Open Poetry

Conversation with
Juan Felipe Herrera

 

Releasing in June, Rattle #44 is another entirely open issue. We simply chose our favorite 37 poems from the tens of thousands that had been submitted to us over the past year. It’s summer, and poetry has turned up the heat, it seems, with visits to strip clubs and topless swimming pools, and Kenny Tanemura’s brilliant “Ode to Short Shorts.” But it’s not all love and lust: These poems run the gamut of contemporary human experience, from churches to trust falls, suicide to salvation. The issue also features several long poems, including Lucas Crawford’s unforgettable indictment, “Your Fat Daughter Remembers What You Said.”

In the conversations section, Timothy Green discusses poetry and life in a lively conversation with California Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera.

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	Open Poetry
	Nic Alea	River
	Jose Angel Araguz	Abandoned Church
	Andrew Bennett	Spring, 1989
	Jacqueline Berger	Ruin Porn
	Daniel Bohnhorst	The Butter Smells Funny
	Kim Bridgford	For the Female Suicides
	T.L. Burns	Fucking the Gap
	Marty Cain	Rat King
	David Cavanagh	The Ice Man
	J.P. Celia	Before Riding West
	Teresa Mei Chuc	I Took Nothing
	Beth Copeland	What I Remember as My Father …
	Lucas Crawford	Your Fat Daughter Remembers …
	J. Divina Erickson	No Body
	Alan Fox	The River
	Troy Jollimore	The Cutting Room
	Stephen Kampa	Cardiac Concussion with Delay …
	Sharon Kessler	Everything Is Broken
	Marianne Kunkel	I Guess
	Britt Luttrell	Topless Swimming Pool
	Michael Meyerhofer	On My First Trip to a Strip Club
	Jeffrey Morgan	Translation
	Z. Mueller	The Difference Between String and Spring
	Kathleen Diane Nolan	Mars and Venus
	JoLee G. Passerini	Circumspect
	Robert Peake	La Campagna, London, Friday Night
	Charlotte Pence	Among the Yellows, the Faces Slack
	Amy Plettner	Church Bulletin
	Doug Ramspeck	Diaspora
	Sam Sax	When Research Public Sex Theatres …
	Rebecca Schumejda	A Lobster’s Home
	Janice D. Soderling	The Diminishing Politics of Senator …
	Taylor Supplee	Clay
	Kenny Tanemura	Ode to Short Shorts
	Bruce Taylor	Good News Bad News
	William Trowbridge	Battleground
	Paul Watsky	Trust Fall
	Conversation
	Juan Felipe Herrera
	Photography
	Sebastian Lauf