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Painted Bride Quarterly’s Slush Pile
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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.
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June 10, 2026
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 Perugia Press Prize for her debut collection "Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead," which is forthcoming in September 2026. Congratulations, Jen! Slushies, we invoke the retelling of a ghostly experience shared by Kathy and Marion at the Hotel Figueroa in California earlier this year partway into this episode. Two poems by Jen Siraganian are at the heart of our discussion, and it’s the first of these that puts ghosts into our heads. This poem also causes us to consider at some length the physical form chosen by or for a poem, and how this can utterly enhance the experience of the poem when it’s just right. It’s also an opportunity for Jason to raise the spectre of the virgule (or slash) once again, and we even pause briefly to recall when WYSIWYG was a useful acronym. We end the episode with an ekphrastic that prompts an on-the-spot tie breaker (thanks to our sound engineer Lillie for saving the day!). https://whitney.org/collection/works/2171 https://www.nga.gov/collection/highlights/gorky-the-artist-and-his-mother.html At the table: Kathleen Volk Miller, Marion Wrenn, Lisa Zerkle, Jason Schneiderman, Dagne Forrest, Jodi Gahn, Derek Grebis (sound engineer) Jen Siraganian is an Armenian-American writer, educator, and former Poet Laureate of Los Gatos, California. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI, Barrow Street, Best New Poets, Cortland Review, Poetry Daily, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, Smartish Pace, and other journals. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won the 2024 New Ohio Review Poetry Prize. A former managing director of Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival, she is a current Lucas Artist Fellow. jensiraganian.com Social media handles: Facebook @jen.siraganian, Instagram @jsiraganian, Bluesky @jsiraganian.bsky.social, Website Walking into St. James Cathedral as If We Were Already Ghosts My Father and I View Two Versions of Arshile Gorky’s The Artist and his Mother Lip corners sink, an upturned bowldripping its contents onto the white of her dress. Her eyes, Armenian saucersof round, outline hollows of darkness. Sharing color only, no overlap of limbsor space, shades of pink echo his coat, her lap, a paleness descends. My fathernudges my elbow. He seldom mentions his mothers, the one who raised him,the other who gave him away. I want him to discuss the lack of daisies in the boy’s hands,the mother’s face swaddled in a cocoon of scarf. Instead, he stands, cloud-drifts across the gallery.We bench in front of The Liver is the Cock’s Comb. He points to the ferns feuding with triangles,the thorned stems breathing blossom.
May 27, 2026
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 before we share this packed episode with you. Today we welcome special guest, Daniel Kuriakose, to hear about “The Common Well,” the literary journal he’s relaunching alongside K Hank Jost. Daniel sticks around for our discussion of two poems by Mara Lee Grayson. We admire the duality on display in the first poem’s back and forth-ness which has us pondering the undulation of its syntax. The late reveal of whom the lyric speaker addresses is satisfying surprise. A clever turn of phrase sends the more seasoned members of the team straight to this 90’s Divinyls’ song. The way enjambment revises meaning after a line break in both of these poems reminds Jason of Heather McHugh’s poetry. And ultimately Kathy bring us back to the two questions we ask of every submission: do you want to stay with the poem and do you want to share it? Join us in sharing our deep thanks for two members of our staff who are with us for the final time: Reese, our co-op, and Lillie, our sound engineer. Best of luck to your both in the future. Thank you, Reese! Thank you, Lillie! Over the summer, keep tuning in for a retrospective with deep cuts from our archive. Thanks, as always, for listening! At the table: Dagne Forrest, Tobi Kassim, Daniel Kuriakose (special guest from “A Common Well”), Reese Pfunder, Jason Schneiderman, Kathleen Volk Miller, Lisa Zerkle, Lillie Volpe (sound engineer), Derek Grebis (sound engineer) Author Bio: Mara Lee Grayson’s poetry has appeared in Poetry Northwest, Tampa Review, and Nimrod, among other literary journals, and has been nominated multiple times for the Best of the Net and Pushcart Prizes. Grayson is the author or editor of five books of nonfiction. She holds an MFA from The City College of New York and a PhD from Columbia University and was previously a tenured professor in the California State University system. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, she currently resides in New Jersey. Social media: @maraleegrayson Website: maragrayson.com She Winds Her Stems through Fire for Burning Leaves Fend Off the Grief of Being Mowed On the trampoline, young boys next door bounce while inside, their mothers debate wine or coffee. Another weekend when the county’s on emergency alert. For now, bees land on dogwood flowers, robins nest in tall trees planted by the prior owners, and my husband’s on his knees out back for hours, pulling branches from hydrangeas I have neither time nor thumb to nurture back to life. He’s learned a lot in efforts to identify the colony of ants that sent a scout across our deck, through the side door to a cat food bowl, like what distinguishes Bumblebee from Carpenter (they look the same, the bumble fuzzier). A million years of evolution, the male bee still hovers in one place, waiting for a female to fly by. I fold laundry then look up which buds bloomed in 17th Century Versailles. (You’d guess invasive species but, unironically, it’s narcissus and orange blossoms.) For years, I worshipped palms on the other side of the Continental Divide, like I was replanted, like new soil could change the nature of the seed. I looked for lightning and caught language in my mouth. I dreamed of blooms, then woke up in the desert, staring at a mountain, believed to be an imprint of ancient gods whose voices echoed off the surface of the earth. The nervous system replicates in utero, its fight or flight part predetermined, part piano keys the brain may tap. Healing, says the therapist, happens in the pendulation. Insects bounce along the gla
May 26, 2026
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 fun and go to pbqmag.org for notes!
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