Open Poetry

Conversation with
Meena Alexander

Rattle #54 is another entirely open issue—an opportunity to cleanse our palates and empty our coffers in releasing a wide range of colorful poetry. Poets show off their best and dive into questions big and small, with poems on life and death, string theory and domesticity, laurels and plumes—hence the peacock cover.

The winter issue also features the 2016 Rattle Poetry Prize winner, Julie Price Pinkerton’s $10,000 poem “Veins,” along with the ten finalists. And as always, subscribers may vote for the runner up.

In the conversation section, Timothy Green discusses a wide range of topics, including the value of poetry and the state of poetry in India, with Meena Alexander.

	Open Poetry
	Meena Alexander	Delirium, Malibu 2016
		A Notebook Is Not a Foreign Country
	Mike Alexander	The Spanish Inquisition
	Susan Alkaitis	I Have Just Kissed You
	Cameron Barnett	Theater of America
	Leila Chatti	My Mother Makes a Religion
	George David Clark	Trystesse
	Jose Hernandez Diaz	The Windmill Farm
	Michael Estes	Piano
	Alan Fox	Stainless
	Tracy May Fuad	A Robot Calls Me on the Day We Take …
	Chera Hammons	Shriven
	David James	Like a Brick to the Head
	Alan King	How It Feels
	Kien Lam	Linsanity
	Liv Lansdale	On Domestic Ecosystems
	Cory Massaro	The Strings
	Paula Mendoza	Engineer
	Arash Saedinia	Plumes
	Marjorie Saiser	Final Shirt
	Neil Shepard	Lines Written at Tyrone Guthrie
	Alison Carb Sussman	Anhedonic Woman
	Inez Tan	Laurel
	Chrys Tobey	For the Archaeologist …
	Wendy Videlock	The Question Ever
		I Have Been Counting My Regrets
	Sung Yim	Ode to Defeat
	Poetry Prize Winner
	Julie Price Pinkerton	Veins
	Finalists
	Noah Baldino	The Nurse Lifts the Clipboard …
	Ellen Bass	Poem Written in the Sixth Month …
	C. Wade Bentley	Spin
	Rhina P. Espaillat	The Sharpened Shears He Plied
	William Fargason	Upon Receiving My Inheritance
	Ingrid Jendrzejewski	Superposition of States
	David Kirby	This Living Hand
	Craig Santos Perez	Thanksgiving in the Anthropocene, 2015
	Emily Ransdell	The Visit
	Patrick Rosal	A Memory on the Eve of the Return …
	Conversation
	Meena Alexander
	Cover Art
	Ho Cheung LEE (Peter)