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Rattle Poetry Prize

Conversation with
Jimmy Santiago Baca

The Winter 2018 issue of Rattle is as eclectic as ever, featuring a wide range of formal and free verse, haiku, persona poems, carburetors, Kmart, and two separate references to the Antiques Roadshow for some reason.

The issue also features “Turbulence” by Dave Harris, winner of the 2018 Rattle Poetry Prize, and the other ten finalist poems—clearly our best set of prize-winning poems yet. As always, subscribers may vote for their favorite to win the annual Readers’ Choice Award.

In the conversation section, Alan Fox talks politics and poetry with master storyteller Jimmy Santiago Baca. All subscribers will also receive the chapbook To Those Who Were Our First Gods by Nickole Brown.

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	Open Poetry
	José A. Alcántara	Canis Interruptus
	Jimmy Santiago Baca	Waiting
	Denise Bell	Am the Shit aka Used to Be / A Bop
	David Berman	Baby Cakes
		The Cat’s Fancy
	Jefferson Carter	Guyz Night Out
		For My Sister, the Feminist
	Elizabeth J. Coleman	The Errand
	Marc Di Martino	Dear Cuck (From an Admirer)
	Susan Erickson	Ode to Antiques Roadshow
	Alejandro Escudé	A River of Stars
	Alan C. Fox	Old Times on Maui
	Rodney Gomez	Enoch
	Shaneen A. Harris	How We First Handled Brother
	Rage Hezekiah	Seeing My Father’s Penis
	Deborah P. Kolodji	Four Haiku
	Daniel Kossow	The Sentencing of Dr. Larry Nassar
	Charlotte Matthews	K-Mart’s Closing
	Al Ortolani	Butterfly Valve
	Susan Paris	Nothing Is Fine
	P.L. Sanchez	When I Meet the Last Taushiro
	Peter Dale Scott	The Condition of Water
	Delphi Sky	Newlyweds
	Angela Voras-Hills	Time of My Life
	Florence Weinberger	Nascent January, 2018, After Rain
	Poetry Prize Winner
	Dave Harris	Turbulence
	Finalists
	Katie Bickham	The Blades
	Destiny Birdsong	Long Division
	Debra Bishop	Lonely, Lovely
	McKenzie Chinn	You Don’t Look Like Someone
	Steve Henn	Soccer Dad
	Courtney Kampa	In Charlottesville After Charlottesville
	Michael Lavers	Will Exult over You with Loud Singing
	Darren Morris	To the Insurance Agent Who …
	Loueva Smith	The Dead Weight of Dogs
	Mike White	The Way
	Conversation
	Jimmy Santiago Baca (web)
	Cover Art
	Ray Hennessy (web)