Episode 37: Fathers Day?
b'We discuss two poems by two authors:\\xa0\\u201celegy\\u201d\\xa0by Jessica Hudgins and\\xa0\\u201cDaddy Box II\\u201d\\xa0by Rebecca Baggett.\\xa0Jessica Hudgins is a poet and teacher who has just moved to Ednor Gardens from Charles Village, is working with her roommate on their backyard, and thinking about adopting a dog\\u2026\\nOn this week\\u2019s episode, we discuss two poems by two authors:\\xa0\\u201celegy\\u201d\\xa0by Jessica Hudgins and\\xa0\\u201cDaddy Box II\\u201d\\xa0by Rebecca Baggett.\\n\\nJessica Hudgins (photo taken from Tinder profile)\\n\\nJessica Hudgins is a poet and teacher who has just moved to Ednor Gardens from Charles Village, is working with her roommate on their backyard, and thinking about adopting a dog.\\nFirst, we discuss Jessica Hudgins\\u2019 \\u201celegy,\\u201d an accurate grasp on the complexities of family relationships in which the speaker conjures childhood memories of her father and aunt. \\xa0The poem depicts moments reflected on in gratitude, and recognizes the love and care in the lessons they taught her throughout her life. Despite how those lessons were initially received as a child, it is clear to us that the speaker expresses appreciation for both figures who helped mold her in very different ways. Hudgins offers a thoughtful comparison between the specific, mundane moments in life and the philosophical questions surrounding a child\\u2019s experiences, as well as what they all come to mean later on.\\n\\nRebecca Baggett\\n\\nRebecca Baggett attributes her life-long loathing of \\u201creal\\u201d shoes to her childhood at the beach and spends a great deal of time searching for flipflops with good arch support. \\xa0She lives now in Athens, GA, where she can often find decent watermelons, though none of them are as good as the ones her daddy grew. \\xa0She still loves to swim under the stars.\\nIn \\u201cDaddy Box II\\u201d by Rebecca Baggett, we witness the brilliant redemption of the list-style poem! This piece is one that \\u201cincantates\\u201d with imagery and teaches you how to read it along the way. Going from a list to a narrative, it captured us with a broad portrayal of fatherhood and family life then left us to reflect on one lovely, very specific image of a cherished moment in a childhood.\\nWith just us three Wonder Women at the table for this episode, we close out by talking a bit about the superhero film that recently made box office history!\\nShare your thoughts about daddies,\\xa0Wonder Woman,\\xa0and this episode on Facebook and Twitter with #WonderWomen!\\nRead on!\\n\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nPresent at the Editorial Table:\\nKathleen Volk Miller\\nSharee DeVose\\nMarion Wrenn\\n\\xa0\\nEngineering Producer:\\nJoe Zang\\n------------------------------\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nJessica Hudgins\\nelegy\\n\\xa0\\nwhen my mom and dad were doing the young-married-person thing\\nmy aunt was always single so she babysat\\nshe gave me cheerios\\nand I ate while she had her breakfast cigarette\\nand afterward we took walks\\nand I pointed out all the volunteers\\nwhich is what\\nmy dad told me\\nyou call a plant you haven\\u2019t planted\\nthat by its own reseeding\\nappears where it is not needed\\nand I told her to wash her hair with cold water\\nanother thing she knew\\nI had learned from my dad\\n\\xa0\\nshe asked me\\nwhat\\u2019s so great about your dad you only learn from him\\nand since then I\\u2019ve been thinking\\nit\\u2019s not about greatness as much\\nas it\\u2019s about what sticks\\nlike,\\njessie I heard on the radio that sucking it in isn\\u2019t healthy you have to fill your belly to breathe well\\nand other things that are beside the point\\nwhich is that my aunt is not old but she\\u2019s not well\\nshe didn\\u2019t teach me any words about plants\\nor about how the body should be treated\\nbut she questioned me\\nas anyone should be questioned\\nwho is like the soil\\nand takes every small thing that\\u2019s offered\\n\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nRebecca Baggett\\nDaddy Box II\\n\\xa0\\nThe locked box contains\\na pack of L&M cigarettes,\\na gray steel lighter,\\na frayed deck of cards,\\na brown beer bottle\\nwith a peeling label.\\nTwist of black pepper,\\nbottle of BBQ sauce,\\ncup of dark coffee,\\nhandful of watermelon seed.\\nA faded green cap,\\na black metal lunchbox,\\na scattering of wrenches and screws.\\nPork rinds in an unopened\\ncellophane bag, the key\\nto an old truc'