Rat’s Ass Review is a poetry journal whose editorial fancies are no more arbitrary than any other; they are simply more overtly so. I publish what I like.
Roderick Bates, Editor
Rat’s Ass Review
Rat’s Ass Review
Rat’s Ass Review is a poetry journal whose editorial fancies are no more arbitrary than any other; they are simply more overtly so. I publish what I like.
Roderick Bates, Editor
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Rat’s Ass Review
”Hi, Roderick. Can you please tell me when my review of John Yamrus’s book will be published, and also his poems?
(I know you are busy.)
Hi Peter, The web issue should be posted later today. If will be passworded and will not be immediately available to the public. I will send an email to the contributors with the password, so that they (you) can review the work and the bio to make sure that is all as it should be. After a day or two of making whatever corrections which the contributors identify, the password will be remvoved and the new issue will be public. So, with luck, the issue will be public by Friday.
Thanks very much for your reply, and for all you do to make RAR happen, Rick.
Sorry, Roderick, I misread your deadline. May I submit late?
Hi there,
What’s the ETA for the fall-winter issue? I’d love to see that Liz Cheney piece I’ve heard so much about before the election.
It should be on the website today or tomorrow.
Hi Roderick, I am an RAR alum from summer 2015. I have a contract to publish my first full-length book of poetry with Main Street Rag this year. Would it be all right if I posted a link to the advance sales page on the RAR Facebook group? Thanks–hope you are well.
Yes, Of course.
love the rationale for choosing what you publish…in workshops when we’re told “the poem has to speak to the public” or some such, I smile….because I don’t give a rat’s ass if my poems reach “the public.
I write segments, form poems, physical pieces, free verse – you name it. often write with two thoughts hidden in the same words. some get it, some don’t. of course I’d like my work to be liked and understood, but know full well not everyone will like all!
Hey there, how do I submit?
Check out our submissions page.
Have just been notified that one of the poems, “The Cello” In a set of 6 that I submitted to you, earlier this year, or in late Dec. ’22, has been selected for poster distribution about the city in its Poetry in Plain Sight for November ’23.
Well done! And RAR has accepted another of that batch for the Spring 2023 issue. You are on a roll.