Rattle Poetry

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ep. 235 - Erica Reid Mar 05, 2024

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Erica Reid appeared in this winter's issue of Rattle. Her manuscript, Ghost Man on Second, won the 2023 Donald Justice Poetry Prize and was just published by Autumn House Press in spring of 2024. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, and earned her MFA at Western Colorado University. Find more information on Erica, visit: https://ericareidpoet.com/ As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week’s Prompt: Write a “What to Do if …” poem about what to do in an unusual situation. Next Week’s Prompt: Write a “golden sestina” (or tritina): start with an epigraph from another poem, and use six (or three) words from that quote as the end-words of your sestina or tritina. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

ep. 234 - Michael Meyerhofer Feb 27, 2024

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Michael Meyerhofer is a contemporary poet and fantasy author who believes those two genres genuinely can get along. His fifth poetry book, Ragged Eden, was published by Glass Lyre Press. His fourth, What To Do If You're Buried Alive, was originally published by Split Lip Press, then recently re-released by the fine books at Doubleback Press. In addition to his poetry books, he has published two fantasy trilogies. His debut fantasy novel, Wytchfire (Book I in the Dragonkin Trilogy), was published by Red Adept Publishing, and went on to win the Whirling Prize and a Readers Choice nomination from Big Al's Books and Pals. An avid weightlifter, medieval weapons collector, and unabashed history nerd, he currently lives, teaches, and inhabits various coffee shops around Fresno, CA. Find more information on Michael, visit his website: https://www.troublewithhammers.com/ In the second hour, we'll be joined by special guest Zilka Joseph, who first appeared on episode 131, to share a few poems from her new book, Sweet Malida. Find her new book here: https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/the-laadu-makers-my-mother-and-grandmothers-legacy As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week’s Prompt: Revise a poem that you wrote a long time ago by radically shifting its perspective. Next Week’s Prompt: Write a “What to Do if …” poem about what to do in an unusual situation. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

ep. 233 - Sally Ashton Feb 20, 2024

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Sally Ashton is a poet, writer, Editor-in-Chief of the DMQ Review, San José State University professor emerita, lecturer, blogger, and workshop presenter who has taught over 100 workshops. She was appointed the second Santa Clara County Poet Laureate, 2011-2013. She has collaborated with both visual artists and musicians. She is Assistant Editor of They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing, Black Lawrence Press, 2018. Her work is included in many anthologies. Listening to Mars, her fifth book of poetry, was just released. Find more information on Sally, visit his website: https://sallyashton.com/ As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week’s Prompt: Write a haiku sequence that talks about love without mentioning it by name. Next Week’s Prompt: Revise a poem that you wrote a long time ago by radically shifting its perspective. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

ep. 232 - Joshua Eric Williams Feb 13, 2024

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Joshua Eric Williams is author of two full-length collections of haiku from Red Moon Press: The Strangest Conversation, which received an honorable mention in the Haiku Society of America’s 2020 Merit Book Awards, and Silent After, which was just released. His haiku, "silent after," from Rattle' Poets Respond series, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won a 2022 Touchstone Award from the Haiku Foundation of America. Find more information on Eric, visit his website: https://thesmallestwords.com/ As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week’s Prompt: Write a song of someone or something, as a persona poem 32 lines long. Next Week’s Prompt: Write a haiku sequence that talks about love without mentioning it by name. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

ep. 231 - George David Clark Feb 06, 2024

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George David Clark is The author of Reveille (winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize) and Newly Not Eternal (just released from LSU Press). After earning an MFA at the University of Virginia and a PhD at Texas Tech University, David held the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship in Poetry at Colgate University and, later, the Lilly Postdoctoral Fellowship at Valparaiso University. The editor-in-chief of 32 Poems, he previously served in various capacities on the staffs of Meridian, Iron Horse Literary Magazine, and the Best New Poets anthology. Since 2015 David has taught creative writing and literature at Washington & Jefferson College, where he is now an associate professor. He lives in McMurray, PA with his wife, Elisabeth, and their four children. Find more information and George's books here: http://www.georgedavidclark.com/ As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week’s Prompt: Write a poem entitled, “A Brief History of [X],” where X is a word that needs to be translated, and the poem is less than a page. Next Week’s Prompt: Write a song of someone or something, as a persona poem 32 lines long. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

ep. 230 - Rimas Uzgiris Jan 30, 2024

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Rimas Uzgiris is a poet, translator, and critic. He is the author of North of Paradise, published by Kelsay Books (2019). Tarp, a collection of his poetry in Lithuanian translation was published by Kauko laiptai. He is translator of Caravan Lullabies by Ilzė Butkutė, Then What by Gintaras Grajauskas, Now I Understand by Marius Burokas, The Moon is a Pill by Aušra Kaziliūnaitė, and Vagabond Sun by Judita Vaičiūnaitė. Uzgiris has contributed significantly as editor and translator to two anthologies: How the Earth Carries Us: New Lithuanian Poets, and New Baltic Poets. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an MFA in creative writing from Rutgers-Newark University. Recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship, and the Poetry Spring 2016 Award for translations of Lithuanian poetry into other languages, he teaches translation at Vilnius University. Find North of Paradise here: https://kelsaybooks.com/products/north-of-paradise As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week’s Prompt: Write a poem that tells a story about a silent interaction with a stranger. Next Week’s Prompt: Write a poem entitled, “A Brief History of [X],” where X is a word that needs to be translated, and the poem is less than a page. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

ep. 229 - Diana Goetsch Jan 23, 2024

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Diana Goetsch is an American poet and essayist, author of eight poetry collections, the acclaimed memoir This Body I Wore, and dozens of features and columns. She was winner of the 2017 Rattle Chapbook Prize for her book, In America. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, LitHub, Tricycle, The American Scholar, The LA Times, The Chicago Tribune, Best American Poetry and The Pushcart Prize. Her honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Grace Paley Teaching Fellowship at The New School. Find the more on Diana here: https://www.dianagoetsch.com/ The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. For the full interview, including Poets Respond, the Prompt Lines, and more, visit YouTube.com/RattlePoetry.

ep. 228 - Tim Seibles Jan 16, 2024

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Tim Seibles is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Body Moves (1988), Hurdy-Gurdy (1992), Hammerlock (1999), Buffalo Head Solos (2004), Fast Animal (2012), which won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, received the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and was nominated for a 2012 National Book Award, and One Turn Around The Sun (2017). His latest work of poetry, Voodoo Libretto, was published by Etruscan Press in 2022. Seibles lives and teaches at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Find the more on Tim here: https://blueflowerarts.com/artist/tim-seibles/ And Voodoo Libretto here: https://etruscanpress.org/product/voodoo-libretto-new-selected-poems-by-tim-seibles/ As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find the full episode, including the Prompt Lines and Poets Respond, at YouTube.com/RattlePoetry

ep. 227 - Miracle Thornton Jan 09, 2024

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Miracle Thornton is a winner of the 2023 Rattle Chapbook Prize, and her book, Plucked, was published with the winter issue of Rattle. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Rattle, DREGINALD, Silent Auctions, UpNorth Lit, and elsewhere. She’s been recognized by the National YoungArts Foundation and Princeton University, among others. She currently studies Literature at Bennington College. Find the chapbook here: https://www.rattle.com/product/plucked/ Review the Rattlecast on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rattle-poetry/id1477377214 As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. For the full episode, which includes the Prompt Lines, Poets Respond, and more, visit YouTube.com/RattlePoetry

ep. 226 - Matthew Buckley Smith Jan 02, 2024

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Matthew Buckley Smith's poems and stories have appeared in AGNI, American Life in Poetry, and elsewhere. His first book of poems, Dirge for an Imaginary World, was selected by Andrew Hudgins for the 2011 Able Muse Book Award. His second book of poems, Midlife, was selected by David Yezzi for the 2021 Richard Wilbur Award, and will be published soon. For more information: matthewbuckleysmith.com Order his book, Midlife, here: https://www.amazon.com/Midlife-Matthew-Buckley-Smith/dp/1939574382/ The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. To watch the full version, including our Poets Respond poems and Prompt Lines, visit YouTube.com/RattlePoetry

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