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One month left to enter the biggest, friendliest, fairest poetry contest on the planet!
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The Rattle Poetry Prize is back for an 18th year, once again offering $15,000 for a single poem! Another $5,000 goes to the reader-selected runner-up. If there's a bigger, fairer, friendlier poetry contest out there, we don't know what it is …
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Do you have the poem?
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After you leave the banks where moist sod yields
beneath your feet, you labor up a steep hill
and reach a garden called “Strawberry Fields.”
—Aaron Poochigian
@Poochigian
#ThisWeekLastYear
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It reminds me of that deer we hit, the knife
my then-husband took to its throat, as men
do, letting one brand of suffering cancel out
another. That deer was a door to years of grief.
And joy gave way to the boredom of everyday life.
—Diane Seuss
@dlseuss
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Don't forget that the Rattlecast is 5 hours early today! We're live at 3pm ET with contributors to our
#NFT
Poets feature. See you soon!
@Katie_Dozier
@Devoid_Art
@pgervois
@OddWritings
@GuysWily
@rlwesty_poet
@crysyphus
@funnomad
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Was just flipping through our database ...
7,084 people subscribe to Rattle right now
21,332 more have subscribed at some point
94,004 people have submitted poems
from 174 different countries
#poetryisnotdead
#poetrycommunity
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You might have noticed a small change to Rattle's submission guidelines last month. We're hoping it becomes a big change for the literary world.
Here's the explanation. Thanks to
@BeckyLTuch
for curating it.
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Of course sorrow
is too much of a word—such a fat
word filled with the bitter aftertaste
of tepid coffee left on a café stool …
—Kwame Dawes
@kwamedawes
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Someday,
a soul will come out of the fields
to claim it, and then we will know.
—Kwame Dawes
@kwamedawes
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If you see a human,
be a human.
—Bob Hicok
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It's that time of year—get your manuscripts ready for the best little book prize in the business!
3 winners receive $5,000 each, and their chapbooks are sent to our 8,000 subscribers. There's no other literary award like it.
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Our 5th most-read poem all-time is the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize winner by
@TianaClarkPoet
. Poems don't get more creative or lyrical than this—worth every penny. It also became the title poem to a beautiful chapbook from
@BullCityPress
(go order a copy!).
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It's that time of year—get your manuscripts ready for the best publishing prize in poetry!
As always: three winners receive $5,000 each, and their chapbooks are sent to our 8,000 subscribers. There's no other literary award like it.
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After a fascinating time at NFT NYC, we have decided the cover of our summer issue featuring a tribute to NFT Poetry should also be an NFT.
Link below to an NFT (yours or another artist's) that you think should be on the cover 👇
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Every day without him
is too long;
she’s waiting
with the tired cows at the gate.
—Jane Clarke
@jane_janeclarke
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If we can only appreciate poems we agree with, then what is the point of
#poetry
? To congratulate each other on our shared values?
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The new year is tossing our demands
out the window like laundry, and here we are,
catching them like the birds they are not
—Abby E. Murray
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It was an incredible group of poems all-around. The finalists include a folk ballad, a 22-word poem small enough to fit on Twitter, a hilarious slice-of-life narrative, a fantastical speculative poem, and a whole lot more. See the full list here:
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See how I wrote those words and survived,
how you read them and lived?
—Abby E. Murray
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Reminder: If you tweet us your favorite poem (not your own) and use
#favpo
, we'll RT it for everyone to read and follow you. Keep the great poetry flowing!
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Congratulations to this year's Rattle Chapbook Prize winners: Eric Kocher, Denise Duhamel, and Kat Lehmann! It's a wonderful mix of styles and moods this year, with humor, haiku, the inner-monologue well-represented. The 1st comes with our fall issue.
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Wouldn't it be nice if waiting rooms always had poetry lying around, instead of just fashion magazines and NatGeo?
#LeaveYourLit
!
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The greenest pasture
Is always
The one
I am in
—John Lee Clark
@johnleeclark
“Slateku” by John Lee Clark
John Lee Clark SLATEKU My son says let’s race So we fly A
www.rattle.com
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He may compare you
to the dawn, but I
stayed up all night to watch it.
—Billy Collins
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Congratulations to 2017 Rattle Chapbook Prize winner
@TaylorMali
, and runners-up Diana Goetsch and Mather Schneider!
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Live look out the office window at the Southern California snowstorm, with a little help from Wallace Stevens.
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No wonder the oceans are full;
No wonder the seas are rising.
—Gregory Orr
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my eyes traversing oceans
and mountains calling home, waiting
for something beautifully naked
to crawl up ashore and say stay here.
—Bola Opaleke
@BolaOpaleke
#ThisWeek
#LastYear
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You were not raised with cushions in the shade,
but nude and shoeless where the briars bloom—
—Francesco Petrarca
Tr. from the Italian by
@amjuster
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What is left
whispering in us, once we have
stopped trying to become the other?
—Tiana Clark
@TianaClarkPoet
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Hey it's payday at Rattle! Poets are $4,400 richer than they were yesterday. Thank you to all of our subscribers who make paying for poems possible!
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There are only two kinds of good poems: 1) Poems that make me want to go write. 2) Poems that make me want to quit writing forever.
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The sleeping lion
The living bones
The paper world
—Gemma Wong (age 8)
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we were so grateful,
not to God, but to her faith
—José A. Alcántara
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Where I came from,
the street is another religion
& my feet know
all its worship songs
—Bola Opaleke
@BolaOpaleke
#EkphrasticChallenge
@AlicePettway
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New records: The spring issue at the printer will be sent to 7,866 subscribers, plus 1,836 copies on the newsstand. Only 300 short of 10,000 total circulation. Big thanks to everyone who enjoys reading poems on paper!
Beautiful cover art by Kristina Gehrmann (
@maidith
).
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… so each night she
lays her head down, she sleeps
the deep untroubled sleep of knowing.
—Kwame Dawes
@kwamedawes
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Upcoming
#Rattlecast
schedule:
Jan 30: Nicelle Davis
@Nicelle_Davis
Feb 6: Michael Dylan Welch
@CaptainHaiku
Feb 13: Kwame Dawes
@kwamedawes
Feb 20: Sarah Etlinger
@drsaephd
Feb 27: Abby E. Murray
Mar 6: James Davis May
@jamesdavismay
Mar 13: Jennifer Reeser
@jennifereeser
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A light wind makes a halo of your hair.
I feel at ease with, although far from death,
And take a deep gulp in of summer air
to ask the question that this day makes clear:
would I be you if I had grown up here?
—Anna M. Evans
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I have been counting my regrets.
Bacon, Facebook, cigarettes.
—Wendy Videlock
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Congratulations to
@RayonLennon1
and all of the other finalists, and a big thank you to everyone who participated!
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He may compare you
to the dawn, but I
stayed up all night to watch it.
—Billy Collins
(four more
#haiku
at the link)
http://t.co/D7cVQu8mGT
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and how, when she kissed him, he felt like a poem
being translated from one language into another.
—Troy Jollimore
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2/2—This sweet, sad, funny poem is the reason we turned off commenting—there were 500 comments under it, many bickering over whether or not "it was really a poem, as great as it is." Poems are too timeless to have random comments immortalized beneath them.
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"If we didn't have poetry, this would be a pretty barren world."
—President Obama
http://t.co/9vlp9x0prE
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It's payday at Rattle, and everyone gets a raise! If you haven't heard, we've doubled-up to $200 per poem for our print issues. Poets in our spring issue are now collectively $7,600 richer.
Submissions, of course, are still free and always will be:
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I do not always have the right thing to say
my foot sometimes moves without me
—Anis Mojgani
@mojgani
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but whenever I begin
“the trees wave their knotted branches
and …” god
there is always under that poem
an other poem
—Lucille Clifton
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I want to know, Mom, where do you think we go
When you close your eyes?
—Meghan Bell
#PoetsRespond
#MothersDay
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Time’s unfolding, dauntless, holds you dear.
The universe has no need of your fear.
—Leatha Kendrick
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If I had a nickel for every time a girl like you
couldn’t buy a belt to hold up her end
of the story I could buy a belt.
—Kayla Czaga
@kaylaczaga
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1/2—Finally, our
#1
most-read poem of all-time, with over a quarter-million page views, is “Death and Tacos” by Nathaniel Whittemore. This one really hits you in the heart, doesn't it?
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Every time the song ends, I ask “Again?”
and the bird just says zee, or whit, or wheep.
—Robert Wrigley
#PoetsRespond
#COVID19
#WallaceRoney
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all our words, heaps of burning feathers
that rise and rise with each retelling.
—Ilya Kaminsky
@ilya
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Promised one winner, figured there'd be 2, and couldn't help but choose 3. That's the way it goes with these amazing chapbooks. Congrats to
@poet_raquelvgil
@nickolebrown
and Elizabeth S. Wolf, and big thanks to everyone who entered!
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It's
#payday
at Rattle! Just sent $4,200 to the contributors in issue
#58
, due out December 1st.
#PoetryPays
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This is a dumb reason to keep living, but it is a reason.
—Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
@coaptowicz
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To our newborn child I say: sweet cluster
of cells containing a cosmos, this world
you have entered now would terrify me ...
—Dante Di Stefano
#DACA
#Parkland
#PoetsRespond
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Congratulations to our 2022 Rattle Poetry Prize winner, L. Renée—and the 10 finalists! Each of these 11 poems, including the winner, "Shoes," will appear in this winter's issue. Thank you, as well, to everyone who participated this year!
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we are trying to decipher the bang buck braille of Your silent throat Lord
—Anis Mojgani
@mojgani
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We received 43,207 submissions in 2017 and are grateful for each of them, even the 7,084 we haven't replied to yet! (Sorry …)
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With every word we say
the room grows quieter.
—Li-Young Lee
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But I knew if I dialed
you wouldn’t answer.
You always answered,
but you wouldn’t this time,
and it would be true.
—Thadra Sheridan
@ThadraSheridan
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He should be on the high stool in Cookies,
a creamy head settling on his pint of Guinness
and the retelling of it all
just beginning.
—Joanne McCarthy
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All you need is a dozen poems and a dream … but the deadline's coming up.
Three winners receive $5,000 each, and their chapbooks are sent to our 8,000 subscribers. There's no other literary award like it.
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in the dream
i carried all my dead inside the wide casket
of my wail and to leave the city now
is to find a crack in the world
—O-Jeremiah Agbaakin
@muse_lord
#PoetsRespond
#Christchurch
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If you like the idea of using the term curation rather than publication, so that we have more freedom to share our poems online, please take a moment to sign this petition. It will be helpful to be able to say that thousands of writers agree.
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It's a new month, so we have a new Ekphrastic Challenge! Write your poems about this piece by Nicole Zarate.
Deadline: June 30th
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Let’s say the rain
ate the sea
then poured it out.
—Oscar Brady (Age 8)
http://t.co/HnlBO5DiiD
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What are NFTs and what can they do for poetry?
@timothygreen
will be talking to
@Katie_Dozier
and other contributors to this summer's issue on
#ThePoetrySpace_
tomorrow at 3pm ET!
Join us live right here on Twitter!
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The next Rattle Young Poets Anthology deadline is coming up on Wednesday. Parents, send in those amazing refrigerator poems you've been saving, and share them with the world!
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The 2nd poem in our top 20 all-time countdown is the 2nd poet who started in slam. And you can make a strong argument that this was the most-read poem of the 21st century even before we published it. Coming in at
#19
is “What Teacher Make” by
@TaylorMali
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Pay day at Rattle! Poets are now $3,900 richer. Always our favorite day of the season.
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NEA Lit Fellowships were announced today—congrats to all the winners, but especially
@TianaClarkPoet
, Rachel Custer, and Ilya Kaminsky, who have appeared in Rattle. I'll tweet out those poems throughout the day.
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The fall issue is at the printer! Here's a quick preview. The issue features a tribute to previously unpublished poets, and a conversation with the secretly brilliant Marvin Artis, who had been writing great poetry for years without publishing any of it.
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My prince is not coming on a white horse
but on a turtle.
—Nathalia Bernstein (Age 9)
http://t.co/cfTbBnXhS6
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In this highlight from Rattlecast
#82
,
@ae_stallings
discusses the ways rhyme is used in poetry and shares the fundamental rules for making rhyme work. Then she reads her rhymed poem "Pencil."
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whether flustered
or in love,
whether hawk
or mourning dove,
whether silk
or boxing glove …
—Wendy Videlock
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Please, we’re not doing well here.
We have so little
time for kindness.
—Nancy Miller Gomez
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This is a dumb reason to keep living, but it is a reason.
—Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
http://t.co/Uk5ZYyJ5Zc
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Apparently we've never published a poem about Walt Whitman—that's surprising. Happy birthday, anyway, Walt!
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We're excited to announce the following 2018 Rattle Poetry Prize winners! "Turbulence" by
@StayDancingDave
is the kind of poem that gives you goosebumps, and we can't wait to share it in this winter's issue.
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I held my hands steady
in the water’s reassuring scald,
trying and trying
to save you.
—Francesca Bell
#PoetsRespond
#COVID19
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… a poem
calling out entitlement
celebrating diversity
a transgender poem you
could read to a fetus.
—Paul E. Nelson
#CDC7words
#cdcbannedwords
#PoetsRespond
@realDonaldTrump
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Being human
means dragging the heavy weight
of what you almost were behind you.
—Marvin Glasser
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he became less “star” and more a small
part of an unknown galaxy, warm in the night sky.
—Dick Westheimer
@rlwesty_poet
(Tonight's guest at 8pm ET on Rattlecast 188!)
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Morning falls into evening.
I am too tired to comb my hair.
—Li Qingzhao, tr. Wendy Chen
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… but she will not accept the honor
and I cannot inflict it on her.
—A.M. Juster
@amjuster
#poetsrespond
#poetlaureate
#carolannduffy
#poetrycommunity
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330 poets and editors have endorsed the use of "curation" rather than "publication" in their bios and submission guidelines, freeing writers from the antiquated constraints of the analog world. Have you?
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Great news from our annual board meeting—starting in 2016 (issue
#51
) we'll be doubling our payments to $100 per poem!
#PayItForward
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