Tribute to Collaboration

Conversation with
Denise Duhamel & Julie Marie Wade

The Spring 2024 issue of Rattle features a Tribute to Collaboration. Collaborative poetry has a long history, dating back at least to the Beats, but has been marginalized in the past as somehow less serious than a single tortured poet’s wrestle with the blank page. The truth, though, is that collaborative poetry can be a fun way to deepen our own insights. The theme includes 15 poems by 31 poets working in pairs or trios, and a three-way conversation with frequent collaborators Denise Duhamel and Julie Marie Wade. The always-eclectic open section features familiar names and new voices exploring the human condition, from hope to home-buying to cuss words.
 

	Collaboration
	Roberta Beary	Two Pints
	& Lew Watts
	C.L. Bledsoe	The Weather
	& Michael Gushue
	Brendan Constantine	WHY Am I / BECAUSE You Are
	& Andi Myles
	Gail Dawson	Tabletop Pantoum
	& Richard Garcia
	Denise Duhamel	Shorthand 6-Pak Rondelet
	& Maureen Seaton
	Denise Duhamel	Give-and-Take Ghazal
	& Julie Marie Wade
	Richard Gilbert	Disaster Wireless
	& Jennifer Hambrick
	A.M. Juster	Zombies in Paradise
	& Deborah Warren
	Julie Kane	The Double Image Redux
	& Erica Reid
	Mariko Kitakubo	Hubris
	& Deborah P. Kolodji
	Herb Kitson	The Old Stove
	& Ray-J Nelson
	Ansuya Patel	Courage
	& Batya Weinbaum
	Michele Root-Bernstein	Waymarks
	Laszlo Slomovits
	& Jennifer Burd
	Matthew Shelton	Babel
	& Timothy Liu
	Michael Dylan Welch	Something Fishy
	C.R. Manley
	Tanya McDonald
	..
	Open Poetry
	Animashaun Ameen	Gay Chicken
	Ruth Bavetta	The New Battery Should Come Tomorrow
	Erik Campbell	Just in Case You Should Meet Me on the Street
	Amy Chan	My Mother Says
	Luigi Coppola	A Step-by-Step Guide to Buying a Home
	Judith Fox	How It Happened
	Tony Gloeggler	All of Them
	Nancy Miller Gomez	How to Forget
		Resurrection
	Rasma Haidri	Fresh
	Jane Hirshfield	Wetness: An Assay
	Charlotte Innes	Slow Walk
	Michael Jones	Bubba Country
	Amit Majmudar	Shovels
	Doug Ramspeck	Bottomlands Dream
	Mather Schneider	Midwest Houses
	Erik Tschekunow	Go Home Boy Go Home
	Dean Marshall Tuck	Parking Meter
	Laurie Uttich	My 88-Year-Old Mother-in-Law Decides …
	Florence Weinberger	Fuck the Carburetor
	Lizabeth Yandel	Villanelle over Spilled Milk
	..
	Conversation
	Denise Duhamel
	& Julie Marie Wade
	..
	Cover Art
	Jennifer Lommers (web)