Archive for July, 2007
Monday, July 30th, 2007
Rattle Poetry Prize Deadline – August 1st
I owe this blog about two dozen posts, but for now, here’s a reminder that the deadline for the 2007 Rattle Poetry Prize is this Wednesday. Postmark more entries by August 1st, or submit them by email before 11:59 PM pst that night.
Last year we received 800 submissions, and we’re only on [...]
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
The Bard of Belltown
Harvey Goldner passed away last week, from cancer at 65. I didn’t know him very well, but we published a poem of his last summer. The Seattle P-I has written a nice obiturary for him — he drove a taxi a few nights a week to pay for his room at a boarding [...]
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
RPP
Okay, you’ve convinced me. Next year we’ll change the simultaneous submissions rule, for the same reason that we started accepting them for general submissions two years ago: we want the best poems we can get.
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Monday, July 9th, 2007
Rattle Poetry Prize – Simultaneous Submissions
Due to some gracious feedback, we’ve made a slight expansion to the guidelines for the Rattle Poetry Prize. In regard to a poem’s availability, the following now applies:
RATTLE’s winter issue (Dec. 2007) must be a potential first publication for all works submitted. No previously published works, or works accepted for publication elsewhere. No simultaneous [...]
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Saturday, July 7th, 2007
Feedback Is a Fickle Mistress
Tuesday’s post has me thinking about how hard it is to find good feedback, and a brief Googling of poetry forums only left me more curious. We’re always looking for ways to improve, but what could use improvement?
This blog allows anonymous comments, and I’d love for you to leave one. What do you really [...]
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Friday, July 6th, 2007
Cheers
CHEERS
They could have been us
hours ago. Two figures
huddled hip to hip in their
parkas like one big foam
finger for the sky’s yearly
coughing of sparks and
spangles, these percussive
pops that stand in so often
for independence, the blank
case, the empty shell.
It took the human race
five thousand years to invent
nothing as a concept, I think,
my headlights flashing their
coupling of ooh [...]
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Thursday, July 5th, 2007
Ginsberg’s "America" vs. C.K.’s "United States"
I want to have lived through the 60s. Or even better — careful with your wishes — I want the 60s to have lived through me. I’ve always felt like a displaced flower-child; I love the music, I love the fashion (or lack thereof), I love the politics, the people in the streets. [...]
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
RATTLE: Surprisingly It Doesn’t Suck
The best compliments are the ones that people don’t expect you to see. Sure, it’s nice to hear in a cover letter that someone really loved some poem in the last issue, but you obviously have to take that kind of statement with a big bucket of salt.
Every few days I check [...]
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Monday, July 2nd, 2007
I’m The Man; or, Okay, Every WEEKDAY in July!
I wanted to post yesterday, but it was a busy day on little sleep — had to meet with some people at the office, do a lot of work (which I didn’t get to finish), and then do a reading at Beyond Baroque in Venice. Not only was I too tired to post when I [...]
