Love Poems

Conversation with
Troy Jollimore

Rattle #43 focuses on the love poem, with new work by 40 poets. From sonnets, triolets, and villanelles, to free verse, letters, and lyrics—we spent a year looking for love, in all the ways a poet can slice it. Old love new love, red love, blue love. Mean love, green love, thick love, lean love. In one poem kissing is a religion, another’s love is for a chicken. The issue is a strange brew, but love potions often are. To help make sense of it all, we interview poet and philosopher Troy Jollimore, author of the non-fiction book Love’s Vision.

	Love Poems
	Heather Altfeld	Letter to Dick from Time
	Mary Block	Crown for a Young Marriage
	Ace Boggess	Mango Smoothie
	Paula Bonnell	My Ordinary Love
	Byron Case	Joy
	Michael Cavanagh	Cavalier
	Elizabeth Chapman	The Day Is the Island
	Jim Daniels	The Grand Design
	Danielle DeTiberus	In a Black Tank-Top
	Jehanne Dubrow	The Valhalla Machine
	Conrad Geller	And Have I Loved You?
	Benjamin S. Grossberg	The Space Traveler’s Crush
	Mark D. Hart	Ichabod
	Jackleen Holton	Hooters
	Troy Jollimore	Tamara
	Jill Jupen	The Space Between
	Susan Doble Kaluza	Kissing as a Religion
	Courtney Kampa	Nocturne in What Now Feels like …
	Nathan Landau	Aftermath
	Timothy Liu	The Lovers
		Love Poem
	James Davis May	Nostos
	Emily Montgomery	Something Beautiful
	Leonard Orr	Optimist
	George Ovitt	Why I Like Marriage
	John Poch	The Difference at Café D’Arthe
	Pamela Rasso	Three Weeks with Etheridge Knight
	Christine Rhein	Speaking in Code
	Timothy Schirmer	Orange Marmalade
	Lauren Schmidt	My Father Asks Me to Kill Him
	Mather Schneider	Free-Form Bolero
	Charlotte Seley	Bright Red Bit
	Eric Paul Shaffer	Valediction, on Arriving …
	Myra Shapiro	The Alteration of Love
	Mark Smith-Soto	Satori
	Joanna Solfrian	Instead of a Victorian Novel …
	John L. Stanizzi	Triolet for Carol
	Charles Harper Webb	Burka
	Holly Welker	Dip
	Richard Widerkehr	In the Presence of Absence
	Dominika Wrozynski	Desert Love Poem
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	Conversation
	Troy Jollimore
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	Cover Art
	Jacqui Larsen