Rattlecast #70 features Alan W. King and his forthcoming chapbook, CROOKED SMILING LIGHT. Alan has appeared in issues 31 and 54 of RATTLE.

Alan King is an author, poet, journalist and videographer, who lives with his family in Bowie, MD. He’s a communications specialist for a national nonprofit and a senior editor at Words Beats & Life‘s global hip hop journal. King is the author of POINT BLANK (Silver Birch Press, 2016) and DRIFT (Aquarius Press, 2012). He’s a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA Low-Residency Program at the University of Southern Maine. His poems and short stories appear in various literary journals, magazines and are featured on public radio.

For more information, visit:

https://alanwking.com/

As always, we'll also include live open mic 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:

Write a poem about a scientific discovery—real or imaginary.

Next Week's Prompt:

A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate and typically commonplace objects. Write a still life poem.

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