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Rattle is a quarterly poetry magazine founded in 1994, published in Los Angeles in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It publishes poems both by established writers, such as Philip Levine , Jane Hirshfield , Billy Collins , Sharon Olds , Gregory Orr , Patricia Smith , and Anis Mojgani , and by new and emerging poets.
Joseph Fasano (born May 17, 1982) is an American poet and novelist. Fasano was raised in Goshen, New York, where he attended Goshen Central High School.He earned a BA in philosophy from Harvard University in 2005 and an MFA from Columbia University in 2008. [1]
His poem "Soccer Dad" was one of ten finalists in the 2018 Rattle Poetry Prize competition. [6] He was the "Featured Artist" in Issue Three of Twyckenham Notes (Winter 2017). [ 7 ] Henn is a three-time winner of the Rattle "Poets Respond" competition, including most recently (October 2019) for his poem about former U.S. Ambassador to the United ...
Sight Lines is the tenth poetry collection by Arthur Sze. It was published by Copper Canyon Press in April 9, 2019. [1] The collection won the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry (USA). [2] Judges of the prize praised Sze's "quiet mastery which generates beautiful, sensuous, inventive, and emotionally rich poems." [3]
It is a repetition of similar sounds occurring in lines in a poem which gives the poem a symmetric quality. Caesura–A metrical pause or break in a verse where one phrase ends and another phrase begins. Enjambment–The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.
When a poem is flooded with too much emotion, it becomes sentimental, even cheesy; but when a poem risks nothing, it leaves a reader cold. The best love poems enact the hyperaware state of being ...
In 1948, Charles Allen wrote, "The only freedom cadenced verse obtains is a limited freedom from the tight demands of the metered line." [12] Free verse is as equally subject to elements of form (the poetic line, which may vary freely; rhythm; strophes or strophic rhythms; stanzaic patterns and rhythmic units or cadences) as other forms of poetry.
A line break is the termination of the line of a poem and the beginning of a new line. The process of arranging words using lines and line breaks is known as lineation, and is one of the defining features of poetry. [2] A distinct numbered group of lines in verse is normally called a stanza. A title, in certain poems, is considered a line.