Guide to Literary Magazines

RATTLE

Poetry for the 21st Century

12411 Ventura Blvd

Studio City, CA 91604

Phone: (818) 505-6777 Fax: (818) 505-6778

E-mail: timgreen@rattle.com

Web: http://www.rattle.com

Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: yes Reading period: year-round Response time: 4-8 weeks Payment: copies Contests: yes (see website) ISBN: 1-931307-08-3 Founded: 1994 Issues per year: 2 Distributors: Ingram, Armadillo, Ubiquity Average pages: 200 Sample copy (postpaid): $10 Cover Price: $10 Subscription (Individuals): $16 Subscription (Libraries): $8

Publisher’s Description: 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, 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. Listen closely: What makes you rattle?

Recent issues:

#29
Features a tribute to visual poetry, including 37 mixed-media poems in a 64-page, full-color special section on heavy paper. We didn't know what we'd get when we put out a call for visual poems, and what formed was an eclectic mix of everything but the kitchen sink. We've got poem-paintings, collages, comic poems, concrete poems, cut-up poems, found poems, ephemera, landscape haiku, edible poems, and (it's true) poems written on Venetian blinds. Also in the issue, Alan Fox interviews Marvin Bell and Bob Hicok, and more of the best poetry around.