December: New broadside, new Broadsides to Books review, and news!
Collaborators’ Q&A: What inspires you in this poem? What drew you to it? Artist Cheryl Gross: I am involved in a project called: Commit to Memory: The Precipice of Extinction. The poem talks about the past and mentions two aspects of elephant history, which are extinct. Then it goes onto talk about a relationship that is past, but not necessarily in the forefront. Read any good books lately? Poet Christina Olson: If this broadside is your jam, you need to go read Elena Passarello’s Animals Strike Curious Poses. Or Lucia Perillo.
Poet Christina Olson‘s most recent chapbook, The Last Mastodon, was a winner of the Rattle 2019 Chapbook Contest. Artist Cheryl Gross is an animator and artist who teaches at the Pratt Institute in New York.
Who is behind the posts on Twitter? For the past five years, it’s been Gabrielle Bates, whose poem “This is Life” we published in 2014. Immediately recognizing Gabby’s energy and spirit in her own Twitter feed, we asked if she’d…
The Last Mastodon Christina Olson Rattle, 2019 ISBN: 978-1-931307-43-7 Reviewed by Sarah Shapiro Christina Olson’s The Last Mastodon, the Rattle Chapbook Series 2019 winner, was inspired by her time as poet-in-residence at a 2017 paleontology conference and exhibition (“The Valley…
Rain Scald Tacey M. Atsitty University of New Mexico Press, 2018 ISBN 978-0-8263-5867-7 Reviewed by Carolyn Ogburn The silence surrounding trauma lies at the heart of Rain Scald, the shattering first collection by poet Tacey M. Atsitty. The first section,…
