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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.
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 Nations John Bolton, "They Mustache Him Some Questions." [8] In 2021, three of his poems were selected for inclusion in INverse, Indiana's Poetry Archive. [9]
Although reading aloud to oneself raises eyebrows in many circles, few people find it surprising in the case of poetry. In fact, many poems reveal themselves fully only when they are read aloud. The characteristics of such poems include (but are not limited to) a strong narrative, regular poetic meter, simple content and simple form.
The first sentence reads: "Throughout the island world of the Pacific, scattered men of many European races and from almost every grade of society carry activity and disseminate disease". No longer was Stevenson writing about human nature "in terms of a contest between Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde": "the edges of moral responsibility and the margins ...
Extensive reading (ER) is the process of reading longer, easier texts for an extended period of time without a breakdown of comprehension, feeling overwhelmed, or the need to take breaks. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It stands in contrast to intensive or academic reading, which is focused on a close reading of dense, shorter texts, typically not read for pleasure.
Acrostic: a poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a word, name, or phrase when read vertically. Example: “A Boat beneath a Sunny Sky” by Lewis Carroll. Concrete (aka pattern): a written poem or verse whose lines are arranged as a shape/visual image, usually of the topic. Slam; Sound; Spoken-word; Verbless poetry: a poem ...
In reading, the delay of meaning creates a tension that is released when the word or phrase that completes the syntax is encountered (called the rejet); [3] the tension arises from the "mixed message" produced both by the pause of the line-end, and the suggestion to continue provided by the incomplete meaning. [9]
Though individual examples of English free verse poetry surfaced before the 20th-century (parts of John Milton's Samson Agonistes or the majority of Walt Whitman's poetry, for example), [2] free verse is generally considered an early 20th century innovation of the late 19th-century French vers libre.