Episode 158: Kiss Summer Goodbye!
We’re back, Slushies! Did you miss us? We missed being with you. Much of our time this summer was spent reading an array of excellent books...
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Episode 127: Ecstatic Collapse (ENCORE)
Greetings, Slushies! In this, our final encore episode for the summer, we revisit two poems from Glenn Shaheen. We hope you enjoy the conver...
Episode 113: The Call of the Wild (ENCORE)
Hello, Slushies! We hope you’re keeping cool out there. In this encore episode, KVM rhapsodizes about the joy of a sandwich made with a perf...
Episode 100: A Steady Lub Dub (ENCORE)
Greetings, Slushies! We’re here with an encore episode today, one we chose for its excellent exploration of craft, including a discussion ab...
Episode 51: Hello Neighbor (ENCORE)
Greetings, Slushies! Today’s encore edition features special guest editor, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gregory Pardlo. His most recent c...
Episode 11: The One with Heart, Brain, and Balls (ENCORE)
For this Slush Pile encore, we’re going WAY back to our first season where we revisit an episode featuring poems by Laura McCullough. McCull...
Episode 139: The Ghosts of Figueroa (ENCORE)
We're bringing back favorite episodes over the summer as encore editions. Since this episode first aired, poet Jen Siraganian won the 2026 P...
Episode 157: Beginnings and Endings
This last episode before summer has us dreaming of the beach, Slushies—watching moonlight on the waves, reading novels in the sand. But not...
Episode 155: Gardening 101 [REUPLOAD]
Our slushies who use Apple for podcasts missed out on Episode #155 and no one can tell us why—including Apple! So here she is again! Have fu...
Episode 156: The Challenge/Pleasure Ratio
Kathy puts the kibosh on our introductory weather ramblings, Slushies. Instead we’re sharing what makes us grateful. Seems like, with our co...
Episode 155: Gardening 101
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...
Episode 154: Danse Macabre
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...
Episode 153: Rouged in Dandelion
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)
Episode 137: Collective Effervescence (ENCORE) While we're on AWP hiatus, we’re bringing back an encore episode of the Slush Pile. Listen to...
Episode 152: Say it Plain
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...
Episode 151: The View from the Outside
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...
Episode 150: PQB on PBQ!
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...
Episode 149: A Secret (Intellectual) Boner
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...
Episode 108: #Mood (or the Murmurations) (ENCORE)
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...
Episode 148: Mudlarking and Mirror Balls
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...