Rattle Poetry

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ep. 215 - Maryann Corbett Oct 17, 2023

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Maryann Corbett grew up in McLean, Virginia, and now lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. She worked for almost thirty-five years for the Minnesota Legislature. Trained as a medievalist and linguist, she holds a doctorate in English from the University of Minnesota. Though she wrote poems as a young person, she largely left creative writing during the decades when she did scholarly work, took care of a family, and worked full-time. One of her poems is included in The Best American Poetry 2018. She is the author of six books of poetry and two chapbooks. Her most recent book is The O in the Air. Find more on Maryann here: https://www.maryanncorbett.com/ Review the Rattlecast on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rattle-poetry/id1477377214 As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. 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 an assay—a poem that breaks down an idea or topic into it's constituent parts. (See Jane's assays, "Silence" and "To Judgment.") Next Week's Prompt: Write a poem about a museum for an abstract concept, using one of the forms Maryann read: ghazal, villanelle, call and response, or alliterative. Title it “The Musuem of ______.” 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. 214 - Jane Hirshfield Oct 10, 2023

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Jane Hirshfield is the author of ten collections and is one of American poetry’s central spokespersons for concerns of the biosphere. Hirshfield’s honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the Poetry Center Book Award, the California Book Award, and finalist selection for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She’s also the author of two now-classic collections of essays on the craft of poetry, and edited and co-translated four books presenting world poets from the deep past. Hirshfield’s work, which has been translated into seventeen languages, appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and ten editions of The Best American Poetry. A former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2019. Her newest book is The Asking: New & Selected Poems. Order your copy of The Asking here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/715681/the-asking-by-jane-hirshfield/ Review the Rattlecast on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rattle-poetry/id1477377214 As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. 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 set in the first place you ever worked. Next Week's Prompt: Write an assay—a poem that breaks down an idea or topic into it's constituent parts. (See Jane's assays, "Silence" and "To Judgment.") 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. 213 - Arthur Russell Oct 03, 2023

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Arthur Russell comes from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. He works as an attorney and landlord in New Jersey. He has received writing fellowships from Syracuse University and The Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, won Brooklyn Poets Poem of the Year in 2015, and was runner up for the Allen Ginsburg Poetry Award for 2021. He serves on the board of The Red Wheelbarrow Poets, co-leads their weekly workshop, and co-hosts their monthly readings. Find the chapbook here: https://www.rattle.com/product/at-the-car-wash/ Review the Rattlecast on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rattle-poetry/id1477377214 As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. 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: Pick an inanimate object and trace the evolution of your relationship with it throughout your life. Title it with the name of that object. Next Week’s Prompt: Write a poem set in the first place you ever worked. 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. 212 - Anders Carlson-Wee Sep 26, 2023

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Anders Carlson-Wee is the author of DISEASE OF KINGS, forthcoming from W.W. Norton in October 2023. He is also the author of THE LOW PASSIONS (W.W. Norton, 2019), a New York Public Library Book Group Selection, and DYNAMITE (Bull City Press, 2015), winner of the Frost Place Chapbook Prize. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Harvard Review, BuzzFeed, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Sun, The Southern Review, and many other publications, including several issues of Rattle. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Poets & Writers, the Camargo Foundation, Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, he is the winner of the Poetry International Prize. Visit Anders online at: https://www.anderscarlsonwee.com/ Review the Rattlecast on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rattle-poetry/id1477377214 As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. 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 haibun that mentions time. Next Week’s Prompt: Pick an inanimate object and trace the evolution of your relationship with it throughout your life. Title it with the name of that object. 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. 211 - Penny Harter Sep 19, 2023

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Penny Harter's most recent books are Keeping Time, Still-Water Days, and A Prayer the Body Makes. Earlier collections include Recycling Starlight; The Night Marsh; Buried in the Sky; Grandmother's Milk; Turtle Blessing; Lizard Light: Poems from the Earth; and Stages and Views. With her late husband, William J. Higginson, she is co-author of The Haiku Handbook (Kodansha America), and with him was a co-editor of From Here Press for many years. She is also the author of several chapbooks, including collections of haiku. Her awards include three Poetry Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, including the Arnold Gingrich Award; the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America, a teaching-poet award from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and two fellowships from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Visit her online at: https://www.pennyharterpoet.com/ Review the Rattlecast on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rattle-poetry/id1477377214 As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. 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 sequel: a poem that refers to another poem and starts immediately after the events in that poem. Next Week’s Prompt: Write a haibun that mentions time. 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. 210 - Lana Hechtman Ayers Sep 12, 2023

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Lana Hechtman Ayers is managing editor of three poetry presses: Concrete Wolf Poetry Series, MoonPath Press, and World Enough Writers. She facilitates generative writing workshops in the Amherst Method, runs a poetry book club, helps other poets assemble manuscripts, and teaches at writer’s conferences. Ayers is the author of eight poetry collections, two of which have come out in 2023: Overture (Kelsey Books) and When All Else Fails (Poetry Box). Her ninth, The Autobiography of Rain, is coming out in 2024. Visit her online at: https://lanaayers.com Note: The originally schedule guest, Bob Hicok, will return later this year. Thank you to Lana for swapping places with him! As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. 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 one-sentence poem that includes two truths and a lie. Next Week’s Prompt: Write a sequel: a poem that refers to another poem and starts immediately after the events in that poem. 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. 209 - Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco Sep 05, 2023

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Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco lives in California’s Central Valley with her husband and son. She co-edits One Sentence Poems, an online journal of short poetry, and also works as a librarian. In addition to writing and reading, she enjoys running with her dog, kayaking, and exploring as much of the world as she possibly can. She's appeared five times in Poets Respond and another five in the Ekphrastic Challenge. Her first book of poems, Various Lies, is available from Finishing Line Press, and her most recent, Beach Reading, is just out from Bottlecap Press. Find Various Lies here: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/various-lies-by-elizabeth-mcmunn-tetangco/ Find Beach Reading here: https://bottlecap.press/products/reading As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. 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 sonnet with a number in it. Next Week's Prompt: Write a one sentence poem that includes two truths and a lie. 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. 208 - Pedro Poitevin Aug 29, 2023

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Pedro Poitevin is a mathematician, translator, and bilingual poet living in Salem, Massachusetts. His Spanish language book of poems titled Perplejidades was published by Cooperativa La Joplin in early 2015 in México. His columns and poems in Spanish have appeared in Letras Libres, Partisan Magazine, Periódico de Poesía, and other venues. His first book in English, Nowhere at Home, was just published by Penteract Press and features many traditional and experimental forms, including palindromic and self-describing poetry. Find more info at: https://penteractpress.com/store/nowhere-at-home-pedro-poitevin As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. 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: Pick a single word at random from the dictionary and use that as the title of a poem in which someone gets their hands dirty. Next Week’s Prompt: Write a sonnet with a number in it. 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. 207 - Jane Clarke Aug 21, 2023

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Irish poet Jane Clarke is the author of three poetry collections and an illustrated poetry booklet. Her three collections were published by Bloodaxe Books: The River in 2015, When the Tree Falls in 2019 and A Change in the Air in 2023, which is shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023 and is also longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2023. In 2016 The River was the first poetry collection ever shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Award, given for a distinguished work of fiction or non-fiction evoking the spirit of a place. Originally from a farm in Roscommon, Jane now lives in Glenmalure, Co. Wicklow. Find more info at: http://www.janeclarkepoetry.ie/ As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. 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 villanelle that includes a cryptid (i.e., a mythological figure, such as the Loch Ness Monster). Next Week's Prompt: Pick a single word at random from the dictionary and use that as the title of a poem in which someone gets their hands dirty. 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. 206 - Natalie Padilla Young Aug 15, 2023

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At work, Natalie Padilla Young writes copy for marketing and branding materials, spanning a wide range of clients and industries. Natalie is the author of All of This Was Once Under Water, now available from Quarter Press. The first run is a limited-edition, full-color hardcover book, illustrated beautifully by the German artist Maximiliane Spieß. It is a speculative collection of poems grounded in Utah's history and scenery. Find more info at: https://www.natalieyoungarts.com/ As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. 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 in the form of a letter to a favorite poet that includes a suggestion for them. Next Week’s Prompt: Write a villanelle that includes a cryptid (i.e., a mythological figure, such as the Loch Ness Monster). 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.

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