# 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.
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
Joel Allegretti
Aaron Anstett
Quan Barry
Ellen Bass
Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Martine Bellen
Aaron Belz
Emma Bolden
Charlie Bondhus
Gayle Brandeis
Michael Broder
Kurt Brown
John F. Buckley and Martin Ott
Regie Cabico
Peter Carlaftes
Susana H. Case
Guillermo Filice Castro
Ann Cefola
Suzanne Cleary
Billy Collins
Jeffery Conway
Nina Corwin
Steve Dalachinsky
MaryLisa DeDomenicis
Cat Dixon
celeste doaks
Thom Donovan
Maggie Dubris
Alan Feldman
Monique Ferrell
Edward Field
Annie Finch
Stanford M. Forrester
John Foy
Philip Fried
Jeannine Hall Gailey
Amy Gerstler
George Guida
Marj Hahne
Raymond P. Hammond
Penny Harter
George Held
Matthew Hittinger
Tony Hoagland
Janis Butler Holm
Amy Holman
Bob Holman
Josh Humphrey
Karla Huston
Colette Inez
Luisa Aguilar Igloria
Ice Gayle Johnson
W. Todd Kaneko
Vasiliki Katsarou
Collin Kelley
Ron Kolm
Dean Kostos
Catherine B. Krause
Peter LaBerge
Gerry LaFemina
Erik La Prade
Dorianne Laux
David Lawton
Lynn Levin
Matthew Lippman
Timothy Liu
Chip Livingston
Diane Lockward
Roy Lucianna
Marjorie Maddox
Gerard Malanga
Robert Manaster
Stephen Massimilla
Chris McCreary
Lynn McGee
Kelly McQuain
David Messineo
Philip Miller
Michael Montlack
Tracie Morris
Rick Mullin
Peter E. Murphy
Joey Nicoletti
Jacob Oet
Abiodun Oyewole
Michael Palma
Matthew Pennock
David Phillips
Patricia Polak
Stephen Roger Powers
Stella Vinitchi Radulescu
Bethany Reid
Steven Riel
Susanna Rich
Aram Saroyan
Jason Schneiderman
Steven D. Schroeder
Elaine Sexton
Ravi Shankar
Neil Shepard
Hilary Sideris
Hal Sirowitz
Ellen McGrath Smith
Rosalind Palermo Stevenson
Terese Svoboda
Aldo Tambellini
Tantra-zawadi
Mervyn Taylor
Maria Terrone
John J. Trause
Tony Trigilio
David Trinidad
Ryan G. Van Cleave
Gloria Vando
Angelo Verga
David Vincenti
Diane Wakoski
George Wallace
Lewis Warsh
Estha Weiner
Lauren Wells
Marcus Wicker
George Witte
Debbie Yee
David Yezzi
Michael T. Young
Grace Zabriskie
Bill Zavatsky