''Rattle'' is a poetry magazine founded in 1994, published in

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. The print magazine is published quarterly, with a poem also published daily through its website, and through its "Daily Poem" email. ''Rattle'' receives around 250,000 poetry submissions a year, and publishes around .02%. It publishes poems both by established writers, such as Philip Levine,

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Sharon Olds Sharon Olds (born November 19, 1942) is an American poet. She won the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

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, Patricia Smith, and

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, and by new and emerging poets. Poems from the magazine have been reprinted in ''

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anthologies. ''Rattle'' does not solicit poems for publication, and instead follow's editor Timothy Green's guidelines of curation over publication. This means that ''Rattle'' will consider poems that the poet has shared before on their blog or social media. Each issue is themed to honor a particular community of poets, such as teachers,

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s, Los Angeles poets, NFT poets, Musicians, and the

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form. Interviews with contemporary poets are also a staple of the quarterly print issue.

The ''Rattlecast''

For over four years, ''Rattle'' has broadcast a weekly poetry show, primarily hosted on YouTube, called the ''Rattlecast''. Editor and host Timothy Green typically begins by sharing the Poet's Respond poem of that week, often with the chosen poet reading their own poem live for viewers. Green then bring on the main guest, a poet that has been published by ''Rattle'', for a conversation and a poetry reading from their book(s). Guests have included

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Dorianne Laux Dorianne Laux (born January 10, 1952, in Augusta, Maine) is an American Poet, American poet. Biography Laux worked as a sanatorium cook, a gas station manager, and a maid before receiving a Bachelor of Arts, B.A. in English from Mills College in ...

Ellen Bass Ellen Bass (born June 16, 1947) is an American poet and author. She has won three Pushcart Prizes and a Lambda Literary Award for her 2002 book ''Mules of Love''. She co-authored the 1991 book '' The Courage to Heal'' about recovery from child s ...

, and

Bob Hicok Bob Hicok (born 1960 Grand Ledge, Michigan) is an American poet. Life Hicok is a professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech, where he has taught since 2003 with the exception of the 2015-2016 academic year when he taught at Purdue as a full-t ...

. The second half of the ''Rattlecast'' is known as the "Prompt Lines." Each week, associate editor Katie Dozier joins the live show and shares a poetry prompt.The segment begins with Green and Dozier sharing their own prompt poems before opening it up to the other poets. There is a one page/3-minute max for poets that chose to read a poem. Every month, Dozier selects a prompt poem for publication on ''Rattle'''s website.

The ''Critique of the Week''

''Rattle'' also has a weekly free live poetry workshop, hosted by Timothy Green on YouTube. Viewers can submit their own poems, through Submittable, in order to be considered for critique live on air.

The ''Rattle'' Chapbook Prize

The ''Rattle'' Chapbook Prize has been awarded annually since 2016. It currently comprises three awards of $5,000, paid to the authors of the best

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submitted. At least one of the awards is bestowed on a poet who has not previously published a full-length collection of poems. The contest's annual closing date is January 15th, and the winners are announced on April 15th every year. As with the Rattle Poetry Prize, the contest's entry fee is the same as a one-year subscription to the magazine, which includes an annual subscription for entrants.

The ''Rattle'' Poetry Prize

The ''Rattle'' Poetry Prize has been awarded annually since 2006, and now comprises an award of $15,000 to the author of the best single poem submitted, as decided by the magazine's editors. Ten finalists also receive prizes, and one of them receives a Readers' Choice Award of $5,000 which is voted on by the current subscribers. The entry fee is the same as a one-year subscription to the magazine, which includes an annual subscription for entrants. The annual deadline is on July 15th, with the winner (and finalists) announced on September 15th. Winning poems are published in the magazine's winter issue as well as online. ''Rattle'' Poetry Prize winners: Some of the Rattle Poetry Prize finalists include:

Tim Seibles Tim Seibles (born 1955) is an American poet, professor and the former Poet Laureate of Virginia. He is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently, ''Voodoo Libretto: New and Selected Poems'' (Etruscan Press, 2022). His honors inclu ...

, Roberta Beary, Diana Goetsch, Francesca Bell,

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, Shannan Mann,

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, Mike White, Ron Koertge, Rhina P. Espaillat,

, David Kirby, Wendy Videlock, and Diane Seuss.

Past contributors

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Marvin Bell Marvin Hartley Bell (August 3, 1937 – December 14, 2020) was an American poet and teacher who was the first Poet Laureate of the state of Iowa. Early life and education Bell was raised in Center Moriches on Long Island. He served in the ...

Hayden Carruth Hayden Carruth (August 3, 1921 – September 29, 2008) was an American poet, literary critic and anthologist. He taught at Syracuse University. Life Hayden Carruth was born in Waterbury, Connecticut and grew up in Woodbury, Connecticut. He grad ...

Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 – February 13, 2010) was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. Clifton was a finalist twice for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Life ...

Robert Creeley Robert White Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) was an American poet and author of more than 60 books. He is associated with the Black Mountain poets, although his verse aesthetic diverged from that school. Creeley was close with Charle ...

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Stephen Dobyns Stephen J. Dobyns (born February 19, 1941) is an American poet and novelist born in Orange, New Jersey. Life Dobyns was born on February 19, 1941, in Orange, New Jersey, to Lester L., an Episcopal minister, and Barbara Johnston Dobyns. Dobyns wa ...

Mark Doty Mark Doty (born August 10, 1953) is an American poet and memoirist best known for his work ''My Alexandria.'' He was the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008. Early life Mark Doty was born in Maryville, Tennessee, to Lawrence ...

Denise Duhamel Denise Duhamel (born 1961 in Woonsocket, Rhode Island) is an American poet. Background Duhamel received her B.F.A. from Emerson College and her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts recipient and has been r ...

Sam Hamill Sam Hamill (May 9, 1943 – April 14, 2018) was an American poet and the co-founder of Copper Canyon Press along with Bill O’Daly and Tree Swenson. He also initiated the Poets Against War movement (2003) in response to the Iraq War. In 2003 he ...

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Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa (born James William Brown; April 29, 1941) is an American poet who teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Komunyakaa is a recipient of the 1994 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for '' ...

* Philip Levine *

* Elisha Porat * Luis J. Rodriguez *

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Charles Simic Dušan Simić ( sr-cyr, Душан Симић, ; May 9, 1938 – January 9, 2023), known as Charles Simic, was a Serbian American poet and poetry co-editor of ''The Paris Review''. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for '' The W ...

* Patricia Smith * Meghan Sterling *

Gerald Stern Gerald Daniel Stern (February 22, 1925 – October 27, 2022) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. The author of twenty collections of poetry and four books of essays, he taught literature and creative writing at Temple University, India ...

* David St. John * Brian Turner *

Diane Wakoski Diane Wakoski (born August 3, 1937) is an American poet. Wakoski is primarily associated with the deep image poets, as well as the confessional and Beat poets of the 1960s. She received considerable attention in the 1980s for controversial com ...

Anne Waldman Anne Waldman (born April 2, 1945) is an American poet. Since the 1960s, Waldman has been an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry community as a writer, performer, collaborator, professor, editor, scholar, and cultural/political acti ...

* C.K. Williams *

Taylor Mali Taylor McDowell Mali (born March 28, 1965) is an American slam poet, humorist, teacher and voiceover artist. Life A 12th-generation native of New York City, Taylor Mali graduated from the Collegiate School, a private school for boys, in 1983. ...

* Diana Goetsch

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