Rattlecast Podcast
1) 322-Julia-B-Levine
Julia B. Levine has appeared twice in Poets Respond, and she has a new chapbook, Lullaby for the Sixth Extinction, is just out from Wolfson Press. Her poetry awards include the 2015 Northern Californi...Show More
2) ep. 321 - Special Open Mic
Our scheduled guest, Billy Collins, was sick with a cold, so he postponed to January 19, 2026. Instead, we'll reveal this year's Pushcart Prize winners, and invite you to share your favorite poem that...Show More
3) ep. 320 - Jeff McRae
Jeff McRae’s debut collection, The Kingdom Where No One Dies, honors the ache and beauty of ordinary life. A contributor to Rattle dating back to 2004, Jeff lives in Vermont with his wife and three ch...Show More
4) ep. 319 - Richard Gilbert
Richard Gilbert first appeared in episode 6 of the Rattlecast, way back in 2019. He earned a Ph.D. in Poetics and Depth Psychology at the Union Institute and University, 1990. In 1997, he moved to Jap...Show More
5) ep. 318 - Julia Kolchinsky
Julia Kolchinsky came to the United States as a Jewish refugee when she was six years old, from Dnipro, Ukraine. She is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Parallax(The University ...Show More
6) ep. 317 - Kai Carlson-Wee
Kai Carlson-Wee is the author of RAIL (BOA Editions, 2018). His next book, The Cloudmaker's Key, is coming out in the fall of 2027. He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loa...Show More
7) ep. 316 - J.R. Solonche
J.R. Solonche has published poetry in more than 500 magazines, journals, and anthologies since the early '70s, including five times in past issues of Rattle. He's the author of 40 books of poetry, mos...Show More
8) ep. 315 - Crystal Simone Smith
Crystal Simone Smith is the author of Runagate: Songs of the Freedom Bound (Duke University Press, 2025) and Dark Testament (Henry Holt, 2023). In 2022, her collection of haiku, Ebbing Shore, won The ...Show More
9) ep. 314 - Al Maginnes
Al Maginnes has published 15 books of poetry, including Fellow Survivors: New and Selected Poems (Redhawk Publications, 2023) and most recently Second Line, a sonnet sequence which just released this ...Show More
10) ep. 313 - Chiwenite Onyekwelu
Chiwenite Onyekwelu’s debut poetry chapbook, EXILED, was published by Red Bird Chapbooks, and his work has appeared in two recent issues of Rattle. He was shortlisted for the 2024 Isele Magazine Poetr...Show More