Tribute to Canadian Poets

Conversations with
B.H. Fairchild & Brian Turner

 

Releasing in June, 2011, Rattle #35 travels north to explore the vast expanse of Canadian Poetry. Canada is a population smaller than that of California, spread across one of the largest and most geographically diverse countries on earth. The resulting poetry is a symphony of movements, both regional and stylistic, and a group of writers that are as vibrant and varied as the landscape itself. Never afraid to experiment, and equally comfortable with traditional form, this is by far the most eclectic tribute we’ve ever put together—and with 33 poets spanning 50 pages, it’s also the largest.

Of course, the Canadian tribute is only part of the issue. Rattle #35’s open section features the work of 41 poets, including Patricia Lockwood’s epic examination of the word “Popeye.” (You read that right.) Also, Alan Fox interviews two former lathe machinists: narrative master B.H. Fairchild and Iraq War veteran Brian Turner.

 

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	Canadian Poets
	James Arthur	Sad Robots
	John Wall Barger	Three Photos of Jayne Mansfield
	derek beaulieu	For Kristen 3
	Gregory Betts	Lingers Tear Gas
	Jamie Bradley	Ghazal
	Julie Bruck	Love to But
	Arthur Bull	Delta
	Jane Byers	Baseball
	David Cavanagh	Fugue
	Sam Cheuk	Dramaturgy
	Meaghan Elliott	How to Drown Kittens in 1958
	Victor Enns	Afghanistan Confessions
	Heidi Garnett	A Hundred and Fifty Kinds of Grasses
	Susan L. Helwig	What Need or Duty
	Michael Lavers	Coda
	Alice Major	Poetry and Scale
	Susan McMaster	Charity
	Bruce McRae	Grass in My Hair
	Kathryn Mockler	Twister
	Molly Peacock	The Ex-World
	Patrick M. Pilarski	Your Village
	Marilyn Gear Pilling	The Dog
	Shane Rhodes	The Promises Herein Contained
	Rolli	The Police Me Follow So
	Rachel Rose	What We Heard About the Americans
		What We Heard About the Canadians
	E. Shaun Russell	Archetypes
	Jacob Scheier	Single Man’s Song
	Michael Shea	Letter to a Young Bombmaker
	Thompson & Tully	The Chair
	Naomi Beth Wakan	Two Tanka
	Tom Wayman	The Everlasting Room
	Laurelyn Whitt	Bunahan
	Alexandra Wilder	The Birth of Sisters
	Poetry
	Amanda Auchter	The Pink Chanel Suit
	Francesca Bell	First Responders
	Heather Bell	Love Letter to the Gulf Coast Oil Spill
	Jenn Blair	Sumter
	Bruce Bond	Boo
	Amanda J. Bradley	To Thomas Pynchon…
	Allison Campbell	What to Know
	Brendan Constantine	“So God Will Know You”
	Christopher Crawford	So Gay
	Kelly Cressio-Moeller	Waiting for Charon in the ER
	Stevie Edwards	What I Mean by Ruin Is…
	Michael Ferris	Think of the Children!
	Alan Fox	Consider the Silence
	Christeene Fraser	Things I Could Never Tell My Daughter
	Myles Gordon	The Beat Goes On
	Linda S. Gottlieb	Ravenous
	Sarah Grieve	To Old Men
	Robert Haynes	On the Rule of SB-1070
	Sativa January	Alphabet Fingerprints
	T.J. Jarrett	How to Speak to the Dead
	Jan LaPerle	She Rings Like a Bell Through the Night
	Dan Leamen	Muslim Soldier, Faisal Shahzad
	Patricia Lockwood	When We Move Away from Here…
	Alison Luterman	Say Yes to the Dress
	Gail Martin	Juggler
	Megan Moriarty	Looking at Us Living
	Mathias Nelson	I Only Dance for My Mother
	Rachael Lynn Nevins	Housekeeping
	Leah Nielsen	Teaching Slant Rhyme
	David D. Nolta	Two Panels by Memling
	Todd Outcalt	On the First Anniversary…
	Saara Myrene Raappana	A Battleship Examines Its Faith
	Kirk Robinson	The Breaks
	Anthony Sams	Home
	Mather Schneider	Kite Weather
	Carrie Shipers	Apology for Being Small
	Patricia Smith	Next, Next
	Terry Spohn	Shelf Life
	Danielle Spratley	Prayer for an Inmate of RVJDC
	Lesley Wheeler	Rim Walkers
	Scott Withiam	Can You Imagine This World?
		Him to Pickles
	Conversations
	B.H. Fairchild
	Brian Turner