Rattle Poetry

These highlights from Rattlecast #257 aired on KPFK-Los Angeles (90.7 FM) August 11, 2024. Siddharth's fifth book, All These Streets We've Known By Heart, was published in 2022. Siddharth serves as Editor, Visual Narratives with The Bombay Literary Magazine, but calls the city of Poona home.

Jim Tilley is a Canadian-American poet, mathematician, and author of four poetry collections, a personal essay, and a novel. ​Born and raised in Québec, Jim holds a Bachelor's degree in physics from McGill University and a doctorate in physics from Harvard. After earning his PhD, Jim pivoted to actuarial science and established himself as a prominent thought leader in that field. During his 25-yea...

Andrea Hollander is the author of six full-length poetry collections, including Blue Mistaken for Sky (finalist for the 2018 Best Book Award in Poetry from the American Poetry Fest) and Landscape with Female Figure: New & Selected Poems (finalist for the 2014 Oregon Book Award). Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous anthologies and college textbooks, including Writing Poems, The Poets' Gr...

Philip Metres is the author of twelve books, including Fugitive/Refuge (Copper Canyon 2024), Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon, 2020), The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance (University of Michigan, 2018), Sand Opera (Alice James, 2015), and I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky (Cleveland State, 2015). His work—poetry, translation, essays, fiction, criticism, and s...

These highlights from Rattlecast #255 aired on KPFK-Los Angeles (90.7 FM) September 25, 2024. Suzanne Lummis is an influential poet and publisher, educator and arts organizer in Los Angeles. Her most recent book is Open 24 Hours.

Ron Riekki has a B.S. in Religion, with a focus on Buddhism, and an M.A. in Interreligious Studies, with a primary focus on indigenous religious practice and a secondary focus on Buddhism. His books include U.P., Posttraumatic, My Ancestors are Reindeer Herders and I Am Melting in Extinction, and i have been warned not to write about this. Ron is also a filmmaker and his plays have been performed...

Molly Peacock was featured in issue 32 of Rattle. She is the author of nine books of poetry, including The Widow’s Crayon Box, The Analyst, The Second Blush, and Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems. She is also the author of several books of prose and a memoir, and has written two biographies of painters. Molly served as president of the Poetry Society of America, where she initiated the Poetry in Mo...

Dorianne Laux first appeared on episode 44. She published two new books in 2024: Life on Earth, a collection of poems, and Finger Excersizes, a book of essays on craft. She is author of seven books, including Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems which was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and The Book of Men, which won The Paterson Prize. For more, visit: https://www.do...

Ori Fienberg has appeared twice in Poets Respond, and his new book, Where Babies Come From, was just released by Cornerstone Press. Ori is also the author of the chapbooks Old Habits, New Markets (2020) and Interim Assistant Dean of Having a Rich Inner Life (2023). His writing has appeared in Mid-American Review, Ploughshares, Rattle, Smartish Pace, and many other journals and anthologies. A gradu...

These highlights from Rattlecast #236 aired on KPFK-Los Angeles (90.7 FM) August 28, 2024. James Crews is the editor of several bestselling anthologies, including The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy and How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope.

Susan Terris began her writing career in children’s fiction, publishing 21 books with major New York publishing houses before dedicating herself to poetry. Since then, she’s published 7 books of poetry, 17 chapbooks, 3 artist's books, and 2 plays. Poems of hers have appeared in Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. Susan is editor emerita of Spillway, former co-editor of Runes, and...

Chris Anderson first appeared on episode 143. Chris is a Catholic deacon, poet, and retired professor of English living in Corvallis, Oregon. He grew up in Spokane, Washington, went to college at Gonzaga University, and attended graduate school at the University of Washington. He taught literature and writing for 38 years, 34 of them at Oregon State University. In 1997 he completed a Masters in Th...

Siddharth Dasgupta writes poetry and fiction from lost hometowns. His fourth book, A Moveable East, was published in early 2021. A fifth book and third collection of poetry, All These Streets We've Known By Heart, was published in 2022. Siddharth’s literature has appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Prairie Fire, Epiphany, Rogue Agent, Lunch Ticket, Kyoto Journal, The Rumpus, and elsewh...

Jennifer Hambrick is a classical musician, broadcaster, and poet. Her full-length poetry collection In the High Weeds won the Stevens Prize. In her haikai work, Hambrick won the Martin Lucas Haiku Award and the HSA Haibun Award. Her haibun collection, Joyride (2021), won the Marianne Bluger Book Award from Haiku Canada. Hambrick served as program chair for the 2023 Haiku North America conference;...

Suzanne Lummis is an influential poet and publisher, educator and arts organizer in Los Angeles. As series editor of The Pacific Coast Poetry Series (Beyond Baroque Books), she edited the anthology Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond, named one of the ten best books of 2015 by The Los Angeles Times. She teaches for the UCLA Extension Writers' Program and was the Mellon Foundation Institute...

Chera Hammons is a winner of the 2017 PEN Southwest Book Award through PEN Texas and the 2020 Helen C. Smith Memorial Award through the Texas Institute of Letters. She holds an MFA from Goddard College and recently served as Writer-in-Residence at West Texas A&M University. Her poetry chapbook Amaranthine Hour received the 2012 Jacar Press Chapbook Award. Poetry collections include Recycled Explos...

Kari Gunter-Seymour first appeared on Rattlecast 48 and was interviewed in our Appalachian Poets issue. She is the current Poet Laureate of Ohio and just published a new book of poems, Dirt Songs. Her previous poetry collections include Alone in the House of My Heart and A Place So Deep Inside America It Can’t Be Seen, winner of the 2020 Ohio Poet of the Year Award. A ninth-generation Appalachian,...

Maaz Bin Bilal is a poet, translator, and academic. His first collection of poetry, Ghazalnama: Poems from Delhi, Belfast, and Urdu, was shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar. His translations of Fikr Taunvis’s Partition diary, The Sixth River, and Mirza Ghalib’s Persian long poem on Banaras, Chiragh-e-Dair, Temple Lamp, were also critically noted. Reviews of his books may be found in...

Erin Murphy first appeared on Rattlecast 142. She is the author or editor of thirteen books, including Human Resources, forthcoming from Salmon Poetry; Fluent in Blue (April 2024); Taxonomies (2022), a collection of demi-sonnets, a form she devised; and Assisted Living (2018), poems about caregiving. In addition, her chapbooks include Fields of Ache, a collection of centos (2022). Her most recent...

Christine Potter is the author of the time-traveling YA series The Bean Books. She has also published three collections of her poems: Zero Degrees At First Light, Sheltering In Place, and most recently, Unforgetting. She's taught creative writing to high schoolers, junior high students, and senior citizens. Christine ran the online poetry workshop The Gazebo for many years. Her poems have appeared...

Annie Finch is an American poet, writer, translator, speaker, teacher, and performer. She is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Spells: New and Selected Poems. Her other works include influential essays, books, and anthologies on poetics, feminism, and women’s earth-based spirituality, including the influential book Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters. Educated at Yale...

Alan Shapiro has published many books of poetry and prose, including Reel to Reel, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Night of the Republic, finalist for both the National Book Award and the International Griffin Prize, The Dead Alive and Busy, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, and Mixed Company, winner of the LA Times Book Prize. His new books of poetry, Proceed to Check Out, and By and By, were...

Nancy Miller Gomez first appeared on Rattlecast 146. Her chapbook, Punishment, was published as part of the Rattle chapbook series. She has worked as a waitress, a stable hand, an attorney, and a television producer. She co-founded an organization that provides writing workshops to incarcerated women and men and has taught poetry in Salinas Valley State Prison, the Santa Cruz County Jails and the...

The great-grandchild of eight Irish immigrants, poet Julie Kane was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She grew up in Massachusetts, upstate New York, and New Jersey, graduating from Cornell University with a B.A. in English and winning first prize in the Mademoiselle Magazine College Poetry Competition, judged by Anne Sexton and James Merrill. That led her to graduate school in creative writing at Bo...

With special guest Denise Duhamel! Julie Marie Wade is a poet, lyric essayist, memoirist, and an experimental/hybrid forms writer. She is the author of twelve books of poetry and prose, including Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures, winner of the Colgate University Press Nonfiction Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Memoir; the book-length lyric essay Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing;...