Rattle #85, Fall 2024: Tribute to Musicians

by The Rattle Foundation

The Fall 2024 issue of Rattle features a Tribute to Musicians. Poetry is the the music of speech. Sonnets are little songs. Ballads walk a line between the two. It’s obvious that music and poetry are intimately intertwined—we explore that relationship through the poems of 19 professional and semi-professional musicians, and a fascinating conversation indie icon Ani DiFranco.

The open section is another eclectic mix of 18 poems, including senryu, haibun, sonnets, and more.

93 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2024

About the author

Rattle is a publication of the Rattle Foundation, an independent 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the practice of poetry, and is not affiliated with any other organization.
Alan C. Fox is its founder.

Reviews

[Sandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another winner in the long run of winners! Most amazing was the interview with Ani DiFranco giving us all, I suspect, a long-distance glance at our own lives and struggles, and some guidelines and hope for the future.

[Kim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really enjoyable poems. The Rattle poems are always bent more down to earth than in other lofty magazines. I lean a little both ways in aesthetic preference, and when I need some sophisticated humor I come here. My favorites in this group are probably “My Mother Cooks” and “Granddaddy, a Mystery.” I didn’t really love the poems in the themed portion—all written by professional musicians, but I liked what they implied about the differences between writing a line for a song and a line for a poem—mainly a lot more rhyming. The interview was great in this one.