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November 29, 2024

Rattle is pleased to announce the following Pushcart Prize Nominees for 2024:

“Abandoned Bicycle” by George Bilgere (Rattle Chapbook Series 2024)
“Credit” by James Washington Jr. (Prompt Poem of the Month, April 2024)
“True Story” by Bob Hicok (Summer 2024)
“On a Tear” by Lew Watts (Fall 2024)
“Dear Frist Draft of This Poem” by Lance Larsen (Winter 2024)
“Among Other Things” by Arthur Russell (Winter 2024)

Nominees are sent to Pushcart Press, who then choose winners to reprint in their annual anthology. For more information on the Pushcart Prize, visit them here.

 
December 12, 2023

Rattle is pleased to announce the following Pushcart Prize Nominees for 2023:

Ocean Ancient and Evolving” by Kat Lehmann (Spring 2023)
Outside Quang Tri City, 1968” by Bruce Weigl (Summer 2023)
This Again” by Bob Hicok (Poets Respond online, October 2023)
“They Ask If I’ve Seen the News” by Rami Frawi (Winter 2023)
“Leaf Removal” by Al Ortolani (Winter 2023)
“Time Travel for Beginners” by Ardon Shorr (Winter 2023)

Nominees are sent to Pushcart Press, who then choose winners to reprint in their annual anthology. For more information on the Pushcart Prize, visit them here.

 
November 30, 2022

Rattle is pleased to announce the following Pushcart Prize Nominees for 2022:

Soprano from the Junior Choir at the Protest” by Shawn Jones (Summer 2022)
The Fates” by David Kirby (Fall 2022)
“State of Grace” by Anna M. Evans (Winter 2022)
“Shoes” by L. Renée (Winter 2022)
I Tell My Son to Cover Himself in Someone Else’s Blood” by Rachel Mallalieu (Poets Respond)
silent after” by Joshua Eric Williams (Poets Respond)

Nominees are sent to Pushcart Press, who then choose winners to reprint in their annual anthology. For more information on the Pushcart Prize, visit them here.

 
December 14, 2021

Rattle is pleased to announce the following Pushcart Prize Nominees for 2021:

A Question of Time” by Kathleen Dale (Spring 2021)
Can We Touch Your Hair?” by Skye Jackson (Spring 2021)
Prayer for Mr. Armand Palakiko” by Robert Lynn (Spring 2021)
Ninety-Nine” by Clemonce Heard (Summer 2021)
23 Miners Dead at Century Mine” by donnarkevic (Summer 2021)
“Encephalon” by Ann Giard-Chase (Winter 2021)

Nominees are sent to Pushcart Press, who then choose winners to reprint in their annual anthology. For more information on the Pushcart Prize, visit them here.

 
November 30, 2020

Rattle is pleased to announce the following Pushcart Prize Nominees for 2020:

The Gray Man” by Jimmy Pappas, from Falling off the Empire State Building, March 2020
Coronavirus in China” by Anthony Tao, from Poets Respond, online, February 23, 2020
After a Shooting in a Maternity Clinic in Kabul” by Tishani Doshi, online, May 26, 2020
Social Experiment in Which I Am the [Bear]” by William Evans, Rattle #67, Spring 2020
To My Student with the Dime-Sized Bruises …” by Laurie Uttich, Rattle #69, Fall 2020
Pantoum from the Window of the Room Where I Write” by Alison Townsend, Rattle #70, Winter 2020

Nominees are sent to Pushcart Press, who then choose winners to reprint in their annual anthology. For more information on the Pushcart Prize, visit them here.

 
September 15, 2020

Congratulations to Alison Townsend, winner of the 2019 Rattle Poetry Prize, for her poem “Pantoum from the Window of the Room Where I Write.” The award is $15,000, and the poem will be published in issue #70 of Rattle in December 2020. Ten Finalists each received $500 and publication, as well as a chance to win the $5,000 Readers’ Choice Award, to be selected by subscriber vote. For more information on the winners, click here.

 
June 1, 2020

Congratulations to Ted Kooser and John Philip Johnson on winning 2020 Pushcart Prizes for “A Town Somewhere” and “Book of Fly,” respectively.

 
March 10, 2020

Rattle is happy to announce the following additional Pushcart Prize Nominees for 2018, selected by their board of contributing editors:

Slut” by Ukamaka Olisakwe, Rattle #65, Fall 2019
“Stroke” by Matthew Dickman, Rattle #66, Winter 2019
“The Other While Ago” by Tim Skeen, Rattle #66, Winter 2019
“In the Endoscopy Center” by Wendy Barker, Rattle #66, Winter 2019
Late Sonogram” by Amanda Newell, Poets Respond (May 28, 2019)

Nominees are sent to Pushcart Press, who then chooses winners to reprint in their annual anthology. For more information on the Pushcart Prize, visit them here.

 
January 1, 2020

Effective immediately, we are doubling all of our payments for poems! Starting the first of the year, we will be paying $200 for poems in our print issues, and $100 for poems featured online.

 
November 26, 2019

Rattle is pleased to announce the following Pushcart Prize Nominees for 2019:

The Book of Fly” by John Philip Johnson, Rattle #63, Spring 2019
Stern” by Al Maginnes, Rattle #63, Spring 2019
What My Children Remember” by Rasaq Malik Gbolahan, Rattle #65, Fall 2019
Slut” by Ukamaka Olisakwe, Rattle #65, Fall 2019
“Stroke” by Matthew Dickman, Rattle #66, Winter 2019
Abundance” by Amy Schmidt, Poets Respond (January 20, 2019)

Nominees are sent to Pushcart Press, who then choose winners to reprint in their annual anthology. For more information on the Pushcart Prize, visit them here.

 
September 15, 2019

Congratulations to Matthew Dickman, winner of the 2019 Rattle Poetry Prize, for his poem “Stroke.” The award is $10,000, and the poem will be published in issue #66 of Rattle in December 2019. Ten Finalists each received $200 and publication, as well as a chance to win the $2,000 Readers’ Choice Award, to be selected by subscriber vote. For more information on the winners, click here.

March 10, 2019

Rattle is happy to announce the following additional Pushcart Prize Nominees for 2018, selected by their board of contributing editors:

Nancy Miller Gomez – “Growing Apples
Mather Schneider – “The Zoo,” from A Bag of Hands
Mike White – “The Way” (online in April)
Guinotte Wise – “The Why of Bull Riding
Dante Di Stefano – “In a James Dickey Poem
Megan Falley – “Ode to Red Lipstick

Nominees are sent to Pushcart Press, who then chooses winners to reprint in their annual anthology. For more information on the Pushcart Prize, visit them here.

 
March 1, 2019

Congratulations to James Valvis, winner of the 2019 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor for his poem “The Distracted.” The annual award of $1,000 is given to the poem that exhibits the best use of metaphor among all of the submissions Rattle received over the previous year. For more information, see the Postman Award page.

 
February 15, 2019

Congratulations to Katie Bickham, winner of the 2018 Rattle Poetry Prize Readers’ Choice Award, for “The Blades.” The prize is $2,000. Subscribers voted for the winner, from ten editor-chosen finalists. To read some of what our readers said about this and the other finalist poems, click here.

 
November 29, 2018

Rattle is pleased to announce the following Pushcart Prize Nominees for 2018:

“To the Firefighters Sleeping in the Yard” by Amy Miller, Poets Respond (online), August 2018
Dog at the Farm” by Timothy DeJong, Rattle #60, Summer 2018
Meditation on a Dining Room Table” by Marvin Artis, Rattle #61, Fall 2018
“The Distracted” by James Valvis, Rattle #61, Fall 2018
TBA, Rattle #62, Winter 2018
TBA, Rattle #62, Winter 2018

Nominees are sent to Pushcart Press, who then choose winners to reprint in their annual anthology. For more information on the Pushcart Prize, visit them here.

 
September 27, 2018

Rattle is happy to announce the following Sundress Best of the Net nominations. In other words, these are the “best” six online-only poems we’ve published in the last year, by our estimation:

Open Carry” by Rebecca Starks
Violence Fractal” by Molly Fisk
Getting Sober” by James Croal Jackson
Ode to Mennel Ibtissam …” by George Abraham
The Choicest Parts” by Jhoanna Belfer
The World Entire” by Amy Miller

For more information on the Best of the Net series, visit the Sundress Publications website.

 
September 15, 2018

Congratulations to Dave Harris, winner of the 2018 Rattle Poetry Prize, for his poem “Turbulence.” The award is $10,000, and the poem will be published in issue #62 of Rattle in December 2018. Ten Finalists each received $200 and publication, as well as a chance to win the $2,000 Readers’ Choice Award, to be selected by subscriber vote. For more information on the winners, click here.

 
April 15, 2018

Congratulations to Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Nickole Brown, and Elizabeth S. Wolf, winners of the 2018 Rattle Chapbook Prize. The chapbook will be distributed to all 8,000+ subscribers along with three separate future issues of Rattle. Subscribe today to receive each of these three books over the next year!

 
March 1, 2018

Congratulations to Rebecca Starks, winner of the 2018 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor for her poem “Open Carry.” The annual award of $1,000 is given to the poem that exhibits the best use of metaphor among all of the submissions Rattle received over the previous year. For more information, see the Postman Award page.

 
February 15, 2018

Congratulations to Jimmy Pappas, winner of the 2017 Rattle Poetry Prize Readers’ Choice Award, for “Bobby’s Story.” The prize is $2,000. Subscribers voted for the winner, from ten editor-chosen finalists. To read some of what our readers said about this and the other finalist poems, click here.

 
November 28, 2017

Rattle is pleased to announce the following Pushcart Prize Nominees for 2017:

Spring” by Sara Springer – Summer 2017
Containment” by Francesca Bell – Summer 2017
In Which I Name My Abuser Publicly” by Meghann Plunkett – Poets Respond
“Phases of Erasure” by Bill Glose – Winter 2017
“Heard” by Rayon Lennon – Winter 2017
In America” by Diana Goetsch – In America

Nominees are sent to Pushcart Press, who then choose winners to reprint in their annual anthology. For more information on the Pushcart Prize, visit them here.

 
September 29, 2017

Rattle is happy to announce the following Sundress Best of the Net nominations. In other words, these are the “best” six online-only poems we’ve published in the last year, by our estimation:

In Which I Name My Abuser Publicly” by Meghann Plunkett
Violaceae” by Jose A. Alcantara
What We Did in the Resistance (Part 1)” by Alison Luterman
Pause” by Mai-Lan Pham
Call Me by My Name” by Jamaica Baldwin
How I Am Like Donald Trump” by Rachel Custer

For more information on the Best of the Net series, visit the Sundress Publications website.

 
September 15, 2017

Congratulations to Rayon Lennon, winner of the 2017 Rattle Poetry Prize, for his poem “Heard.” The poem earned $10,000 and will be published in issue #58 of Rattle in December 2017. Ten Finalists each received $200 and publication, as well as a chance to win the $2,000 Readers’ Choice Award, to be selected by subscriber vote. For more information on the winners, click here.

 
April 15, 2017

Congratulations to Taylor Mali, winner of the 2017 Rattle Chapbook Prize for The Whetting Stone. The chapbook will be distributed to all 7,500+ subscribers along with the Fall 2017 issue of Rattle. Two runners-up will also receive publication and full distribution: In America by Diana Goetsch will appear with the Winter 2017 issue, and A Bag of Hands by Mather Schneider will appear with the Spring 2018 issue.

 
March 13, 2017

Rattle is happy to announce the following additional Pushcart Prize Nominees for 2016, selected by their board of editors:

Abby E. Murray – “Prayer on National Childfree Day
Brendan Constantine – “Red Sugar Blue Smoke
Zeina Hashem Beck – “You Fixed It
Jennifer Jean – “#CarryThatWeight
Anna M. Evans – “The Adjunct’s Villanelle
Julie Price Pinkerton – “After I Got the Email …
David Kirby – “This Living Hand
Emily Ransdell – “The Visit
Chrys Tobey – “For the Archaeologist …

Nominees are sent to Pushcart Press, who then chooses winners to reprint in their annual anthology. For more information on the Pushcart Prize, visit them here.

 
March 1, 2017

Congratulations to Kelly Grace Thomas, winner of the 2017 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor for her poem “And the Women Said.” The annual award of $1,000 is given to the poem that exhibits the best use of metaphor among all of the submissions Rattle received over the previous year. For more information, see the Postman Award page.

 
February 15, 2017

Congratulations to Ellen Bass and David Kirby, co-winners of the 2016 Rattle Poetry Prize Readers’ Choice Award, for “This Living Hand” and “Poem Written in the Sixth Month of My Wife’s Illness,” respectively. Their poets split the $2,000 prize. Subscribers voted for the winner, from ten editor-chosen finalists. To read some of what our readers said about this and the other finalist poems, click here.

 
November 29, 2016

Rattle is pleased to announce the following Pushcart Prize Nominees for 2016:

How My Mother Spends Her Nights” by Rasaq Malik Gbolahan – Spring 2016
And the Women Said” by Kelly Grace Thomas – Spring 2016
Deadbeat” by Nancy Gomez – Summer 2016
A Handbook for the Blind” by Darren Morris – Fall 2016
Veins” by Julie Price Pinkerton – Winter 2016
Superposition of States” by Ingrid Jendrzejewski – Winter 2016

Nominees are sent to Pushcart Press, who then choose winners to reprint in their annual anthology. For more information on the Pushcart Prize, visit them here.

 
September 25, 2016

Rattle is happy to announce the following Sundress Best of the Net nominations. In other words, these are the “best” six online-only poems we’ve published in the last year, by our estimation:

Divining” by Rosemerry Trommer
[Here, said the ocean]” by Rodrigo Dela Peña, Jr.
Ghazal: Back Home” by Zeina Hashem Beck
While Reading the News” by Leila Chatti
To the Woman Who Ruled …” by Bayleigh Fraser
I Am Over Here Sobbing” by Amy Miller

For more information on the Best of the Net series, visit the Sundress Publications website.

 
September 15, 2016

Congratulations to Julie Price Pinkerton, winner of the 2016 Rattle Poetry Prize, for her poem “Veins.” The poem earned her $10,000 and will be published in issue #54 of Rattle in December 2016. Ten Finalists each received $200 and publication, as well as a chance to win the $2,000 Readers’ Choice Award, to be selected by subscriber vote. For more information on the winners, click here.

 

May 16, 2016

Congratulations to David Kirby, who won a Pushcart Prize for his poem “More Than This,” from issue #50. The poem will be reprinted in the Pushcart Prize anthology at the end of 2016.

 
April 15, 2016

Congratulations to Zeina Hashem Beck, winner of the 2016 Rattle Chapbook Prize for 3arabi Song. The chapbook will be distributed to all 7,500+ subscribers along with an issue at the end of the year; one of the runners-up will also be distributed to each subscriber at random, so that everyone receives two chapbooks. The runners-up were: “Kill the Dogs” by Heather Bell, “Ligatures” by Denise Miller, and “Turn Left Before Morning” by April Salzano. All four chapbooks will be available for individual sale.

 
March 8, 2016

Congratulations to Jack Vian, winner of the 2016 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor for his poem “Musashi-san.” The annual award of now $1,000 is given to the poem that exhibits the best use of metaphor among all of the submissions Rattle received over the previous year. For more information, see the Postman Award page.

 
March 4, 2016

Congratulations to Jennifer Givhan for winning the 2015 Lascaux Prize in Poetry for her poem, “The Polar Bear,” which first appeared in Rattle’s Poets Respond series in May 2015. She earned $1,000 from the Lascaux Review. Read the poem again and find more about the Lascaux Prize at their site, here.

 
February 29, 2016

Rattle is happy to announce the following additional Pushcart Prize Nominees for 2015, selected by their board of editors:

Don Kimball – “Burial for a Stray
Ethan Joella – “A Prayer for Ducks
Lynn Levin – “Buying Produce …
Peter Munro – “If This Is Middle Age …
Matthew J. Spireng – “Dog Sitting in Snow
Dennis Trudell – “Holiday Tale
Rachael Briggs – “A Total Non-Apology
David Kirby – “More Than This

Nominees are sent to Pushcart Press, who then chooses winners to reprint in their annual anthology. For more information on the Pushcart Prize, visit them here.

 
February 15, 2016

Congratulations to Valentina Gnup, winner of the 2014 Rattle Poetry Prize Readers’ Choice Award, for “Morning at the Welfare Office.” Her poem earned her $2,000. Subscribers voted for the winner, from ten editor-chosen finalists. To read some of what our readers said about this and the other finalist poems, click here.

 
November 25, 2015

Rattle is happy to announce the following Pushcart Prize Nominees for 2015:

Roberta Beary, “Genetics” – Spring 2015
Franny Choi, “Home (Initial Findings)” – Fall 2015
Dennis Trudell, “Holiday Tale” – Fall 2015
Tiana Clark, “Equilibrium” – Winter 2015
Patricia Smith, “Elegy” – Winter 2015
Zeina Hashem Beck, “Ghazal: Back Home” – Poets Respond

Nominees are sent to Pushcart Press, who then choose winners to reprint in their annual anthology. For more information on the Pushcart Prize, visit them here.

 
September 15, 2015

Congratulations to Tiana Clark, winner of the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize, for her poem “Equilibrium.” The poem earned her $10,000 and will be published in issue #50 of Rattle in December 2015. Ten Finalists each received $200 and publication, as well as a chance to win the $2,000 Readers’ Choice Award, to be selected by subscriber vote. For more information on the winners, click here.

 
March 9, 2015

Rattle is happy to announce the following additional Pushcart Prize Nominees for 2014, selected by their board of editors:

Jill Jupen – “The Space Between
David Cavanagh – “The Ice Man
Troy Jollimore – “Cutting Room
Marianne Kunkel – “I Guess
Bruce Taylor – “Good News Bad News
William Trowbridge – “Battleground
Chris Anderson – “The Blessing
Peter Murphy – “Grand Fugue
Rita Mae Reese – “The Problem of Empathy
Aisha Sharif – “Why I Can Dance Down a Soul-Train Line …
Craig van Rooyen – “Waiting in Vain”

Nominees are sent to Pushcart Press, who then choose winners to reprint in their annual anthology. For more information on the Pushcart Prize, visit them here.

 
March 1, 2015

Congratulations to Hannah Gamble, winner of the 2015 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor for her poem “Biscuit.” The annual award of $500 is given to the poem that exhibits the best use of metaphor among all of the submissions Rattle received over the previous year. For more information, see the Postman Award page.

 
February 15, 2015

Congratulations to Courtney Kampa, winner of the 2014 Rattle Poetry Prize Readers’ Choice Award, for “Poems About Grace.” Her poem earned her $1,000. Subscribers voted for the winner, from ten editor-chosen finalists. To read some of what our readers said about this and the other finalist poems, click here.

 
February 1, 2015

Thanks to Sherman Alexie for selecting Danielle DeTiberus’s “In a Black Tank Top” from Rattle #43 for inclusion in The Best American Poetry 2015, forthcoming from Scribner in September 2015.

 
November 25, 2014

Rattle is happy to announce the following Pushcart Prize Nominees for 2014:

“Crown for a Young Marriage” by Mary Block (#43)
“Tamara” by Troy Jollimore (#43)
“Your Fat Daughter Remembers …” by Lucas Crawford (#44)
“Blessing” by Chris Anderson (#45)
“Waiting in Vain” by Craig van Rooyen (#46)
“A Spokesperson Said …” by Sonia Greenfield (Poets Respond)

Nominees are sent to Pushcart Press, who then choose winners to reprint in their annual anthology. For more information on the Pushcart Prize, visit them here.

 
September 15, 2014

Congratulations to Craig van Rooyen, winner of the 2014 Rattle Poetry Prize, for his poem “Waiting in Vain.” His poem earned him $5,000 and will be published in issue #46 of Rattle in December 2014. Ten Finalists each received $100 and publication, as well as a chance to win the $1,000 Readers’ Choice Award, to be selected by subscriber vote. For more information on the winners, click here.

 
June 1, 2014

Rattle is excited to announce a new series, Poets Respond, in which poets are encouraged to write and submit new poems based on news items from the last week. A response poem will appear each Sunday, and each author will receive $25. To read poems from past week, and for information on submitting your own work, visit the Poets Respond page.

 
March 7, 2014

Congratulations to Francesca Bell, winner of the  2014 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor for her poem “Where We Are Most Tender.” The annual award of $500 is given to the poem that exhibits the best use of metaphor among all of the submissions Rattle received over the previous year. For more information, see the Postman Award page.

 
January 13, 2014

Rattle is excited to announce that, beginning in 2014, we will be able to pay all of our poets. Contributors to the magazine will receive $50 per poem/essay, in addition to the complimentary subscription. For information on how to submit, read our guidelines.

 
December 1, 2013

Rattle has just released the first annual Rattle Young Poets Anthology, featuring 60 poets under the age of 16. For more information, visit the page.

 
November 11, 2013

Rattle is happy to announce the following Pushcart Prize Nominees for 2013:

Roberto Ascalon, “The Fire This Time,” #42
Bill Christophersen, “Hole,” #40
Joel F. Johnson, “Oakbrook Estates,” #39
Lynne Knight, “While Plum Blossoms Sweep Down Like Snow,” #42
Jon Sands, “Decoded,” #40
Julia Clare Tillinghast, “Bells,” #41

We have three editors, so we each just chose our favorite two poems from 2013. Nominees are sent to Pushcart Press, who then choose winners to reprint in their annual anthology. For more information on the Pushcart Prize, visit them here.

 

October 23, 2013

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September 15, 2013

Congratulations to Roberto Ascalon, winner of the 2013 Rattle Poetry Prize, for his poem “The Fire This Time.” His poem earned him $5,000 and will be published in issue #42 of Rattle in December 2013. Ten Finalists each received $100 and publication, as well as a chance to win the $1,000 Readers’ Choice Award, to be selected by subscriber vote. For more information on the winners, click here.

 
June 23, 2013

Rattle is happy to announce a new annual anthology of poetry written by young people. The Rattle Young Poets Anthology will be a stand-alone volume of poetry written by poets ages 15 and younger, releasing in December of each year. For more information, see the Young Poets page.

 
February 13, 2013

Congratulations to Eugenia Leigh, winner of the  2013 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor for her poem “Destination: Beautiful.” The annual award of $500 is given to the poem that exhibits the best use of metaphor among all of the submissions Rattle received over the previous year. For more information, see the Postman Award page.

 
December 15, 2012

Issue #38, and hopefully all subsequent issues, will now be available in the ebook format. You can purchase individual copies for the Nook and other ePub readers at BarnesandNoble.com and for the Kindle at Amazon.com. We’re also providing free ebook version for all print subscribers. To download your files, foll

 
November 27, 2012

Rattle is happy to announce the following Pushcart Prize Nominees for 2012:

Erik Campbell, “Great Caesar’s Ghost,” #37
Joanne Koong, “Clockwork Conjectures,” #38
Ken Meisel, “Woman Releasing a Tonguelss…” #37
Rebecca Schumejda, “How to Classify a Reptile,” #37
Heidi Shuler, “Trials of a Teenage Transvestite’s…” #38
David Wagoner, “The Plumber’s Nightmare,” #37

We have three editors, so we each just chose our favorite two poems from 2012. Nominees are sent to Pushcart Press, who then choose winners to reprint in their annual anthology. For more information on the Pushcart Prize, visit them here.

 
November 1, 2012

Rattle is excited to officially announced that we’ll begin quarterly publication in 2013. New, slimmer issues will appear every March, June, September, and December. Spring and Fall issues will be entirely dedicated to a theme, Summer and Winter will be open to anything. Our subscription prices will only be going up very slightly, to cover some of the extra postage, but subscribe or renew by the end of 2012 to receive quarterly issues at the biannual rates! To order, go here.

 
September 15, 2012

Congratulations to Heidi Shuler, winner of the 2012 Rattle Poetry Prize, for her poem “The Trials of a Teenage Transvestite’s Single Mother.”  Her poem earned her $5,000 and will be published in issue #38 of Rattle in December 2012. Ten Finalists each received $100 and publication, as well as a chance to win the $1,000 Readers’ Choice Award, to be selected by subscriber vote. For more information on the winners, click here.

 

June 1, 2012

Rattle is happy to introduce a new reading series at the Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeeshop in La-Canada, CA.  Join us at 5 p.m. on the first Sunday of every month for a selection of readers from the current issue. For more information, and a schedule of readers, check the Reading Series page.