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David Pitcher

Indiana poet and shelter worker featured on NPR's The Poets Weave, with poems in The Pedestal Magazine and Clayjar Review; guest on the Rattlecast.

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APPEARANCES

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PODCASTS

Oct 20, 2026

Mark Yakich: How to Read Poetry, The Poetry Reader & Experimental Poetics | Rattlecast 364

Oct 20 · 1h 42m

Timothy GreenHOST

85:11

Good to see you.

David PitcherGUEST

85:13

Yeah, it's good to see you too.

David PitcherGUEST

85:14

I found myself for a couple of days, I think, just reciting in my head, the art of losing isn't hard to master.

David PitcherGUEST

85:22

So many things seem filled with the intent to be

Katie DozierHOST

85:30

it's

David PitcherGUEST

85:30

called Vox.

David PitcherGUEST

85:33

A person's voice, the human noise of thought made tactile in the air.

David PitcherGUEST

85:39

Some simple sounds put words around a thing which until then I only lived, I hadn't known.

Lance Larsen: Rattle Chapbook Prize Winner & Secretary of the Invisible Thing | Rattlecast 360

Sep 22 · 1h 49m

Katie DozierHOST

99:39

Good to see you.

David PitcherGUEST

99:41

Good.

David PitcherGUEST

99:42

So my poem is called The Lampreys.

David PitcherGUEST

99:47

What life is full without a nemesis? Eve had a snake, the U.S.

David PitcherGUEST

99:51

has the other.

David PitcherGUEST

99:53

We've grown up watching Jaws and the Abyss, and most of us know how Kane loved his brother.

David PitcherGUEST

99:59

It's no surprise, invasive as we are, that ocean monsters filled our biggest lakes.

Katie DozierHOST

100:45

Was it really clear that you were going to head to the lampreys from your experience when you heard this prompt and decided to write a poem?