RATTLE


For over a decade people have been discovering a love of poetry through RATTLE. Each issue is a demonstration that it doesn’t take a scholar to be moved by the written word, that great literature is something everyone can enjoy. The lawyer, the landscaper, the academic and housewife all share our pages. We put the voices of Dunn and Levine and Laux flush against names you’ve never heard, but won’t forget. We’ve been featured in Best American Poetry and the Pushcart Anthology, but we’re most proud of the readers we touch, the writers unafraid to make noise. Lost in the literary shuffle is the simple truth that language is moving, that life is compelling, full of burdens and joys we all share. Published twice annually, each perfect-bound issue is 200 pages of poetry, essays, interviews with heart. Poetry should make you laugh or cry; it should enlighten and entertain. Our mission at RATTLE is to cull the 10,000 submissions we receive each year into a collection that will stay with you long after you’ve set it down, a collection you’ll return to again and again. Share in the intimacy of experience only poetry allows. What makes you rattle?

Rattle Poetry Prize ($5,000.00)

The Rattle Poetry Prize is designed to be as writer-friendly as possible: 1. With ten $100 Honorable Mentions, there are eleven cash prizes, totaling $6,000. 2. Entries are read in a blind review by the editors; if you read the journal, you know our tastes -- no surprise choices by celebrity judges. 3. Electronic and hardcopy submissions are both accepted, at your convenience. 4. Winners are announced just six weeks after the deadline, on September 15th -- no delays, no long waits, no poems held hostage for six months. 5. The entry fee is simply a one-year subscription -- no extra reading fee, no throwing your money away with nothing to show for it. You can think of the contest as a fun way to keep reading Rattle. If that sounds good, visit us online for full guidelines: http://www.rattle.com/rpp/rpp.htm

Deadline:8/1/2008