YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#68 Steve Henn YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#67 Brian Sonia-Wallace YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#66 Fiona Sze-Lorrain YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#65 Jan Beatty YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#64 David Mason YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#63 Jessica Goodfellow YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#62 A.M. Juster YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#61 Molly Fisk YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#60 Kathleen McClung YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#59 Taylor Mali YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#58 Gregory Loselle YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#57 Alejandro Escudé YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#56 Jennifer Perrine YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#55 Amit Majmudar YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#54 Paul E. Nelson YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#53 Rhina P. Espaillat YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#52 James Ragan YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#51 Courtney Kampa YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#50 David Romtvedt YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#49 Tom C. Hunley YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#48 Kari Gunter-Seymour YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#47 Ron Koertge YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#46 Erik Campbell YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#45 Marc Alan Di Martino YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#44 Dorianne Laux YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#43 John Philip Johnson YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#42 Meg Eden YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#41 Rosemerry Trommer YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#40 Danusha Laméris YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#39 William Trowbridge YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#38 George Bilgere YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#37 Charles Harper Webb YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#36 Katherine Barrett Swett YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#35 Wendy Barker YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#34 Jimmy Pappas YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#33 Ellen Bass YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#32 Lola Haskins YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#31 Rachel Custer YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#30 Kelly Grace Thomas YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#29 Susan Browne YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#28 Christina Olson YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#27 Michael T. Young YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#26 Kathleen Balma YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#25 Chaun Ballard YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#24 Clint Margrave YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#23 Barbara Crooker YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#22 Peter E. Murphy YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#21 Tony Gloeggler YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#20 Naomi Shihab Nye YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#19 Bob Hicok YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#18 Nickole Brown YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#17 Wally Swist YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#16 Lynne Knight YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#15 Francesca Bell YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#14 Janet Fitch YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#13 Aaron Poochigian YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#12 Bro. Yao (Hoke S. Glover III) YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#11 Jamey Hecht YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#10 Al Ortolani YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#9 Alexandra Umlas YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#8 Kat Lehmann YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#7 Kim Dower YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#6 Richard Gilbert YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#5 Pavana Reddy YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#4 Elizabeth S. Wolf YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#3 David Berman Tribute YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#2 Lynne Thompson YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3
#1 Benjamin Aleshire YouTube | SoundCloud | iTunes | mp3

June 11, 2001

Every second Sunday Rattle presents a reading featuring poets from the current issue at the Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse. Admission is free. Scheduled poets are subject to change.

Flintridge Bookstore & Coffee House

Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse
1010 Foothill Blvd.
La Cañada-Flintridge, CA 91011 (map)
www.flintridgebooks.com

 

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Sunday, May 12th, 5 p.m.

Timothy Green & Quincy Lehr
(Download: Flyer)

Quincy R. LehrQuincy R. Lehr is an American poet who was raised in Norman, Oklahoma, and presently lives in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in print and online venues in the U.S., U.K., Ireland, Australia, and the Czech Republic, including American Arts Quarterly, Cadenza, The Chimaera, and The Raintown Review. His first book of poetry, Across the Grid of Streets, was published by Seven Towers (Dublin) in 2008, and his second, Obscure Classics of English Progressive Rock, also by Seven Towers in 2011. His book-length poem Heimat is now available from Barefoot Muse Press. He is also the editor of The Raintown Review. His poem “War Song” appeared in issue #53 of Rattle.

Timothy GreenTimothy Green has worked as editor of Rattle since 2004. His poems have appeared in many journals, including The Connecticut Review, The Florida Review, Mid-American Review, and Nimrod International Journal. Green has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Rhysling Award, and his first book, American Fractal (Red Hen Press, 2009), won the Phi Kappa Phi award from the University of Southern California. He is a contributing columnist for the (Riverside) Press Enterprise and co-founder of the Wrightwood Literary Festival. He lives in Wrightwood with his wife and two children.

 

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Sunday, June 9th, 5 p.m.

Benjamin Aleshire, Alexis Rhone Fancher, & Pavana Reddy
(Download: Flyer)

Benjamin AleshireBenjamin Aleshire is based in New Orleans and travels the world as a poet-for-hire, composing poems for strangers on a manual typewriter. His work has been featured in The Times UK, Iowa Review, Boston Review, El Mundo, London Magazine, and on television in the U.S., China, and Spain. The second edition of his artist-book of visual poems, Currency, was released in 2017. An excerpt of his novel, Poet for Hire: Kismet of a 21st Century Troubadour is forthcoming in LitHub. Ben serves as assistant poetry editor for the Green Mountains Review. His poem “Good Manners” appears in Rattle #64. For more information, visit his website.

Alexis Rhone FancherAlexis Rhone Fancher is the author of How I Lost My Virginity to Michael Cohen and Other Heart Stab Poems (2014), State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies (2015), Enter Here (2017), and Junkie Wife (2018). Her chapbook, The Dead Kid Poems, debuted in May 2019. She is published in Best American Poetry 2016, Slipstream, Plume, Nashville Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Diode, Glass, and elsewhere. Alexis is poetry editor of Cultural Weekly. She lives in Los Angeles. Her poems appear in Rattle #41, #52, and #61. For more information, visit her website.

Maria JastrzebskaMaria Jastrzebska was born in Warsaw, Poland, and came to the U.K as a child. She was co-editor of Queer in Brighton (New Writing South 2014) and has translated the work of Polish poet Justyna Bargielska with The Great Plan B (Smokestack 2017). Her drama Dementia Diaries toured nationally in 2011. Her work is widely anthologized and features in the British Library project Between Two Worlds—Poetry and Translation. For the last six months she has been working on Snow Q, a collaborative project funded by Arts Council England: www.snowqproject.wordpress.com. The True Story of Cowboy Hat and Ingénue (Cinnamon Press/Liquorice Fish 2018) is her fourth and most recent collection. She lives in Brighton in the U.K. Her poem “Dear Mama” appeared in Rattle #59. For more information, visit her website.

Pavana ReddyPavana Reddy is a Los Angeles-based poet and songwriter. She is most well-known for her first book of poetry, Rangoli, as well a song called “Remain the Sea” written for the critically acclaimed album Land of Gold by Anoushka Shankar. She is currently set to release her second book of poems, Where Do You Go Alone, and is already working on her third. She was interviewed for and has two poems in Rattle #64. For more information, visit her website.

April 28, 2000

Instagram Poets

Conversation with
Pavana Reddy

Rattle #64 cover, woman with umbrella against yellow wallThe Summer 2019 issue features a tribute to Instagram Poets. Much has been written about Instagram poetry over the last several years, and we thought it was time to investigate for ourselves. We received both submissions and recommendations and read through thousands of Instagram accounts, choosing the best 18 poems we could find. Some of them are Insta-famous, with hundreds of thousands of followers on the platform, while others have as few as 20. As with all things, we’re interested in the quality of the poems and not the stature of the poets. The styles span the range, too, from visual poems to epigrams to more traditional poetry that just happens to fit well with the media.  Learn more about the nexus of poetry and Instagram as Timothy Green talks to emerging star Pavana Reddy.

Meanwhile, the open section features two dozen eclectic poems, including the return of previously unpublished poet Marvin Artis, with a second round of his hidden gems.

 

Instagram Poets

Audio Available Benjamin Aleshire Good Manners
Christopher Cioc He Don’t Love Me
Luigi Coppola Find
Lauren Eden I’m Not Confused
Vini Emery All of the Things
Raquel Franco You Are More Than Paper Thin
Jade Homa I Need to Stop Looking
Mack Jarvis Imagine a Violin Bow
Audio Available Kat Lehmann Taxonomy
David Lukas Cider
Christopher McCurry Simple Prayer
Audio Available LQ McDonald III No Gold Pursues the Dawn
Gabrielle Nelson I Should Change the Light
Eric Peterson Thus
Pavana Reddy There Is No Poetry in Loving Someone
Eva Simmons One Smile
Brian Sonia-Wallace My Gift Is the Sculpture

Poetry

Audio Available Amy Alvarez How to Date a White Boy
Audio Available Chris Anderson Misreading Darwin
Audio Available Marvin Artis Poetry
Audio Available Two Lovers Standing on the East River …
Audio Available New Negroes
Audio Available Bruce Bennett Comforts
Catherine Bresner Canvasser
Audio Available Susan Browne Strange Ode
Audio Available George David Clark Sun on Your Shoulders
Audio Available Matt Farrell Sky Blue
Alan C. Fox Full Disclosure
Audio Available Kate Gale Sit on My Lap, I’ll Show You Happily Ever After
Audio Available Stephanie A. Hart The Purse
Stephen Kampa To Keep the Day
Audio Available David Kirby Little Movies
Lania Knight Susurration
Morgan Kovacs An Abecedarian for the Unmentionable
Craig Kurtz Life Before the Internet
Audio Available Derek Otsuji The Whale Watchers
Audio Available Catherine Pond Star Signs
Audio Available Carol Potter In Which I Get Out of a Speeding Ticket
Aarti Rao Dear Payaswini
Audio Available Pavana Reddy Tirupati
Craig van Rooyen Siege Machinery

Conversation

Pavana Reddy (web)

Cover Art

Edu Lauton (web)