Rattlecast #95 features a contributor to last winter's issue, Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal, and her debut collection The Yak Dilemma. She'll join us at noon EDT, but we'll start with a half-hour of Poets Respond Live.

Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal was born in the Himalayan town of Palampur, India. She studied at St. Bede’s College, Shimla; Trinity College, Dublin; and Queen’s University, Belfast. Her poems have been translated into Arabic, German and Italian, and have recently appeared in Ambit, Banshee, Gutter, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Jukebox, Poetry London, The Bombay Literary Magazine, The Irish Times, The Lonely Crowd, The Pickled Body, The Tangerine and elsewhere. In 2018, she was one of the twelve poets selected for Poetry Ireland’s ‘Introductions’ series. She is the 2021 Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the University of Kent. The Yak Dilemma is her first full-length collection.

For more on the author, and to order the book, visit:

https://www.supriyakaurdhaliwal.com/

As always, we'll also include live open lines 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 parasite—be as literal or figurative as you wish.

Next Week's Prompt:

Write a a poem in which an inanimate object or concept is personified. (See “Mirror” by Sylvia Plath for a great example.)

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Segments:

3:03 Richard Westheimer: "An American Jew Fails to Make Sense of the Carnage in Gaza"

12:35 Poets Respond Live continues

30:00 Featured Guest: Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

1:33:15 Open Lines