Author name: Rattle

After My Third Tattoo

Rattle / March 9, 2009

“What noun would you want spoken on your skin your whole life through?” —Mark Doty, “My Tattoo” On the back […]

Rattle / March 8, 2009

When you live alone, there’s no one to holler (no mother or father, no uncle or aunt) none to mind

Rattle / March 7, 2009

Waiting in line at a taco stand for my number to be called I started talking to a six-year-old kid

Rattle / March 5, 2009

Review by Ted Gilley A STRANGER HERE MYSELF by Niki Nymark Cherry Pie Press P.O. Box 155 Glen Carbon, IL

Rattle / March 4, 2009

Congratulations to Brian Trimboli and Bruce Cohen — their poems “Things My Son Should Have Known Before He Died” and

Rattle / March 4, 2009

DAVID ALPAUGH: “I’m attracted to poetry by its thrilling language—the electricity generated by the A & B of metaphor ‘running