Rattle Poetry

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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.

  1. ep. 344 - Robert Wrigley

    5d ago

    ep. 344 - Robert Wrigley

    Robert Wrigley's collections of poetry include The True Account of Myself as a Bird (Penguin, 2022; Box (Penguin, 2017); Anatomy of Melancholy & Other Poems (Penguin, 2013); winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award; Beautiful Country (Penguin, 2010); Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems (2006); Lives of the Animals (2003), winner of the Poets Prize; Reign of Snakes (1999), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award; and In the Bank of Beautiful Sins (1995), winner of the San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award and finalist for the Lenore Marshall Award from the Academy of American Poets. His most recent book is a collection of essays, Nemerov's Door, published by Tupelo Press. Find more here: https://robertwrigley.com/ As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. Submit your poems through Submittable by midnight Sunday for a chance to be invited: https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/269309/rattlecast-prompt-poems-online For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/page/rattlecast/ This Week’s Prompt: Write a poem that’s all about taste! Include a scent, but not the word “delicious.” Next Week’s Prompt: Write a poem about a time you got into trouble outdoors. 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.

    1h 45m
  2. ep. 343 - Lisa Wells

    May 19

    ep. 343 - Lisa Wells

    Lisa Wells is a poet, essayist, and documentarian. She is the author, most recently, of The Fire Passage, selected by Diane Seuss as the winner of the Levis Poetry Prize (Four Way Books, 2025). Her debut poetry collection, The Fix, won the Iowa Poetry Prize. She is also the author of Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a finalist for the 2022 PEN E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Her work has been published in Granta, The Believer, N+1, The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, and in The Best American Science and Nature Writing and The Best American Food and Travel Writing. She has taught for The University of Iowa, The University of Arizona, Portland State University, Yale-NUS and currently serves as co-editor of the Kuhl House Poets Series at the University of Iowa Press. Find more here: https://www.lisawellswriter.com/ As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. Submit your poems through Submittable by midnight Sunday for a chance to be invited: https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/269309/rattlecast-prompt-poems-online For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/page/rattlecast/ This Week’s Prompt: Write an after poem to one of the Rattle Poetry Prize finalist poems. Make sure not to take the magic from the source poem. Instead, create your own transformation! Next Week’s Prompt: Write a poem that’s all about taste! Include a scent, but not the word “delicious.” 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.

    1h 42m
  3. ep. 342 - Luigi Coppola

    May 12

    ep. 342 - Luigi Coppola

    Luigi Coppola has appeared in multiple issues of Rattle and the Ekphrastic Challenge. He is a teacher, poet, DIY music producer and multimedia artist (recording and performing as The Only Emperor), first-generation immigrant and avid rum and coke drinker. A graduate of the Warwick University Creative writing programme, he is Bridport Prize shortlisted, Ledbury and National Poetry Competition longlisted, has been included in the Poetry Archive Worldview winner’s list. He has performed poetry and music across the UK, including at the Poetry & Words tent at Glastonbury, literature festivals in Brighton, Coventry and London, and numerous events, slams and open mics. In 2022 he collaborated with the American singer Kyla Gabka on her debut album Waiting for Autumn. His most recent book, Even God Gets Distracted Sometimes, combines his poems with visual art by Mark Shuttleworth. Find more here: https://linktr.ee/PoetryPreacher As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. Submit your poems through Submittable by midnight Sunday for a chance to be invited: https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/269309/rattlecast-prompt-poems-online For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/page/rattlecast/ This Week’s Prompt: Consider your most controversial opinions and boldly write a poem about at least one without apologizing for the stance. Include a fresh metaphor. Next Week’s Prompt: Write an after poem to one of the Rattle Poetry Prize finalist poems. Make sure not to take the magic from the source poem. Instead, create your own transformation! 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.

    1h 52m
  4. ep. 341 - JeFF Stumpo

    May 4

    ep. 341 - JeFF Stumpo

    JeFF Stumpo is the author of the full-length poetry collection these are the waterfalls in my head, winner of the 2026 Granite State Poetry Prize and forthcoming from Yas Press (University of New Hampshire). He has published five chapbooks of poetry, most through Seven Kitchens Press, including Against Itself Cannot Stand, along with a spoken word album. His other honors include the 2024 Subnivean Award for Poetry and runner-up for the 2023 Joy Harjo Prize. A former bookstore owner, adjunct professor, and slam poet who founded and hosted a slam in Central Texas for five years, JeFF has been a featured performer at some of the oldest slam venues in the US. He lives in New Hampshire. Find more here: jeffstumpo.com Get the new book here: https://learnforlife.unh.edu/portal/events/reg/participantTypeSelection.do?method=load&entityId=676734136 As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. Submit your poems through Submittable by midnight Sunday for a chance to be invited: https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/269309/rattlecast-prompt-poems-online For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/page/rattlecast/ This Week’s Prompt: Write a poem in which utilizes a quote as the title, and indicate who said it within the body of the poem. Next Week’s Prompt: Consider your most controversial opinions and boldly write a poem about at least one without apologizing for the stance. Include a fresh metaphor. 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.

    2h 11m
  5. ep. 340 - Alan Shapiro

    May 1

    ep. 340 - Alan Shapiro

    Alan Shapiro first appeared in episode 248. He's back with a new book, Diver. He's the author of 15 books of poetry, including Reel to Reel, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Night of the Republic, a finalist for both the National Book Award and The Griffin Prize, two memoirs, a novel, two books of critical essays, and two translations. Shapiro has taught at Stanford University, Northwestern University, Warren Wilson College (in its low residency MFA program for writers), and from 1995 to 2021 he was the William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina. Find more here: https://www.unboundedition.com/product/diver-alan-shapiro-poetry/ As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. Submit your poems through Submittable by midnight Sunday for a chance to be invited: https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/269309/rattlecast-prompt-poems-online For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/page/rattlecast/ This Week’s Prompt: Write a poem that uses the present tense as one of the ways in which it creates tension. Next Week's Prompt: Write a poem which utilizes a quote as the title, and indicate who said it within the body of the poem. 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.

    2h 11m
  6. ep. 339 - Daniel Donaghy

    Apr 21

    ep. 339 - Daniel Donaghy

    Daniel Donaghy is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Somerset, which was named co-winner of the 2019 Paterson Poetry Prize. His previous poetry collections include Start with the Trouble, and Streetfighting, a Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist. He earned a BA in English from Kutztown University, an MA in English/Creative Writing from Hollins College, an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Cornell University, and a PhD in English from the University of Rochester. Donaghy was awarded the 2022 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize and a 2019 Artist Fellowship by the Connecticut Office of the Arts. He is Professor of English at Eastern Connecticut State University, where he edits Here: a poetry journal with his students, and serves as Poet Laureate of Windham, CT. He grew up in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, PA, which has inspired many of his poems. Find more here: https://www.danieldonaghy.com/ As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. Submit your poems through Submittable by midnight Sunday for a chance to be invited: https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/269309/rattlecast-prompt-poems-online For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/page/rattlecast/ This Week’s Prompt: Pick a decision that shaped the trajectory of your life and imagine if you’d calculated a different choice. Include at least one scent. Next Week’s Prompt: Write a poem that uses the present tense as one of the ways in which it creates tension. 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.

    1h 55m
  7. ep. 338 - Matthew Buckley Smith

    Apr 14

    ep. 338 - Matthew Buckley Smith

    Matthew Buckley Smith first appeared in episode 226. He won the 2025 Rattle Chapbook Prize for The Soft Black Stars. He's the author of Midlife (Measure, 2024) and Dirge for an Imaginary World (Able Muse, 2012). His poems have been featured in American Life in Poetry, Best American Poetry, and Poetry Daily. He hosts the poetry podcast SLEERICKETS. Find more here: https://www.matthewbuckleysmith.com/ As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. Submit your poems through Submittable by midnight Sunday for a chance to be invited: https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/269309/rattlecast-prompt-poems-online For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/page/rattlecast/ This Week’s Prompt: Write a villanelle that features something you see every day–and you’re the only person in the world that does. Next Week’s Prompt: Pick a decision that shaped the trajectory of your life and imagine if you’d calculated a different choice. Include at least one scent. 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.

    1h 58m
  8. ep. 337 - Brendan Constantine

    Apr 8

    ep. 337 - Brendan Constantine

    Brendan Constantine first appeared on Rattlecast 108. He's back with a brand new book from Red Hen Press, The Opposites Game. Brendan is a poet based in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in many of the nation’s standards, including Poetry, The Nation, Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly, and Poem-a-Day. A popular performer, Brendan has presented his work to audiences throughout the U.S. and Europe, also appearing on NPR’s All Things Considered, TED ED, numerous podcasts, and YouTube. Brendan currently teaches at the Windward School and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Since 2017, has been developing poetry workshops for people with Aphasia and Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI). Find more here: https://brendanconstantine.com/ As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. Submit your poems through Submittable by midnight Sunday for a chance to be invited: https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/269309/rattlecast-prompt-poems-online For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/page/rattlecast/ This Week’s Prompt: Write a poem that rallies against its own epigraph. Next Week’s Prompt: Write a villanelle that features something you see every day–and you’re the only person in the world that does. 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.

    1h 60m
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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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  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
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