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b'Welcome to Episode 14! We\\u2019re having so much nerdy fun with these and hope you are, too. This week we discussed one poem a piece by Hilary Jacqmin, Keith Woodruff, and Kierstin Bridger, each submitted for different issues. Another Slush Pile first!\\xa0\\nWelcome to Episode 14 of our podcast! We\\u2019re having so much nerdy fun with these and hope you are, too. This week we discussed one poem a piece by Hilary Jacqmin, Keith Woodruff, and Kierstin Bridger, each submitted for different issues. Another Slush Pile first!\\n\\nFirst up was \\u201cPrivate Lives\\u201d \\xa0by Hilary Jacqmin.\\nHilary S. Jacqmin earned her MA from Johns Hopkins University and her MFA from the University of Florida. Inspired by Baltimore performance art group Fluid Movement\'s elaborate water ballets, Hilary aspires to learn synchronized swimming. This summer, Hilary has kept busy by going to entirely too many concerts (including Beyonc\\xe9, Weezer, and Jason Isbell), baking a sour cherry pie in honor of her Door County, Wisconsin family heritage, and seeing Hamilton\\xa0on Broadway\\nHer work has appeared in Best New Poets 2011, edited by D.A. Powell, The Awl, Pank, Subtropics, Passages North, AGNI,\\xa0and elsewhere. You can also read her article on "killing your darlings" here!\\nThis poem struck a chord with everyone at the table. It\\u2019s hard to write a poem about boredom that isn\\u2019t, well, boring! We were right there with her in her grandparent\\u2019s house, trying to pass the time.\\n\\xa0\\n\\nNext we discussed Keith Woodruff\\u2019s \\xa0\\u201cBride of Frankenstein Blues,\\u201d submitted for our Monsters issue.\\nKeith \\u201cfrom the Black Lagoon\\u201d Woodruff has a Masters in creative writing from Purdue University, and lives with his wife Michelle and son Whitman in Akron, Ohio. His work recently appeared in The Journal, Quarter After Eight, American Literary Review, and is forthcoming in Wigleaf. His haiku have appeared in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Mayfly, Acorn, A Hundred Gourds, and in Big Sky: the Red Moon anthology.\\nWe all sympathized with poor Frankenstein trying to find love in the modern dating world, but this poem also sparked discussion of \\u201cpick-up\\u201d artists. We wondered what Frankenstein\\u2019s Bride would say about his pick-up methods? Regardless, the poem was accessible to all of us.\\n\\xa0\\n\\nLast, we read \\u201cTo the Girl From the Reformatory Town\\u201d by Kierstin Bridger, submitted for our Locals issue!\\nKierstin is a Colorado writer and winner of the Mark Fischer Prize, the ACC Studio award and was shortlisted for the 2015 Manchester Poetry Prize in the UK. Western Colorado is full of incredible writers, and for the past several years they\\u2019ve been performing Literary Burlesque! This year they pulled a switch-a-roo on Oh Brother Where Art Thou. They changed it to Oh Sister and combined themes with The Odyssey. Kirsten says, \\u201cIt was a smash, and so very collaborative.\\u201d\\nYou can listen to Kierstin read from her book,\\xa0Demimonde,\\xa0 here.\\nWe were intrigued by the imagery in Kierstin\\u2019s poem. Although none of us grew up in a \\u201creformatory town\\u201d the emotional language put us in the mindset of the \\u201cgirl.\\u201d\\nOver the years, PBQ often accepts work, contacts the authors, and then gets told there\\u2019s been a revision. Almost always, the original is better than the revision. We discussed why this might happen, and how difficult it is to know when your own work is \\u201cfinished.\\u201d Let us know what you think\\u2014do you continue to work with your work once you\\u2019ve sent it out?\\nYou can find PBQ on Twitter @paintedbrideq or on our Facebook.\\nDon\\u2019t forget to visit our Facebook event page to discuss this episode, and subscribe to our iTunes account!\\nRead on!\\n\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nPresent at the Editorial Table:\\nKathleen Volk Miller\\nMarion Wrenn\\nTim Fitts\\nJason Schneiderman\\nCaitlin McLaughlin\\n\\xa0\\nProduction Engineer:\\nJoe Zang\\n\\xa0\\nPBQ Box Score: 3:0\\n-------------------------\\n\\xa0\\nHilary Jacqmin\\nPrivate Lives\\n\\xa0\\nThey have retired\\nto lost pines\\nand BurgerTime.\\nWhen our tan Malibu\\ngrinds up\\nthe switchback\\nto their mock-\\nTahitian Village\\nin the Texas hills,\\nthe grandparents\\ncan barely stand to touch us.'