A native of Detroit, Jim Daniels currently lives in Pittsburgh and is the Thomas S. Baker University Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon. His recent books include Rowing Inland (Wayne State University Press, 2017) and The Perp Walk. He also coedited the anthology RESPECT: The Poetry of Detroit Music. His most recent book, Gun/Shy, has just been published by Wayne State University Press. Jim Daniels has appeared in five issues of Rattle, most recently issue #57.

Find Gun/Shy here:

https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/gunshy

As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. For details on how to participate, either via Skype or by phone, go to: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/

This Week's Prompt:

Take a walk around your neighborhood and write a poem about it. (Alternatives to walking: Take a drive, sit on your porch, or look out your window.)

Next Week's Prompt:

Write a tricube, a form invented by Phillip Larrea that consists of three stanzas made up of three lines where each line contains three syllables.

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