B.A. Van Sise is an author and photographic artist with three monographs: Children of Grass: A Portrait of American Poetry, Invited to Life: After the Holocaust, and On the National Language: The Poetry of America’s Endangered Tongues. He has been featured in solo exhibits at the Skirball Cultural Center, the Woody Guthrie Center, and the Rockefeller Arts Center, among other places; a number of his portraits of American poets are in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. His writing has won the Lascaux Prize for Nonfiction, and has been a finalist for the Rattle Poetry Prize. He is a two-time winner of the Independent Book Publishers Awards gold medal: once for History and once for Poetry. Find more here: https://bavansise.format.com/As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/This Week’s Prompt:Write a poem in which someone wears a costume. Include as many sounds as possible. Next Week’s Prompt:Pick a photographic portrait featuring someone you don’t know personally, and write a short poem that explores their story.The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.