Rattle Poetry

Rattlecast
Rattle Poetry

Meet a new poet every week, as they talk life and share poems with Rattle's editor, Timothy Green. All that, plus Poets Respond and the Prompt Lines—live every Monday! Rattle is a publication of the Rattle Foundation, an independent 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the practice of poetry, and is not affiliated with any other organization.

  1. ep. 266 - Jim Tilley

    21 OCT.

    ep. 266 - Jim Tilley

    Jim 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 years, he worked to help fund the California Earthquake Authority. In his retirement, he studied creative writing through workshops at Middlebury’s Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Sarah Lawrence College, and others. His newest book, Ripples in the Fabric of the Universe, was just published by Red Hen Press. Find more here: https://www.jimtilleypoetry.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 in the first person perspective in which something is repaired with the use of a most unlikely tool. Next Week’s Prompt: Write a poem in which someone wears a costume. Include as many sounds as possible. 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.

    2 h 2 min
  2. ep. 265 - Andrea Hollander

    14 OCT.

    ep. 265 - Andrea Hollander

    Andrea 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 awarded her the Lamar Williamson Prize for Excellence in Teaching. In 2011 she moved to Portland, Oregon, where she continues to mentor writers individually and to teach. In 2017 she established The Ambassador Writing Seminars, which she taught in her home until COVID when she switched to Zoom. Her most recent book is And Now, Nowhere But Here (Terrapin Books, 2023). Find more here: https://www.andreahollander.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 villanelle that mentions your favorite season. Make each refrain slightly different. Next Week’s Prompt: Write a poem in the first person perspective in which something is repaired with the use of a most unlikely tool. 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.

    2 h 3 min
  3. ep. 264 - Philip Metres

    7 OCT.

    ep. 264 - Philip Metres

    Philip 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 Cleveland Arts Prize. He is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University. He lives with his family in Cleveland, Ohio Find more here: https://philipmetres.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 in haiku stanzas (tercets with lines of five, then seven, then five syllables). Do not make it haiku! Next Week’s Prompt: Write a villanelle that mentions your favorite season. Make each refrain slightly different. 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.

    2 h 3 min
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Meet a new poet every week, as they talk life and share poems with Rattle's editor, Timothy Green. All that, plus Poets Respond and the Prompt Lines—live every Monday! Rattle is a publication of the Rattle Foundation, an independent 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the practice of poetry, and is not affiliated with any other organization.

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