Rabbit Ears: TV Poems
Rabbit Ears: TV Poems is an anthology from NYQ Books, edited by Joel Allegretti. Released in 2015, it consists of poems about television and is reportedly the first poetry anthology to cover the subject. It contains 129 poems by 130 poets, including former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins, who suggested the title.[1]
The Boston Globe called Rabbit Ears "cleverly edited" and "a smart exploration of the many, many meanings of TV." Rain Taxi said, "With its diversity of content and poetic form, Rabbit Ears feels more rich and eclectic than any other poetry anthology on the market." The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette included Rabbit Ears in its 2015 holiday gift guide for TV fans, along with books about Breaking Bad and Downton Abbey.
In an interview with The Huffington Post, Allegretti said, "Poets by and large today are educators and scholars. I’m neither. My background is in media relations. My last job was director of media relations for a national not-for-profit organization. I prepared the CEO, his senior executives, and other spokespeople for interviews. I dealt with Nightly Business Report, 60 Minutes, and producers at local TV stations around the country. I’ve been inside TV studios. Had I not had that experience, I probably wouldn’t have conceived an anthology of TV poetry."
Rabbit Ears is in the Fales Collection at New York University and in the archives of the University of Rochester, SUNY Buffalo, the University of Wisconsin, and the Ohio State University.
Contributors:
Austin Alexis
Aaron Anstett
Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Emma Bolden
Charlie Bondhus
Michael Broder
Kurt Brown
John F. Buckley and Martin Ott
Peter Carlaftes
Susana H. Case
Guillermo Filice Castro
Ann Cefola
Suzanne Cleary
Jeffery Conway
Nina Corwin
MaryLisa DeDomenicis
Cat Dixon
celeste doaks
Thom Donovan
Maggie Dubris
Alan Feldman
Monique Ferrell
Stanford M. Forrester
John Foy
Philip Fried
George Guida
Marj Hahne
Penny Harter
George Held
Janis Butler Holm
Amy Holman
Josh Humphrey
Karla Huston
Luisa Aguilar Igloria
Ice Gayle Johnson
W. Todd Kaneko
Vasiliki Katsarou
Collin Kelley
Dean Kostos
Catherine B. Krause
Peter LaBerge
Gerry LaFemina
David Lawton
Lynn Levin
Matthew Lippman
Chip Livingston
Roy Lucianna
Marjorie Maddox
Robert Manaster
Stephen Massimilla
Chris McCreary
Lynn McGee
Kelly McQuain
David Messineo
Philip Miller
Michael Montlack
Rick Mullin
Peter E. Murphy
Joey Nicoletti
Jacob Oet
Matthew Pennock
David Phillips
Patricia Polak
Stella Vinitchi Radulescu
Bethany Reid
Steven Riel
Susanna Rich
Elaine Sexton
Hilary Sideris
Ellen McGrath Smith
Rosalind Palermo Stevenson
Tantra-zawadi
Mervyn Taylor
John J. Trause
Tony Trigilio
Gloria Vando
Angelo Verga
David Vincenti
Estha Weiner
Lauren Wells
Marcus Wicker
Debbie Yee
Michael T. Young