Eleven “poets who were not afraid to let a little weirdness into their work, a little bit of the imagination”, as guest editor Paul Nelson puts it. Plus readings and interviews in audio. When I was asked by Rattapallax editor Flavia Rocha to curate a selection of West Coast poets, there were several facets of this project that I considered a given. First, I wanted to limit the poets to the Northwest,... 

Rattapallax has the unique opportunity to meet with myriad internationally-renown poets and a staff that is deeply focused on promoting and publishing new work. Meet the staff and contributors to this, or first issue of Rattapallax Online. Ram Devineni is the editor and publisher of Rattapallax and a film-maker who has had films shown at the Cairo International Film Festival, San Jose Film Festival,... 

by Emily Kendal Frey When we die the perfect magnet of our bodies will arc Time will extend over the mountain’s lip Purple flowers Our parents and me and you Our developing minds still burning but fainter *** There are birds flying over the ocean You know you’re beautiful Shuddering birds Locked in formation Hold your breath An hourglass of light pouring down Cold clouds Do you know... 

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