Rage Hezekiah: “As a child, my curiosity about the human body was paramount. The memory that brought forth this poem is one I come back to again and again. I’m so compelled by the strangeness of learning about the forms and functions of the body as we age, and how our ideas about our own bodies and each other’s bodies evolve.” (web)
The Winter 2018 issue of Rattle is as eclectic as ever, featuring a wide range of formal and free verse, haiku, persona poems, carburetors, Kmart, and two separate references to the Antiques Roadshow for some reason.
The issue also features “Turbulence” by Dave Harris, winner of the 2018 Rattle Poetry Prize, and the other ten finalist poems—clearly our best set of prize-winning poems yet. As always, subscribers may vote for their favorite to win the annual Readers’ Choice Award.
In the conversation section, Alan Fox talks politics and poetry with master storyteller Jimmy Santiago Baca. All subscribers will also receive the chapbook To Those Who Were Our First Gods by Nickole Brown.