Tribute to Buddhist Poets

Conversations with
M.L. Liebler & Chase Twichell

Releasing December 1st, this winter’s issue of Rattle highlights the work of 30 contemporary Buddhist poets. As Dick Allen writes in his introduction, Buddhism “is not a glimpse or gaze but an immersion. There’s no glass, no other side.” These poets don’t write about Buddhism, so much as they seek to live it—“my small boat is no one on this water,” writes Lola Haskins. All of their poems are full of compassion and mindfulness, informed by years of studying human experience from this unique perspective, which has much to offer Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike.

Rattle #36 also features an open section of 33 poets, and the 15 finalists for the 2011 Rattle Poetry Prize—with the $5,000 winner to be chosen for the first time by popular vote. In the conversations section Alan Fox’s speaks with M.L. Liebler and Buddhist poet Chase Twichell.

 

	Buddhist Poets
	Dick Allen	Knock on the Sky…
		from The Zen Master Poems
	Li Bai	Alone on Mount Jingting
	Pam Herbert Barger	What She Did Not Do
	Karen Benke	Joy Ride
	John Brehm	Two Poems
	Toni Cameron	My Thoughts
	Teresa Mei Chuc	Playground
	Louisa Diodato	The Keepers
	Jeffrey Franklin	The Excitement of Getting a Room…
	Robert Funge	On the Death of Grandfather
	Gary Gach	Haiku
	Dan Gerber	On My Seventieth Birthday
	Sam Hamill	On Being Invited to Submit Poems…
	Gail Hanlon	Jubilate Samsara
	Lola Haskins	Creek Light
	Donna Henderson	Shenpa
	Yang Jian	Winter Day
	Bo Juyi	Springtime in Loyang
	Alison Luterman	Big Naked Man
	Paul Pedroza	Deicide
	Peg Quinn	When the Buddha Farmed Nebraska
	Diana M. Raab	The Search for Happiness
	Richard Schiffman	Moth Koan
	Jinen Jason Shulman	Constellation
	Sarah Pemberton Strong	Fish Tank
	Anne Swannell	Study in Mindfulness
	Robert Tremmel	Early 21st Century
	Tony Trigilio	Four Guys and a Truck
	Chase Twichell	Dead Leaf Bouquet
		Soon
	Jack Vian	Like an American Princess
	Poetry
	Anonymous	Stifled
	Kathleen Balma	Roadkill on the Path to Salvation
	Grace Bauer	Our Waitress’s Marvelous Legs
	Michael Bazzett	The Usefulness of Marriage
	Jill Bergkamp	Safe Haven
	Destiny Birdsong	Confessional
	Jan Bottiglieri	Dear Atlas:
	Claudia Cortese	Sarah’s Mother Makes Her Long…
	Steven Coughlin	Another City
	Hope Coulter	Morning Haul
	Sally Ehrman	Magic on the Other Side of This
	Brian Fitzpatrick	Sleep Half Sleep [Silence]…
	Alan Fox	Being Here
	Sonia Greenfield	Sago, West Virginia
	Paul Hlava	Dillinger Is Dead
	Donald Illich	The Escape Artist
	Sean Karns	Jar of Pennies
	Quincy R. Lehr	Bunga-Bunga
	M.L. Liebler	Underneath My American Face
	Joanne Lowery	Bolting the Door, Locking the Gate
	Charles Manis	Flu Season and a Living Will
	Bruce McBirney	Midnight
	Wendy Oleson	Eat Your M&M
	Jason Olsen	My Best Friend’s Wife
	John O’Reilly	The Bittern at Abbott’s Lagoon
	Jack Powers	Rob Smuniewski Is Dead
	Murray Silverstein	Present at the Creation
	Virginia Slachman	Blue Hand
	Bruce Snider	Cruising the Reststop on Route 9
	Ephraim Scott Sommers	To Myself as a Statue in Central Park
	Lianne Spidel	Ambassador Bridge
	Jeanann Verlee	Wherein the Author Provides…
	Poetry Prize Finalists
	Pia Aliperti	Boiler
	Tony Barnstone	Why I’m Not a Carpenter
	Kim Dower	Why People Really Have Dogs
	Courtney Kampa	Self-Portrait by Someone Else
	M	To a Husband, Saved by Death at 48
	Andrew Nurkin	The Noises Poetry Makes
	Charlotte Pence	Perfectly Whatever
	Laura Read	What the Body Does
	Hayden Saunier	The One and the Other
	Diane Seuss	What Is at the Heart of It…
	Jeff Vande Zande	The Don’ts
	Craig van Rooyen	The Minstrel Cycle
	Bryan Walpert	Objective Correlative
	Anna Lowe Weber	Spring Break 2011
	Maya Jewell Zeller	Honesty
	Conversations
	M.L. Liebler
	Chase Twichell