A Livestreaming Poetry Reading and Podcast

We’re bringing a new poet into your pocket every week with the Rattlecast. Part interview and part reading, with a prompt-based open mic, it’s a casual way to hangout with Rattle editor Timothy Green and all of our friends in poetry around the world. The Rattlecast livestreams—usually Mondays at 8pm ET / 5pm PT, though the schedule sometimes varies. Please go to our YouTube channel and click “Subscribe.” Every show is simulcast to Facebook and Twitter. An audio version is available on iTunes, Soundcloud, Spotify, Amazon, and other podcasting apps—search for “Rattlecast” on your favorite.

Each Rattlecast begins with a Poets Respond Live segment, featuring poems about the news, and also features a writing prompt at the end of the show, and open lines for poems written for the last week’s prompt or anything else the audience would like to share. To participate, just send your poem to openmic [at] rattle [dot] com so it can be shown on-screen. Then, join in on Zoom during the last half of the show—a link will be provided in the chat windows on YouTube and Facebook. Submit your prompt poems here by the end of the month to be considered for the Prompt Poem of the Month.

Next Week’s Prompt: Pick an inanimate object and trace the evolution of your relationship with it throughout your life. Title it with the name of that object.

Upcoming Schedule

(all times Eastern, unusual times bolded)

Monday, October 2nd, 8pm: Arthur Russell
Monday, October 9th, 8pm: Jane Hirshfield
Monday, October 16th, 8pm: Maryann Corbett
Monday, October 23rd, 8pm: Brian Turner
Monday, October 30th, 8pm: Christina Kallery
Monday, November 6th, 8pm: Jamaica Baldwin
Monday, November 13th, 8pm: Prartho Sereno

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