Erica Reid appeared in this winter's issue of Rattle. Her manuscript, Ghost Man on Second, won the 2023 Donald Justice Poetry Prize and was just published by Autumn House Press in spring of 2024. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, and earned her MFA at Western Colorado University.

Find more information on Erica, visit:

https://ericareidpoet.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.

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This Week’s Prompt:

Write a “What to Do if …” poem about what to do in an unusual situation.

Next Week’s Prompt:

Write a “golden sestina” (or tritina): start with an epigraph from another poem, and use six (or three) words from that quote as the end-words of your sestina or tritina.

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