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).

Next Week’s Prompt: Coin a new word. Make that the title of your poem.

Upcoming Schedule

(all times Eastern, unusual times bolded)

Sunday, December 5th, 12pm: Tishani Doshi
Sunday, December 12th, 12pm: Jim Daniels
Sunday, December 19th, 12pm: Sophia Naz
Sunday, December 26th, 12pm: Jose A. Alcantara
Sunday, January 2nd, 12pm: Amanda Newell
Sunday, January 9th, 12pm: Grant Quackenbush
Sunday, January 16th, 12pm: Marcela Sulak
Sunday, January 23rd, 12pm: Bill Glose
Sunday, January 30th, 12pm: Lester Graves Lennon
Sunday, February 6th, 12pm: William Logan

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