Rattlecast #73 features Skye Jackson, one of the 2020 Rattle Poetry Prize finalists, and her recent chapbook, A Faster Grave.

Skye Jackson was born in New Orleans. She is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop where she serves as an associate poetry editor of Bayou Magazine. She is the author of the prizewinning chapbook, A Faster Grave, published by Antenna.

Find the book here:

https://www.antenna.works/product/a-faster-grave/

Find more on Skye here:

https://www.skyejackson.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 titled “Astronaut.” Avoid using the words space, spaceship, stars, moon, rocket, planet.

Next Week's Prompt:

We used randomwordgenerator.com to select three random words: fear, staircase, passage. Use all three words in a poem, or use the Random Word Generator to pick three words of your own.

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