RATTLE
Encyclopedia
RATTLE is an award-winning poetry magazine based in Los Angeles
, California. Founded in 1994, the magazine is published by the Frieda C. Fox Family Foundation. Established writers such as Philip Levine
, Jane Hirshfield
, Billy Collins
, Sharon Olds
, Gregory Orr
, and others have appeared in RATTLE, although the magazine also prides itself on its publication of new and emerging poets. Poems from the magazine have been reprinted in The Best American Poetry
and Pushcart Prize
anthologies.
According to the magazine’s website:
Each issue features a theme honoring a particular community of poets, such as teachers, slam poets, or, most recently, nurse poets. Interviews with contemporary poets are also a staple of the twice-yearly publication. Though primarily dedicated to its print issues, the magazine’s website features a variety of supplemental material, such as audio archives, reviews of contemporary poetry, and electronic issues.
Editor: Timothy Green
Assistant Editor: Megan O’Reilly
Editor Emeritus: Stellasue Lee
Editorial Assistant: Cassandra Glickman
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, California. Founded in 1994, the magazine is published by the Frieda C. Fox Family Foundation. Established writers such as Philip Levine
Philip Levine (poet)
Philip Levine is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. He taught for over thirty years at the English Department of California State University, Fresno and held teaching positions at other universities as well...
, Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield is an American poet.-Biography:Jane Hirshfield was born in New York City and received her bachelor's degree from Princeton University in the school's first graduating class to include women. She later studied at the San Francisco Zen Center, including three years of monastic...
, Billy Collins
Billy Collins
Billy Collins is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York and is the Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute, Florida...
, Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds
-Life:Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco. She was raised as a “hellfire Calvinist”, as she describes it. She says she was by nature "a pagan and a pantheist" and notes "I was in a church where there was both great literary art and bad literary art, the great art being psalms and the bad...
, Gregory Orr
Gregory Orr
Gregory Orr is an American writer and director of documentary and fiction films. He is the son of the late actress Joy Page and the late TV producer William T. Orr.-Career:...
, and others have appeared in RATTLE, although the magazine also prides itself on its publication of new and emerging poets. Poems from the magazine have been reprinted in The Best American Poetry
The Best American Poetry
The Best American Poetry series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems.The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year...
and Pushcart Prize
Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to 6 works they have featured....
anthologies.
According to the magazine’s website:
RATTLE is pretty simple: We love poetry and feel that it's something everyone can enjoy. We look for poems that are accessible, that have heart, that have something to
say.
Each issue features a theme honoring a particular community of poets, such as teachers, slam poets, or, most recently, nurse poets. Interviews with contemporary poets are also a staple of the twice-yearly publication. Though primarily dedicated to its print issues, the magazine’s website features a variety of supplemental material, such as audio archives, reviews of contemporary poetry, and electronic issues.
RATTLE Poetry Prize
The RATTLE Poetry Prize, established in 2006, awards $5000 to the best poem submitted, as decided by the magazine’s editors. Ten $100 honorable mentions are also awarded. All winners receive publication in the winter issue of the magazine.Masthead
Editor-in-Chief: Alan FoxEditor: Timothy Green
Assistant Editor: Megan O’Reilly
Editor Emeritus: Stellasue Lee
Editorial Assistant: Cassandra Glickman
Past Contributors
Past contributors to the journal have included:
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