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      Postcard Poems

      Conversation with
      Paul E. Nelson

      Rattle #68 cover, illustration of a train rolling by a river at duskThe Summer 2020 issue features a tribute to Postcard Poems, in a loose partnership with SPLAB’s August Postcard Poetry Festival, including 19 color postcards and the poems they inspired—or vice-versa. Many of the poets crafted their own visual art, while others focused on the act of spontaneous composition. Timothy Green talked to SPLAB founder Paul E. Nelson in a rangy conversation covering topics from Organic Poetry to bioregions to Buddhism.

      In the open section, the poems themselves are as varied as always, with everything from experimental monologues to summer haiku.

      The issue releases June 1st, and all subscribers will receive a copy of the 2020 Rattle Young Poets Anthology along with it. Visit our purchase page to subscribe for just $25/year.

       

      Postcard Poems

      Velid Beganovic Borjen What You Are Left With
      Audio Available Tina Mozelle Braziel The Coast Starlight
      Audio Available Victor Enns First Train. Boundary Creek Station.
      Eugene Fairbanks Postcard from Paris
      Where Is It?
      Audio Available Sonia Feldman 5,000 Prostitutes of Erice
      Laura Gamache What I Want to Tell You
      Audio Available Rhonda Ganz The Hunger Games
      Audio Available Donna Henderson Postcard from Kailua-Kona
      Meghan Howard Perspective
      Beverly Jackson Mother
      Audio Available Sarah T. Jewell Death in His Robe
      Laura R. McCullough You Are All the Pieces
      Audio Available Paul E. Nelson Fender Rhodes Transmission
      C.R. Resetarits We Never Were
      Lindsay Shen Private Garden
      Audio Available Jennifer Sheridan 3. À la Recherche du Temps Perdu
      Anne Swannell Wheelbarrow Music
      Martin Willitts, Jr. Greetings from Syracuse

      Open Poetry

      Audio Available Megan Alyse Like Waving Goodbye
      Audio Available Melissa Andres Arrival
      Deborah A. Bennett Five Haiku
      Jacqueline Berger Women with Men
      Audio Available Alejandro Escudé Bed Sheets (Moving Out After Separation)
      Michelle Bonczek Evory Maxing Out
      Audio Available Tom C. Hunley The Fact That There’s a Snake Tunneling …
      Audio Available Lynne Knight Peeling Potatoes in Puerto Vallarta
      Audio Available Gregory Loselle Laudamus
      Audio Available Alison Luterman Pulling Weeds
      Audio Available James Davis May Which Do You Value More?
      Audio Available Jennifer Perrine Fur Baby
      Audio Available T.R. Poulson How I Survive Without a Prime Membership
      Audio Available Laura Read The Cheerleader
      Audio Available Monica
      Yaccaira Salvatierra Birdlands: Postales
      Audio Available Tina Schumann Dear Morning Commuters
      Penda Smith How We Became City Girls
      Penda and the Burning Bush Responds …
      Laura Tanenbaum An Incomplete List of Places I Have Breastfed …
      Martin Vest Asterisks

      Conversation

      Paul E. Nelson (web)

      Cover Art

      David Moore (web)