Rattle #26, Winter 2006

Tribute to the Greatest Generation

Releasing December 2006, issue #26 celebrated 14 living poets of the Greatest Generation–those born between 1911 and 1924. This was the generation that grew up in the Roaring 20s, tried to find work during the Great Depression, fought in World War II, and gave birth to the Baby Boomers. No generation has had a greater influence on recent American history, and gathering them together to listen to their collective poetic voice is quite worthwhile.

Also in the issue, Alan Fox interviews Jane Hirshfield and Jack Kornfield. In the essay section, Doug Holder profiles Ed Galing, and Gary Lehmann writes about Dorothy Parker.

Tribute to the Greatest Generation
Beyond the Headlines by Peggy Aylsworth
Coast Road by E.G. Burrows
Hosanna to Life by Fred Fox
Visitation Rites by Ed Galing
Stalking ee in the Fifties by Colette Inez
Finished Symphony by Bob Johnston
Night Visitor by Joyce La Mers
Fallon, Nevada by Juanita Miller
And Have You Also Wished and When I First Saw by Leonard Nathan
Our Adult Grandchildren by Susan Rosenberg
Don't Ask Me Any Questions by Nan Sherman
For Good by Joan Stern
Everything I Wanted I Had by Phyllis M. Teplitz
Crow and the Artist by Doris Vernon

Poetry
Dog Descending a Staircase by Heather Abner
A Driving Student Adjusts the Seat by Arlene Ang
The Screenplay I May Never Write by Rane Arroyo
Minor Gods by Walter Bargen
Klimt at the Musée Maillol by Janalynn Bliss
Meaning by Sally Bliumis-Dunn
Over the Skyline by Linda Bosson
So You Want an Opera Singer... by Siobhan Brannigan
My Mother's Soul by Bill Brown
Igloo by R.G. Cantalupo
Catch-and-Release Rat Fishing by Joseph Capista
Learning History in Nursery School by Patrick Carrington
Dark Edges by Val D. Conder
Songs for Would-Be Suicides by Jack Conway
Up Shit's Creek with No Sense of Smell by Nina Corwin
The Fuchsia, the Orange, and the Dahlias by Susan Denning
The Flippant Zeitgeist by James Doyle
Home by Bob Drojarski
The Nest at Applewood Apartments by Patricia Fargnoli
Stray Instrument by Claire Fields
Glimpse by Alan Fox
Thalassophobia and Nyctophobia by Patrick Ryan Frank
Why I Am Not a Scientist by Robert Funge
Dangerous Blood IV by Kate Gale
Poison by Terry Godbey
Where Poems Go by Chris Green
When Our Parents Fight by Jared Harel
The Lesson by Michael Hettich
Those Who Cannot Act by Jane Hirshfield
I Can't Sleep so I'll Tell You a Story by Tom C. Hunley
His Song by Lowell Jaeger
Let's Meet Yesterday by David Jordan
Against Order and Approaching Storm by Lynne Knight
The Death of Irony by Frank LaRonca
An Aviary of Notions by Gary Lemons
Do You Have the Poem? by Christopher Parks
Not About Anyone's Hands by JoLee G. Passerini
On Being a Carpet Installer by James S. Proffitt
Holy Cats by Dian Duchin Reed
Sloan-Kettering by Lynn Shapiro
Swing by Suzume Shi
Postcard to Jerry L. Crawford by Red Shuttleworth
First Frost by Kathleen Walsh Spencer
Altar Boy in Tennis Shoes by Tim Sproul
Call Loudly When You Leave by Mark Taksa
Moment Ahead of the Moment by Susan Terris
Sleep Over by Jeff Vande Zande
The Clinic by Martin Vest
The Thing in Question by Thom Ward
Examined Life by Charles Harper Webb
Happiness and Basho, Glimpsedby Mike White
Stars and Stripes by Catherine Wiley
Dinner with the Blues by Theodore Worozbyt

Rattle Poetry Prize Winner
Conspiracy by Sophia Rivkin

Honorable Mentions
Beginner's Lesson by Malcolm Alexander
Whale Bone by Steven Brown
Becoming an Island by Tony Brusate
Asylum by Carey Fries
Recess by Diana Goetsch
1:43 PM and The Making of 1:43 PMby Marcia LeBeau
Car Accident by Ken Meisel
Sonny's Song by Glenn Morazzini
And Yet, Another Nature Poem by Richard Vargas
Brewing in Eden by Elizabeth Volpe

Reviews
Morris Collins
Barbara Crooker
Candice Daquin
Gayatri Devi
Diane Lockward
Arthur McMaster
Joseph Zaccardi

Essay
Doug Holder
Gary Lehmann

Conversations
Jane Hirshfield
Jack Kornfield