Keetje Kuipers is the author of four books of poems, all from BOA Editions. Her most recent collection, Lonely Women Make Good Lovers (2025), was the winner of the Isabella Gardner Award. Her first book, Beautiful in the Mouth, was selected by Thomas Lux as the winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Named one of the top ten debut poetry books of 2010 by Poets & Writers, her first book also appeared in the top ten on the contemporary poetry bestseller list. Her second collection, The Keys to the Jail (2014), was a book club selection for The Rumpus, and her third book, All Its Charms (2019), was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and includes poems honored by publication in both The Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies.

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https://keetjekuipers.com/

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This Week’s Prompt:

Write a poem about a time that you carried more than you ever thought possible, and include a reference to temperature.

Next Week’s Prompt:

Write a poem that references small talk in a big way.

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Judith Fox is an award-winning fine art photographer, poet, public speaker, and business leader. The temporary service she founded in Richmond, Virginia in 1978 was purchased by a NYSE firm in 1996. During her business career, Fox served on many for-profit and non-profit boards, was a public speaker and consultant. After selling her company, Judith devoted herself full-time to photography and writing. Fox’s award-winning photographs are in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), the Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA), the Southeast Museum of Photography (SMP), the Harry Ransom Center, the Haggerty Museum of Art, and the Harn Museum; her work is in private and corporate collections throughout the world. Fox’s photographs have been exhibited in solo and group shows in the United States and Europe. After her book I Still Do: Loving and Living with Alzheimer’s was released, Fox became a global advocate for Alzheimer’s awareness and education. She’s been a speaker and consultant on Alzheimer’s and family caregiving for corporations, non-profit associations and universities. I Still Do was named “one of the best photography books of 2009” by Photo-Eye Magazine. Judith Fox lives and works in Southern California and is currently working on a collection of poetry.

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https://www.judithfox.com/

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This Week’s Prompt:

Write a poem about the happiest place on earth.

Next Week’s Prompt:

Write a poem about a time that you carried more than you ever thought possible, and include a reference to temperature.

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Bethany Jarmul is an Appalachian writer and poet. She’s the author of two chapbooks and one poetry collection—This Strange and Wonderful Existence, Take Me Home, and Lightning is a Mother. Her writing was selected for Best Spiritual Literature 2023 and Best Small Fictions 2024, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize, The Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and Wigleaf Top 50.

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https://bethanyjarmulwriter.wordpress.com/

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This Week’s Prompt:

Write a poem that includes an unexpected vow.

Next Week’s Prompt:

Write a poem about the happiest place on earth.

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Todd Robinson, affectionately known to acolytes as "Toddfather," is a poet and educator based in Omaha. He is the author of Mass for Shut-Ins (Backwaters Press, 2018) and Note at Heart Rock (Main Street Rag Publishing, 2012). Recipient of the 2011-2012 Thompson Learning Community’s Outstanding Faculty Award, he has conducted writing workshops with The Seven Doctors Project, The Naturalist School, Nebraska Warrior Writers, Nebraska Writers Collective, and the CÚRAM center for research in medical devices. He is founder and host of the Kaneko Art Museum’s Bibliophilia reading series, which is currently on a long pandemic pause. He earned a B.A. and M.A. from Creighton University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He serves as vice president on the board of directors of Big Feels Lab.

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https://www.toddfather.net

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This Week’s Prompt:

Write a poem that includes a memory you’ve never shared. Include dialogue.

Next Week’s Prompt:

Write a poem that includes an unexpected vow.

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S.C. Flynn was born in a small town in Australia of Irish origin and now lives in Dublin. His poetry has been published in over 100 journals and magazines around the world. The Colour of Extinction, first full-length collection, was just published but Renard Press.

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https://scflynn.com/

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This Week’s Prompt:

Write an elegy that’s not about a person.

Next Week’s Prompt:

Write a poem that includes a memory you’ve never spoken of before. Include dialogue.

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2011 Rattle Poetry Prize winner Hayden Saunier has published five collections of poetry and her work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, the Gell Poetry Prize, the Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize, and nominated numerous times for a Pushcart Prize. Her acting resume includes film and television appearances in The Sixth Sense, Philadelphia Diary, House of Cards, Mindhunter, Hack and Do No Harm and dozens of roles at regional theatres such as the Guthrie Theatre , Walnut Street Theatre, Arden Theatre, George Street Playhouse, Interact Theatre and People's Light and Theatre Company. A Poet Laureate Emerita of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, she lives in the Philadelphia area.

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https://www.haydensaunier.com/

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This Week’s Prompt:

Write a poem that explores the perspective of the other side, and arrives somewhere opposite to where the poem begins.

Next Week’s Prompt:

Write an elegy that’s not about a person.

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Kim Addonizio was featured with a tribute to her and her poetry students in issue 67 and featured on Rattlecast 88. Kim authored nine poetry collections, two novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her most recent collection is Exit Opera (W.W. Norton, September 2024). She has received fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundation, and Pushcart Prizes in both poetry and the essay. Tell Me was a National Book Award Finalist in poetry. Recent books include Now We're Getting Somewhere: Poems (W.W. Norton) and a memoir, Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life (Penguin).

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https://www.kimaddonizio.com

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This Week’s Prompt:

Write a poem with a title that begins with “Poem in Which I” after Denise Duhamel. For the next word in the title, find a random verb on randomwordgenerator.com.

Next Week’s Prompt:

Write a poem that explores the perspective of the other side, and arrives somewhere opposite to where the poem begins.

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Denise Duhamel was one of our 2024 Rattle Chapbook Prize winners, and her book, In Which, was published along with this winter's issue. Her most recent full-length books of poetry are Pink Lady (Pitt Poetry Series, 2025), Second Story (2021) and Scald (2017). Blowout (2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A distinguished university professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami, she lives in Hollywood, Florida.

Find the In Which here:

https://www.rattle.com/product/in-which/

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This Week’s Prompt:

Think of a word that transports you back to childhood, and give the poem that title.

Next Week's Prompt:

Write a poem with a title that begins with “Poem in Which I” after Denise Duhamel. For the next word in the title, find a random verb on randomwordgenerator.com.

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Donald Platt is the author of eight volumes of poetry, most recently Swansdown (Grid Books, 2022). His poems have appeared in many journals, including The New Republic, Nation, American Poetry Review, Paris Review, and Poetry, as well as in The Best American Poetry 2000, 2006, and 2015. He is a recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, three Pushcart Prizes, the Paumanok Poetry Prize, the “Discovery”/The Nation Prize, two Verna Emery Poetry Prizes, and the Center for Book Arts Chapbook Prize. He's been a professor in Purdue University’s English Department since 2000.

Find the Swansdown here:

https://www.grid-books.org/donald-platt

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This Week’s Prompt:

Write a poem in which something is overfilled. Include as many tactile details as possible.

Next Week’s Prompt:

Think of a word that transports you back to childhood, and give the poem that title.

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Willie James King is a long-time contributor to Rattle, having appeared in 8 issues dating back to 1997. He's the author of five books of poetry, most recently To Be the Difference from Press 53. His poems have appeared widely in such publications as America, Appalachian Heritage, Confrontation, Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts, New Contrast (South Africa), English Journal, Southern Poetry Review, and Urthona (UK). He has nine Pushcart Prize nominations and one Best of the Net. He resides in Montgomery, Alabama.

Find the his most recent book here:

https://www.press53.com/poetry-collections/to-be-the-difference-by-willie-james-king

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This Week’s Prompt:

Write a pantoum that references your favorite shape.

Next Week’s Prompt:

Write a poem in which something is overfilled. Include as many tactile details as possible.

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