NOCTURNE IN WHAT NOW FEELS LIKE A VERY SILLY DRESS
—from Rattle #43, Spring 2014
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Courtney Kampa: “Why write? Revenge.”
NOCTURNE IN WHAT NOW FEELS LIKE A VERY SILLY DRESS
—from Rattle #43, Spring 2014
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Courtney Kampa: “Why write? Revenge.”
KISSING AS A RELIGION
—from Rattle #43, Spring 2014
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Susan Doble Kaluza: “I think I write for the kind of truths that poems give voice to, the kind that startle me about myself when I’m connecting thoughts with sounds, and vice versa. The English language is (I hope a worthy metaphor) an untapped oil well of riches that, through a very careful and personal arrangement of words, must be worked for, even won. It might even be an extended creation of one’s own being out of the sense that sounds make. When I’m working on a poem, when I don’t know what day or time it is, when I forget to eat, is when I’m happiest. In fact, often, in combination with my weekly runners’ highs, I’ve nearly collapsed from joy. When I finish a poem, when the whole thing rolls musically and effortlessly off my tongue, I sit back like I’ve just tunneled through the cells walls to another human oil well, and sometimes I cry.”
THE SPACE BETWEEN
—from Rattle #43, Spring 2014
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Jill Jupen: “I have been writing poems since I was five. I met the poet Hayden Carruth when I was eighteen and he said, ‘Write.’ He stuck with me until the day he died, reading everything I sent him. Sometimes he would send my work out and it would be published. I’ve decided he would want me to keep sending it out.”
TAMARA
—from Rattle #43, Spring 2014
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Troy Jollimore was featured in an interview in this issue. Read the full conversation at Rattle.com next Monday, September 29th.
HOOTERS
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Jackleen Holton: “I was trying to write a poem for a class I was taking. I think we had five different prompts that week, and I was coming up with nothing. So, to distract myself from the task, I called my boyfriend. From his first sentence, ‘I’m at Hooters,’ the poem sprang forth and, by the end of the evening after he called me back with a stomach ache, it had pretty much written itself.” (web)
ICHABOD
—from Rattle #43, Spring 2014
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Mark D. Hart: “Our little banty rooster, Ichabod, has been dead for years now, but he remains alive in the treasury of family memories. Writing poetry is a way for me to, if not immortalize, at least prolong the memory and the savor of the joys and sorrows that have made up my life and to share them with others.” (website)
THE SPACE TRAVELER’S CRUSH
—from Rattle #43, Spring 2014
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Benjamin S. Grossberg: “I wrote ‘The Space Traveler’s Crush’ after an evening with a ‘friend’—the last time we socialized—that helped clarify the nature of our relationship. We watched the HBO series Spartacus, and he was mesmerized and exclaiming about the gladiators, but not about me.”
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