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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 8h

Michael Dieber from Issue 93, Fall 2026 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/lateral-move... #poetry

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Lew Watts, Prompt Poem of the Month Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/mamba-by-lew... #poetry

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This week’s guest on the Rattlecast is Stephen A. Allen. His debut collection, Difficult Music, includes formal poems exploring Tourette syndrome, faith, family, nature, and the restless music of the mind. Join us live at 8pm ET! youtube.com/live/p-MF6kJ...

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Stephen A. Allen: Difficult Music, Tourette Syndrome & Formal Poetry | Rattlecast 362

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Luisa Muradyan from Issue 93 Fall 2026 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/man-who-date... #poetry

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Abby E. Murray, this week's Poets Respond selection Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/i-tell-my-fr... #poetry

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Jessica Jacobs, Issue 37 Summer 2012 Read the full poem: rattle.com/primer-by-jess… #poetry

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Billie Dee from Issue 93, Fall 2026 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/gila-bend-by...

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@edsondacosta.bsky.social from the August Ekphrastic Challenge, Editor's Pick Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/the-ones-who... #poetry

you can never reach it, no matter how hard /
you dream in blacktop below the halo / Edson DaCosta from "The Ones Who Nailed It There" Ekphrastic Challenge Editor's Choice

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@maryfontanawrites.bsky.social from Issue 93, Fall 2026 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/el-paso-east... #poetry

First reading the thousand-page novel /
that will become your favorite, the book /
by which all others long and short are judged / Mary Fontana from "El Paso East" Issue 93 Fall 2026

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Donna Spector from Issue 29, Summer 2008 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/john-berryma... #poetry

or lean into a corner when he read Yeats / and Cummings. He still suffered / from malaria, he said, but he could dissect our dreams ... / Donna Spector from "John Berryman Used to Sway" Issue 29 Summer 2008

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

James Crews from Issue 93, Fall 2026 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/in-the-good-... #poetry

I find you again at sunset tonight /
while clearing a fallen sugar maple /
from the driveway / James Crews from "In the Good Light" Issue 93 Fall 2026

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

David Hughes, this week's Poets Respond selection Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/trumped-by-d... #poetry

"Artificial" makes it sound fake, / he said. / So the word had to go. David Hughes from "Trumped" Poets Respond September 27 2026

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Mike White from Issue 42, Winter 2013 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/arms-by-mike... #poetry

Angels do not exist. Bombs exist. Mike White from "Arms" Issue 42 Winter 2013

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Maryann Corbett from Issue 93, Fall 2026 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/on-rereading... #poetry

Simple enough: the man wants what he Maryann Corbett from "On Rereading Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus in the Age of Generative AI" Rattle 93 Fall 2026

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A.Z. Foreman from August's Ekphrastic Challenge artist's choice selection Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/meetup-by-a-... #poetry

The backboard, blistered white, receives the trees
As damage. Weather-stains hold up the rim. A.Z. Foreman from "Meetup" Ekphrastic Challenge Artist's Choice

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

George David Clark from Issue 93, Fall 2026 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/psalm-131-by... #poetry

My heart is not proud. / I am satisfied with generic cereal. George David Clark from "Psalm 131"

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Jessica Young from Issue 38, Winter 2012 Read the full poem: www.rattle.com/instructions... #poetry

At night, in bed, you try to sleep but think of the sky. / On a clear evening, 2000 visible stars. Jessica Young from "Instructions Included with Telescope" Issue 38 Winter 2012

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Susan Browne from Issue 43, Fall 2026 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/the-future-a... #poetry

We stand near the hummus / & genetically modified corn chips. Susan Browne from "The Future, A Cocktail Party Conversation" Issue 93 Fall 2026

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ryan McCarty from this week's Poets Respond selection Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/six-months-b... #poetry

On the bus, my neighbors don’t notice me
crying, distracted by the blue of their screens
flickering like summer’s end. Ryan McCarty from "Six Months" Poets Respond September 20 2026

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ron Koertge from Issue 46, Winter 2024 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/town-crier-b... #poetry

We decide we need one. Ron Koertge from "Town Crier" Issue 46 Winter 2014

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Adrienne Christian, Issue 93 Fall 2026 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/praise-song-... #poetry

If I have been walking my dog outside I smell like / outside. Adrienne Christian from "Prairie Song for the Man Who Smells" Issue 93 Fall 2026

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eric Burger from Issue 37, Summer 2012 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/gods-razors-... #poetry

Afternoon light effervesces on the waves, / flashes off a jumbo jet. Eric Burger from "God's Razors" Issue 37 Summer 2012

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Jane Hirshfield from Issue 93 Fall 2026 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/an-apricot-w... #poetry

I spoon from a jar / a tablespoon of Akhmatova's wild honey. Jane Hirshfield from "An Apricot with Hikmet" Issue 93 Fall 2026

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Joshua Adam Walker, Prompt Poem of the Month Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/the-epic-of-... #poetry

I only went out for groceries. Joshua Adam Walker from "The Epic of Aisle Seven" Prompt Poem of the Month September 15 2026

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Esat Alpay from Issue 93, Fall 2026 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/almost-a-fri... #poetry

A leaky valve over-tightened— / an eager tenant far from home. Esat Alpay from "Almost a Friend" Issue 93 Fall 2026

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Janna Schledorn from this week's Poets Respond selection Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/memorial-by-... #poetry

Time is not a splintered yardstick, a glass / measuring cup, lines faded and cloudy. Janna Schledorn from "Memorial" Poets Respond September 13 2026

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Matthew Wimberly from Issue 32, Spring 2013 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/tabula-rasa-... #poetry

He still remembers how to move / sandpaper with the wood grain, / push back years of weariness Matthew Wimberly from "Tabula Rasa" ISSUE 39 SPRING 2013

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Emmanuel Umeji, Rattle 92 Summer 2026 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/bifurcation-... #poetry

estranged. estranged. in the courtroom estranged. estranged. Emmanuel Umeji from "Bifurcation" ISSUE 92 SUMMER 2026

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Lance Larsen, Rattle Chapbook Prize 2026 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/sitting-on-a... #poetry

Let’s see, just after lunch I turned a blind corner /
and lucked into a Banksy. Lance Larsen from "Secretary of the Invisible Thing" Rattle Chapbook Prize 2026

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Xu Zhenqing (tr. Vickie Fang & Jean Yuan) from Issue 92, Summer 2026 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/accidental-s... #poetry

"Deep in the mountain, the road bends―I see peach blossoms." Xu Zhenqing from "Accidental Sight (偶见)"

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Rebecca Gayle Howell from Rattle 42, Winter 2013 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/my-mother-to... #poetry

She'd say, Never have a child you don't want. / Then she'd say, Of course I wanted you / once you were here. Rebecca Gayle Howell from "My Mother Told Us Not to Have Children"

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

JeFF Stumpo from Issue 92, Summer 2026 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/how-we-gonna... #poetry

Y'ever just notice a tree grown around a stone
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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Greg Hughes, this week's Poets Respond selection Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/harry-styles... #poetry

Sometimes my anxiety wears sequin bell bottoms / and records albums in candlelit studios. Greg Hughes from "Harry Styles" Poets Respond September 6 2026

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Marvin Glasser from Issue 22, Winter 2004 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/on-the-past-... #poetry

It wasn't a bad day as days go. / I awoke in the morning. / I was still around at the end. Marvin Glasser from "On the Past" Rattle 22 Winter 2004

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

@rlwesty-poet.bsky.social from Rattle 92, Summer 2026 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/what-walls-a... #poetry

Two twenty-something boys—Kevin /
and me—a claw hammer and a crowbar /
were all it took to bring down the wall. Dick Westheimer from "What Walls Are Good For" Issue 92 Summer 2026

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Lynne Knight from Rattle 32, Winter 2009 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/to-the-young... #poetry

"I was thinking, No. No, oh no. Not one more thing." Lynne Knight from "To the Young Man Who Cried Out 'What Were You Thinking' When I Backed Into His Car" Issue 32 Winter 2009

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Rebecca Starks from Rattle 92, Summer 2026 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/the-jogger-b... #poetry

Home for the holidays, there she goes jogging round the same / two blocks she's looped around for thirty years" Rebecca Starks from "The Joggers" Issue 92 Summer 2026

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Phillip T. Egelston from Issue 45, Fall 2014 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/little-eucha... #poetry

"Shortbread, blackberry wine / are, to my mind, fine" Phillip T. Egelston from "Little Eucharist"

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Phillip West from Issue 92, Summer 2026 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/rebecca-by-p... #poetry

"In Santa Barbara, Solvang, Bakersfield, Monterey,
she’d ask the clerk at the motel or gas station
for directions to the nearest cemetery" Phillip West from "Rebecca"

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Alison Townsend, this week's Poets Respond selection Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/letter-to-do... #poetry

A hippie girl raised on rock and roll, I came to you late,
imagining myself better than anything “country.” Alison Townsend from "Letter to Dolly from Rutland Township, Wisconsin, the Day After Her Death"

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Caitlyn Doyle from Issue 32, Winter 2009 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/backward-son... #poetry

"The future is a door, the past a wall," he tells fresh crops of postdocs every fall." Caitlyn Doyle from "Backward Sonnet for a Forward Thinker"

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Joanna Preston from Rattle 92, Summer 2026 Read the full poem here: www.rattle.com/portrait-of-... #poetry

It starts as a boundary wall—mortar
anchoring stone to stone. Safely quartered,
his little girl plays the games he taught her. Joanna Preston from "Portrait of My Father as a Medieval Fortification" Issue 92 Summer 2026

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Lisa Powell from this month's Ekphrastic Challenge selection Read the full poem: www.rattle.com/necrophone-i... #poetry

"The voice of the voice-over sounds / of static, like a babbling Cold War /
corpse" Lisa Powell from "Necrophone in Noir"

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Matthew Thorburn from Rattle 92, Summer 2026 Read the full poem: www.rattle.com/only-me-by-m... #poetry

"he sways around the compass point / of his cane's tips" Matthew Thorburn from "Only Me"

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

@matthewolzmann.bsky.social from Rattle 31, Summer 2009 Read the full poem: rattle.com/mountain-dew-commercial-disguised-as-a-love-poem-by-matthew-olzmann #poetry

"Because you think swans are overrated." Matthew Olzmann from "Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem"

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is Matthew Olzmann. His "Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem" is one of the most popular we've ever published. He'll share poems from his newest book, Constellation Route. Join us live at 8pm ET:

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Matthew Olzmann: Mountain Dew, Love Poems, Humor, and Viral Poetry | Rattlecast 355

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Pedro Poitevin from Rattle 92, Summer 2026 Read the full poem: www.rattle.com/pattern-reco... #poetry

"memory / fails to sound the gap" Pedro Poitevin from "Pattern Recognition"

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Rayon Lennon from this week's Poets Respond selection. Read the full poem (and give it a rattle!): rattle.com/truth-by-rayon-lennon #poetry

"We all want to turn brain / tumors benign. Truth mirrors a lie." Rayon Lennon from "Truth"

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

BJ Ward from Rattle 38, Winter 2012 Read the full poem: rattle.com/wolverine-the-x-man-kisses-by-bj-ward #poetry

"his lover is just licorice and moth wings" BJ Ward from "Wolverine the X-Man Kisses" Issue 38 Winter 2012

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Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

JeFF Stumpo from Rattle 92, Summer 2026 Read the full poem: rattle.com/da-mystery-of-supercooled-liquids-by-jeff-stumpo #poetry

"a dying man, dying / in the sense that / glass is always melting" JeFF Stumpo from "Da Mystery of Supercooled Liquids"

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