Archive for March, 2009
Monday, March 30th, 2009
The Beaded Curtain
I’m proud to announce that my lovely wife and Rattle‘s assistant editor Megan O’Reilly Green’s chapbook, The Beaded Curtain, is now available for preorder from Spire Press. We don’t have any cover shots or blurbs yet — frankly, we’re surprised to learn that it’s coming out in June(?); we were thinking it’d probably be the [...]
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
White Noise
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] WHITE NOISE Listen. How the wind whispers our secrets. How a light rain will speak any language. –from American Fractal first published in Poetry Midwest
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
O Stapleman, My Stapleman
The best teacher I ever had died yesterday. 66, cancer. He was a legend in our little suburb, the kind of teacher that teenagers tell their younger siblings stories about, and then those siblings grow up and realize that all of the stories are actually true. If he caught you with a cheat sheet, he’d [...]
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
American Fractal
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] AMERICAN FRACTAL We are like two chasms, a well staring up at the sky –Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet two mirrors face each other my hands over my face the porcelain soap [...]
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
Almost Cured of Misogyny, Still Have a Cough
Really brief as-promised follow-up to “The Gender Question.” I spent the weekend doing the layout for the summer issue, so our contributors are now finalized. The count: 46 men, 40 women = 46.7%F Still leaning male, but Rattle #31 is more female than our 45% ten-issue-average, and we’ve bucked the disturbing trend of Gender Climate [...]
