The Spring 2024 issue of Rattle features a Tribute to Collaboration. Collaborative poetry has a long history, dating back at least to the Beats, but has been marginalized in the past as somehow less serious than a single tortured poet’s wrestle with the blank page. The truth, though, is that collaborative poetry can be a fun way to deepen our own insights. The theme includes 15 poems by 31 poets working in pairs or trios, and a three-way conversation with frequent collaborators Denise Duhamel and Julie Marie Wade. The always-eclectic open section features familiar names and new voices exploring the human condition, from hope to home-buying to cuss words.
COLLABORATION Two Pints by Roberta Beary & Lew Watts The Weather by C.L. Bledsoe & Michael Gushue Why Am I / Because You Are by Brendan Constantine & Andi Myles Tabletop Pantoum by Gail Dawson & Richard Garcia Shorthand 6-Pak Rondelet by Denise Duhamel & Maureen Seaton Give-and-Take Ghazal by Denise Duhamel & Julie Marie Wade Disaster Wireless by Richard Gilbert & Jennifer Hambrick Zombies in Paradise by A.M. Juster & Deborah Warren The Double Image Redux by Julie Kane & Erica Reid Hubris by Mariko Kitakubo & Deborah P. Kolodji The Old Stove by Herb Kitson & Ray-J Nelson Courage by Ansuya Patel & Batya Weinbaum Waymarks by Michele Root-Bernstein, Laszlo Slomovits, & Jennifer Burd Babel by Matthew Shelton & Timothy Liu Something Fishy by Michael Dylan Welch, C.R. Manley, Tanya McDonald
OPEN POETRY Gay Chicken by Animashaun Ameen The New Battery Should Come Tomorrow by Ruth Bavetta Just in Case You Should Meet Me on the Street by Erik Campbell My Mother Says by Amy Chan A Step-by-Step Guide to Buying a Home by Luigi Coppola How It Happened by Judith Fox All of Them by Tony Gloeggler How to Forget by Nancy Miller Gomez Resurrection by Nancy Miller Gomez Fresh by Rasma Haidri Wetness: An Assay by Jane Hirshfield Slow Wall by Charlotte Innes Bubba Country by Michael Jones Shovels by Amit Majmudar Bottomlands Dream by Doug Ramspeck Midwest Houses by Mather Schneider Go Home Boy Go Home by Erik Tschekunow Parking Meter by Dean Marshall Tuck My 88-Year-Old Mother-in-Law Decides by Laurie Uttich Fuck the Carburetor by Florence Weinberger Villanelle over Spilled Milk by Lizabeth Yandel
The Spring 2024 issue of Rattle features a Tribute to Collaboration. Collaborative poetry has a long history, dating back at least to the Beats, but has been marginalized in the past as somehow less serious than a single tortured poet’s wrestle with the blank page. The truth, though, is that collaborative poetry can be a fun way to deepen our own insights. The theme includes 15 poems by 31 poets working in pairs or trios, and a three-way conversation with frequent collaborators Denise Duhamel and Julie Marie Wade. The always-eclectic open section features familiar names and new voices exploring the human condition, from hope to home-buying to cuss words.
COLLABORATION Two Pints by Roberta Beary & Lew Watts The Weather by C.L. Bledsoe & Michael Gushue Why Am I / Because You Are by Brendan Constantine & Andi Myles Tabletop Pantoum by Gail Dawson & Richard Garcia Shorthand 6-Pak Rondelet by Denise Duhamel & Maureen Seaton Give-and-Take Ghazal by Denise Duhamel & Julie Marie Wade Disaster Wireless by Richard Gilbert & Jennifer Hambrick Zombies in Paradise by A.M. Juster & Deborah Warren The Double Image Redux by Julie Kane & Erica Reid Hubris by Mariko Kitakubo & Deborah P. Kolodji The Old Stove by Herb Kitson & Ray-J Nelson Courage by Ansuya Patel & Batya Weinbaum Waymarks by Michele Root-Bernstein, Laszlo Slomovits, & Jennifer Burd Babel by Matthew Shelton & Timothy Liu Something Fishy by Michael Dylan Welch, C.R. Manley, Tanya McDonald
OPEN POETRY Gay Chicken by Animashaun Ameen The New Battery Should Come Tomorrow by Ruth Bavetta Just in Case You Should Meet Me on the Street by Erik Campbell My Mother Says by Amy Chan A Step-by-Step Guide to Buying a Home by Luigi Coppola How It Happened by Judith Fox All of Them by Tony Gloeggler How to Forget by Nancy Miller Gomez Resurrection by Nancy Miller Gomez Fresh by Rasma Haidri Wetness: An Assay by Jane Hirshfield Slow Wall by Charlotte Innes Bubba Country by Michael Jones Shovels by Amit Majmudar Bottomlands Dream by Doug Ramspeck Midwest Houses by Mather Schneider Go Home Boy Go Home by Erik Tschekunow Parking Meter by Dean Marshall Tuck My 88-Year-Old Mother-in-Law Decides by Laurie Uttich Fuck the Carburetor by Florence Weinberger Villanelle over Spilled Milk by Lizabeth Yandel