Rattle Magazine: The Neil Postman Award for Metaphor
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Rattle is proud to announce Prairie Moon Dalton's "Grandmother", which appeared in issue #72, is the winner of the 2022 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor.
We established the Neil Postman Award for Metaphor in honor and remembrance of Neil Postman, who died on October 5, 2003. The intention of the award is simple and two-fold: to reward a given writer for their use of metaphor, and to celebrate (and, hopefully, propagate) Postman's work and the typographical mind.
Each year, the editors choose one poem that was published from regular submissions to Rattle during the previous year. There are no entry fees or submission guidelines involved. The author of the chosen poem receives $2,000.
For more information and to read all fifteen previous winners, please visit the award's webpage. To submit your own poems, choose any free submission option on our Submittable page.
GRANDMOTHER
by Prairie Moon DaltonGeorgia was hot and she was so small
she slept inside a dresser drawer.
Hair like gossamer, legs like a bird's.When she was eight a movie was eight
cents. When she was eight she watched
her brother kill her sister
with a metal license plate.Now she is flesh folded heavy
against a chair, TV flashing
pale on the trailer's walls.
Her pictures, pills, jewelry
surrounding her like treasure.
