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b"Both of the poems we discussed in Episode 7 were submitted for our \\u201cMonsters\\u201d Issue and both poems, Coyote and Coyotes,\\xa0were written by Paul Nelson. Tantalizing and intriguing, we were \\u201cseduced into loving this animal that will eat your face,\\u201d as Tim pointed out....\\n\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nBoth of the poems we discussed in Episode 7 were submitted for our \\u201cMonsters\\u201d Issue and both poems, Coyote and Coyotes,\\xa0were written by Paul Nelson. Tantalizing and intriguing, we were \\u201cseduced into loving this animal that will eat your face,\\u201d as Tim pointed out. We now love coyotes and the unanimous \\u201cyes\\u201d votes prove we love these poems too!\\n\\nPaul Nelson has authored eight books and was Ohio University\\u2019s Director of the Creative Writing program for many years. Nelson has bounced around the Northeast United States but currently resides in O\\u2019ahu, Hawaii where he is a member of the editorial board for\\xa0Kaimina, a Hawaiian literary magazine.\\nAfter our unanimous votes for Paul Nelson\\u2019s poetry, Tim brought to the table a rising trend among new writers: using crowd funding websites such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, or even the artist-centered\\xa0Patreon\\xa0to raise funds for future projects, books in the making. How does crowd funding affect content? Should it be a viable form of self-publishing? What do editors feel about it? You\\u2019ll have to listen to Episode 7 to hear our answers to these questions and more, of course.\\nWe at Painted Bride Quarterly are more than excited to endorse our own Jason Schneiderman\\u2019s latest book,\\xa0Primary Source\\xa0(Red Hen Press, 2016) which is now available for purchase!\\nTell us what you think about Paul Nelson, the use of crowd funding for writers, or anything you\\u2019d like to share with us on our Facebook page event, Episode 7.\\nSign up for our email list if you\\u2019re in the area and even if you\\u2019re not!\\nSend us a SASE and we\\u2019ll send you a podcast sticker!\\nFollow us on Twitter\\xa0@PaintedBrideQ\\xa0and Instagram\\n@paintedbridequarterly.\\nDon't forget to subscribe and rate us on our iTunes\\xa0page!\\nRead on!\\n-KVM\\n\\xa0\\nPresent at the Editorial Table:\\nKathleen Volk Miller\\nMarion Wrenn\\nJason Schneiderman\\nMiriam Haier\\nTim Fitts\\n\\xa0\\nProduction Engineer:\\nRyan McDonald\\n\\xa0\\nPBQ Box Score: 2=2\\n---------------------------\\n\\xa0\\nPaul Nelson\\nCoyote\\nLast December, just beyond the windows\\nwhere we stand with wine, she clawed\\nfor frozen apples in her new coat\\nbeneath the tree the children climbed.\\nJust bred we guessed.\\nI wanted to caress her muzzle and ears,\\nlower my face to her eyes,\\nsay something as if she were a dog,\\nsomething fatuous and loving.\\nYou laughed because I said\\nI would take anything she offered,\\nteeth or tongue.\\n\\xa0\\nCoyotes\\nIn a shaft of brass light\\ndown through spruce, a big\\nchocolate male, done for the year,\\npads across moss, dissolves in shadow.\\n\\xa0\\nThe tattered blond bitch stands in bright\\nspring grass edging the woods.\\nHanks drag from her molting flanks,\\nears alert for mice and voles.\\nTwo pale kits dive after each other.\\nShorter ears and heavier bodied\\nthan western cartoons; \\u201ccoy-dog\\u201d some say.\\nHer heavy rotting tail drapes,\\neyes generous and frank.\\n\\xa0\\nThis morning on three legs another bitch\\ncrabs across Nebraska\\u2019s 1-90 in a whiteout,\\nmen standing down at truck stops,\\ndiesels thrumming and clacking in the lots.\\n\\xa0\\nShaky behind the slapping wipers, I barely see her\\nhop South through the barbed wire\\nonto stubbled acres of ice and drifting snow\\nwhere men set traps to kill \\u201cvermin\\u201d\\nthat will freeze, coiled down on steel and chain,\\nget skinned and nailed to a shed with others,\\nor thaw come spring to feed the ravens.\\nShe chewed her own leg off.\\nA sixteen wheeler passes like a war.\\n\\xa0\\nI draft in its wake as it shelves the storm\\nover and by me, watching for its tail lights\\nto blink \\u2026muzzle flash, signals\\nto follow in the blur."