Archive for July, 2007
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 house, and [...]
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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 [...]
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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. The coming [...]
