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Podcast: Painted Bride Quarterly’s Slush Pile
Episode: Episode 138: A Podcast with Death in It
Description: Slushies, this episode finds Kathy, Lisa and Jason gearing up for AWP, and it’s the last one with Divina at the table (we’ll miss her contributions!). Three poems by Luiza Flynn-Goodlet get close reading by the team. Lisa admits to feeling initially resistant to the Ars Poetica form with the first poem, but admits to being won over and others agree. Jason connects the meditation on death in this poem and its personification of death to Anthony Hecht’s Flight Among the Tombs: Poems. The delightful ways in which the first and third poems are in conversation with e...