ep. 160 - Jessy Randall (w/ special guest Michael Mark)

Jessy Randall is the author of the poetry collections Suicide Hotline Hold Music (Red Hen Press, 2016), There Was an Old Woman (Unicorn, 2015), Injecting Dreams into Cows (Red Hen Press, 2012) and A Day in Boyland (Ghost Road Press, 2007), a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Her newest book, Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science, was recently published by Gold SF / University of London. Her poems, poetry comics, and diagram poems have appeared in Poetry, Rattle, McSweeney's, and Asimov's, and she occasionally guest-edits the online magazine Snakeskin. She is curator of special collections at Colorado College. Find more at: https://personalwebs.coloradocollege.edu/~jrandall/ In the second hour, we'll be joined by special guest Michael Mark, to talk about his Rattle Chapbook Prize winning collection, Visiting Her in Queens Is More Enlightening than a Month in a Monastery in Tibet. As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. 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: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Write about a bruise or a scar, internal or external. Next Week’s Prompt: Write a poem about a historical figure most people don’t know. If you like, write the poem from that person’s point of view. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.