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https://t.co/mORVmKgqS8 | Associate Editor @RattlePoetry | Former Poker Pro | Free Speech & Anti-War | Podcast Host: The Poetry Space_
The Woodlands, TX
Joined September 2009
Many thanks to Rick Lupert of Cobalt Poets and Poetry Super Highway for joining me, Timothy Green and Dick Westheimerto talk about hosting. The not-so-secret aim is to encourage others to host more poetry events, and of course to make them as dynamic/engaging as possible. With
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It's really an honor to win the favorite award for an issue of Modern Haiku. There's so much great work by so many poets in every issue, and I respect that community so much.
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There do not appear to be very many poems set in parties. Logical as that may be, if anyone knows of any good ones I’m on the hunt for poems to read tonight, when we record an episode of The Poetry Space_ about “hosting.” Thanks!
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@Katie_Dozier Hmm. Sort of a loose version of Housman: S The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea, And still the sea is salt.
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Jack Kerouac passed away 69 years ago yesterday, when he was 47. Sharing one of my favorite of his haiku:
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Katie's Rattlecast prompt this week was to write a haiku sequence inspired by the seasons. But she didn't say which kind!
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I now accept fairy coins for poem payments 🧚♂️
Fossils of sea lilies can be found in rivers in England, and they were once believed to be fairy coins. They are also called "star stones" and are said to bring victory over enemies.
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Unfortunately down for the count with day two of food poisoning but did manage to write my prompt for Rattle this week: “Write a haiku sequence inspired by the seasons,” though this was inspired by one seasons so I may have to disqualify myself! I won’t be live on the show this
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I'm seeking travelogues detailing journeys or attempted journeys to Mt. Sinai and Mt. Ararat. Any time period acceptable, but medieval and Renaissance preferred. Muslim, Jewish, Christian, and pagan accounts all welcome. (This is research for a novel. Please retweet.)
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So much depends upon our teachers! ❤️
@Katie_Dozier I tell my students that they have a right to say a poem is not good, and responsibility to demonstrate why, and this tends to startle them; they've been trained to approach poetry as inviolate. If they don't "get" it, they assume the problem is with them. Alas!
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I hope that if I ever become a well-known poet and publish something awful, people call me and the publication out on it. How are we incentivizing the best poets to write their best if anything they write can be published?
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Here is Chelsea's brilliant and heart-breaking poem:
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We all agree which pain is worse between a fist-full, pulling hair and one strand yanked out from its source.
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Today is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day in the US and many other countries. When tragedy strikes, poetry is a place that brings solace and a little comfort. The prompt poem of the month is "Empathy" by Chelsea McClellan, and we Rattle just published it today. The link
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New Verse Review Halloween 2025 Issue. Scroll to the bottom to read my new scary poem.
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Poems by Marly Youmans, Katie Hartsock, Vince Gotera, Meredith Bergmann, Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, Helena Feder, John Poch, Jared Carter, and others
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🐂 👁️!
@Katie_Dozier I wrote a lot of poems in this vein as a teenager when it seemed cool just to do something random and bizarre. Too bad those never got picked up by a major literary journal…
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If we don’t call out the bad published poems we’re aiding the devolution of poetry. Who wrote it better:
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