A World With More Poetry—Breaking Into Rattle Magazine

To understand Rattle, it helps to know how the Los Angeles-based magazine and nonprofit got its start with Editor-in-Chief Alan C. Fox. Though he always wanted to be a writer, Fox started out as a lawyer before getting into the real estate business. Eventually, he took a poetry workshop, offered to print a chapbook of the students’ poetry at its conclusion, and that became the first issue of Rattle.

As editor Timothy Green recalls, “He did it for that class and the next class. Then he decided to keep it going and expand. And that’s how it started.”