Rattle Poetry
@rattlepoetry.bsky.social
#Poetry without pretension since 1995. Rattle is a publication of the Rattle Foundation, an independent 501(c)3, and not affiliated with any other organization.
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Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is @richardsiken.bsky.social, author of Crush and War of the Foxes. His new book, I Know Some Things, wrestles with truth, family history, and the traumatic stroke he experienced in 2019. Join us live at 8pm ET!
September 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is @richardsiken.bsky.social, author of Crush and War of the Foxes. His new book, I Know Some Things, wrestles with truth, family history, and the traumatic stroke he experienced in 2019. Join us live at 8pm ET!
Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is Michael Lavers. Michael appeared in issues 35 and 87 of Rattle, and his poems explore the deeper truth the lies just out of our grasp. Join us live at 8pm ET for more, on YouTube or Facebook!
July 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is Michael Lavers. Michael appeared in issues 35 and 87 of Rattle, and his poems explore the deeper truth the lies just out of our grasp. Join us live at 8pm ET for more, on YouTube or Facebook!
Join us for a Reddit AMA this Friday at 1pm ET! We'll answer all your questions about the $15,000 Rattle Poetry Prize or anything else you'd like to know. Drawing courtesy of Lizzy!
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June 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Join us for a Reddit AMA this Friday at 1pm ET! We'll answer all your questions about the $15,000 Rattle Poetry Prize or anything else you'd like to know. Drawing courtesy of Lizzy!
www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/com...
www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/com...
Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is Matt Mason! Matt served as the Nebraska State Poet from 2019-2024 and has run poetry workshops in Botswana, Romania, Nepal, and Belarus for the U.S. State Department. His most recent books are Rock Star and At the Corner of Fantasy and Main.
June 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is Matt Mason! Matt served as the Nebraska State Poet from 2019-2024 and has run poetry workshops in Botswana, Romania, Nepal, and Belarus for the U.S. State Department. His most recent books are Rock Star and At the Corner of Fantasy and Main.
Today's guests on the Rattlecast are Hanaa Ahmad Jabr, Jennifer Jean, and Wadaq Qais, and not the special time. Hanaa and Wadaq are in Iraq, so we're broadcasting live at 12pm ET. They'll be sharing their new book of dialogue in verse, Where Do You Live?
May 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Today's guests on the Rattlecast are Hanaa Ahmad Jabr, Jennifer Jean, and Wadaq Qais, and not the special time. Hanaa and Wadaq are in Iraq, so we're broadcasting live at 12pm ET. They'll be sharing their new book of dialogue in verse, Where Do You Live?
Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is Susan Cohen! A newspaper report and journalism professor, Susan often does write about the news, including many poems in her most recent book, Democracy of Fire. Join us live at 8pm ET!
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youtube.com/rattlepoetry
May 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is Susan Cohen! A newspaper report and journalism professor, Susan often does write about the news, including many poems in her most recent book, Democracy of Fire. Join us live at 8pm ET!
youtube.com/rattlepoetry
youtube.com/rattlepoetry
This week’s guest is Li-Young Lee. Wesleyan Press has just released a new collection of his mother poems, I Ask My Mother to Sing, which makes a great feature today. In the second hour, the Prompt Lines will feature your poems. Join us live at 8pm ET on YouTube or Facebook!
May 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This week’s guest is Li-Young Lee. Wesleyan Press has just released a new collection of his mother poems, I Ask My Mother to Sing, which makes a great feature today. In the second hour, the Prompt Lines will feature your poems. Join us live at 8pm ET on YouTube or Facebook!
Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is Dion O'Reilly. Her new book, Limerence, addresses an obsession with unrequited love. We'll also be talking about the poetry of altered states. Join us live at 8pm ET!
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May 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is Dion O'Reilly. Her new book, Limerence, addresses an obsession with unrequited love. We'll also be talking about the poetry of altered states. Join us live at 8pm ET!
youtube.com/live/zLIxJTX...
youtube.com/live/zLIxJTX...
Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is 2024 Readers' Choice Award winner Dave Newman! Dave is one of those guys who’s done it all, from truck driver to house painter to college professor. Join us live at 8pm ET!
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April 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is 2024 Readers' Choice Award winner Dave Newman! Dave is one of those guys who’s done it all, from truck driver to house painter to college professor. Join us live at 8pm ET!
youtube.com/live/i4YCqr6...
youtube.com/live/i4YCqr6...
Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is Susan Browne. Her new book, Monster Mash, explores the world in which "hyperbolic symbolism is actually just the news."
Join us live at 8pm ET and BYOP for the Prompt Lines!
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Join us live at 8pm ET and BYOP for the Prompt Lines!
youtube.com/live/nrLiQq1...
April 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is Susan Browne. Her new book, Monster Mash, explores the world in which "hyperbolic symbolism is actually just the news."
Join us live at 8pm ET and BYOP for the Prompt Lines!
youtube.com/live/nrLiQq1...
Join us live at 8pm ET and BYOP for the Prompt Lines!
youtube.com/live/nrLiQq1...
Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is Partirdge Boswell. Partridge is a musician-poet touring with the band Los Lorcas. We'll talk about the music of poetry and more.
Join us live at 8pm ET!
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Join us live at 8pm ET!
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April 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is Partirdge Boswell. Partridge is a musician-poet touring with the band Los Lorcas. We'll talk about the music of poetry and more.
Join us live at 8pm ET!
youtube.com/live/xXEMMvq...
Join us live at 8pm ET!
youtube.com/live/xXEMMvq...
Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is Lew Watts! If you enjoyed our conversation about haibun in the spring issue, now's your chance to ask any follow-up questions and hear some of his powerful poems first-hand.
youtube.com/live/wBAZu9Y...
youtube.com/live/wBAZu9Y...
March 30, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is Lew Watts! If you enjoyed our conversation about haibun in the spring issue, now's your chance to ask any follow-up questions and hear some of his powerful poems first-hand.
youtube.com/live/wBAZu9Y...
youtube.com/live/wBAZu9Y...
Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is Tiana Clark! Tiana won the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize for "Equilibrium." Her new book, Scorched Earth, is just out from Simon & Schuster. Join us live at 8pm ET!
youtube.com/live/GnuiK39...
youtube.com/live/GnuiK39...
March 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is Tiana Clark! Tiana won the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize for "Equilibrium." Her new book, Scorched Earth, is just out from Simon & Schuster. Join us live at 8pm ET!
youtube.com/live/GnuiK39...
youtube.com/live/GnuiK39...
Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is Stephen Gibson. His new book, Frida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale is a series of ekphrastic triolets, so we'll be talking about art, form, and more.
Join us live at 8pm ET!
www.youtube.com/c/rattlepoetry
Join us live at 8pm ET!
www.youtube.com/c/rattlepoetry
March 16, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is Stephen Gibson. His new book, Frida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale is a series of ekphrastic triolets, so we'll be talking about art, form, and more.
Join us live at 8pm ET!
www.youtube.com/c/rattlepoetry
Join us live at 8pm ET!
www.youtube.com/c/rattlepoetry
More to the left, he says, then leans to watch
the dangling claw from a better angle
as I guide the stubby joystick …
—Chad Frame
Read the rest:
www.rattle.com/claw-machine...
the dangling claw from a better angle
as I guide the stubby joystick …
—Chad Frame
Read the rest:
www.rattle.com/claw-machine...
March 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
More to the left, he says, then leans to watch
the dangling claw from a better angle
as I guide the stubby joystick …
—Chad Frame
Read the rest:
www.rattle.com/claw-machine...
the dangling claw from a better angle
as I guide the stubby joystick …
—Chad Frame
Read the rest:
www.rattle.com/claw-machine...
March 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is the Toddfather himself, Todd Robinson. Join us live at 8pm ET—and BYOPoems about a memory you've never shared that includes dialogue!
www.youtube.com/c/rattlepoetry
www.youtube.com/c/rattlepoetry
February 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is the Toddfather himself, Todd Robinson. Join us live at 8pm ET—and BYOPoems about a memory you've never shared that includes dialogue!
www.youtube.com/c/rattlepoetry
www.youtube.com/c/rattlepoetry
We hit a pair of nice milestones last week: 6,000 YouTube subscribers and 25,000 email subscribers to our daily poem!
February 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
We hit a pair of nice milestones last week: 6,000 YouTube subscribers and 25,000 email subscribers to our daily poem!
This week's Rattlecast will air live 8 hours earlier than normal, so that the Super Bowl doesn't have to compete with us. It wouldn't be fair to them. So join us at 12pm ET on Sunday to meet Irish poet @scyflynn.bsky.social!
youtube.com/live/917GEBv...
youtube.com/live/917GEBv...
February 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This week's Rattlecast will air live 8 hours earlier than normal, so that the Super Bowl doesn't have to compete with us. It wouldn't be fair to them. So join us at 12pm ET on Sunday to meet Irish poet @scyflynn.bsky.social!
youtube.com/live/917GEBv...
youtube.com/live/917GEBv...
It's that time of year—get your manuscripts ready for the best publishing prize in poetry!
Three winners. $5,000 each. Full distribution to our 8,000+ subscribers. There's no other book award like it.
Deadline: January 15th
Three winners. $5,000 each. Full distribution to our 8,000+ subscribers. There's no other book award like it.
Deadline: January 15th
December 3, 2024 at 3:01 AM
It's that time of year—get your manuscripts ready for the best publishing prize in poetry!
Three winners. $5,000 each. Full distribution to our 8,000+ subscribers. There's no other book award like it.
Deadline: January 15th
Three winners. $5,000 each. Full distribution to our 8,000+ subscribers. There's no other book award like it.
Deadline: January 15th
Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is Eric Kocher, the first of our 2024 Rattle Chapbook Prize winners for Sky Mall. In the second hour, the Prompt Lines will feature triolets and birds. Share yours! Join us live at 8pm ET!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr-e...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr-e...
December 2, 2024 at 12:20 AM
Tonight's guest on the Rattlecast is Eric Kocher, the first of our 2024 Rattle Chapbook Prize winners for Sky Mall. In the second hour, the Prompt Lines will feature triolets and birds. Share yours! Join us live at 8pm ET!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr-e...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr-e...
Tonight's Rattlecast is our Halloween Special, featuring Christina Kallery of the Shadowland paranormal podcast and a special spooky open lines. If you have a creepy poem, share it on the open lines in the second hour!
Join us here or here:
www.youtube.com/c/rattlepoetry
Join us here or here:
www.youtube.com/c/rattlepoetry
October 30, 2023 at 7:57 PM
Tonight's Rattlecast is our Halloween Special, featuring Christina Kallery of the Shadowland paranormal podcast and a special spooky open lines. If you have a creepy poem, share it on the open lines in the second hour!
Join us here or here:
www.youtube.com/c/rattlepoetry
Join us here or here:
www.youtube.com/c/rattlepoetry