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Rattle
Summer 2010 cover
Editor-in-ChiefAlan Fox
EditorTimothy Green
Associate EditorKatie Dozier
Associate EditorMegan O'Reilly
Former editorsStellasue Lee
CategoriesLiterary magazine
FrequencyQuarterly
Paid circulation9,500
Unpaid circulation2,000
Founded1994 (31 years ago) (1994)
CompanyRattle Foundation
CountryUnited States
Based inLos Angeles, California
LanguageEnglish
Websiterattle.com
ISSN1097-2900
OCLC36334564

Rattle is a poetry magazine founded in 1994, published in Los Angeles in the United States.[1][2][3] 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%.[4]

It publishes poems both by established writers, such as Philip Levine, Li-Young Lee, Jane Hirshfield, Billy Collins, Sharon Olds, Gregory Orr, Patricia Smith, and Anis Mojgani, and by new and emerging poets. Poems from the magazine have been reprinted in The Best American Poetry[5] and Pushcart Prize[6] anthologies. Rattle does not solicit poems for publication, and instead follow's editor Timothy Green's guidelines of curation over publication.[7] This means that Rattle will consider poems that the poet has shared before on their blog or social media.[8]

Each issue is themed to honor a particular community of poets, such as teachers, slam poets, Los Angeles poets, NFT poets, Musicians, and the Haibun form.[9] Interviews with contemporary poets are also a staple of the quarterly print issue.

The Rattlecast

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For over four years, Rattle has broadcast a weekly poetry show, primarily hosted on YouTube, called the Rattlecast.[10] 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.[11] 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).[12] Guests have included Robert Pinsky, Naomi Shihab Nye, Dorianne Laux, Ellen Bass, and Bob Hicok.

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.[13]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.[14]

The Critique of the Week

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Rattle also has a weekly free live poetry workshop, hosted by Timothy Green on YouTube.[15] Viewers can submit their own poems, through Submittable, in order to be considered for critique live on air.[16]

The Rattle Chapbook Prize

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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 chapbooks submitted. At least one of the awards is bestowed on a poet who has not previously published a full-length collection of poems.[17]

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.[18]

Year Winners
2016 Zeina Hashem Beck
2017 Taylor Mali
2018 Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, Nickole Brown, Elizabeth S. Wolf
2019 Al Ortolani, Christina Olson, Jimmy Pappas
2020 Kathleen McClung, Tom C. Hunley, Jesse Bertron
2021 Gil Arzola, Amanda Newell, Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose
2022 Michael Mark, CooXooEii Black, and John W Evans
2023 Arthur Russell, Miracle Thornton, George Bilgere
2024 Eric Kocher, Denise Duhamel, Kat Lehmann
2025 José Enrique Medina, Liz Robbins, Matthew Buckley Smith

The Rattle Poetry Prize

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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.[19]

The entry fee is the same as a one-year subscription to the magazine, which includes an annual subscription for entrants.[18] 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.[20]

Rattle Poetry Prize winners:[21]

Year Winning Poet Winning Poem
2024 Arthur Russell "Among Other Things"
2023 Ardon Shorr "Time Travel for Beginners"
2022 L. Renée "Shoes"
2021 Ann Giard-Chase “Encephalon”
2020 Alison Townsend “Pantoum from the Window of the Room Where I Write”
2019 Matthew Dickman "Stroke"
2018 Dave Harris "Turbulence"
2017 Rayon Lennon "Heard"
2016 Julie Price Pinkerton "Veins"
2015 Tiana Clark "Equilibrium"
2014 Craig van Rooyen "Waiting in Vain"
2013 Roberto Ascalon "The Fire This Time"
2012 Heidi Shuler "Trials of a Teenage Transvestite's Single Mother"
2011 Hayden Saunier "The One and the Other"
2010 Patricia Smith "Tavern, Tavern, Church, Shuttered Tavern,"
2009 Lynne Knight "To the Young Man Who Cried Out ‘What Were

You Thinking’ When I Backed into His Car"

2008 Joseph Fasano "Mahler in New York"
2007 Albert Haley "Barcelona"
2006 Sophia Rivkin "Conspiracy"

Some of the Rattle Poetry Prize finalists include: Tim Seibles, Roberta Beary, Diana Goetsch, Francesca Bell, George Bilgere, Shannan Mann, Erin Murphy, Mike White, Ron Koertge, Rhina P. Espaillat, Ellen Bass, David Kirby, Wendy Videlock, and Diane Seuss.[22]

Past contributors

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Past contributors have included:[23]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ "Rattle". Poets.Org. January 12, 2023.
  2. ^ "About Us". Rattle. March 16, 2013.
  3. ^ "Poets and Writers". Poets and Writers. January 12, 2023.
  4. ^ Danowsky, Mark; Green, Timothy (June 7, 2023). "A Conversation with Timothy Green". Stay Curious. Retrieved April 12, 2025.
  5. ^ [1] The Best American Poetry 2007. Heather McHugh, Guest Editor, David Lehman, Series Editor. ISBN 0-7432-9973-6. Scribner, 2007.
  6. ^ [2] Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses. Bill Henderson, Series Editor. ISBN 978-1-888889-46-8. Pushcart Press, 2008.
  7. ^ Green, Timothy (March 16, 2023). "Uncurated: The Case for a New Term of Art". Lit Mag News. Retrieved April 12, 2025.
  8. ^ https://brunch.work. "Regular Submission Guidelines - Rattle: Poetry". Rattle Poetry. Retrieved April 12, 2025. {{cite web}}: External link in |last= (help)
  9. ^ https://brunch.work. "Publications - Rattle: Poetry". Rattle Poetry. Retrieved April 12, 2025. {{cite web}}: External link in |last= (help)
  10. ^ "Rattle Poetry". YouTube. Retrieved April 12, 2025.
  11. ^ https://brunch.work. "Poets Respond® - Rattle: Poetry". Rattle Poetry. Retrieved April 12, 2025. {{cite web}}: External link in |last= (help)
  12. ^ "Rattlecast Episodes". YouTube. Retrieved April 16, 2025.
  13. ^ Rattle Poetry (April 14, 2025). Susan Browne | Rattlecast 289. Retrieved April 16, 2025 – via YouTube.
  14. ^ https://brunch.work. "Prompt Lines - Rattle: Poetry". Rattle Poetry. Retrieved April 16, 2025. {{cite web}}: External link in |last= (help)
  15. ^ Rattle Poetry (April 5, 2020). Poets Respond Open Mic | April 5th. Retrieved April 16, 2025 – via YouTube.
  16. ^ Submittable. "Rattle - Critique of the Week". rattle.submittable.com. Retrieved April 16, 2025.
  17. ^ "For the 2023 Rattle Chapbook Prize". Retrieved March 16, 2013.
  18. ^ a b https://brunch.work. "Rattle Poetry Prize Guidelines - Rattle: Poetry". Rattle Poetry. Retrieved May 10, 2025. {{cite web}}: External link in |last= (help)
  19. ^ "Rattle Poetry Prize - Winning Writers". winningwriters.com. Retrieved May 10, 2025.
  20. ^ "Poetry Prize". Poets & Writers. Retrieved March 16, 2013.
  21. ^ https://brunch.work. "2025 Rattle Poetry Prize - Rattle: Poetry". Rattle Poetry. Retrieved May 10, 2025. {{cite web}}: External link in |last= (help)
  22. ^ https://brunch.work. "2025 Rattle Poetry Prize - Rattle: Poetry". Rattle Poetry. Retrieved May 10, 2025. {{cite web}}: External link in |last= (help)
  23. ^ "Contributor Links Rattle". Rattle. Retrieved March 16, 2013.
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