Timothy Green
@timothygreen
editor @RattlePoetry | thoughts my own
Attn: Houston Poets! There are a few slots left for our Hot Haibun workshop this August. Spend two intensive afternoons diving into the form with me and @Katie_Dozier! inprinthouston.org/event/poetry-i…
We’re super excited to teach this two-day workshop at @InprintHouston next month. Still have a few spots left 🔥
We just passed the record for Rattle Poetry Prize entries, with 12 hours to go. Everything from here until midnight ET means something new we get to do in next year's budget. Thanks to everyone who's entered or is going to!
ChatGPT's deep search ranks the Rattlecast as the #3 long-form poetry podcast, trailing only Frank Skinner and Poetry Off the Shelf:
My prompt this week for Rattle is to “Write a new rondeau that features an unusual noun that begins with the same letter of your first name.” I’m calling this a broken rondeau—in part because lf there’s a third “A” rhyme with the first iteration of the refrain. I wound up with…
Due to a traumatic situation that occurred while at school, there will not be a new episode of The Poetry Space_ this week. Likewise, the prompt poet of the month for Rattle will instead be announced on 7/13. Thanks for all the messages and support—they mean a lot to me ❤️
Which poem do you have memorized? Asking for a school assignment 😅
Today’s new episode looks at how the Imagists of yesterday influenced the abundant imagery in contemporary poetry. This one features poems by some of my favorite poets—the Squad themselves, including a gorgeous strawberry 🍓 seed of a poem by Dick Westheimer! More ripe fruit in…
A different kind of podcast share! My friend, the brilliant @JenShahade kindly invited me on to talk poker (and a little poetry 🎉). @PokerStarsUSA Thanks, Jen!
The best workshop is an autopsy.
A big problem with workshops is that the number one thing that would often be the best specific advice, to abandon the poem instead of revise it, is not allowed to be spoken. Why is every poem looked at with the assumption that it deserves to be made over?
Plagiarism is impossible to police, and easy to do, especially with AI—and has the potential to destroy the entire literary publishing infrastructure. Mistakes happen, forgiveness and growth are important, but plagiarists need to be banned for life. It's the only deterrent.