In this Rattlecast episode, host and editor of Rattle Timothy Green introduces Jennifer Manthey, who reads her poem “Locker Room Annunciation,” and Richard Siken, who reads from his latest collection, I Do Know Some Things (Copper Canyon Press, 2025), and reflects upon his decision to write prose poems as a means of grounding himself in the aftermath of a stroke.
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