Episode 83: Goodnight, Mary Magdalene
b'Dear Slushies, join the PBQ crew (which includes a freshly-tenured Jason Schneiderman) for a pre-pandemic recording of our discussion of 3 poems by the wonderful Vasiliki Katsarou\\u2019s work. Be sure to read the poems on the page below as you listen.\\xa0 They\\u2019ll require your eyes and ears-- and \\u201ca decoder ring.\\u201d The team has a grand old time explicating these artful poems. The muses are sprung and singing in us as we read and decide on this submission. Katsarou\\u2019s poems teach us to read them without projecting too much of ourselves and our current preoccupations onto them. We\\u2019re reminded to pay attention to what\\u2019s happening on the page. But synchronicities abound! Before we know it we\\u2019re ricocheting off of the poems\\u2019 images and noting the wonderful convergences the poems trigger -\\xa0 we hear traces of Wallace Stevens \\u201cIdea of Order of Key West\\u201d or Auden\\u2019s Musee de Beaux Arts. (But first we check in with each other, cracking each other up in a pre-pandemic moment of serious lightness. We\\u2019re heard that \\u201cScience\\u201d shows Arts & Humanities majors make major money in the long run. Kathy reports that \\u201cthe data on success\\u201d shows that participation in Nativity Plays is a marker for career success. Samantha confesses she played Mary Magdalene in a Nativity Play. Marion might have been a Magi. And many of us were reindeer.. Also, Donkeys do better than sheep over time (which may or may not have been claimed on \\u201cWait, wait\\u2026 don\\u2019t tell me!\\u201d).\\xa0 Editing a Lit Mag shouldn\\u2019t be this much fun, Slushies. Listen through to the discussion of the 3rd poem\\u2019s deep magic and craft. And listen to our editors\\u2019 cats chime in).\\nAddison Davis, Jason Schneiderman, Samantha Neugebauer, Kathleen Volk Miller,\\xa0 Marion Wrenn, and Joe Zang'