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 Sundays 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 and various podcasting apps—search for “Rattlecast” on yours.

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. If you can read it yourself, call in at the end of of the show over Skype or by phone (numbers provided during the show). If you can’t, you may include an audio recording in the email, and Tim will also read as many poems on air himself as time allows. Please include as much information as you can in the subject line of your email. For example: “Poets Respond poem with Audio file” or “Prompt Poem for June 6th, will call in.” In the body of the email, explain what the poem is about.

Latest Episode

Rattlecast 111 features Deborah P Kolodji and her latest book, Highway of Sleeping Towns.

Next Week’s Prompt: “To Autumn” by John Keats is one of the most highly regarded poems in the English language. It is richly imagistic and descriptive. Write your own ode to autumn.

Upcoming Schedule

(all times Eastern, unusual times bolded)

Sunday, October 3rd, 8pm: Marissa Davis
Sunday, October 10th, 8pm: Mark Jarman
Sunday, October 17th, 8pm: Joseph Fasano
Sunday, October 24th, 8pm: Jenny Qi
Saturday, October 30th, 8pm: Ernest Hilbert
Sunday, November 7th, 8pm: Clemonce Heard
Sunday, November 14th, 8pm: Ananda Lima
Sunday, November 21st, 8pm: Brittney Corrigan
Sunday, November 28th, 8pm: David Kirby
Sunday, December 5th, 12pm: Tishani Doshi
Sunday, December 12th, 8pm: Jim Daniels

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