Rattle Poetry

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ep. 86 - Denise Duhamel Mar 31, 2021

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Denise Duhamel is a distinguished university professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami. Her previous books include Scald, Blowout, Ka-Ching!, Two and Two, Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems, The Star-Spangled Banner, and Kinky. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her newest collection, Second Story, has just released from Pitt Press. Find Second Story here: https://upittpress.org/books/9780822966531/ As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. For details on how to participate, either via Skype or by phone, go to: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Write a poem that explores what it would be like to be someone else. Next Week's Prompt: Write a letter poem to an abstract concept. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Periscope, then becomes an audio podcast.

ep. 85 - Lois Baer Barr Mar 24, 2021

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Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Lois Baer Barr lives in Riverwoods, Illinois. A finalist for the 2019 Rita Dove Poetry Award, her chapbook Biopoesis won Poetica’s 2013 chapbook award, and her chapbook of fiction, Lope de Vega’s Daughter, is available from Red Bird Press. An emerita professor of Spanish at Lake Forest College, she is teaching creative writing in Spanish there in the fall of 2019. Her academic publications include two books, articles and reviews on Contemporary Spanish and Latin American fiction in journals such as Anales galdosianos, Hispania, Hispanic Review, and Romance Quarterly. Find more here: https://loisbaerbarr.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. For details on how to participate, either via Skype or by phone, go to: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Write a serious poem in limerick stanzas. Next Week’s Prompt: Write a poem that explores what it would be like to be someone else. A correction from Lois: "I stated that Mary Zimmerman interviewed me for The Chicago Tribune but meant to say it was Transportation Editor Mary Wisniewski." The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Periscope, then becomes an audio podcast.

ep. 84 - Wendy Videlock Mar 17, 2021

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Wendy Videlock is the author of the full-length poetry collections Slingshots and Love Plums (2015), The Dark Gnu and Other Poems (2013), and Nevertheless (2011), as well as the chapbook What’s That Supposed to Mean (2010). Videlock lives with her husband and children in Palisade, Colorado. Find more here: https://www.wendyvidelock.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. For details on how to participate, either via Skype or by phone, go to: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Give your poem a utopian or dystopian setting. Next Week's Prompt: Write a serious limerick. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Periscope, then becomes an audio podcast.

ep. 83 - Anthony Tao Mar 10, 2021

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Anthony Tao‘s poetry appears in journals such as The Cortland Review, Prairie Schooner, Borderlands, Frontier, Kartika Review, Cha, Poetry East West, among other places, plus an anthology of China writing entitled While We’re Here. He has a “poetry x music” album called The Last Tribe on Earth, which features his original poetry with original compositions on the classical guitar by Liane Halton. He lives in Beijing, where he is managing editor of the New York-based online media company SupChina. Find more here: http://anthonytao.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. For details on how to participate, either via Skype or by phone, go to: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Homophones are pairs of words which are pronounced the same way but have different meanings, such as “ball” and “bawl.” Write a poem that contains at least one pair of homophones. Next Week’s Prompt: Give your poem a utopian or dystopian setting. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Periscope, then becomes an audio podcast.

ep. 82 - A.E. Stallings Mar 02, 2021

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A.E. Stallings is an American poet who studied classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford University. She has published four collections of poetry, Archaic Smile, Hapax, Olives, and Like, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She also published verse translations of Lucretius’ The Nature of Things, Hesiod’s Works and Days, and the pseudo-Homeric Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice. She has received a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and fellowships from United States Artists, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Having studied in Athens, Georgia, she now lives in Athens, Greece, with her husband, the journalist John Psaropoulos, and their two argonauts, Jason and Atalanta. Find more here: https://aestallings.wixsite.com/aestallings As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. For details on how to participate, either via Skype or by phone, go to: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Write a poem about one or more of the four elements: earth, water, air, and fire. Next Week’s Prompt: Homophones are pairs of words which are pronounced the same way but have different meanings, such as “ball” and “bawl.” Write a poem that contains at least one pair of homophones. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Periscope, then becomes an audio podcast.

ep. 81 - Derek Sheffield Feb 24, 2021

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Derek Sheffield is the author of Not for Luck, selected by Mark Doty for the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize, and Through the Second Skin, runner-up for the Emily Dickinson First Book Award and finalist for the Washington State Book Award. He is a co-editor of Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy. His awards include a special mention in the 2016 Pushcart Anthology and the James Hearst Poetry Prize judged by Li-Young Lee. Derek lives with his family on the eastern slopes of the Cascade Mountains in Central Washington and is the poetry editor of Terrain.org. Find more here: https://www.dereksheffield.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. For details on how to participate, either via Skype or by phone, go to: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is arguably one of the most famous poems in the English language. Write a poem that imagines a scenario in which the speaker takes the road more traveled. Next Week's Prompt: Write a poem about one or more of the four elements: earth, water, air, and fire. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Periscope, then becomes an audio podcast.

ep. 80 - Rebecca Starks Feb 17, 2021

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Rebecca Starks is the author of the poetry collections Time Is Always Now, a finalist for the 2019 Able Muse Book Award, and Fetch, Muse, forthcoming from Able Muse Press. Winner of Rattle‘s 2018 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor, and past winner of Poetry Northwest‘s Richard Hugo Prize, she is a co-founder of Mud Season Review and a former director of the Burlington Writers Workshop. She works as a freelance editor and workshop leader; teaches in the Osher Institute of Lifelong Learning program at the University of Vermont; and is on the board of Sundog Poetry. In her spare time she takes her dogs for runs in the woods and plays violin in the Me2 Orchestra, in support of its mission to reduce stigma surrounding mental illness. She and her family live in Richmond, Vermont. Find more here: https://rebeccastarks.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. For details on how to participate, either via Skype or by phone, go to: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Write a poem about a chance encounter with a stranger. Next Week’s Prompt: “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is arguably one of the most famous poems in the English language. Write a poem that imagines a scenario in which the speaker takes the road more traveled. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Periscope, then becomes an audio podcast.

ep. 79 - Alison Townsend Feb 10, 2021

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Alison Townsend is the author of two award-winning books of poetry, The Blue Dress and Persephone in America, and a volume of prose, The Persistence of Rivers: An Essay on Moving Water. Her poem "Pantoum from the Window of the Room Where I Write" won the 2020 Rattle Poetry Prize. Professor Emerita of English at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater, she lives in the country outside Madison. Find her books here: https://www.amazon.com/Alison-Townsend/e/B001JS5MN2/ As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. For details on how to participate, either via Skype or by phone, go to: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Onomatopoeia is a figure of speech in which a word, when spoken, imitates the sound it describes; tick-tock, clang, or splash are examples of onomatopoeia. Write a poem that include one or more onomatopoeic words. Next Week’s Prompt: Write a poem about a chance encounter with a stranger. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Periscope, then becomes an audio podcast.

ep. 78 - Russell Brakefield Feb 03, 2021

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Russell Brakefield is the author of FIELD RECORDINGS (Wayne State University Press, 2018). His writing has appeared in the Indiana Review, New Orleans Review, Poet Lore, Crab Orchard Review, Hobart, and elsewhere. He received his MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program. He has received fellowships from the University of Michigan Musical Society, the Vermont Studio Center, and the National Parks Department. He teaches writing at the University Writing Program at the University of Denver. Find more at: http://www.russellbrakefield.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. For details on how to participate, either via Skype or by phone, go to: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Write a poem about a tourist town during the off-season. Next Weeks' Prompt: Onomatopoeia is a figure of speech in which a word, when spoken, imitates the sound it describes; tick-tock, clang, or splash are examples of onomatopoeia. Write a poem that include one or more onomatopoeic words. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Periscope, then becomes an audio podcast.

ep. 77 - Dana Gioia Jan 27, 2021

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Rattlecast #77 features former California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia. Dana Gioia is an internationally acclaimed poet and writer. Former California Poet laureate and Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Gioia was born in Los Angeles of Italian and Mexican descent. The first person in his family to attend college, he received a B.A. and M.B.A. from Stanford and an M.A. from Harvard in Comparative Literature. For fifteen years he worked as a businessman before quitting at forty-one to become a full-time writer. His most recent books are 99 POEMS: NEW & SELECTED and STUDYING WITH MISS BISHOP. Find more at: http://danagioia.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. For details on how to participate, either via Skype or by phone, go to: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Write an alphabet poem, a type of acrostic poem in which the first letter of each line spells out the alphabet. If you’re up for more of a challenge, write a double alphabet: the last letter of each line also spells out the alphabet, but in reverse order. Next Week's Prompt: Write a poem about a tourist town during the off-season. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Periscope, then becomes an audio podcast.

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