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 Sarah Mangold The moment snow pours out of you bed          barn             garret wow wow Victorian houses and what they did in the summer. Really attached to Colonial Mexico. Migraines mixed with rising heat. Darkness in the department stores. Cut off from space. Fairfield Porter died walking the dog. Their natural space. Addressed politeness. Bled to death in a Florida hospital.... 

by Sarah Mangold As soon as the incoming stream of sounds gives the slightest indication consider the real act of moving when we figure time as a line or circle when mechanical gesture takes the place when automatic operations are inserted into the automatic world vowels are uninterrupted streams of energy and thought is a movement from acoustic signal to the combination of muscular acts sewing machines... 

by Sarah Mangold Evil she came to believe was the creative potential out of which change for the future could evolve. A temporary aberration of female productivity purpled in deprevation. Do you want someone to film it? Tours of the manufacturing towns of the midlands. Ambitious national projects. The intuition. The cause of allotment schemes. Endless narratives of female guilt. But she was a woman... 

by Sarah Mangold orange groves air breathers almost a perpetual motion machine of emotion until the poets heart broke or was burned on the beach there was something from outside coming in a real arm reach the snowball in the kitchen existed never again and warm to motion telling endless activities but at least not celebrated thistle into thimble phonetic payoff waterproof pooling Alaska to Argentina much... 

by Sarah Mangold          In the face of so many incitements to functionality vengeance built me hastily. You say you do parades. You say you’re ok. They’ve swum in the same rivers filled with new beings. Called up. Called to. But it’s mine to you. Hyphened inflamed. Derailed disaster. Unlawful freeze. Flood light. View all of Sarah Mangold’s content What do you think? Join... 

Sarah Mangold is the author of Household Mechanics (New Issues), and the chapbooks Parlor (Dusie Kollektiv), Picture of the Basket (Dusie Kollektiv), Boxer Rebellion (g o n g), and Blood Substitutes (Potes & Poets). From 2000-2009 she edited Bird Dog, a journal of innovative writing and art. With Maryrose Larkin, she co-edits FLASH + CARD, a chapbook and ephemera press. by Sarah Mangold Sarah Mangold...