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b'A Toilet in Denver or\\nFlorida is for the Fraught\\nOn today\\u2019s episode, we realized that the sound studio needs some naked art! We never thought about it before, but after the Abu Dhabi team and Jason \\u201cshowed off\\u201d about the art in their offices, we got jealous. Joe said we could BYOA, so we\\u2019re gonna. Stay tuned.\\nThis got us right off on a tangent about Icarus, a sad one, as he apparently is outside of BMCC, warning students \\u201cnot to aim too high.\\u201d\\xa0 We had our first vote of the day and it was a loud and long \\u201cBooooooooo\\u201d re: the sheer meanness of its message.\\nWe started with \\u201cShops Like That\\u201d which immediately began a conversation on sense and syntax. Which lead us to a conversation of the image system of the poem, the descriptive scene, and whether this poem would have appeared in Fence in the 90\\u2019s (ask Jason). KVM didn\\u2019t tell anyone, but she loves the poem for its Wooly Bully reference.\\nWe spent at least 15 minutes dissecting the piece, only to have our vote---end in a tie!!!!\\nWe moved on to \\u201cTravel Light.\\u201d We were smitten by its sprawl and humor, maybe especially the couch catapult (you\\u2019ll love that image too). The poem is so dense, KVM thinks there could be chapters and chapters. And the tangent we went on with THIS poem\\u2019s was\\u2014toilets! (Listen\\u2014it will all make sense.)\\nThe next poem we discussed was \\u201cPlanet\\u2019s Climate Reversal.\\u201d\\xa0 Spoiler alert: iguanas abound. You\\u2019re about to learn a lot about iguanas and to see an image that you might not be able to shake. You\\u2019ve been warned.\\nThis poem doesn\\u2019t only have iguanas, now, it also has state mottos and led us on one of our two-hour journeys through the swamp lands, filled with rehab scams and Disney World factoids.\\nThe poem gave us the chance to recommend \\u201cDumb People Town,\\u201d the podcast where Joe Zang learned that all crimes committed in Florida must be publicly reported.\\nStay tuned when the show sounds like it\\u2019s over to hear the crew respond to Addison\\u2019s silky smooth voice. And more after-the-show news: The poem that ended in a tie was ultimately rejected, BUT, the poem we didn\\u2019t get on air, \\u201cEgypt\\u201d has been accepted! Look for them all in Issue #100 of PBQ!\\n\\xa0\\nAlicia Askenase\\u2019s poetry jaywalks across the streets of American poetry casting a gimlet eye at every word she encounters. Undaunted, she juxtaposes her greatest joys and disenchantments through sonorous and rhythmic landscapes of unexpected insistence.\\xa0 She confronts the world we live in with daggers and oyster forks, swallows it and returns it to the reader in covert scores.\\xa0 For her, language is primary.\\xa0 Meaning evolves organically from the stolen seeds she sows.'