Episode 79: Do it again! Do it again!
b'Hello Slushies! Today, we put the \\u201cpee\\u201d in PBQ when Jason reminds us not to over-hydrate (it\\u2019s a thing!). Marion is in the Philadelphia Studio and Samantha in Portland for the Tin House Summer Workshop, which triggers an epic donut-discussion. Must-try doughnuts: VooDoo Doughnuts in Portland, Federal Doughnuts in Philadelphia, and Dough in New York City.\\xa0 After daydreaming about desserts, and resisting the bullying power of nutrition Apps, we dive into three poems by Tanya Grae. These poems are included in Grae\\u2019s book\\xa0Undoll (YesYes Books, 2019).\\xa0 All are ekphrastic, allusive, homage poems-- and we pour over the way Grae is adapts, innovates, remixes, and recreates poems across these poems.\\xa0 We\\u2019re drawn to the layered conversation and formal prosody and synchronicity she sets up-- our thumbs are flipped, our heads are spun. The first is after Lorca\\u2019s \\u201cThe Unfaithful Housewife\\u201d (translated by Conor O\\u2019Callaghan). The second is an intriguing and baffling poetic rant,\\xa0 \\u201cDuchess, A Found Poem.\\u201d And the final, the tripendicular \\u201cDear Ozy,\\u201d triggers the sound of thinking from the Slush Pile crew:\\xa0 we ponder maps and palimpsests, spirals and dimensions, Google searches and precarious empires. Samantha reminds us that someone, maybe Twain, said \\u201chistory doesn\\u2019t repeat, but it often rhymes.\\u201d Associative spirals make this conversation a joy.\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nShort bio:\\nTanya Grae was born in South Carolina while her father was stationed at Shaw, and she grew up moving to random Air Force towns like Little Rock, Minot, Tucson, Panama City, and Homestead. This survivalist training prepared her for a litany of jobs, academia, and parenting three humans, two of whom are now adulting. Her debut poetry collection, Undoll, is forthcoming from YesYes Books in fall 2019 and was a National Poetry Series finalist. Her poems and essays have appeared in AGNI, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Post Road, and other journals. She now lives in Tallahassee with her youngest daughter who loves her despite her inability to help with advanced math, certain her mother\\u2019s attempts could bring about the apocalypse. Spotting bad store sign grammar is her superpower; kvetching about it is her weakness. Find out more at: tanyagrae.com\\n\\xa0\\nAt the Table: Kathy, Marion, Brit, Jason, & Samantha'