Tribute to the Best of Rattle

Conversations with
Hayden Carruth & Mark Jarman

 

Releasing June 2006, issue #25 celebrates the editors’ favorite poems published over the first 24 issues. If you don’t have any back-issues of Rattle, this is where to start. Stellasue Lee, Rattle‘s poetry editor for ten years, introduces the special section with an essay reflecting on her time with the magazine.

Also in the issue, Alan Fox interviews Hayden Carruth and Mark Jarman. In the essay section, William O’Daly of Poets Against War writes on the politics of torture in relation to poetry.

 

	The Best of Rattle
	Stellasue Lee	Connecting The Dots
	Ronald Alexander	The Raid
	Richard Beban	My Grandmother Told Us Jokes
	Erik Campbell	Poet and Audience
	Alan Fox	Silk Woman
	Cheryl Gatling	Even The Nails In The Sheet Rock Missed Her
	Lisa Glatt	The Atheist’s Tunnel
	Tony Gloeggler	1969
	Julie Goldman	End Of Season
	Jack Grapes	Sunday Morning
	Salah al Hamdani	Baghdad, Mon Amour
	Sam Hamill	Eyes Wide Open
	Lola Haskins	Halfway Down The Block, Your Father
	John Herschel	Waiting
	Frank Hughes	An Act of Procreation
	Karla Huston	Cheap Talk
	Colette Inez	Advice To A Writer Imagining Conception and Birth
	David James	How To Make Amends
	C. Joseph Jordan	To Women Named Emily
	John Kennedy	Christmas Trees
	Yusef Komunyakaa	—from Autobiography of My Alter Ego
	Melody Lacina	After I Die
	Melissa Lamberton	Broken Egg Sunset
	Dorianne Laux	Fast Gas
	Li-Young Lee	Seven Happy Endings
	Philip Levine	The Prisoners Have Gone Back To Their Cells
	Naomi Ruth Lowinsky	On the Anniversary of Her First Marriage
	Janet McCann	Life List
	Jeff McRae	Jeopardy
	Ken Meisel	Strip Clubs, Tampa
	Micki Myers	Sweet Nothings
	Brett Garica Myhren	Telemarketer
	Alison Pelegrin	Three Prayers From The Brokenhearted
	Frank Mitrovitch Prosak	To Small Acts Of Tenderness
	Seido Ray Ronci	Snow
	Alan Shapiro	People Get Ready
	Steven M. Smith	Monopoly
	Francine Marie Tolf	Maybe She Dreams Of Rivers
	Ryan G. Van Cleave	Venom
	Richard Vargas	6/02 – Job Interview
	Dallas Wiebe	Sunday, August 31, 2003
	C.K. Williams	Gravel
	Robert Harlan Wintroub, M.D.	Crayolas
	Poetry
	Marvin Bell	Deadline
	Ash Bowen	Sterile
	Mary Buchinger	See How Free We Are!
	Cullen Bailey Burns	We Just Want it to Be Healthy
	Sarah Carey	Nutritional Value
	Pablo Garcia Casado	Dinner
	Paul F. Cummins	Tossing Hair
	Paul Dickey	A Man and a Flag Are One
	Steve Dimeo	Gingerbread Couple
	Pat Durmon	Constellations
	Cathryn Essinger	To Levitate…
	Alan Fox	Intimacy
	Harvey Goldner	War and Peace
	Arthur Gottlieb	Trip
	Nathan Graziano	On a Former Student’s Spread in Hustler Magazine
	Steven Huff	Inspired by Failures (My Failures, I Mean, in Business)
	Bonnie Jacobson	On the Same Page*
	Mark Jarman	The Northern Lights
		Almost
	Melissa Lamberton	Iraqi Musician
	Gary Lemons	New Year’s Day 2005
	Nina Lindsay	Repair
	Lorraine Merrin	The Annual Officers’ Club Party …
	Gabrielle Mittelbach	Onions
	Missy-Marie Montgomery	Arrangement
	Harry Newman	Primitives
	Pam O’Brien	Counting coupons with the Italian Ladies
	Kenneth O’Keefe	The Dirigible
	Matthew Olzmann	Regret
	Megan O’Reilly	The People’s Pope
	Ed Orr	The Specificity of Generalities
	Debora Palmer	Note to the House Sitter
	Elisha Porat	Sea Squill Bulbs
	Stacie Primeaux	Relic
	Linda Leedy Schneider	I Reclaim
	Mather Schneider	Gutter Punk
	Sharron Singleton	Ice Fishing
	Tim Skeen	Fetish
	J.R. Solonche	A Dialogue with My Daughter …
	Susan B.A. Somers-Willett	Notes for Living in NOLA
	Terry Ann Thaxton	What Remains
	Tony Tracy	From Boston to Wrigley
	Tony Trigilio	Alan Greenspan
	Elizabeth Volpe	Rain
	Laurie Zimmerman	Purple Finches
	Reviews
	Stephen A. Allen
	Thomas Carren
	Candice Daquin
	Janet McCann
	J.F. Quackenbush
	Lisa L. Siedlarz
	Elizabeth Weaver
	Essay
	William O’Daly	Speaking Freely: Poetry, Torture, and Truth
	Conversations
	Hayden Carruth
	Mark Jarman