Episode #31 welcomes Rachel Custer to the Rattlecast. Rachel has appeared in three issues of Rattle and three times in Poets Respond, including with "How I Am Like Donald Trump," perhaps the most-read and most-discussed poem in the entire series.

Rachel Custer is the author of The Temple She Became (Five Oaks Press, 2017) and the recipient of a 2019 NEA Fellowship in Poetry. She has previously published poetry, personal essays, and flash fiction in many literary journals. She lives in Indiana, and her work is constantly informed by and wrestles with the values and struggles of the rural Rust Belt. Her Christian faith is vital to her understanding of the world and her art.

For more information, visit:

https://rachelcuster.wordpress.com/

Prologue:

"Siege Machinery" by Craig van Rooyen

This Week’s Prompt:

President Trump goes to the arcade. Bonus suggestion: Villanelle.

Prompt poems by:

Tim

Megan

Shaun Hines

Kathy Gibbons

Corinne O'Reilly

Next Week’s Prompt:

An addiction to soap operas. Suggestion: Epigram (short and witty).