Feminist Poets

Conversation with
Maggie Nelson

Rattle #51 features a lengthy tribute to 31 feminist poets, and a conversation with award-winning author of The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson. As always, we put out a call for submissions not knowing what we’d receive, then selected the most powerful sample from the thousands of poems that were shared. What does it mean to be a feminist poet in the 21st century? There might be as many answers to that question as there are feminist poets—each of those featured provide their perspectives in an especially important contributor notes section.

There’s so much great poetry in the feminist poets feature that we had to shrink our open section to fit it all in—but we still offer a dozen eclectic selections from our general submissions, including Rattle favorites like Francesca Bell, Billy Collins, and M, as well as new names we’ve never published before.

 

	Feminist Poets
	Lisa Baird	Vagus Nerve
	Michele Battiste	Boulder County, September 2012 …
	Roberta Beary	Five Haiku
	Heather Bell	While Trying to Write a Novel
	Claire Blotter	Rocking
	Leila Chatti	Morning
	Ann Clark	My Mother Comes Home Crying from GE
	Barbara Crooker	Women
	Denise Duhamel	Stairway to Heaven Sonnet
	& Maureen Seaton
	Julie R. Enszer	Pervert
	Alexis Pauline Gumbs	The C-Section
	Beth Gylys	Apron Strings
	Kelsey Hagarman	When I Say I Bruise Easily
	Sandra Kohler	After Easter
	Amy Miller	Channellock Pliers
	Abby E. Murray	Prayer on National Childfree Day
	Jenny Qi	Dissonance
	Jessy Randall	from The Baby Hygiene Series
	Laura Read	Flashdance
	Lucinda Roy	Machetes: Several
	Yaccaira Salvatierra	When Miguelito Should Have Been Sleeping
	Amber Shockley	Fun with Xerox
	Robin Silbergleid	Malignant
	Julie Steiner	Women Only Write About Themselves
	Lisa Summe	On Coming Home
	Katherine Barrett Swett	Dust
	Kelly Grace Thomas	And the Women Said
	Amy Uyematsu	Zumba Gold at 9 AM
	Julie Marie Wade	I Would Rather Be Gay Than Straight …
	Sara Watson	To Choose Each Other Perpetually
	Open Poetry
	Francesca Bell	When I Think About Cats
	George Bilgere	Boomers
	Taylor Collier	Post-Op
	Billy Collins	May Day
	Russell Colver	Lamb
	Rasaq Malik Gbolahan	How My Mother Spends Her Nights
	M	Late
	James B. Nicola	Have You Ever Woken
	Al Ortolani	Paper Birds Don’t Fly
	Christine Poreba	The Uncertainest Word
	William Trowbridge	Oldguy: Superhero—Associate
		Oldguy: Superhero—A Steady Hand
	Conversation
	Maggie Nelson
	Cover Art
	Stacie Primeaux