​jason b. crawford (He/They) born in Washington DC and raised in Lansing, Michigan, is the author of Year of the Unicorn Kidz. Their second collection, YEET! is the winner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize and was published Fall 2025. They have been published in Poetry Magazine, Academy of American Poets, Cincinnati Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, RHINO Poetry, among others. They are a 2023 Emerging Writers Fellow for Lambda Literary and hold their MFA in Poetry from The New School.

Find more info here:

https://www.jasonbcrawford.com/

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 that begins precisely where you currently are in life, but lands somewhere else entirely.

Next Week’s Prompt:

Write a poem which confesses something that’s secretly seasonal to you, but not so much to others.

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