About Rattapallax

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RATTAPALLAX ONLINE MAGAZINE is a new chapter in Rattapallax Press’ 10 year history. It is the natural path to a magazine that has been since the very beginning committed to poetry in various forms, medias and languages. Rattapallax was the first literary magazine to include a CD with every issue, with audio files, interviews and music in connection to poetry, expanding the reading experience. Later, it started to include video content as well in DVD.

The transition to the Internet fits Rattapallax’s interdisciplinary approach perfectly, widening the scope for content and outreach.  Rattapallax is as innovative as always: the reader will find here a comprehensive reading of poetry that includes new media original projects such as a fiction video webseries (Verse – a Poetry Mystery), a dynamic poetry forum that generates live and ongoing discussions about new books (Off the Shelf), Rattapallax’s commitment to Global awareness in a section dedicated to poets working in lesser-translated languages (Litterroir) and Global dialogue in an open correspondence (Poems in a Bottle), philosophical thinking about the medium of writing (Medium), a room for experimental, avant garde poetry (Blueprint) and four new features on every issue, with poetry in English and in translation: dossiers on three great contemporary poets and a thematic section by a guest editor, all meant to allow us to look into things from different perspectives.

This is Rattapallax now, for free, for everyone.

Rattapallax’s program are supported, in part, by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. Past financial supporters include New York Council for the Humanities, New York State Council on the Arts, Asian American Arts Alliance, Theater Development Fund, Iran Heritage Foundation, Experimental TV, Australia Council for the Arts, and others.

You can find information about film and other Rattapallax projects at Rattapallax Press: www.rattapallax.com

History

For the past 10 years, Rattapallax Press has been committed to using poetry to educate, engage and connect readers on nearly every continent. With outreach events from Ghana to the UK, the magazine has hosted international poetry readings, centennial celebrations, relief trips, and book fairs for causes that include (but are not limited to) literacy, AIDS awareness, natural resource conservation, social justice, arms control and political activism. With devoted readers and contributors across the world, Rattapallax maintains a global consciousness and a desire to use the transformative powers of the written word to connect and unify an extraordinarily diverse planet. For more information on Rattapallax’s projects, please visit  http://rattapallax.com/blog/global/.

RATTAPALLAX’S TITLE comes from a poem by Wallace Stevens, “Frogs Eat Butterflies, Snakes Eat Frogs, Hogs Eat Snakes and Men Eat Hogs”, and is an onomatopoeia for the sound of thunder.