Poets Respond

The Letter from James Foley

Rattle / August 31, 2014

after Melissa Bloch’s NPR interview with Diane Foley, August 28, 2014 Sometimes in the morning, sometimes at night he spoke […]

Rattle / August 25, 2014

I caught this morning, mourning, sight of you who flew into sky you thought your own and caught the

Rattle / August 24, 2014

In Memoriam James Foley They’ve said that the jihadist narrator spoke in an East London accent, that the journalist in

Rattle / August 18, 2014

For Robin Williams It’s not because he looks so much like my dad, the same nose, the same mouth.

Rattle / August 17, 2014

It will happen, an honest mistake in a hot August classroom. Someone will blink at the name and swear this

Rattle / August 3, 2014

spilling from her mouth, her nose, her eyes, each hot slick pore a wound secreted, her whole body running