Tribute to Musicians

Conversation with
Ani DiFranco

The Fall 2024 issue of Rattle features a Tribute to Musicians. Poetry is the the music of speech. Sonnets are little songs. Ballads walk a line between the two. It’s obvious that music and poetry are intimately intertwined—we explore that relationship through the poems of 19 professional and semi-professional musicians, and a fascinating conversation indie icon Ani DiFranco.

The open section is another eclectic mix of 18 poems, including senryu, haibun, sonnets, and more.

	Musicians
	Austin Alexis	The Concert
	Ned Balbo	Shirts of the Distant Past
	Partridge Boswell	Psalm
	R.G. Evans	Shaking Hands with the Dead
	Mark Fishbein	In the Arboretum
	Vince Gotera	Letter to Bob Boynton, Music Prodigy
	Jennifer Hambrick	My Daddy Was an Appalachian Folksong
	Jeff Knight	Don’t Stop
	Miseong Kong	I Love My Neighbors but Hate When They …
	Sue Fagalde Lick	We Gig
	Clint Margrave	Blue Fender Telecaster
	Jeff McRae	Cheap Guitar
	Doc Mehl	Poems Used to Rhyme
	Richard Newman	Petite Chanson de Démence
	Christine Potter	On an 1894 Preacher’s Traveling Reed Organ
	Michael R.J. Roth	Einstein Washes the Dishes
	Ken Waldman	F. Wayne Scott
	Charles Harper Webb	A River Runs Through It
	Preston Woodruff	Open Mic
	..
	Open Poetry
	Gil Arzola	My Mother Cooks
	Matt Dhillon	Migration Ghazal
	Sharon Ferrante	Six Senryu for Erotica
	Susan Johnson	Cribbage Lessons
	Bob Lucky	Portuguese Lessons
	Campbell McGrath	Jimsonweed
	Philip Metres	The Elders
	Eric Nelson	Louder
	Garnet Juniper Nelson	When You Meet a TERF
	Donald Platt	Prosopopoeia
	James Ragan	The Astronomical Clock
	Anne Rankin	Possible Reasons Why
	Luis Torres	Dawn
	William Trowbridge	Song of the Black Hole
	Dean Marshall Tuck	Granddaddy, a Mystery
	Wendy Videlock	The Way It Goes
	Lew Watts	On a Tear
	Scott Withiam	Bird in a Forest
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	Conversation
	Ani DiFranco (web)
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	Cover Art
	Bryan Voell (web)