After a year of working on site upgrades, I think I’m officially out of new features I want to add. A year ago at rattle.com, we let you browse back issues, subscribe, and read our submission guidelines. Since then we’ve added hundreds of links, the Rattle Poetry Prize, E-Reviews, E-Issues, and the Neil Postman Award. This week, the final two features are in place:

1) Rattle Audio Archives. Any poems that have been published in Rattle are elligible for the archives, if the poets can come up with recordings. This section will continue to grow, but we start out with 21 MP3s, and poems by: Arlene Ang, Matthew Babcock, Laurie Blauner, Sally Bliumis-Dunn, David Cazden, Anne Coray, Barbara Crooker, James Doyle, Conrad Geller, Greg German, M.L. Liebler, Michelle Margolis, Mario Milosevic, John Nimmo, Jennifer Perrine, Dian Duchin Reed, Thom Ward, and yours truly. We’ll also be adding clips from interviews in the near future. Download, read along, and enjoy.

2) Really Simple Syndication. I couldn’t figure out how to categorize feeds (as they are ‘tagged’ on the blogger RSS), and I wanted people to have the opportunity to only subscribe to the content they’re interested in, so I set up four separate feeds:

Poetry
E-Reviews
E-Issues
Audio

These feeds will automatically send all content-updates out into the aether. “Poetry” will be published once a week, usually on Sunday, providing full-text of the Poem of the Week, and links to the other new poems. The rest will be published PRN, probably a few times each month. So add whichever seem interesting into your Bloglines/GoogleReader/Newsgator/etc. I didn’t add chicklets because there are so damn many of them, and I think people can just paste the url into their reader, right?

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This blog is celebrating its six-month anniverary, and I still don’t use it as much as I’d intended. So I’ve decided to make the month of July a blog-a-thon. I promise to have a post every single day, even if it’s only brief. I’m not traveling at all, and this is one of the quietest months in the year, so I have no excuses. I want to get into the habit. Wish me luck.