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b'As we prepared for Episode 6, something new happened: a poet whose work we wanted to read and discuss on our podcast said, \\u201cNo.\\u201d It was bound to happen some time and it did---a month and a half in.\\nAs we prepared for Episode 6, something new happened: a poet whose work we wanted to read and discuss on our podcast said, \\u201cNo.\\u201d It was bound to happen some time and it did---a month and a half in. We talked about it and acknowledged that some people are simply not going to be ready, some people are going to let fear win over curiosity, and some people are simply not going to ever want their work discussed in such a public manner---a recorded manner that will always exist.\\nWe were disappointed to receive our first \\u201cNo,\\u201d but it caused us to revisit the vulnerability of what we are doing here: taking a writer\\u2019s work and picking it apart, separating the juicy poetic goodness from the bone. For most writers, they never get to hear what editors think of their poems, regardless of whether they were accepted or denied. The feedback we are getting uses the word transparency a lot, with that term directed at the transparency of our editorial conversation, but whoa\\u2014the writers who are brave for sharing--for writing in the first place\\u2014have to peel another layer back to submit to a podcast.\\nWe are grateful that the people we asked so far said, Yes, even though they were scared. Their bravery makes us feel brave, too, and like we\\u2019re doing the right thing with this project. Tell us what you think on our FB Episode 6 event page.\\nWe will be looking at two poets today, and the first poet up is Carlos Gomez.\\n\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nWe discussed, Morning, Rikers Island, Black Hair, and Interracial in Flatbush, Brooklyn.\\xa0Gomez is a renaissance man with too many skills and too many awards for us to reiterate here! Poet, actor, essayist\\u2014it seems wherever he directs his attention, great things happen. After you read these poems we know you\\u2019ll want more, so we suggest you start here.\\nLet us tell you his last three accomplishments, just so you get the idea: the cover story on of Brass Magazine. He was ONLY voted Best Diversity Artist in Campus Activities Magazine\\u2019s 2016 Reader\\u2019s Choice Awards. And oh, year, he is featured in The New York Times documentary short film A Conversation with Latinos on Race! So that\\u2019s what he\\u2019s been up to in just the last few months! Check out his performance schedule\\u2014practically no matter where you are he\\u2019ll be there this spring and summer.\\nNone of Gomez\\u2019s poems were unanimous acceptances, but all three were accepted. From the first line, the light in Morning, Rikers Island resonated with us, and we applauded the craft and elegance of this poem. Interracial in Flatbush, Brooklyn has such specific narrative imagery that we all felt immersed in this scene, and a final moment that resonates. Black Hair had a very different tone, voice, and format from the other two, and our editors were simply engaged in the story just under the surface.\\nWe discussed Adam Day a bit in Episode 5\\u2014take a look and listen back to see how these poems ended up in our podcast at all! We discussed The Quiet Life, My Telemachus, and Openango.\\n\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nAnyone who has been reading literary magazines for a while has seen work by Adam Day. His latest book is Model of a City in Civil War (Sarabande Books), and his latest awards are a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for Badger, Apocrypha, a PEN Emerging Writers Award, and an Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council. It\\u2019s hard to keep up with this author. If you need to catch up, visit.\\xa0\\xa0If you miss him, watch this\\xa0video.\\nYou\\u2019ll have to listen to find out which of the three poems we accepted, but know this: we had a great time discussing them! Tell us what you think at our FB event page. We enjoyed the passion behind The Quiet Life, and the humor of both My Telemachus and Openango; we\\u2019re betting you will, too.\\nThank you for your patience as we\\u2019re learning as we go here in the podcast world, we\\u2019d love t'