Archive for May, 2008
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Ringing of the Bells
I might be late to the party, but if I don’t chime in on this post, and the subsequent flame war between Howard Junker of Zyzzyva and Ted Genoways of VQR, what kind of blogger would I be?
The Summary: VQR’s blog–via web developer Waldo Jaquith, not editor Ted–posts an unattributed list of comments from [...]
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
A Nurse’s Review of Poetry by Nurses
As if the Center for Nursing Advocacy hasn’t done enough in support of our winter issue, they just published a comprehensive review on their website — probably the most thorough and thoughtful review we’ve ever received (literary magazines aren’t reviewed very often, and when they are, the reviews are usually brief). Beyond a basic hat [...]
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Your Obligatory New Issue Post
Rattle #29 is now available, a week before the official June 1st release. It’s actually been available for a few weeks already — the production process is so streamlined now that when we hit our traditional deadline, everything seems to immediately fall into place. We use a mailing house for distribution now, so [...]
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
3rd Annual Small Press Fair at the Church in Ocean Park
I should have mentioned this before, but got a little sidetracked. If you live in the LA area and want to be the first to see the new summer issue of RATTLE, hot off the presses, stop by the Church in Ocean Park this Saturday. We’ll be selling copies at a discount as [...]
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Available for Review (i.e., FREE BOOKS!)
While we still have plenty of reviews ready to go up online, but we haven’t been getting as many book requests lately and my shelf is filling up. It won’t be too long before I have to start giving up on some of these books.
Below is a list of review copies we’ve [...]
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Search Function
A few days ago, our favorite international subscriber — and past contributor of a particularly gruesome sonnet — suggested that we add a search function to Rattle.com. Your wish is my command. Check it out.
I’m working giving each page a unique and meaningful name, so all the search results won’t just be [...]
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Go Figures
A few weeks ago I mentioned my surprise at learning that we receive almost as many poetry submissions as The New Yorker. This week, I found out that we have a higher circulation than both the Georgia Review and the Iowa Review [1], and have as much web traffic as Pedestal Magazine [2]. How [...]
