A poem from Rattle #40: https://www.rattle.com/i-long-to-hold-the-poetry-editors-penis-in-my-hand-by-francesca-bell/ A film produced by Blank Verse Films: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyL6mkkzsBwml-RuWo0GnOg ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxcB12YWQxE

A weekly livestreaming open mic for all of your news poems. Every week, Rattle receives hundreds of submissions for our Poets Respond series, but we're only able to publish one or two of them. This is an opportunity to share more as we gather around and explore current events through poetry. The best way to participate is to send Tim a chat message over Skype during the show at "rattlepoetry." You can also call the phone number shown during the show. Let it ring a few times, then hang up, and he'll call you back. Space is limited, so we'll just be choosing guests at in the order received from those who try to connect. The broadcast is on a 30 second delay, so be prepared to receive a phone call with no warning, and be sure to turn off or mute your video stream when you answer. Please note that the poems you share will be shown livestreamed video on Facebook, YouTube, and Periscope and then archived there, so only share poems you want saved in this format. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqaoboD3nt8

Note the new time: 4pm ET! For this Critique of the Week, we'll have another lightning round! Have a poem or question ready, and we'll through as many as we can. Instructions will be provided. Tune in, learn a little, and share your thoughts on others' poems in the chat window. 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 As always, do click "full screen" or turn your phone sideways, so that the text is large enough that you can read along. Also, to get notifications when we go live with these, go to our Facebook page, click on "Follow" and then turn on notifications, or click the notification bell on YouTube. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_rfJrGX1B0

Episode 22 features Peter E. Murphy and a pair of his recent chapbooks: I Thought It Was Gong to Be Okay and Mean Time. We also talk about More Challenges for the Delusional, an anthology of writing prompts and the poems by others they inspired, the writing process, and more. Peter E. Murphy was born in Wales and grew up in New York City where he operated heavy equipment, managed a nightclub and drove a taxi. He is the author of eleven books and chapbooks including most recently, Mean Time and The Man Who Never Was. His poems, essays and photographs have been published in hundreds of journals including The Amsterdam Quarterly, The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Cortland Review, Diode, Guernica, Hippocampus, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The New York Times, The New Welsh Review, Rattle, The Shakespeare Quarterly and elsewhere. Looking for Thelma, an excerpt from his memoir-in-progress, won the 2018 Wilt Nonfiction Chapbook Prize sponsored by St. Leo University. He has received awards and fellowships for teaching and for writing from numerous organizations including The Folger Shakespeare Library, The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The White House Commission on Presidential Scholars and Yaddo. The founder of Murphy Writing of Stockton University, Peter has led hundreds of workshops for writers and teachers. For more on Peter E. Murphy: http://www.peteremurphy.com/ Prologue: Abby E. Murray - https://www.abbyemurray.com/ Open Mic: Sasha Stiles Sarah Bricault Jesuferanmi Igbinigie David Cooke Meredith Bergmann Carla Swartz Joshua Corwin ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywiDIIyZgIM