Rattlecast #75 features 2020 Rattle Poetry Prize Finalist Alexis Rotella and her most recent book, Dancing the Tarantella. Alexis received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Drew University, where she did her thesis on Zen Buddhism. She also received a Masters in Classical Acupuncture from The Academy for Five Element Acupuncture, as well as a doctorate in clinical hypnotherapy. In 1984, she served as the President of the Haiku Society of America and edited it's haiku journal Frogpond the same year. In 2009, she founded Prune Juice, an English-language journal for senryu. Rotella is the 2019-2020 honorary curator of the American Haiku Archives at the California State Library in Sacramento. She has authored or coauthored more than forty books and chapbooks, most of which have focused on haiku and related Japanese poetry in English. Find more at: https://alexisrotella.wordpress.com/ As always, we'll also include live open mic for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. For details on how to participate, either via Skype or by phone, go to: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: A circus with no audience. Next Week's Prompt: Dictionary.com named pandemic its Word of the Year for 2020. Users of the online dictionary elected unprecedented as the People’s Choice 2020 Word of the Year. Write a poem using both of these words. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Periscope, then becomes an audio podcast. 0:00 Intro 2:26 “People Get Ready” by Alan Shapiro 5:07 “Empty Souls” by Alexis Rotella 16:55 “The Good Neighbor” by Alexis Rotella 18:12 “Purple” by Alexis Rotella 33:34 “From Elvis in Black Leather” by Alexis Rotella 36:34 “The Visitor” by Alexis Rotella 50:24 “Fire and Brimstone” by Alexis Rotella 50:56 “Unexpected Visitor” by Alexis Rotella 55:34 Haiku by Alexis Rotella 59:18 “Welcome to Belfast” by Alexis Rotella 1:04:28 “Selections from Dancing the Tarantella” by Alexis Rotella 1:12:41 “#CarryThatWeight” by Jennifer Jean 1:17:02 Tim’s prompt poem 1:18:07 Megan’s prompt poem 1:20:00 “A Circus With No Audience” by Navida Karthik 1:23:23 “The Turning to 2021” by Richard Westheimer 1:25:23 “A Circus With No Audience” by Vicki Miko 1:28:47 “Red Balloon” by Gayle Hammond [spelling?] 1:30:59 “A Circus With No Audience” by Jose Gonazalez 1:32:33 “Dorothy’s Tanka to Kansas” by Joy Stahl 1:33:23 “The Circus With No Audience” by Carl Johnson ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2LO4Vb3ei8

Rattlecast #58 features Gregory Loselle. Gregory's formal poems have appeared two issues of Rattle, most recently the summer 2020 issue. Gregory Loselle won four Hopwood Awards and The Academy of American Poets Prize at The University of Michigan, where he earned an MFA. He has won The William van Wert Fiction Award from Hidden River Arts, and Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition for his short fiction, and The Ruby Lloyd Apsey Award for Playwriting. His poems have won The Robert Frost Award of The Robert Frost Foundation, the Rita Dove Prize for poetry (both First Prize and an Honorable Mention) at Salem College, and multiple awards in the Poetry Society of Michigan's Annual Competitions, and have appeared in The Ledge, Oberon, The Comstock Review, Rattle, The Georgetown Review, River Styx, The Spoon River Poetry Review, The Pinch, Alehouse, Sow's Ear, and many others, and online in The Ambassador Poetry Project and other sites as well. His chapbooks include Phantom Limb (2008), and Our Parents Dancing (2010, both from Pudding House Press); The Whole of Him Collected (2012), and About the House (2013, from Finishing Line Press; and In Ordinary Time (2019, from Moonstone Press). His first full-length collection, The Very Rich Hours, came out in 2019 through The Poetry Box Press. For more information, visit: https://www.gloselle.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: September is Classical Music Month. Listen to a piece of classical music and let it inspire your poem. Next Week's Prompt: Write a poem from the point of view of an animal. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Periscope, then becomes an audio podcast. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52supLmDlsk