Profile_bird

Hey there! rattlepoetry is using Twitter.

Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What's happening? Join today to start receiving rattlepoetry's tweets.

Already using Twitter
from your phone? Click here.

rattlepoetry

  1. @saeedjones @annehaines Thanks for the shouts. "Motown Crown" is the only poem I've ever solicited in 5 years as an editor.
  2. The jewel of the sonnet issue, Patricia Smith's "Motown Crown" is online already, but nothing beats hearing it live. http://tr.im/JCfh
  3. Reading the first poetry collection I've enjoyed in a while, Gary Lemons' _Bristol Bay_ http://tr.im/JybG
  4. @htmlgiant Fact, IMO, I was just babbling about it yesterday http://timothy-green.org/blog/2010/01/audience-participation/
  5. "It’s still 1937 in her mouth/ and later I’ll learn that she’s not really talking at all..." Alison Townsend http://tr.im/JwXz
  6. Then I'm gonna send some rejection letters, so if we owe you one, be warned.
  7. At the office organizing bookshelves at 1 a.m. after watching Hoarders on A&E though I swear the two aren't related...
  8. Don't forget it's Pushcart Week at www.rattle.com--1st 6 days of 2010 we're posting our 6 nominations from 2009. Today's is Terrance Hayes.
  9. "Bend over and try/ moving forward while looking between your legs/ to get a sense of what it feels like trying to escape" www.tiny.cc/X1qDa
  10. And congrats to Lisa Krueger (Rattle#24) on her new book _Animals the Size of Dreams_ (Red Hen Press) http://tr.im/Jlmo
  11. Congrats to Richard Jackson (Rattle#29) on his new book _Resonance_ (Ashland Poetry Press) http://tr.im/JlkX
  12. @memali (she's got a villanelle in our winter issue) is now poetry editor of Tiferet, check it out www.tiferetjournal.com/
  13. If you haven't seen our banner at the top of Rattle.com our winter issue reading is two weeks from today www.rattle.com/rattle32/reading.htm
  14. "...doing whatever, to hide the forty years of duct tape that holds us together, is not such an unreasonable ploy." http://tr.im/Jlet
  15. @litlist We didn't say one thousand nine hundred and ninety...
  16. Is this true about Klimt or poetic license? http://rattle.com/blog/2010/01/love-by-heather-bell/
  17. First up, 2009 Rattle Poetry Prize winner Lynne Knight and her $5,000 poem, "To the Young Man Who Cried Out..." http://tr.im/JaPa
  18. It's Pushcart Week at www.rattle.com - first six days of 2010, we're posting our favorite poems of 2009.
  19. @HippoetPrize We did a nurse poets issue a couple years ago http://www.rattle.com/rattle28.htm
  20. Also, today is the last day of our new subscription sale - free copies of the slam issue to all new subscribers http://tr.im/J6is