#28 – Winter 2007

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Tribute to Nurses

Conversations with
Tess Gallagher & Arthur Sze

 

Releasing December 2007, issue #28 honored one of the world’s most important professions, in featuring poems and essays written by 24 nurses. Many of them write about their careers, but the scope of their subject matter is impressive, and all of it informed by the intimate work that they do daily. Nurses are present at our most vulnerable moments, and so are given special insight into what it means to be human. This ‘unusual access’ makes for a collection of poems not to be missed.

Also in the issue, Alan Fox interviews Tess Gallagher and Arthur Sze, and we share the 11 winning poems from the 2007 Rattle Poetry Prize.

 

Nurses

Judy Bowman At Four in the Morning
Jeanne Bryner Saucer
Jeanne Cook Equations of the Heart
Cortney Davis Essay: Nursing and the Word
Diagnosis HIV
T.S. Davis Essay: A Kind of Gift
The Gravedigger Thinks Of
Cheryl Dellasega Dressing Room Without Curtains
Monica Groth Farrar Things They Save
Maggie Greene All-Consuming
Marsha Smith Janson Sky Stays the Same
Nancy Kerrigan Ward 24
Tracy Klein Nursing Internship, LA County, 1990
Sean Aden Lovelace Nursing Note #8
Veneta Masson Conga! at the Rio
Allan Nicoletti Open House
Mary H. Palmer The Sea Turtle
Geri Rosenzweig The Street of the Cellist
Judy Schaefer Dad’s Report of a Tornado in Missouri…
Kelly Sievers Ceremony
Kathleen Walsh Spencer Her Brother’s Pickhole
S Stephanie The Traffic of Tulips
Shawna Swetech Midwifing My Father
Anne Webster Essay: A Split Personality
Dry Drowning
Christine Wideman Howlin’ Moon

Rattle Poetry Prize Winner

Albert Haley Barcelona

Honorable Mentions

Chris Anderson Living the Chemical Life
Devika Brandt What My Parents Want
Debra Marquart Buoy
Glenn Morazzini Ars Poetica Harmonica
Gretchen Steele Pratt Hitch-Hiking
Brian Satrom Corner Store
Alison Townsend Spin
Jay Udall Of Unity and Wholeness
Nathaniel Whittemore You Never Know When You’re Gonna Live …
Maya Jewell Zeller Amber

Poetry

Kristin Abraham Hair of the Dog
José Angel Araguz Gloves
Joseph Bathanti Jesus Meets the Women
Judi K. Beach Tomato and Knife
Craig Beaven Are You Okay?
Nicole Bestard Ortolan
Michael Boccardo Weighing In
Ronda Broatch Considering a Position as a New Planet
Bill Brown The Rubber
Erik Campbell Sound and Sense
M.L. Clark On Realizing There Are Too Many Poems …
Peter Cooley Instructions for Assembling the Miracle
Jim Daniels The Dark Miracle of Insomnia
Andrea Defoe For a Piano Abandoned in the Breadbasket
Matt Dennison Parable of Displeasure
James Doyle Schoolgirls
Edison Dupree Poem for Frank Owens
Damien Echols First Love
Uncle Charlie
Anna Evans Feeling Compassion for Others
Alan Fox A Poet Is Supposed to Live His Life Out Loud
Richard Garcia Just Like Two People
John Goode Happiness
Brent Goodman Maps
Michael J. Grabell Drifting
Gordon Grilz Reunion
Jenny Hanning Known
Rob Hardy To the Daughter I Never Had
L.L. Harper Assassin
Judith Harris The Facts
Mark D. Hart Torching the Playhouse
Lisa Hickey Mail Order Tadpoles
John Oliver Hodges The Teller on the Right
Tom Holmes My Mouth (An Apology)
Roy Jacobstein Sustenance
Aseem Kaul A Poem for Valentine’s Day
Keetje Kuipers Prayer
Lyn Lifshin Being Jewish in a Small Town
Diane Lockward Love Song with Plum
Teddy Macker Sycamore Canyon
Marty McConnell Fable Telling How Night Invented Herself …
M.K. Meder Blessing in Disguise
Susanna Mishler The Afterlife: In the Summer House
Peter Moore Stud Spray
Barbara Paparazzo Not Knowing Better
Tim Poland Seven Simple Exercises to Prepare for …
James Ragan Richmond Hill
Sophia Rivkin Man, Boy, Dog
Lee Rossi Underground
Mather Schneider County
Patricia Smith Speculum Oris
Lianne Spidel Homeland in an Old War
Daniel Stewart Singularity
Christine Stewart-Nuñez Lost
Kandie St.Germain Nails
Kendra L. Tanacea Stepmother
Alison Townsend Persephone Remembers: The Bed
Liliana Ursu Circles and Circles
Jeff Vande Zande Green
Martin Vest Man on Fire
Jessicca Daigle Vidrine Still Life
Scott Weaver Lessons
Joe Weil Morning at the Elizabeth Arch
Hilda Weiss My Neighbor Gives Me Meat Bones
Jake Willard-Crist Miss Memory

Conversations

 Tess Gallagher
 Arthur Sze