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Open Poetry

Conversation with
Ron Koertge

Rattle #42 is another entirely open free-for-all, and we’ve stuffed it to the whim: from personal ads to angels, from plum blossoms to catfish tits (you read that right). Tim Laffey longs for Pindar’s couch, Taylor Mali misreads a magnifying glass, and Patricia Smith has a binder for Mitt. These poems are heavy and light, eye-opening and jaw-dropping, including powerful work by teenager Grace L. Park, and seven-year-old Ghanaian Kofi Edufo.

The winter issue also features the 2013 Rattle Poetry Prize winner, Roberto Acalon’s $5,000 poem “The Fire This Time,” along with the ten finalists. And as always, subscribers may vote for the runner up.

In the conversations section, Timothy Green discusses poetry and life with the irreverently funny Ron Koertge.

	Open Poetry
	Erik Campbell	On War, Both Foreign and …
	Wanda Morrow Clevenger	Juice
	David Denny	Apocalyptic Charlton Heston
	Aran Donovan	My Two Left Feet
	Kofi Edufo	Making Noise
	Alan Fox	Who Am I
	Patrick Ryan Frank	The Great American Screenplay
	Jill Klein	How to Peel a Prawn
	Lynne Knight	The Unintended Lecture on Desire
		After Her Affair
		While Plum Blossoms Sweep …
	Ron Koertge	Mark Trail
	Greg Kosmicki	April 2, 2013
	Karl Krolow	Waiting
	Tim Laffey	Just So You Know
	Taylor Mali	Magnifies an Object Ten Times
	Joan Murray	The Witch’s Daughter
	Grace L. Park	Grey Faith
	Tina Parker	My Four-Year-Old Asks What Happens …
	Charlotte Pence	Thinking Again of that Lone Boxer
	Michael D. Riley	Hepatitis C
	David Romtvedt	Dilemmas of the Angels …
		Dilemmas of the Angels: Intention
	Liz Scheid	Magic
	Michael Schmeltzer	Re: Re: Personal Ad #6
	Jenneva Scholz	The Famine of Love
	Lindsay Tigue	New Year
	Monica Wendel	Courthouse
	Mike White	Arms
		Watch
	Poetry Prize Winner
	Roberto Ascalon	The Fire This Time
	Finalists
	Chanel Brenner	A Poem for Women Who Don’t …
	Rebecca Gayle Howell	My Mother Told Us Not …
	Courtney Kampa	Baby Love
	Stephen Kampa	What He Must Have Seen
	Bea Opengart	Man on Mad Anthony
	Michelle Ornat	Laundry List
	Jack Powers	Man on the Floor
	Danez Smith	Basic Standards Test
	Patricia Smith	Who Breathed in Binders
	Wendy Videlock	Of You
	Conversation
	Ron Koertge
	Cover Art
	Stanley Horowitz