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Rattle Poetryep. 319 - Richard GilbertRichard Gilbert first appeared in episode 6 of the Rattlecast, way back in 2019. He earned a Ph.D. in Poetics and Depth Psychology at the Union Institute and University, 1990. In 1997, he moved to Japan to pursue Japanese haiku research. He is currently Associate Professor, Department of British and American Language and Literature, at Kumamoto University. In 2006, Richard was awarded a two-year grant from MEXT (the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) for research on modern Japanese haiku. His most recent book, Haiku Language Thought, explores haiku as the essence of poetic consciousness.
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2025-11-251h 59
Rattle Poetryep. 309 - Rattle Poetry Prize WinnersIn this special episode of the Rattlecast, we announce the winners of the 2025 Rattle Poetry Prize competition, and most of the 11 poets share their prize-winning work. The annual contest offers $25,000 in awards for individual poems.
Find more info on the prize here:
https://rattle.com/page/poetryprize/
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:
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This Week’s Prompt:
Pick a specific obscure aw...
2025-09-161h 59
Rattle Poetryep. 302 - Best of Poets RespondBack in June 2014, Rattle unleashed its Poets Respond series, thrusting poetry into the heart of the news with raw, immediate verses that tackle the moment. Over 800 poems later, we’ve woven a vivid tapestry of our shared history, now distilled into a stunning new anthology—our first-ever Best of Rattle Awards collection. It’s as unpredictable and electric as the times we’ve lived through. Tune in to this special episode of the Rattlecast, where a stellar lineup of the anthology’s poets will join us to share their work and dive deep into the stories behind their unforgettable poems!
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2025-07-282h 07
Rattle Poetryep. 295 - Kat LehmannKat Lehmann is winner of the 2024 Rattle Chapbook Prize and previously appeared on Rattlecast 8 in 2020. She is a founding editor of whiptail: journal of the single-line poem. Her haiku have won The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Award for Individual Poem and are featured in A New Resonance: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2023). Kat holds a B.A. from Hampshire College and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Utah. She lives in Connecticut at the edge of an old forest where she loves to think about the way each piece holds the whole. Find more at...
2025-06-022h 04
Rattle Poetryep. 294 - Where Do You LiveFor years, Jennifer Jean and Hanaa Ahmad Jabr have been exchanging poems from Mosul to Massachusetts and back, and they're now collected into a book, Where Do You Live? with translations by Wadaq Qais and Tamara Al-Attiya. They join us for a special episode at a special time (12pm ET).
Dr. Hanaa Ahmad Jabr was born in Mosul, Iraq. She is a prize-winning poet and short story writer who has participated in critical conferences and international poetry festivals. She has a PhD of Philosophy in Arabic Literature. Her books include the poetry collections I Draw My Sorrow from His Collar...
2025-05-251h 46
Rattle Poetryep. 289 - Susan BrowneSusan Browne first appeared on Rattlecast 29. Her fourth collection, Monster Mash, was just released from Four Way Books. She's published three previous books of poetry, Buddha’s Dogs, Zephyr, and Just Living. Awards include prizes from Four Way Books, the Los Angeles Poetry Festival, the River Styx International Poetry Contest, The Fischer Poetry Prize, and the James Dickey Poetry Prize. She received a fellowship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. She has also collaborated to create a word/music CD. She lives in Northern California.
Find more about Susan and all of her books here:
https://www.susanbrownepoems.com/
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2025-04-142h 09
Rattle Poetryep. 281 - Todd RobinsonTodd Robinson, affectionately known to acolytes as "Toddfather," is a poet and educator based in Omaha. He is the author of Mass for Shut-Ins (Backwaters Press, 2018) and Note at Heart Rock (Main Street Rag Publishing, 2012). Recipient of the 2011-2012 Thompson Learning Community’s Outstanding Faculty Award, he has conducted writing workshops with The Seven Doctors Project, The Naturalist School, Nebraska Warrior Writers, Nebraska Writers Collective, and the CÚRAM center for research in medical devices. He is founder and host of the Kaneko Art Museum’s Bibliophilia reading series, which is currently on a long pandemic pause. He earned a B.A...
2025-02-161h 59
Rattle Poetryep. 280 - S.C. FlynnNOTE THE SPECIAL TIME! WE'RE LIVE AT NOON ET THIS WEEK!
S.C. Flynn was born in a small town in Australia of Irish origin and now lives in Dublin. His poetry has been published in over 100 journals and magazines around the world. The Colour of Extinction, first full-length collection, was just published but Renard Press.
Find more information at:
https://scflynn.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...
2025-02-081h 59
Rattle Poetryep. 279 - Hayden Saunier2011 Rattle Poetry Prize winner Hayden Saunier has published five collections of poetry and her work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, the Gell Poetry Prize, the Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize, and nominated numerous times for a Pushcart Prize. Her acting resume includes film and television appearances in The Sixth Sense, Philadelphia Diary, House of Cards, Mindhunter, Hack and Do No Harm and dozens of roles at regional theatres such as the Guthrie Theatre , Walnut Street Theatre, Arden Theatre, George Street Playhouse, Interact Theatre and People's Light and Theatre Company. A Poet Laureate Emerita of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, she lives in...
2025-02-022h 00
Rattle Poetryep. 278 - Kim AddonizioKim Addonizio was featured with a tribute to her and her poetry students in issue 67 and featured on Rattlecast 88. Kim authored nine poetry collections, two novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her most recent collection is Exit Opera (W.W. Norton, September 2024). She has received fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundation, and Pushcart Prizes in both poetry and the essay. Tell Me was a National Book Award Finalist in poetry. Recent books include Now We're Getting Somewhere: Poems (W.W. Norton) and a memoir, Bukowski in...
2025-01-262h 01
Rattle Poetryep. 277 - Denise DuhamelDenise Duhamel was one of our 2024 Rattle Chapbook Prize winners, and her book, In Which, was published along with this winter's issue. Her most recent full-length books of poetry are Pink Lady (Pitt Poetry Series, 2025), Second Story (2021) and Scald (2017). Blowout (2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A distinguished university professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami, she lives in Hollywood, Florida.
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https://www.rattle.com/product/in-which/
As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be...
2025-01-182h 01
Rattle Poetryep. 276 - Donald PlattDonald Platt is the author of eight volumes of poetry, most recently Swansdown (Grid Books, 2022). His poems have appeared in many journals, including The New Republic, Nation, American Poetry Review, Paris Review, and Poetry, as well as in The Best American Poetry 2000, 2006, and 2015. He is a recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, three Pushcart Prizes, the Paumanok Poetry Prize, the “Discovery”/The Nation Prize, two Verna Emery Poetry Prizes, and the Center for Book Arts Chapbook Prize. He's been a professor in Purdue University’s English Department since 2000.
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https://www.grid-books.org/do...
2025-01-121h 58
Rattle Poetryep. 275 - Willie James KingWillie James King is a long-time contributor to Rattle, having appeared in 8 issues dating back to 1997. He's the author of five books of poetry, most recently To Be the Difference from Press 53. His poems have appeared widely in such publications as America, Appalachian Heritage, Confrontation, Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts, New Contrast (South Africa), English Journal, Southern Poetry Review, and Urthona (UK). He has nine Pushcart Prize nominations and one Best of the Net. He resides in Montgomery, Alabama.
Find the his most recent book here:
https://www.press53.com/poetry-collections/to-be-the-difference-by-willie-james-king
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2025-01-051h 59
Rattle Poetryep. 274 - Rex WilderRex Wilder is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Rare Fuel, which was just released from Finishing Line Press. A award-winning poet and photographer, e is the author of four previously published books of poetry. His poetry collection, Open Late: New & Collected Poems (1979-2018), was published by Chatwin in 2018 and his latest book, A Quiet Place to Land was published by Chatwin in November, 2023.
Find the new book here:
https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/rare-fuel-by-rex-wilder-winner-of-the-2023-the-donna-wolf-palacio-poetry-prize/
As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided...
2024-12-302h 01
Rattle Poetryep. 273 - Chase TwichellChase Twichell is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Things as It Is (Copper Canyon, 2018). After teaching for many years (Hampshire College, the University of Alabama, Princeton University), she left academia to found Ausable Press, a not-for-profit publisher of contemporary poetry, which was acquired by Copper Canyon in 2009. From 2013 to 2016 she served as Chair of the Kate and Kingsley Tufts Awards Jury. A longtime student in the Mountains and Rivers Order at Zen Mountain Monastery in upstate New York, she splits the year between the Adirondacks and Saratoga Springs, NY.
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https://www...
2024-12-151h 58
Rattle Poetryep. 272 - Lexi PelleLexi Pelle is a poet and editor living in New Jersey. She was the winner of the 2022 Jack McCarthy Book Prize, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and a finalist for the Prufer Poetry Prize, Crosswinds Poetry Prize and the Marvin Bell Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in issue 81 of Rattle, Poets Respond, Ninth Letter, SWWIM, Sucarnochee Review, and The Shore.
Find more on Lexi here:
https://www.lexipelle.org/
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...
2024-12-081h 48
Rattle Poetryep. 271 - Eric KocherEric Kocher is one of the 2024 Rattle Chapbook Prize winners for Sky Mall, which was included for subscribers with our fall issue. He teaches Environmental Studies at Wofford College. Some of his poems have previously appeared in 32 Poems, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Oversound, and A Public Space, among others. He lives in upstate South Carolina with his wife, Audrey, and their two children, Oscar and Louise.
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https://www.rattle.com/product/sky-mall/
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...
2024-12-012h 00
Rattle Poetryep. 270 - Austin AlexisAustin Alexis is the winner of the 2014 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award for his book Privacy Issues. He has also written two chapbooks―Lovers and Drag Queens and Lincoln & Other Poems. A member of St. George’s Choral Society, one of the oldest choral societies in the United States, Austin's poem "The Concert" appears in our Tribute to Musicians issue. He has taught literature and creative writing at a number of colleges, including Long Island University, John Jay College, and Hunter College, and currently teaches at New York City College of Technology.
Find the book here:
https://wsupress.wayne.edu/9780979750984/
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2024-11-241h 47
Rattle Poetryep. 269 - Brody Parrish CraigBrody Parrish Craig (they/them) is a southern writer who upheaves expectations to open spaces for connection, unlearning, and change. They are the author of Boyish, the winner of the 2019 Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest, and editor of TWANG, a regional collection of trans, nonbinary & gender-non-conforming creators tied to the south/midwest. Brody Parrish Craig's debut full-length collection, The Patient is An Unreliable Historian, exploring madness, harm reduction, and disability justice, is just out from Omnidawn Publishing.
Find more here:
https://www.brodyparrishcraig.com/
As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom...
2024-11-171h 54
Rattle Poetryep. 268 - Joseph MillarJoseph Millar is the author of six books of poetry, including Dark Harvest: New & Selected Poems. His latest collection, Shine, was published in October of 2024. Millar grew up in Pennsylvania and attended Johns Hopkins University before spending 30 years in the San Francisco Bay area working at a variety of jobs, from telephone repairman to commercial fisherman. He has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in such magazines as DoubleTake, TriQuarterly, The Southern Review, APR, and Ploughshares. Millar teaches in Pacific University's low-residency MFA Program.
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2024-11-042h 02
Rattle Poetryep. 267 - B.A. Van SiseB.A. Van Sise is an author and photographic artist with three monographs: Children of Grass: A Portrait of American Poetry, Invited to Life: After the Holocaust, and On the National Language: The Poetry of America’s Endangered Tongues. He has been featured in solo exhibits at the Skirball Cultural Center, the Woody Guthrie Center, and the Rockefeller Arts Center, among other places; a number of his portraits of American poets are in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. His writing has won the Lascaux Prize for Nonfiction, and has been a finalist for the Rattle Poetry Pr...
2024-10-282h 01
Rattle Poetryep. 266 - Jim TilleyJim Tilley is a Canadian-American poet, mathematician, and author of four poetry collections, a personal essay, and a novel. Born and raised in Québec, Jim holds a Bachelor's degree in physics from McGill University and a doctorate in physics from Harvard. After earning his PhD, Jim pivoted to actuarial science and established himself as a prominent thought leader in that field. During his 25-year career in insurance and investment banking, he published several prize-winning papers. During his working career, Jim served as Morgan Stanley’s Global Head of Fixed Income Research and Chief Information Officer for Institutional Securities. For two yea...
2024-10-212h 02
Rattle Poetryep. 265 - Andrea HollanderAndrea Hollander is the author of six full-length poetry collections, including Blue Mistaken for Sky (finalist for the 2018 Best Book Award in Poetry from the American Poetry Fest) and Landscape with Female Figure: New & Selected Poems (finalist for the 2014 Oregon Book Award). Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous anthologies and college textbooks, including Writing Poems, The Poets' Grimm, and The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry—and in such literary journals and publications as The New York Times Magazine, Poetry, and The Georgia Review. For more than 22 years, Hollander served as the Writer-in-Residence at Lyon College, which aw...
2024-10-142h 03
Rattle Poetryep. 264 - Philip MetresPhilip Metres is the author of twelve books, including Fugitive/Refuge (Copper Canyon 2024), Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon, 2020), The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance (University of Michigan, 2018), Sand Opera (Alice James, 2015), and I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky (Cleveland State, 2015). His work—poetry, translation, essays, fiction, criticism, and scholarship—has garnered fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the Watson Foundation. He is the recipient of the Adrienne Rich Award, three Arab American Book Awards, the Lyric Poetry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and the...
2024-10-072h 02
Rattle Poetryep. 263 - Ron RiekkiRon Riekki has a B.S. in Religion, with a focus on Buddhism, and an M.A. in Interreligious Studies, with a primary focus on indigenous religious practice and a secondary focus on Buddhism. His books include U.P., Posttraumatic, My Ancestors are Reindeer Herders and I Am Melting in Extinction, and i have been warned not to write about this. Ron is also a filmmaker and his plays have been performed in Massachusetts, Michigan, Texas, Virginia, Illinois, and New York, and he was selected as a Tennessee Williams Scholar where he studied with Arlene Hutton and Pulitzer Prize-winner Lee...
2024-09-231h 57
Rattle Poetryep. 262 - Molly PeacockMolly Peacock was featured in issue 32 of Rattle. She is the author of nine books of poetry, including The Widow’s Crayon Box, The Analyst, The Second Blush, and Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems. She is also the author of several books of prose and a memoir, and has written two biographies of painters. Molly served as president of the Poetry Society of America, where she initiated the Poetry in Motion series on New York City’s subways and buses. After moving to Canada, she created The Best Canadian Poetry series, and serves as its general editor.
For more, visit:
https://www...
2024-09-162h 01
Rattle Poetryep. 261 - Dorianne LauxDorianne Laux first appeared on episode 44. She published two new books in 2024: Life on Earth, a collection of poems, and Finger Excersizes, a book of essays on craft. She is author of seven books, including Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems which was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and The Book of Men, which won The Paterson Prize.
For more, visit:
https://www.doriannelaux.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...
2024-09-092h 02
Rattle Poetryep. 260 - Ori FienbergOri Fienberg has appeared twice in Poets Respond, and his new book, Where Babies Come From, was just released by Cornerstone Press. Ori is also the author of the chapbooks Old Habits, New Markets (2020) and Interim Assistant Dean of Having a Rich Inner Life (2023). His writing has appeared in Mid-American Review, Ploughshares, Rattle, Smartish Pace, and many other journals and anthologies. A graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program, Ori teaches poetry for Northeastern University and lives in Evanston, Illinois.
For more, visit:
https://orifienberg.com/
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2024-09-022h 04
Rattle Poetryep. 259 - Susan TerrisSusan Terris began her writing career in children’s fiction, publishing 21 books with major New York publishing houses before dedicating herself to poetry. Since then, she’s published 7 books of poetry, 17 chapbooks, 3 artist's books, and 2 plays. Poems of hers have appeared in Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. Susan is editor emerita of Spillway, former co-editor of Runes, and a poetry editor at Pedestal Magazine.
For more, visit:
www.susanterris.com
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2024-08-262h 03
Rattle Poetryep. 258 - Chris AndersonChris Anderson first appeared on episode 143. Chris is a Catholic deacon, poet, and retired professor of English living in Corvallis, Oregon. He grew up in Spokane, Washington, went to college at Gonzaga University, and attended graduate school at the University of Washington. He taught literature and writing for 38 years, 34 of them at Oregon State University. In 1997 he completed a Masters in Theology at Mount Angel Seminary and was ordained a deacon. Since then, he has served at St. Mary’s in Corvallis, as well as leading retreats and offering spiritual direction. He has written, co-written, or edited 15 previous books, Love Ca...
2024-08-192h 20
Rattle Poetryep. 257 - Siddharth DasguptaSiddharth Dasgupta writes poetry and fiction from lost hometowns. His fourth book, A Moveable East, was published in early 2021. A fifth book and third collection of poetry, All These Streets We've Known By Heart, was published in 2022. Siddharth’s literature has appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Prairie Fire, Epiphany, Rogue Agent, Lunch Ticket, Kyoto Journal, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. He has read in cities like Bombay, Lucknow, Mandalay, Galle, Paris, Istanbul, and Dubai. Siddharth serves as Editor, Visual Narratives with The Bombay Literary Magazine, but calls the city of Poona home.
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2024-08-121h 57
Rattle Poetryep. 256 - Jennifer HambrickJennifer Hambrick is a classical musician, broadcaster, and poet. Her full-length poetry collection In the High Weeds won the Stevens Prize. In her haikai work, Hambrick won the Martin Lucas Haiku Award and the HSA Haibun Award. Her haibun collection, Joyride (2021), won the Marianne Bluger Book Award from Haiku Canada. Hambrick served as program chair for the 2023 Haiku North America conference; she resides in Columbus, Ohio. Her new book of haiku is A Silence or Two.
Find more on Jennifer here:
https://jenniferhambrick.com/
As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A...
2024-08-052h 00
Rattle Poetryep. 253 - Kari Gunter SeymourKari Gunter-Seymour first appeared on Rattlecast 48 and was interviewed in our Appalachian Poets issue. She is the current Poet Laureate of Ohio and just published a new book of poems, Dirt Songs. Her previous poetry collections include Alone in the House of My Heart and A Place So Deep Inside America It Can’t Be Seen, winner of the 2020 Ohio Poet of the Year Award. A ninth-generation Appalachian, she is the editor of I Thought I Heard A Cardinal Sing: Ohio’s Appalachian Voices, funded by the Academy of American Poets and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Women of A...
2024-07-152h 13
Rattle Poetryep. 251 - Erin MurphyErin Murphy first appeared on Rattlecast 142. She is the author or editor of thirteen books, including Human Resources, forthcoming from Salmon Poetry; Fluent in Blue (April 2024); Taxonomies (2022), a collection of demi-sonnets, a form she devised; and Assisted Living (2018), poems about caregiving. In addition, her chapbooks include Fields of Ache, a collection of centos (2022). Her most recent co-edited anthologies are Bodies of Truth, a collection of narrative medicine essays (University of Nebraska Press), and Creating Nonfiction (SUNY Press), both of which won Gold Medals in the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.
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2024-07-012h 01
Rattle Poetryep. 247 - Nancy Miller GomezNancy Miller Gomez first appeared on Rattlecast 146. Her chapbook, Punishment, was published as part of the Rattle chapbook series. She has worked as a waitress, a stable hand, an attorney, and a television producer. She co-founded an organization that provides writing workshops to incarcerated women and men and has taught poetry in Salinas Valley State Prison, the Santa Cruz County Jails and the Juvenile Hall. She has a B.A. from The University of California, San Diego, a J.D. from the University of San Diego and a Master in Fine Arts in Writing from Pacific University. She is currently...
2024-05-271h 57
Rattle Poetryep. 245 - Julie Marie WadeWith special guest Denise Duhamel!
Julie Marie Wade is a poet, lyric essayist, memoirist, and an experimental/hybrid forms writer. She is the author of twelve books of poetry and prose, including Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures, winner of the Colgate University Press Nonfiction Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Memoir; the book-length lyric essay Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing; and Otherwise: Essays, winner of the 2022 Autumn House Prize. Wade holds an MA in English from Western Washington University, an MFA in Poetry from the University of Pittsburgh, and a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities from the University...
2024-05-132h 07
Rattle Poetryep. 242 - Gerald LocklinGerald Locklin (1941 - 2021) published over one hundred volumes of poetry, fiction, and literary essays including Charles Bukowski: A Sure Bet, (Water Row Press) and Go West, Young Toad, (Water Row Press). Charles Bukowski called him “One of the great undiscovered talents of our time.” The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Literature in the English Language calls him “a central figure in the vitality of Los Angeles writing.” A volume of his selected poems, Requiem for the Toad, has just been published by NYQ Books. We'll be joined by former Rattlecast guest Clint Margrave, who edited the book, as well as Locklin...
2024-04-222h 09
Rattle Poetryep. 227 - Miracle ThorntonMiracle 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.
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2024-01-0955 min
Rattle Poetryep. 225 - Debra MarquartDebra Marquart is a Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences and teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University, as well as the Stonecoast Low-Residency MFA Program at University of Southern Maine. Marquart serves as Iowa’s Poet Laureate and the Senior Editor of Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment. The author of seven books―including The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere and Small Buried Things: Poems―Marquart has been featured on NPR and the BBC and has received over 50 grants and awards including an NEA Fellowship, a PEN USA Award...
2023-12-271h 58
Rattle Poetryep. 224 - Gaetan SgroGaetan Sgro is an internal medicine doctor, girl dad, and medical educator at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine where he co-directs a program in the medical humanities. He is the recipient of teaching awards including the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, the Golden Apple Teaching Award, and the Carl R. Fuhrman Clinical Educator of the Year Award. His writing has appeared in Rattle, The Bellevue Literary Review, Hippocampus Magazine, Hektoen International, The Healing Muse, Academic Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA, the Best New Poets Anthology, and elsewhere.
Find more at his website:
https://www.gaetansgro.com/
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2023-12-192h 02
Rattle Poetryep. 223 - Greg KosmickiGreg Kosmicki is a poet and retired social worker who lives in Omaha, Nebraska. He founded The Backwaters Press in 1997, which he now serves as Editor Emeritus. Greg’s poetry has been published in numerous magazines since 1975, both print and online. Some of his earliest publications were in Poetry NOW in 1975 and Paris Review, in 1977. He received artist’s fellowships for his poetry from the Nebraska Arts Council 2000 and 2006. Three of his poems have been read on Writer’s Almanac. Author of thirteen books and chapbooks of poems, he is a 2000 and 2006 recipient of the Nebraska Arts Council's Merit Award. His pr...
2023-12-122h 03
Rattle Poetryep. 222 - Bob HicokBob Hicok’s tenth collection, Water Look Away, was published by Copper Canyon Press this year. A two-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and recipient of the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress, he’s also been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and eight Pushcart Prizes, and his poems have been selected for inclusion in nine volumes of The Best American Poetry. He teaches at Virginia Tech.
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https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/water-look-away/
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2023-12-052h 02
Rattle Poetryep. 221 - Joshua MenschJoshua Mensch is a poet, visual artist, and a founding editor of the literary journal B O D Y. He grew up in Nova Scotia, Canada, and lives in Prague, Czech Republic. His first book, Because: A Lyric Memoir, was published in May 2018 by W.W. Norton and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award in Poetry.
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https://www.joshuamensch.com/
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2023-11-271h 58
Rattle Poetryep. 220 - Carrie ShipersCarrie Shipers’ poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, New England Review, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, and other journals, including two issues of Rattle. She is the author of Ordinary Mourning (ABZ, 2010), Cause for Concern (Able Muse, 2015), Family Resemblances (University of New Mexico, 2016), and Grief Land (University of New Mexico, 2020).
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https://www.carrieshipers.com/
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2023-11-212h 00
Rattle Poetryep. 219 - Prartho SerenoPrartho Sereno has made her home in a bamboo hut in India, a 150-year-old farmhouse in Maine, a spiritual community in Oregon, and for the past 23 years, a funky upstairs duplex north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Along with painting & poetry Prartho has dabbled in such art forms as taxi driver, family therapist, phys ed instructor at Cornell University, housecleaner, single parent, head cook, amateur singer/song-writer, illustrator, and palm-reading psychic in various Catskill resorts. Author of the award-winning collections Indian Rope Trick, Elephant Raga, and Call from Paris, and author/illustrator of the IPPY-winning gift book, Causing a Stir...
2023-11-142h 01
Rattle Poetryep. 218 - Jamaica BaldwinJamaica Baldwin is a poet and educator originally from Santa Cruz, CA. Her first book, Bone Language, was published by YesYes Books in June 2023. Her accolades include a 2023 Pushcart Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a RHINO Poetry editor's prize, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, as well as the San Miguel de Allende Writer's Conference Contest Poetry Award. Jamaica has also served as a community based teaching artist with Writers in the Schools - Seattle, Louder Than a Bomb - Great Plains (an affiliate of Nebraska Writers Collective), and taught a generative writing workshop for women in...
2023-11-072h 05
Rattle Poetryep. 217 - Christina KalleryChristina Kallery is the author of Adult Night at Skate World and co-host of the Shadowlands paranormal podcast. Her poetry has appeared in The Collagist, Gargoyle, Failbetter, Rattle and Mudlark, among other publications and anthologies, including a forthcoming anthology about Detroit music. A graduate of the University of Michigan, she has served as submissions editor for Absinthe: A Journal of World Literature in Translation and poetry editor for Failbetter. She currently lives in Detroit.
Find more on Christina here:
https://www.christinakallery.com/
This eve of Halloween episode features a spooky open lines—dim the lights and have a creepy po...
2023-10-312h 27
Rattle Poetryep. 216 - Brian TurnerBrian Turner is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently: The Wild Delight of Wild Things (2023), The Goodbye World Poem (2023), and The Dead Peasant’s Handbook (2023), all just published by Alice James Books. His other collections include Here, Bullet to Phantom Noise, and the memoir My Life as a Foreign Country. He is the editor of The Kiss and co-editor of The Strangest of Theatres anthologies. A musician, he has also written and recorded several albums with The Interplanetary Acoustic Team, including 11 11 (Me Smiling) and The Retro Legion’s American Undertow. His poems and essays have been published in T...
2023-10-242h 02
Rattle Poetryep. 215 - Maryann CorbettMaryann 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...
2023-10-171h 59
Rattle Poetryep. 214 - Jane HirshfieldJane 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 Rev...
2023-10-101h 54
Rattle Poetryep. 213 - Arthur RussellArthur 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.
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As always, we'll also include live open...
2023-10-032h 01
Rattle Poetryep. 212 - Anders Carlson-WeeAnders 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...
2023-09-262h 01
Rattle Poetryep. 211 - Penny HarterPenny 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...
2023-09-192h 08
Rattle Poetryep. 202 - Bruce WeiglBruce Weigl is the author of over twenty books of poetry, translations and essays, most recently Among Elms, in Ambush (BOA, 2021), On the Shores of Welcome Home (BOA, 2019), and The Abundance of Nothing (Northwestern University Press, 2012), which was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Weigl has won the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, the Poets Prize from the Academy of American Poets, the Robert Creeley Award, The Cleveland Arts Prize, The Tu Do Chien Kien Award from the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and the 2018 “Premiul Tudor Arghezi Prize” from the National Museum of Literature of Romania. Having foug...
2023-07-182h 27
Rattle Poetryep. 188 - Dick WestheimerDick Westheimer and his wife and writing companion, Debbie, have lived on their plot of land in rural southwest Ohio for over 40 years. A regular at the Rattlecast open mic, his poems have appeared several times in Rattle's Poets Respond series, and he was a finalist for the 2021 Rattle Poetry Prize. Other poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Paterson Review, Whale Road Review, Minyan, Gyroscope Review, and Cutthroat. His debut collection, A Sword in Both Hands: Poems Responding to Russia’s War on Ukraine, was just released by Sheila-Na-Gig.
Find more on Dick Westheimer here:
https://dickwestheimer.com/
As al...
2023-04-042h 06
Rattle Poetryep. 181 - Open LinesThe originally schedule guest, Kwame Dawes, couldn't make it, so this week's episode of the Rattlecast featured an extended open lines. But first, Michael Mark and Thomas Mixon joined to share recent Poets Respond poems.
For links to all the past episodes, visit:
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This Week’s Prompt:
Write a linked haiku sequence in which each haiku includes a line from the previous haiku.
Next Week's Prompt:
Write a poem in reply to someone else’s poem.
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2023-02-142h 17
Rattle Poetryep. 148 - Mark GibbonsAfter a week off due to a forest fire, the Rattlecast is back online!
Montana Poet Laureate Mark Gibbons is the author of nine books and two chapbooks of poetry, most recently In the Weeds. He’s edited two poetry collections for Drumlummon Institute and is the editor of the Montana Poets Series for FootHills Publishing. For four decades, Gibbons has taught poetry to a variety of citizens in Montana from one-room schools to colleges to the Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs. He lives in Missoula with his wife and continues to teach with the Missoula Writing Collaborative.
Find mo...
2022-06-212h 16
Rattle Poetryep. 110 - Vince GoteraRattlecast 110 features Vince Gotera and his new book, The Coolest Month.
Vince Gotera is a Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa where he served as Editor of the North American Review (2000-2016). After that, he served as editor of Star*Line, the print journal of the international Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. His collections of poems include Dragonfly, Ghost Wars, Fighting Kite, and the upcoming Pacific Crossing.
Find more on Vince at his website:
https://vincegotera.blogspot.com/
As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems...
2021-09-132h 03
Rattle Poetryep. 104 - Roy BentleyRattlecast 104 features Roy Bentley and his new book, Hillbilly Guilt.
Roy Glenn Bentley is an Appalachian-American poet and university creative writing professor. The lives of the poor in America are the primary focus of his work. He has been published in poetry journals as well as in four books of poetry and ten chapbooks. He currently resides in Pataskala, Ohio, in the USA.
Roy Bentley's poems have appeared in Blackbird, Shenandoah, Rattle, The Southern Review, and Prairie Schooner--as well as many other notable journals and magazines. He is the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for...
2021-08-022h 11
Rattle Poetryep. 103 - Jack RidlRattlecast 103 features frequent contributor Jack Ridl and his two most recent books, Saint Peter and the Goldfinch and Practicing to Walk Like a Heron. As always, we'll start with a brief look at current events with Poets Respond Live, and the second hour will feature open lines.
Jack Ridl taught at Hope from 1971 until retiring in 2006. He is the author of several collections of poetry, and has also published more than 300 poems in journals and has work included in numerous anthologies. He has given readings of his work and led workshops at colleges, universities, art colonies and other venues around...
2021-07-262h 15
Rattle Poetryep. 102 - Ace BoggessRattlecast 102 features long-time contributor Ace Boggess and hew new book, Escape Envy. As always, we'll start with a brief look at current events with Poets Respond Live, and the second hour will feature open lines.
Ace Boggess is author of six books of poetry, including The Prisoners, Ultra Deep Field, and I Have Lost the Art of Dreaming It So, as well as the novels States of Mercy and A Song Without a Melody. He earned his B.A. from Marshall University and his J.D. from West Virginia University. He serves as Senior editor at The Adirondack Review and...
2021-07-192h 03
Rattle Poetryep. 101 - Bro. Yao (Hoke S. Glover III)Rattlecast ep. 101 features our first returning guest, Bro. Yao, and his new book, One Shoe Marching Towards Heaven. This week's episode will jump straight to the guest with Poets Respond Live and the open lines coming in the second hour.
Bro. Yao (Hoke S. Glover III) is the former founder and co-owner of one of the nation’s largest African American Bookstores from 1993-2008, and currently works as an Assistant Professor at Bowie State University in the Department of Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies. He is currently working on a book of essays called The Wuhan Soundtrack based on his ex...
2021-07-132h 00
Rattle Poetryep. 100 - Alison LutermanRattlecast ep. 100 features Alison Luterman and her newest book, In the Time of Great Fires. As always, the first half-hour is dedicated to Poets Respond Live.
Alison Luterman is a poet, essayist and playwright. Her books include the poetry collections In the Time of Great Fires (Catamaran Press), Desire Zoo (Tia Chucha Press), The Largest Possible Life (Cleveland State University Press) See How We Almost Fly (Pearl Editions), and a collection of essays, Feral City (SheBooks). Luterman's plays include Saying Kaddish With My Sister, Hot Water, Glitter and Spew, Oasis, Touched, and the musicals, The Chain (with composer Loren Linnard...
2021-07-072h 18
Rattle Poetryep. 99 - Tina ParkerRattlecast #99 features Tina Parker and her new book Lock Her Up. As always, the first half-hour is dedicated to Poets Respond Live.
Tina Parker is the author of three books of poetry. The poetry collection Mother May I and the poetry chapbook Another Offering were published in 2016. Her newest collection, Lock Her Up, is forthcoming from Accents Publishing. Tina’s work has received support from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Individual poems have been published in Appalachian Heritage, Still: The Journal, Pen+Brush, Rattle, and Literary Mama. She grew up in Bristol, VA, and now lives in Berea,
KY.
For mo...
2021-06-282h 06
Rattle Poetryep. 98 - Wyn CooperRattlecast #98 features Wyn Cooper, whose poem "Smoke" appears in the summer issue of Rattle. As always, the first half-hour will is Poets Respond Live.
Wyn Cooper has published five books of poetry, most recently Mars Poetica. His poems, stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, AGNI, The Southern Review, Five Points, Slate, and more than 100 other magazines. In 1993, "Fun," a poem from his first book, was turned into Sheryl Crow's Grammy-winning song "All I Wanna Do." Cooper has taught at the University of Utah, Bennington College, Marlboro College, and at The Frost Place. He is a former editor...
2021-06-212h 03
Rattle Poetryep. 97 - Lance LarsenRattlecast #97 features the former Utah Poet Laureate and Rattle Poetry Prize Finalist Lance Larsen. As always, the first half-hour will feature Poets Respond Live.
Born in Idaho, Lance Larsen was educated at Brigham Young University, where he earned both his BA and MA, and at the University of Houston, where he earned a PhD in literature and creative writing. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Erasable Walls (1998); In All Their Animal Brilliance (2005), winner of the Tampa Review Prize; Backyard Alchemy (2009), and What the Body Knows (2018). His poems touch on Mormon heritage while examining everyday encounters. Larsen...
2021-06-142h 01
Rattle Poetryep. 96 - Melissa BalmainRattlecast #96 features the editor of Light poetry magazine, Melissa Balmain. As always, the first half-hour will feature Poets Respond Live.
Melissa Balmain is a humorist, journalist, and teacher. Since 2012 she has edited Light, the country's longest-running journal of light verse (founded in 1992 by John Mella). Balmain's poems have appeared in The American Bystander, American Life in Poetry, The Hopkins Review, Lighten Up Online, Literary Matters, Measure, Mezzo Cammin, The New Criterion, The New Verse News, Poetry Daily, Rattle, The Spectator (UK), Verse Daily, The Washington Post, and many anthologies; her prose in The New Yorker, The New York Times, McSweeney’s...
2021-06-072h 02
Rattle Poetryep. 95 - Supriya Kaur DhaliwalRattlecast #95 features a contributor to last winter's issue, Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal, and her debut collection The Yak Dilemma. She'll join us at noon EDT, but we'll start with a half-hour of Poets Respond Live.
Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal was born in the Himalayan town of Palampur, India. She studied at St. Bede’s College, Shimla; Trinity College, Dublin; and Queen’s University, Belfast. Her poems have been translated into Arabic, German and Italian, and have recently appeared in Ambit, Banshee, Gutter, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Jukebox, Poetry London, The Bombay Literary Magazine, The Irish Times, The Lonely Crowd, The Pickled Body, The...
2021-05-312h 03
Rattle Poetryep. 94 - Kerrin McCaddenRattlecast #94 features frequent contributor Kerrin McCadden and her new book, American Wake.
Kerrin McCadden is the author of American Wake, coming in March, 2021, from Black Sparrow Press. Her debut collection, Landscape with Plywood Silhouettes, won the Vermont Book Award and the New Issues Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, Keep This to Yourself, was awarded the Button Poetry Prize. McCadden has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and the Sustainable Arts Foundation Writing Award. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, and in such journals as American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Jo...
2021-05-261h 49
Rattle Poetryep. 93 - Martin Willitts Jr.Rattlecast #93 features frequent contributor Martin Willitts Jr. and his new book, Harvest Time.
Martin Willitts Jr. is a retired Librarian living in Syracuse, New York. He was nominated for 15 Pushcart and 13 Best of the Net awards.
Martin Willitts Jr. has 25 chapbooks including the Turtle Island Quarterly Editor’s Choice Award, The Wire Fence Holding Back the World (Flowstone Press, 2017), plus 21 full-length collections including the Blue Light Award 2019, The Temporary World. His recent book is Unfolding Towards Love (Wipf and Stock, 2020). He is an editor for The Comstock Review, and he is judge for the New York State Fair Poetry Contest. Hi...
2021-05-191h 57
Rattle Poetryep. 92 - Michael MarkRattlecast #92 features frequent contributor Michael Mark.
Michael Mark’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, River Styx, Salamander, The Southern Review, The New York Times, The Sun, Verse Daily, Waxwing, American Life in Poetry, and other places. He was the recipient of the Anthony Hecht Scholarship at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He’s the author of two books of stories, Toba and At the Hands of a Thief (Atheneum). Michael Mark lives with his wife Lois in San Diego.
For more info on the poet, visit:
http://www.michaeljmark.com/
A...
2021-05-121h 50
Rattle Poetryep. 91 - Tanya Ko HongRattlecast #91 features Tanya Ko Hong and her latest book, The War Still Within: Poems of the Korean Diaspora.
Tanya Ko Hong (Hyonhye) is a poet, translator, and cultural curator who champions bilingual poetry and poets. Born and raised in South Korea, she immigrated to the US at the age of eighteen. She is the author of four books, most recently The War Still Within: Poems of the Korean Diaspora (KYSO Flash Press, 2019), and is the recipient of the Yun Doon-ju Korean-American Literature Award. Tanya has an MFA from Antioch University and is a Ph.D. student in Mythological Studies at...
2021-05-051h 53
Rattle Poetryep. 90 - Janée J. BaugherRattlecast #90 features Janée J. Baugher and her new book on the creative process, The Ekphrastic Writer.
In addition to The Ekphrastic Writer, Baugher is the author of two ekphrastic poetry collections, Coördinates of Yes (Ahadada Books, 2010) and The Body’s Physics (Tebot Bach, 2010). Her writing has been published in journals such as Tin House, The Southern Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, Nano Fiction, and The Writer’s Chronicle, and she’s read from her books at the Library of Congress. She regularly collaborates with choreographers, dancers, composers, and visual artists, and her...
2021-04-281h 53
Rattle Poetryep. 89 - Eugenia LeighRattlecast #89 features 2013 Neil Postman Award winner Eugenia Leigh and her book Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows.
Eugenia Leigh's Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books, 2014), was winner of the Late Night Library's 2015 Debut-litzer Prize in Poetry as well as a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications including The Rumpus, Ploughshares, Waxwing, Pleiades, North American Review, the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, the Best New Poets 2010 anthology, and the 2017 Best of the Net anthology. Eugenia received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, where she was awarded...
2021-04-211h 54
Rattle Poetryep. 88 - Kim AddonizioRattlecast #88 features Kim Addonizio and her new book Now We're Getting Somewhere.
Kim Addonizio is the author of seven poetry collections, two novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her poetry collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her poetry has been translated into several languages including Spanish, Arabic, Italian, and Hungarian. Collections have been published in China, Spain, Mexico, Lebanon, and the UK. Addonizio’s awards include two fellowships from the NEA, a Guggenheim, two Pushcart Prizes, and other honors. Her latest book...
2021-04-141h 57
Rattle Poetryep. 77 - Dana GioiaRattlecast #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.
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2021-01-271h 58
Rattle Poetryep. 76 - Jennifer JeanRattlecast #76 features Jennifer Jean and her new book, Object Lesson.
Jennifer Jean's poetry collections include OBJECT LESSON (Lily Books) and THE FOOL (Big Table). She's also released the teaching resource book OBJECT LESSON: A GUIDE TO WRITING POETRY (Lily Books). Her poetry, prose, and co-translations have appeared in: Poetry Magazine, Waxwing Journal, Rattle Magazine, Crab Creek Review, DMQ Review, Green Mountains Review, On the Seawall, Salamander, The Common, and more. She's been awarded a Peter Taylor Fellowship from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, a Disquiet FLAD Fellowship from Dzanc Books, and an Ambassador for Peace Award from the Women's Federation...
2021-01-181h 50
Rattle Poetryep. 75 - Alexis RotellaRattlecast #75 features 2020 Rattle Poetry Prize Finalist Alexis Rotella and her most recent book, Dancing the Tarantella.
Alexis received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Drew University, where she did her thesis on Zen Buddhism. She also received a Masters in Classical Acupuncture from The Academy for Five Element Acupuncture, as well as a doctorate in clinical hypnotherapy. In 1984, she served as the President of the Haiku Society of America and edited it's haiku journal Frogpond the same year. In 2009, she founded Prune Juice, an English-language journal for senryu. Rotella is the 2019-2020 honorary curator of the American Haiku Archives at...
2021-01-131h 33
Rattle Poetryep. 74 - Marjorie LotfiRattlecast #74 features Marjorie Lotfi, a frequent contributor to Poets Respond, and her most recent book, Refuge.
Marjorie Lotfi was born in New Orleans, spent her childhood in Tehran, then lived in San Diego, Washington DC and New York before moving to London in 1999 and Edinburgh in 2005. She founded and runs Open Book, which organizes reading groups in community settings and with vulnerable adults, and The Belonging Project, a creative writing project considering flight, journey, assimilation and belonging alongside the experiences of refugees and migrants. Her poetry examines journeys and questions of belonging, particularly relating to the experiences of refugees and...
2021-01-051h 46
Rattle Poetryep. 73 - Skye JacksonRattlecast #73 features Skye Jackson, one of the 2020 Rattle Poetry Prize finalists, and her recent chapbook, A Faster Grave.
Skye Jackson was born in New Orleans. She is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop where she serves as an associate poetry editor of Bayou Magazine. She is the author of the prizewinning chapbook, A Faster Grave, published by Antenna.
Find the book here:
https://www.antenna.works/product/a-faster-grave/
Find more on Skye here:
https://www.skyejackson.com/
As always, we'll also include live open mic for responses to our weekly prompt...
2020-12-301h 57
Rattle Poetryep. 72 - Amy MillerRattlecast #72 features Amy Miller and her most recent book, The Trouble with New England Girls. Amy has appeared many times in Poets Respond and six times in Rattle's issues, most recently issue 67.
Amy Miller's full-length poetry collection, The Trouble with New England Girls, won the Louis Award from Concrete Wolf Press, and her latest chapbooks are I Am on a River and Cannot Answer (BOAAT Press) and Rough House (White Knuckle Press). She won the Cultural Center of Cape Cod National Poetry Competition, judged by Tony Hoagland, the Jack Grapes Poetry Prize from Cultural Weekly, and the Earl Weaver Baseball...
2020-12-231h 54
Rattle Poetryep. 71 - Sarah P. StrongRattlecast #71 features Sarah P. Strong and their new book, The Mouth of Earth. Sarah has appeared in seven issues of Rattle, most recently in this winter's.
Sarah P. Strong is the author of two poetry collections, Tour of the Breath Gallery, winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize (Texas Tech, 2013), and The Mouth of Earth (University of Nevada, forthcoming 2020), and two novels, The Fainting Room (Ig, 2013) and Burning the Sea (Alyson, 2002). Their poems have appeared in many journals, including The Nation, The Southern Review, Southwest Review, Poetry Daily, Rattle, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and The Sun. They are the recipient of...
2020-12-161h 45
Rattle Poetryep. 70 - Alan W. KingRattlecast #70 features Alan W. King and his forthcoming chapbook, CROOKED SMILING LIGHT. Alan has appeared in issues 31 and 54 of RATTLE.
Alan King is an author, poet, journalist and videographer, who lives with his family in Bowie, MD. He’s a communications specialist for a national nonprofit and a senior editor at Words Beats & Life‘s global hip hop journal. King is the author of POINT BLANK (Silver Birch Press, 2016) and DRIFT (Aquarius Press, 2012). He’s a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA Low-Residency Program at the University of Southern Maine. His poems and short stories appear in various literary journals, magazines and ar...
2020-12-091h 51
Rattle Poetryep. 69 - Jim PetersonRattlecast #69 features winter issue contributor Jim Peterson and his new book, The Horse Who Bears Me Away.
Jim Peterson is the author of six collections of poetry, three chapbooks, numerous plays, and a novel, Paper Crown, published by Red Hen Press and recently made available on Audible. His poetry collection The Owning Stone won Red Hen Press’s Benjamin Saltman Award for 1999. His newest collection, Speech Minus Applause, was released by Press 53 in 2019. His poems have appeared widely in journals including Poetry, Georgia Review, Shenandoah, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, and many others. His stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Re...
2020-12-021h 41
Rattle Poetryep. 68 - Steve HennRattlecast #68 feature's Steve Henn and his forthcoming book, Guilty Prayer. His poems have appeared in Poets Respond and four issues of Rattle.
Steve Henn wrote Indiana Noble Sad Man of the Year (Wolfson Press 2017), And God Said: let there be Evolution! (NYQ Books 2012), and Unacknowledged Legislations (NYQ Books 2011) and the forthcoming chapbook from Main Street Rag, Guilty Prayer (out Feb/Mar 2021). He has been featured at the Long Beach Poetry Festival, the Uptown Poetry Slam, IUSB Visiting Writer Series, Bloomington Writers Guild series, at the University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg, in the Divedapper Carnival poetry showcase, and elsewhere. He raises the 4 children...
2020-11-251h 20
Rattle Poetryep. 67 - Brian Sonia-WallaceRattlecast #67 features RENT Poet founder Brian Sonia-Wallace and his new book, The Poetry of Strangers.
In 2012, Brian set up a typewriter on the street with a sign that said “Poetry Store” and accidentally started his business: RENT Poet. Over 5,000 poems later, his book of essays, The Poetry of Strangers, profiles the communities he's written for across America, and the desperate desire to be listened to and heard that he found. Excerpts have been published in The Guardian and Rolling Stone, and he's been the official Writer in Residence for unlikely clients from Amtrak to the Mall of America. Brian Sonia-Wallace also...
2020-11-181h 31
Rattle Poetryep. 66 - Fiona Sze-LorrainRattlecast #66 features Fiona Sze-Lorrain. Fiona Sze-Lorrain is a poet, literary translator, editor, and zheng harpist who writes and translates in English, French, Chinese, and occasionally Spanish. She is the author of three books of poetry: Water the Moon (2010), My Funeral Gondola (2013), and most recently The Ruined Elegance (2016) from Princeton, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and one of Library Journal’s Best Poetry Books. She has translated several volumes of contemporary Chinese-language, French, and American poets, and guest/coedited three anthologies of international literature. Her work was shortlisted for the 2016 Best Translated Book Award and longlisted for th...
2020-11-111h 29
Rattle Poetryep. 64 - David MasonRattlecast #64 features David Mason, who has two poems in the current issue of Rattle. He'll being reading from his book of new and selected poems, The Sound, as well as a forthcoming manuscript, Pacific Light.
David Mason’s books of poems include The Buried Houses (winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize), The Country I Remember (winner of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award), and Arrivals. His verse novel, Ludlow, was published in 2007 and named best poetry book of the year by the Contemporary Poetry Review and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. It was also featured on the PB...
2020-10-281h 43
Rattle Poetryep. 63 - Jessica GoodfellowRattlecast #63 features Jessica Goodfellow and her book, Whiteout. Jessica has appeared in three issue of Rattle, including our most recent.
Jessica Goodfellow grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but has spent the last twenty years in California, Florida, and Japan. She received an MS degree from the California Institute of Technology and an MA in linguistics from the University of New England. Her first book of poetry, The Insomniac's Weather Report (three candles press), won the Three Candles Press First Book Prize, and was reissued by Isobar Press in 2014. Her second book Mendeleev's Mandala is available from Mayapple...
2020-10-211h 33
Rattle Poetryep. 62 - A.M. JusterRattlecast #62 features A.M. Juster and his latest book, Wonder and Wrath.
A.M. Juster is an award-winning poet, translator, and critic. His most recent books include John Milton's The Book of Elegies, The Elegies of Maximianus, and Sleaze & Slander, and his first book of original poetry, The Secret Language of Women, won the Richard Wilbur Award. Juster's poetry, translations, and essays have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, The Hudson Review, The New Criterion and many other publications. Just also had a long career in the federal government, where he worked in senior positions for four Presidents, twice in...
2020-10-141h 33
Rattle Poetryep. 61 - Molly FiskRattlecast #61 features former Nevada County Poet Laureate Molly Fisk and her newest project, California Fire & Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology.
Molly Fisk is an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow (2019), a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow (1999), and the author of two poetry collections: The More Difficult Beauty, and Listening to Winter, which was #4 in the California Poetry Series. She's a commentator for NPR and community station KVMR-FM Nevada City. Fisk was the Inaugural Poet Laureate of Nevada County, CA (2017-19) and is currently Poet Laureate of radio station KVMR and Hell's Backbone Grill in Boulder, UT. Through her on-line...
2020-10-071h 50
Rattle Poetryep. 60 - Kathleen McClungRattlecast #60 features 2020 Rattle Chapbook Prize winner Kathleen McClung.
Kathleen McClung is the author of Temporary Kin, The Typists Play Monopoly, and Almost the Rowboat. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, she is the winner of the Rita Dove, Morton Marr, Shirley McClure, and Maria W. Faust national poetry prizes. Her work appears widely in journals and anthologies, including Fire & Rain: Ecopoetry of California, Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace, Atlanta Review, Connecticut River Review, Southwest Review, and others. Kathleen lives in San Francisco and teaches at The Writing Salon and Skyline College, where she served...
2020-09-301h 22
Rattle Poetryep. 59 - Taylor MaliRattlecast #59 features slam legend Taylor Mali. Taylor has appeared in many issues of Rattle and was winner of the 2nd annual Rattle Chapbook Prize.
Taylor Mali is one of the most well-known poets to have emerged from the poetry slam movement and one of the original poets to appear on the HBO series “Def Poetry Jam.” A four-time National Poetry Slam champion, he is the author of four collections of poetry and a chapbook, The Whetting Stone, which won the 2017 Rattle Chapbook Prize. He is the author of the acclaimed nonfiction book, What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job...
2020-09-231h 54
Rattle Poetryep. 58 - Gregory LoselleRattlecast #58 features Gregory Loselle. Gregory's formal poems have appeared two issues of Rattle, most recently the summer 2020 issue.
Gregory Loselle won four Hopwood Awards and The Academy of American Poets Prize at The University of Michigan, where he earned an MFA. He has won The William van Wert Fiction Award from Hidden River Arts, and Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition for his short fiction, and The Ruby Lloyd Apsey Award for Playwriting.
His poems have won The Robert Frost Award of The Robert Frost Foundation, the Rita Dove Prize for poetry (both First Prize and an Honorable Mention) at Salem...
2020-09-161h 32
Rattle Poetryep. 57 - Alejandro EscudéRattlecast #57 features Alejandro Escudé. Alejandro has appeared often in both Rattle's print issues and Poets Respond, and was interviewed for issue #59.
Alejandro Escudé’s first book of poems, "My Earthbound Eye," was published in September 2013 upon winning the 2012 Sacramento Poetry Center Award. He received a master’s degree in creative writing from UC Davis, where he was taught by such notable poets as Gary Snyder and Sandra McPherson. Alejandro works as an English teacher, having taught in a variety of school systems at the secondary level for over fifteen years. Originally from Córdoba, Argentina, he immigrated to California many years a...
2020-09-091h 46
Rattle Poetryep. 56 - Jennifer PerrineRattlecast #56 features longtime Rattle contributor Jennifer Perrine and her new book, Again.
Jennifer Perrine is the author of three previous books of poetry, most recently No Confession, No Mass, winner of the Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Perrine’s other books include In the Human Zoo, which was selected for the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize, and The Body Is No Machine. A recipient of fellowships from Literary Arts and the Vermont Studio Center, Perrine lives in Portland, Oregon.
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https://www.jenniferperrine.org/
As always, we'll also include live open mi...
2020-09-021h 47
Rattle PoetryEp. 55 - Amit MajmudarRattlecast #55 features novelist, poet, translator, and diagnostic nuclear radiologist Amit Majmudar. Amit has appeared in Poets Respond twice, and has another poem in the soon-to-arrive fall issue of Rattle.
Amit Majmudar’s books include Godsong: A Verse Translation of the Bhagavad-Gita, with Commentary (Knopf/Penguin Random House India, 2018) and the mythological novel Sitayana (Penguin Random House India, 2019). His fourth poetry collection, What He Did in Solitary (Knopf, 2020), was just published. His novel Partitions (Holt/Metropolitan, 2011) was shortlisted for the HWA/Goldsboro Crown Prize for Historical Fiction and was named Best Debut Fiction of 2011 by Kirkus Reviews, and his second novel, Th...
2020-08-261h 44
Rattle Poetryep. 53 - Rhina P. EspaillatRattlecast #53 features Rhina P. Espaillat and her three most recent books, including And After All. Rhina was interviewed in Rattle #38 and has appeared in many issues, with both original poems and translations.
Rhina P. Espaillat has published ten full-length books and three chapbooks, comprising poetry, essays, and short stories, in both English and her native Spanish, and translations from and into both languages. Her national and international awards include the T. S. Eliot Prize in Poetry, the Richard Wilbur Award, the Howard Nemerov Prize, the May Sarton Award, the Robert Frost “Tree at My Window” Prize for translation, several honors from...
2020-08-121h 54
Rattle Poetryep. 52 - James RaganRattlecast #52 features longtime friend of Rattle and issue #12 interviewee James Ragan, and his new book, The Chanter's Reed.
James Ragan is an internationally recognized poet, playwright, screenwriter, and essayist. He has a Ph.D. from Ohio University and two Honorary Ph.D’s (London’s Richmond U. and St. Vincent College). He served for three years as Poet-in Residence at Cal Tech and for 25 years as Director of the Professional Writing Program at the U. of Southern California. He currently serves for 26 summers as Distinguished Professor of Poetry and Film at Charles U. in Prague. Published in 15 languages and 30 anthologies, worl...
2020-08-051h 30
Rattle Poetryep. 38 - George BilgereEpisode #38 features Wordplay host George Bilgere and his newest book, Blood Pages.
George Bilgere is the author of six previous poetry collections, including most recently, Imperial. The White Museum was chosen by Alicia Suskin Ostriker for the Autumn House Poetry Series. His third book, The Good Kiss, was selected by Billy Collins to win the University of Akron Poetry Award. He has won numerous other awards, including the Midland Authors Award, the May Swenson Poetry Award, and a Pushcart Prize. Bilgere is the recipient of grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Commission...
2020-04-221h 26