Rattle Poetry

Feb 01 2025 285 ep. 113 mins 11

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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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ep. 279 - Hayden Saunier

Feb 01 2025 120 mins

2011 Rattle Poetry Prize winner Hayden Saunier has published five collections of poetry and her work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, the Gell Poetry Prize, the Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize, and nominated numerous times for a Pushcart Prize. Her acting resume includes film and television appearances in The Sixth Sense, Philadelphia Diary, House of Cards, Mindhunter, Hack and Do No H

ep. 278 - Kim Addonizio

Jan 25 2025 121 mins

Kim Addonizio was featured with a tribute to her and her poetry students in issue 67 and featured on Rattlecast 88. Kim authored nine poetry collections, two novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her most recent collection is Exit Opera (W.W. Norton, September 2024). She has received fellowsh

ep. 277 - Denise Duhamel

Jan 17 2025 121 mins

Denise Duhamel was one of our 2024 Rattle Chapbook Prize winners, and her book, In Which, was published along with this winter's issue. Her most recent full-length books of poetry are Pink Lady (Pitt Poetry Series, 2025), Second Story (2021) and Scald (2017). Blowout (2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A distinguished university professor in the MFA pr

ep. 276 - Donald Platt

Jan 11 2025 118 mins

Donald Platt is the author of eight volumes of poetry, most recently Swansdown (Grid Books, 2022). His poems have appeared in many journals, including The New Republic, Nation, American Poetry Review, Paris Review, and Poetry, as well as in The Best American Poetry 2000, 2006, and 2015. He is a recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, three Pushcart Pr

ep. 275 - Willie James King

Jan 04 2025 119 mins

Willie James King is a long-time contributor to Rattle, having appeared in 8 issues dating back to 1997. He's the author of five books of poetry, most recently To Be the Difference from Press 53. His poems have appeared widely in such publications as America, Appalachian Heritage, Confrontation, Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts, New Contrast (South Africa), English Journal, Souther

ep. 274 - Rex Wilder

Dec 29 2024 121 mins

Rex Wilder is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Rare Fuel, which was just released from Finishing Line Press. A award-winning poet and photographer, e is the author of four previously published books of poetry. His poetry collection, Open Late: New & Collected Poems (1979-2018), was published by Chatwin in 2018 and his latest book, A Quiet Place to Land was publishe

ep. 273 - Chase Twichell

Dec 14 2024 118 mins

Chase Twichell is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Things as It Is (Copper Canyon, 2018). After teaching for many years (Hampshire College, the University of Alabama, Princeton University), she left academia to found Ausable Press, a not-for-profit publisher of contemporary poetry, which was acquired by Copper Canyon in 2009. From 2013 to 2016 she served as Chair

ep. 272 - Lexi Pelle

Dec 07 2024 108 mins

Lexi Pelle is a poet and editor living in New Jersey. She was the winner of the 2022 Jack McCarthy Book Prize, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and a finalist for the Prufer Poetry Prize, Crosswinds Poetry Prize and the Marvin Bell Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in issue 81 of Rattle, Poets Respond, Ninth Letter, SWWIM, Sucarnochee Review, and The Shore. Find more on Lexi here: htt

ep. 271 - Eric Kocher

Nov 30 2024 120 mins

Eric Kocher is one of the 2024 Rattle Chapbook Prize winners for Sky Mall, which was included for subscribers with our fall issue. He teaches Environmental Studies at Wofford College. Some of his poems have previously appeared in 32 Poems, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Oversound, and A Public Space, among others. He lives in upstate South Carolina with his wife, Audrey, and their two

ep. 270 - Austin Alexis

Nov 23 2024 107 mins

Austin Alexis is the winner of the 2014 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award for his book Privacy Issues. He has also written two chapbooks―Lovers and Drag Queens and Lincoln & Other Poems. A member of St. George’s Choral Society, one of the oldest choral societies in the United States, Austin's poem "The Concert" appears in our Tribute to Musicians issue. He has taught literature a