238 episodes

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.

Rattle Poetry Rattlecast

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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.

    ep. 236 - James Crews

    ep. 236 - James Crews

    James Crews is the editor of several bestselling anthologies, including The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy and How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, which has over 100,000 copies in print. He has been featured in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The Christian Science Monitor, and on NPR’s Morning Edition. James is the author of four prize-winning books of poetry—The Book of What Stays, Telling My Father, Bluebird, and Every Waking Moment—and a book of short essays, Kindness Will Save the World: Stories of Compassion and Connection. James also speaks and leads workshops on kindness, mindfulness, and writing for self-compassion. He lives with his husband on forty rocky acres in the woods of Southern Vermont.

    Find more information on James, visit:
    https://www.jamescrews.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" sestina or tritina: start with an epigraph from another poem, and use six (or three) words from that quote as the end-words of your sestina or tritina.

    Next Week’s Prompt:
    Write a short poem that explore someone else’s awe.

    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 hr 12 min
    ep. 235 - Erica Reid

    ep. 235 - Erica Reid

    Erica Reid appeared in this winter's issue of Rattle. Her manuscript, Ghost Man on Second, won the 2023 Donald Justice Poetry Prize and was just published by Autumn House Press in spring of 2024. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, and earned her MFA at Western Colorado University.

    Find more information on Erica, visit:
    https://ericareidpoet.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 “What to Do if …” poem about what to do in an unusual situation.

    Next Week’s Prompt:
    Write a “golden sestina” (or tritina): start with an epigraph from another poem, and use six (or three) words from that quote as the end-words of your sestina or tritina.

    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.

    • 1 hr 57 min
    ep. 234 - Michael Meyerhofer

    ep. 234 - Michael Meyerhofer

    Michael Meyerhofer is a contemporary poet and fantasy author who believes those two genres genuinely can get along. His fifth poetry book, Ragged Eden, was published by Glass Lyre Press. His fourth, What To Do If You're Buried Alive, was originally published by Split Lip Press, then recently re-released by the fine books at Doubleback Press. In addition to his poetry books, he has published two fantasy trilogies. His debut fantasy novel, Wytchfire (Book I in the Dragonkin Trilogy), was published by Red Adept Publishing, and went on to win the Whirling Prize and a Readers Choice nomination from Big Al's Books and Pals. An avid weightlifter, medieval weapons collector, and unabashed history nerd, he currently lives, teaches, and inhabits various coffee shops around Fresno, CA.

    Find more information on Michael, visit his website:
    https://www.troublewithhammers.com/

    In the second hour, we'll be joined by special guest Zilka Joseph, who first appeared on episode 131, to share a few poems from her new book, Sweet Malida. Find her new book here:
    https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/the-laadu-makers-my-mother-and-grandmothers-legacy

    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:
    Revise a poem that you wrote a long time ago by radically shifting its perspective.

    Next Week’s Prompt:
    Write a “What to Do if …” poem about what to do in an unusual situation.

    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 hr 2 min
    ep. 233 - Sally Ashton

    ep. 233 - Sally Ashton

    Sally Ashton is a poet, writer, Editor-in-Chief of the DMQ Review, San José State University professor emerita, lecturer, blogger, and workshop presenter who has taught over 100 workshops. She was appointed the second Santa Clara County Poet Laureate, 2011-2013. She has collaborated with both visual artists and musicians. She is Assistant Editor of They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing, Black Lawrence Press, 2018. Her work is included in many anthologies. Listening to Mars, her fifth book of poetry, was just released.

    Find more information on Sally, visit his website:
    https://sallyashton.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 haiku sequence that talks about love without mentioning it by name.

    Next Week’s Prompt:
    Revise a poem that you wrote a long time ago by radically shifting its perspective.

    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 hr 3 min
    ep. 232 - Joshua Eric Williams

    ep. 232 - Joshua Eric Williams

    Joshua Eric Williams is author of two full-length collections of haiku from Red Moon Press: The Strangest Conversation, which received an honorable mention in the Haiku Society of America’s 2020 Merit Book Awards, and Silent After, which was just released. His haiku, "silent after," from Rattle' Poets Respond series, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won a 2022 Touchstone Award from the Haiku Foundation of America.

    Find more information on Eric, visit his website:
    https://thesmallestwords.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 song of someone or something, as a persona poem 32 lines long.

    Next Week’s Prompt:
    Write a haiku sequence that talks about love without mentioning it by name.

    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 hr 4 min
    ep. 231 - George David Clark

    ep. 231 - George David Clark

    George David Clark is The author of Reveille (winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize) and Newly Not Eternal (just released from LSU Press). After earning an MFA at the University of Virginia and a PhD at Texas Tech University, David held the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship in Poetry at Colgate University and, later, the Lilly Postdoctoral Fellowship at Valparaiso University. The editor-in-chief of 32 Poems, he previously served in various capacities on the staffs of Meridian, Iron Horse Literary Magazine, and the Best New Poets anthology. Since 2015 David has taught creative writing and literature at Washington & Jefferson College, where he is now an associate professor. He lives in McMurray, PA with his wife, Elisabeth, and their four children.

    Find more information and George's books here:
    http://www.georgedavidclark.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 entitled, “A Brief History of [X],” where X is a word that needs to be translated, and the poem is less than a page.

    Next Week’s Prompt:
    Write a song of someone or something, as a persona poem 32 lines long.

    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 hr 1 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
69 Ratings

69 Ratings

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Always

Always a pleasure and an education. Tim’s kindness, self-awareness, and humble expertise balance the discussion no matter the guest. The Terry Gross of poetry podcasts.

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Wonderful insights

This is an excellent show with a conversation format about poetry, and what drives poets to the page. I highly recommend it if you enjoy, listening to poems and listening to poets, talk intelligently about poetry.

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Poetry lovers!

You can enjoy good poems and even become part of the community!

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