If you’d like to review any of these books or literary journals (or any from the full list), let us know, and we’ll mail it to you. Write a review of at least 600 words, and if we publish it, we’ll also send you the forthcoming copy or any back issue of Rattle as payment. Free books and a free magazine, just for doing a bit of service to the good of poetry.

The list is long this month, so don’t hesitate to ask for several books at once.

To request any of these books, just write to:

New books in May:

• Michele Battiste – Ink for an Odd Cartography
• Gaye Gambell-Peterson – Pale Leaf Floating*
• Jude Nutter – I Wish I Had a Heart Like Yours, Walt Whitman
• Peter Ludwin – A Guest in All Your Houses
• Theodore Deppe – Orpheus on the Red Line
• Rebecca Wolfe – The King
• William Archila – The Art of Exile
• Brent Goodman – The Brother Swimming Beneath Me
• Gardner McFall – Russian Tortoise
• Brian Walters – The Retreat from Moscow
• Joan I. Siegel – Hyacinth for the Soul
• Fred Merchant – The Looking House
• Bert Stern – Steerage
• Mark Sonnenfeld – Moscow-esque*
• Josie Sigler – Calamity,*
• Paul Fericano – It’s Not Enough of Elvis

* = chapbook
# = uncorrected proof (i.e., softcover
books w/o cover art; may be typos)

Literary Magazines:

• The Greensboro Review – 85
• CT Review – 30.2
• Poetry – 193.5
• Poetry – 194.3
• Epoch – 58.1
• Beloit Poetry Journal – 59.4
• AGNI – 69
• Indiana Review – 31.1
• The Broadsider
• Arkansas Review – 40.1