The Best from the Weekly Prompts
For years, we’ve been offering a prompt at the end of every Rattlecast episode, to encourage folks to write new poems for the next week’s open lines. At the end of every episode, Timothy Green announced the next week’s prompt. Write yours within the next week to share it on the open lines, and submit it to this category by the end of the month to have it considered. Series editor Katie Dozier will select her favorite poems, which will be published as one of Rattle.com’s daily poems. The winner each month will also receive $100.
Submissions for the Prompt Poem of the Month are not anonymized—we still want to encourage everyone to share their weekly poems on the Rattlecast’s open lines—but choices are still being made solely based on the poem’s merit. Submit as many poems as you’d like to this category, but only poems written for the current month’s prompts. A winner will be chosen after the first week of every month.
Find a list of our past prompts here.
Current Prompts
December 1st (can’t submit until early December): Write a triolet that includes a bird.
November 24th: Write an ode to the first thing you remember being thankful for.
November 10th: Write a braid poem in which three or more stories are woven together.
November 3rd: Pick a photographic portrait featuring someone you don’t know personally, and write a short poem that explores their story.
Monthly Winners
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Katie Beswick | Ruderal (September 2024) |
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Mike Bayles | Abyss (August 2024) |
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Jaymee Thomas | Voice Lessons (July 2024) |
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Dick Westheimer | Where Does a Person with Aphantasia … (June 2024) |
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Suzanne Lummis & Ron Koertge | Picnic (May 2024) |
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James Washington Jr. | Credit (Apr. 2024) |
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Nancy Beagle | The Wedding Doll (Mar. 2024) |
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Kelly Sargent | The ‘L’ Word (Feb. 2024) |
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Lynne Knight | Body Talk (Jan. 2024) |
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Cindy Guentherman | About Those Apples (Dec. 2023) |
| J.B. Penname | The End of Hurt Is Not Healing (Nov. 2023) | |
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Tammy Greenwood | The Accordian (Oct. 2023) |
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Farah Ali | White Rabbit (Sep. 2023) |
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Sharon Ferrante | Six Senryu from the Kitchen (Aug. 2023) |