Liz Robbins won the 2025 Rattle Chapbook Prize for her book Backlit. She's author of four previous collections, including Night Swimming, which won the 2023 Cold Mountain Press Annual Book Contest, and Play Button, which won the Cider Press Review Book Award, judged by Patricia Smith. She lives in St. Augustine, Florida, where she works as an editor, as well as a poetry screener for Ploughshares.

Find more on Liz at her website:

https://www.lizrobbins.net/

As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. Submit your poems through Submittable by midnight Sunday for a chance to be invited:

https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/269309/rattlecast-prompt-poems-online

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This Week’s Prompt:

Write a poem about a time something was put somewhere that it didn’t belong. Include an unusual detail about the person that found it.

Next Week’s Prompt:

Write a poem that explores how one of the cognitive biases has shaped your life.

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