Rattle Poetry Rattlecast

Alan Shapiro has published many books of poetry and prose, including Reel to Reel, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Night of the Republic, finalist for both the National Book Award and the International Griffin Prize, The Dead Alive and Busy, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, and Mixed Company, winner of the LA Times Book Prize. His new books of poetry, Proceed to Check Out, and By and By, were published in 2022 and 2023 respectively. He now lives in New England.

Find Proceed to Checkout here:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo130500563.html

Find By and By here:
https://waywiser-press.com/product/by-and-by/

As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins.

For links to all the past episodes, visit:
https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/

This Week’s Prompt:
Write an ode to something that doesn’t conform to typical ode topics and begins with an epigraph.

Next Week’s Prompt:
Write a poem set in a place you’ve always dreamed of going to but never have. Allude to all the basic senses.

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Nancy 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 working on a collection of personal essays. Her first full-length poetry manuscript, Inconsolable Objects, is now available from YesYes Books. She grew up in Kansas, but currently lives in Santa Cruz, California.

Find more on Nancy and her books here:
https://www.nancymillergomez.com/

As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins.

For links to all the past episodes, visit:
https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/

This Week’s Prompt:
Write a poem using a regular meter of some kind that references your ancestral home.

Next Week's Prompt:
Write an ode to something that doesn’t conform to typical ode topics and begins with an epigraph.

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.

The great-grandchild of eight Irish immigrants, poet Julie Kane was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She grew up in Massachusetts, upstate New York, and New Jersey, graduating from Cornell University with a B.A. in English and winning first prize in the Mademoiselle Magazine College Poetry Competition, judged by Anne Sexton and James Merrill. That led her to graduate school in creative writing at Boston University, where she was one of Sexton's students at the time of her death. Since 1999 she has lived in Natchitoches, where she is Professor of English Emeritus at Northwestern State University and winner of the Excellence in Teaching Award, Mildred Hart Bailey Faculty Research Award, and Dr. Jean D'Amato-Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award. During 2002 she was a Fulbright Scholar to Lithuania, teaching at Vilnius Pedagogical University. She won the National Poetry Series, judged by Maxine Kumin, in 2002 and the Donald Justice Poetry Prize, judged by David Mason, in 2009. From 2011-2013 she served as the Louisiana Poet Laureate. In 2018 she joined the poetry faculty of the Western Colorado University low-residency MFA program.

Find more on Julie and her books here:
https://www.juliekanepoet.com/

As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins.

For links to all the past episodes, visit:
https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/

This Week’s Prompt:
Find a partner and write a collaborative poem in some kind of form.

Next Week’s Prompt:
Write a poem using a regular meter of some kind that references your ancestral home.

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.

With 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 of Louisville. Born in Seattle, she now lives in Florida and is an associate professor of English in the creative writing program at Florida International University in Miami, where she teaches poetry, memoir, lyric essay, and hybrid forms.

Find more on Julie and her books here:
https://www.juliemariewade.com

We'll also be joined by Denise Duhamel for part of the episode to discuss her collaborations with Julie. Denise was the guest on Rattlecast 86, and a winner of the 2024 Rattle Chapbook Prize, in addition to publishing award-winning books like Queen for a Day and Kinky.

Find their co-written book, The UnRhymables, here:
https://www.amazon.com/UNRHYMABLES-Collaborations-Prose-Denise-Duhamel/dp/0578421429

As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins.

For links to all the past episodes, visit:
https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/

This Week’s Prompt:
Pull a random card from a deck and write a poem about it.

Next Week’s Prompt:
Find a partner and write a collaborative poem in some kind of form.

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.

Timothy Liu (Liu Ti Mo) was born in 1965 in San Jose, California to immigrant parents from Mainland China. He is the author of twelve books of poems, including Of Thee I Sing, selected by Publishers Weekly as a 2004 Book-of-the-Year; Say Goodnight, a 1998 PEN Open Book Margins Award; and Vox Angelica, which won the 1992 Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. He has also edited Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry. Translated into a dozen languages, Liu’s poems have appeared in such places as Best American Poetry, Bomb, Kenyon Review, The Nation, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, The Pushcart Prize, Virginia Quarterly Review and The Yale Review. Liu is an intuitive reader of occult esoterica, including the Tarot and the I-Ching and the Akashic Records, and he gives readings at Mirabai (Woodstock) and the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies (Rhinebeck). He teaches at SUNY New Paltz and Vassar College.

Find more on Timothy and his books here:
https://www.timothyliu.net/

As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins.

For links to all the past episodes, visit:
https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/

This Week’s Prompt:
Write a golden prose poem: one that includes the words from your favorite haiku but goes in a different direction.

Next Week’s Prompt:
Pull a random card from a deck and write a poem about 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.

Richard Garcia was born in San Francisco in 1941 and began writing in his teens. After publishing his chap book, Selected Poems, in 1972, he stopped writing for a number of years until an encouraging letter from Octavio Paz convinced him to return to it. In 1978 he published a bilingual book for children, My Aunt Otilia's Spirits, and University of Pittsburgh Press published The Flying Garcias in 1991. He earned the MFA degree in creative writing from Warren Wilson College Writers' Program in 1994. His third volume of poetry with BOA Editions, The Chair, was released in 2014; The Other Odyssey won the 2012 American Poetry Journal Book Prize, and his most recent book, Porridge, won the Press 53 Prize.

Find more on Richard here:
https://www.richardgarcia.info/

As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins.

For links to all the past episodes, visit:
https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/

This Week’s Prompt:
Write an ekphrastic poem about your favorite painting.

Next Week’s Prompt:
Write a golden prose poem: one that includes the words from your favorite haiku but goes in a different direction.

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.