For this Critique of the Week, we'll be poems by Drake McDonald and Inkyoo Lee. Tune in to learn a little and give the authors some feedback in the comments!
Participants are drawn at random from those who submitted poems for critique. If you'd like to have your own poems critiqued on live video, find the Critique of the Week category on our Submittable page: https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/177206/critique-of-the-week
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In this highlight from Rattlecast #82, A.E. Stallings discusses the ways rhyme is used in poetry, and shares the fundamental rules for making rhyme work. Then she reads her rhymed poem "Pencil."
For more on A.E. Stallings, visit:
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For this Critique of the Week, we'll be looking at two poems by Pervin Saket. Listen in, maybe learn a little, and give the author some feedback in the comments!
We do a drawing for participants after the last show every month. If you'd like to have your own poems critiqued on live video, enter the drawing here: https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/177206/critique-of-the-week
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For this Critique of the Week, then move quickly through the oldest submissions in the queue. Tune in, share your thoughts, and learn a little in the process!
Participants are drawn from those who submitted poems for critique. If you'd like to have your own poems critiqued on live video, find the Critique of the Week category on our Submittable page: https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/177206/critique-of-the-week
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For this Critique of the Week, then move quickly through the oldest submissions in the queue. Tune in, share your thoughts, and learn a little in the process!
Participants are drawn from those who submitted poems for critique. If you'd like to have your own poems critiqued on live video, find the Critique of the Week category on our Submittable page: https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/177206/critique-of-the-week
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Episode #44 features Dorianne Laux and her recent recent new and selected collection, Only as the Day Is Long. Dorianne was interviewed in issue #8 of Rattle and has also appeared in issue #25 and Poets Respond.
Dorianne Laux’s sixth collection, Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems was named a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her fifth collection,The Book of Men, was awarded The Paterson Prize. Her fourth book of poems, Facts About the Moon, won The Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Laux is also the author of Awake; What We Carry, a finalist for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award; Smoke; as well as a fine small press edition, The Book of Women. She is the co-author of the celebrated text The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry.
For more information, visit:
http://www.doriannelaux.net/
This Week's Prompt:
With your eyes closed, open any book to a random page. Make the title of your poem the first word you see.
Next Week's Prompt:
Write a poem based on your most recent dream. Must not use adjectives or adverbs.
As always, we'll also include live open mic for responses to our weekly prompt or recent publications. For details on how to participate, either pre-recorded, via Skype, or by phone, go to: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/
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Nikita Parik holds a Master's in Linguistics, a three-year diploma in French, and another Master's in English. Diacritics of Desire (2019) is her debut book of poems, followed by Amour and Apocalypse (2020), a novel in translation. Published in India and overseas, she is the recipient of the Mukti Bose Memorial IPPL Young Poet Award 2022 and one of the Nissim Excellence in Writing Award 2020. Nikita currently edits the EKL Review. A winner of the Ekphrastic Challenge in 2021, her most recent book, My City is a Murder of Crows, was published in July.
Order her new book here:
https://www.amazon.sg/My-City-Murder-Crows-poems/dp/9391431429
As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins.
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This Week's Prompt:
In his long autobiographical poem, The Prelude, Wordsworth writes about what he called “spots of time,” small memorable events we experience that thereafter remain in our consciousness and “give profoundest knowledge,” helping us determine who and what we are and what we may become. Write a poem in which you focus on one of these “spots of time” in your own life and what it has subsequently meant to you.
Next Week’s Prompt:
Andhadhi is a unique kind of Tamil poetry constructed such that the last or ending word of each stanza becomes the first word of the next stanza . In some instances, the last word of the series of stanza becomes the beginning of the very first stanza , thus making the poem a true garland of stanza. Andha(m) means "end" and Adhi means "beginning."
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For this Critique of the Week, we'll be looking at poems by Claire Bourdon and Peadar O'Donoghue. Listen in, maybe learn a little, and give the authors some feedback in the comments!
At the end of every month, we do a drawing to select the next round of participants. If you'd like to have your own poems critiqued on live video, find the Critique of the Week category on our Submittable page: https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/177206/critique-of-the-week
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For this Critique of the Week, then move quickly through the oldest submissions in the queue. Tune in, share your thoughts, and learn a little in the process!
Participants are drawn from those who submitted poems for critique. If you'd like to have your own poems critiqued on live video, find the Critique of the Week category on our Submittable page: https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/177206/critique-of-the-week
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Rattlecast #60 features 2020 Rattle Chapbook Prize winner Kathleen McClung.
Kathleen McClung is the author of Temporary Kin, The Typists Play Monopoly, and Almost the Rowboat. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, she is the winner of the Rita Dove, Morton Marr, Shirley McClure, and Maria W. Faust national poetry prizes. Her work appears widely in journals and anthologies, including Fire & Rain: Ecopoetry of California, Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace, Atlanta Review, Connecticut River Review, Southwest Review, and others. Kathleen lives in San Francisco and teaches at The Writing Salon and Skyline College, where she served for ten years as director of the annual Women on Writing conference. She is associate director and sonnet judge for the Soul-Making Keats literary competition. In 2018-19 she was a writer-in-residence at Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.
For more information, visit:
https://www.kathleenmcclung.com/
As always, we'll also include live open mic for responses to our weekly prompt. For details on how to participate, either pre-recorded, via Skype, or by phone, go to: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/
This Week's Prompt (from Taylor Mali's Metaphor Dice):
"Hope is a vacant curse."
Next Week's Prompt:
Write a poem with a color as the title.
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