Bob Hicok’s tenth collection, Water Look Away, was published by Copper Canyon Press this year. A two-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and recipient of the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress, he’s also been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and eight Pushcart Prizes, and his poems have been selected for inclusion in nine volumes of The Best American Poetry. He teaches at Virginia Tech.

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https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/water-look-away/

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This Week’s Prompt:
Write a poem that addresses a pain from childhood, and use a refrain. 

Next Week’s Prompt:
Write a poem that begins with an idiomatic expression that you take literally or incorrectly, and see where it goes.

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ep. 222 - Bob Hicok

Greg Kosmicki is a poet and retired social worker who lives in Omaha, Nebraska. He founded The Backwaters Press in 1997, which he now serves as Editor Emeritus. Greg’s poetry has been published in numerous magazines since 1975, both print and online. Some of his earliest publications were in Poetry NOW in 1975 and Paris Review, in 1977. He received artist’s fellowships for his poetry from the Nebraska Arts Council 2000 and 2006. Three of his poems have been read on Writer’s Almanac. Author of thirteen books and chapbooks of poems, he is a 2000 and 2006 recipient of the Nebraska Arts Council's Merit Award. His previous collection, It’s As Good Here as It Gets Anywhere (Logan House) was a finalist for the 2017 High Plains Book Award. His new book is We Eat the Earth. He and his wife Debbie are parents of three children and grandparents of two.

Find Greg's most recent book here:
https://wscpress.com/3157/features/we-eat-the-earth-by-greg-kosmicki-2/

Find Edward Nudelman's new book here:
https://www.edwardnudelman.com/books

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This Week’s Prompt:
Write a poem that begins with an idiomatic expression that you take literally or incorrectly, and see where it goes.

Next Week’s Prompt:
Move through an unnatural environment and describe it as though you were writing a nature poem. 

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ep. 223 - Greg Kosmicki

Gaetan Sgro is an internal medicine doctor, girl dad, and medical educator at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine where he co-directs a program in the medical humanities. He is the recipient of teaching awards including the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, the Golden Apple Teaching Award, and the Carl R. Fuhrman Clinical Educator of the Year Award. His writing has appeared in Rattle, The Bellevue Literary Review, Hippocampus Magazine, Hektoen International, The Healing Muse, Academic Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA, the Best New Poets Anthology, and elsewhere.

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This Week’s Prompt:
Move through an unnatural environment and describe it as though you were writing a nature poem. 

Next Week's Prompt: 
Write a poem that includes multiple lists. 

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ep. 224 - Gaetan Sgro

Debra Marquart is a Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences and teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University, as well as the Stonecoast Low-Residency MFA Program at University of Southern Maine. Marquart serves as Iowa’s Poet Laureate and the Senior Editor of Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment. The author of seven books―including The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere and Small Buried Things: Poems―Marquart has been featured on NPR and the BBC and has received over 50 grants and awards including an NEA Fellowship, a PEN USA Award, a New York Times Editors’ Choice commendation, and Elle Magazine’s Elle Lettres Award. In 2021, Marquart was awarded a Poets Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. Her most recent book is Gratitude with Dogs: New and Collected. 

For more information: 
debramarquart.com

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This Week’s Prompt:
Write a poem that includes multiple lists. 

Next Week’s Prompt:
Look at an old family photograph, and find an object in the background that you hadn’t noticed before. Write a poem about it. 

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ep. 225 - Debra Marquart

Matthew Buckley Smith's poems and stories have appeared in AGNI, American Life in Poetry, and elsewhere. His first book of poems, Dirge for an Imaginary World, was selected by Andrew Hudgins for the 2011 Able Muse Book Award. His second book of poems, Midlife, was selected by David Yezzi for the 2021 Richard Wilbur Award, and will be published soon. 

For more information: 
matthewbuckleysmith.com

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https://www.amazon.com/Midlife-Matthew-Buckley-Smith/dp/1939574382/

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ep. 226 - Matthew Buckley Smith

Miracle Thornton is a winner of the 2023 Rattle Chapbook Prize, and her book, Plucked, was published with the winter issue of Rattle. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Rattle, DREGINALD, Silent Auctions, UpNorth Lit, and elsewhere. She’s been recognized by the National YoungArts Foundation and Princeton University, among others. She currently studies Literature at Bennington College.

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https://www.rattle.com/product/plucked/

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ep. 227 - Miracle Thornton

Tim Seibles is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Body Moves (1988), Hurdy-Gurdy (1992), Hammerlock (1999), Buffalo Head Solos (2004), Fast Animal (2012), which won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, received the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and was nominated for a 2012 National Book Award, and One Turn Around The Sun (2017). His latest work of poetry, Voodoo Libretto, was published by Etruscan Press in 2022. Seibles lives and teaches at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

Find the more on Tim here: 
https://blueflowerarts.com/artist/tim-seibles/

And Voodoo Libretto here:
https://etruscanpress.org/product/voodoo-libretto-new-selected-poems-by-tim-seibles/

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ep. 228 - Tim Seibles

Diana Goetsch is an American poet and essayist, author of eight poetry collections, the acclaimed memoir This Body I Wore, and dozens of features and columns. She was winner of the 2017 Rattle Chapbook Prize for her book, In America. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, LitHub, Tricycle, The American Scholar, The LA Times, The Chicago Tribune, Best American Poetry and The Pushcart Prize. Her honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Grace Paley Teaching Fellowship at The New School. 

Find the more on Diana here: 
https://www.dianagoetsch.com/

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ep. 229 - Diana Goetsch

Rimas Uzgiris is a poet, translator, and critic. He is the author of North of Paradise, published by Kelsay Books (2019). Tarp, a collection of his poetry in Lithuanian translation was published by Kauko laiptai. He is translator of Caravan Lullabies by Ilzė Butkutė, Then What by Gintaras Grajauskas, Now I Understand by Marius Burokas, The Moon is a Pill by Aušra Kaziliūnaitė, and Vagabond Sun by Judita Vaičiūnaitė. Uzgiris has contributed significantly as editor and translator to two anthologies: How the Earth Carries Us: New Lithuanian Poets, and New Baltic Poets. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an MFA in creative writing from Rutgers-Newark University. Recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship, and the Poetry Spring 2016 Award for translations of Lithuanian poetry into other languages, he teaches translation at Vilnius University. 

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As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. 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:
Write a poem that tells a story about a silent interaction with a stranger. 

Next Week’s Prompt:
Write a poem entitled, “A Brief History of [X],” where X is a word that needs to be translated, and the poem is less than a page.

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ep. 230 - Rimas Uzgiris

George David Clark is The author of Reveille (winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize) and Newly Not Eternal (just released from LSU Press). After earning an MFA at the University of Virginia and a PhD at Texas Tech University, David held the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship in Poetry at Colgate University and, later, the Lilly Postdoctoral Fellowship at Valparaiso University.  The editor-in-chief of 32 Poems, he previously served in various capacities on the staffs of Meridian, Iron Horse Literary Magazine, and the Best New Poets anthology. Since 2015 David has taught creative writing and literature at Washington & Jefferson College, where he is now an associate professor. He lives in McMurray, PA with his wife, Elisabeth, and their four children.

Find more information and George's books here: 
http://www.georgedavidclark.com/

As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins.  

For links to all the past episodes, visit: 
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This Week’s Prompt:
Write a poem entitled, “A Brief History of [X],” where X is a word that needs to be translated, and the poem is less than a page.

Next Week’s Prompt:
Write a song of someone or something, as a persona poem 32 lines long. 

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ep. 231 - George David Clark

Episode #30 features Kelly Grace Thomas and her new book Boat Burned. Kelly's poem "And the Woman Said" appeared in Rattle #51 and won the Neil Postman Award for Metaphor.  

Kelly Grace Thomas is a 2018 finalist for the Rita Dove Poetry Award. Her first full-length collection, Boat Burned, released with YesYes Books in January 2020. Kelly’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in: Best New Poets 2019, Los Angeles Review, Redivider, Nashville Review, Muzzle, DIAGRAM, and more. Kelly currently works to bring poetry to underserved youth as the Director of Education and Pedagogy for Get Lit-Words Ignite. Kelly is a three-time poetry slam championship coach and the co-author of Words Ignite: Explore, Write and Perform, Classic and Spoken Word Poetry (Literary Riot), currently taught in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Kelly has received fellowships from Tin House Winter Workshop, Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and the Kenyon Review Young Writers. Kelly and her sister, Kat Thomas, won Best Feature Length Screenplay at the Portland Comedy Film Festival for their romantic comedy, Magic Little Pills. Kelly lives in the Bay Area with her husband, Omid, and is currently working on her debut novel, a YA thriller, titled Only 10.001.

For more information, visit: 
https://www.kellygracethomas.com/

Prologue:
"The Girls on Josephine Street" by Melissa McEwen

Prompt Responses: 
Tim
Megan
Brenda Komarinski
Kris Beaver
Richard Chetwynd
David Cooke 

This Week's Prompt:
An undiscovered constellation. Must be no longer than 280 characters (“Twitter length”.)

Next Week’s Prompt:
President Trump goes to the arcade.  Bonus suggestion: Villanelle.

ep. 30 - Kelly Grace Thomas

Meet a new poet every week, as they talk life and share poems with Rattle's editor, Timothy Green. All that, plus Poets Respond and the Prompt Lines—live every Monday! 

Rattle is a publication of the Rattle Foundation, an independent 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the practice of poetry, and is not affiliated with any other organization.

ep. 30 - Kelly Grace Thomas

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