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Take a seat at Painted Bride Quarterly’s editorial table as we discuss submissions, editorial issues, writing, deadlines, and cuckoo clocks.
Slushies, you could be forgiven this week for thinking you’ve tuned in to a different podcast. One about gardening, maybe? Or perhaps you’ve...
Jason takes the helm of our artisanal editorial process today when KVM is called away at the last minute. It’s always our hope that our disc...
At the table: Eric Baker, Dagne Forrest, Tobi Kassim, Jason Schneiderman, Kathleen Volk Miller, Lisa Zerkle, Lillie Volpe (sound engineer) W...
Episode 137: Collective Effervescence (ENCORE) While we're on AWP hiatus, we’re bringing back an encore episode of the Slush Pile. Listen to...
We’re going deep today, Slushies. Kathy and Tobi school us on the origin of the word “podcast” with its roots in both early Apple technology...
We’re so over the snow and ice, Slushies. Join us as we cozy up to three poems from Hilary King. We admire the first poem’s warm nostalgia t...
It’s not often that it happens, Slushies, but it’s always a treat when it does. We’re switching to fiction for the day with “Colfax,” a flas...
We welcome in the new year with a full house today, Slushies, as we discuss two poems from Cal Freeman. The first poem’s title glacier remin...
To allow our team time for a holiday recording hiatus, we’re sharing an encore episode from the Slush Pile archive. This episode, from Decem...
It’s a banner day here on the pod, Slushies. We welcome a very special guest, American Poetry Review’s Elizabeth Scanlon to the table as we...
Early winter weather has us pondering an alternate definition of “slush pile,” albeit the mucky, grey residue remaining after a city snowfal...
In this our second episode discussing work from poet Eli Karren, we’re shifting timelines, story lines, wine time, and coffee time. We welco...
At the table: Dagne Forrest, Samantha Neugebauer, Jason Schneiderman, Kathleen Volk Miller, Lisa Zerkle This recording had a rough start, Sl...
When Marion pops up on Zoom with her curls blown out to smooth newscaster perfection, it’s a hot topic and one that offers a perfect lead-in...
Episode 143: Do They Still Have Bulletin Boards? Our discussion of Alyx Chandler’s poems has us considering the liminal space between girlho...
While our team is on a brief recording hiatus, we’re sharing another encore episode from the Slush Pile archive. This one is from late 2017...
Summer scrambled us, Slushies, from UAE to North Carolina, from D.C. to Scotland and back, from North Carolina to New York City, and to Phil...
What’s a person to do when they love visual art, but don’t share the gift of creating it themselves? Poet Janée Baugher, whose work we discu...
Like the movie of the same name, the poems we discuss here, Slushies, take on the cares of the world in an unrelenting torrent. In this epis...
Slushies, we invoke the retelling of a ghostly experience shared by Kathy and Marion at the Hotel Figueroa in California earlier this year p...
Episode 137: Collective Effervescence Don’t be jelly, but we’re having a blast with three poems from the poet Han VanderHart in this episode...
Episode 136: Mapping Experience Part II Here’s a first for PBQ, the second of a two-part series on a single poet! We’re calling this two-par...
Episode 135: Mapping Experience Dive into the first of a two-part series (a first for us!) of what we’re calling The Maggie Wolff Experience...
Episode 134: Tidbits & Trolls Join us for a conversation about new poems by Kelly Egan and a discussion about line breaks, image systems, an...
Episode 133: Delicious Disorientation Three poems by Christopher Brean Murray cleverly dropped us all into a wonderful sense of disorientati...
Episode 132: Trust & Fear Talking about fiction is our JAWN slushies. Join us as we discuss Terry Dubow's "The Q," a short story that sounds...
Goodnight, Mary Magdalene first aired in June 2020 and features three poems by Vasiliki Katsarou, a poet and publisher. In 2023, Vasiliki pu...
While we’re on a brief recording hiatus, we have a re-issue of an episode from 2019, when our team took a rare look at a non-fiction piece b...
Slushies, waves abound in this lively discussion of a poem by Martha Silano and two more by Jane Hilberry. The way stream of consciousness c...
The natural world and human nature provide a variety of jumping off points for three poems that contrast the ego and experience of each poem...
What's your love language, Slushies? Is it touch, or talk? Recipes or arithmetic? Join us for this episode devoted to poems by Jin Cordaro,...
We just had to start this episode with a reassurance that everyone was dressed, which you’ll understand as soon as you read or listen to “Pn...
Our first order of business was debating lifestyle choices in NY vs. Philly, after which we dug into two wonderfully different poems by Glen...
We kick off this episode with some riffing on Hallmark movies and a suspension of Jason’s voting rights. No worries, though! The two poems u...
Watchers Zany lies amid clutter on the floor beneath the dining room windows hugging her bandaged arm. She huffs loudly enough to reach the...
Well, this could be awkward: when we last featured a story on the podcast a year ago, it also focused on parasocial relationships and includ...
Dear Slushies, we have a confession. The first draft of these show notes included references to Wawa, Jason's sweet tooth, the relative repu...
Episode 123: The Catholic Episode Dear Slushies, we have a confession. We love being close readers as much as we love being close listeners....
Dearest Slushies, we’re so happy to be back in the saddle! We took a mini-hiatus and return with this episode devoted to the poems of Jodi B...
In this episode we discussed three very different poems by Oregon poet Lorna Rose, all three resulting in juicy conversation and resulting i...
Slushies, in this episode we consider two poems by C. Fausto Cabrera, both of which speak, in very different ways, to the imagination in bui...
When to break a line, Slushies. And why? What’s the shape your poem takes, and how does the poem’s form serve its complexities, subtleties,...
A wonderful sense of wordplay permeates the poems we were able to discuss from Barbara Diehl. Sadly, one of three poems we’d flagged for the...
In the midst of excitedly preparing for AWP 2017, we record this episode in which we discuss two poems by Rita Banerjee, “The Suicide Rag” a...
July 2023 Update: Sarah is preparing to appear at the New York City Poetry Festival at the end of July. Sarah will read a poem and be interv...
In this short trailer, we tease the next three poets to be featured on the Slushpile: C. Fausto Cabrera, Barbara Westwood Diehl, and Jodi Ba...
What were you wearing in the ‘90s, Slushies? Sleeveless flannel and crochet? Paco Rabanne? We’re beguiled by Emily Pulfer-Terino’s poems on...
Finding flow in modern life is increasingly challenging, Slushies, but we sure found it here in two poems by Erica Wright. Loosely defined a...
For a really fresh take on obsession, take a look here Slushies! Lisa Gordon’s short story is a masterclass in taking a popular form and qui...
We are enswirled in this episode, Slushies, enswirled! We discuss three poems by John Sibley Willliams , two of which are ghazals . Williams...