First up in this episode is Todd Pierce, with “If Only You Could Remember” which had us both as lost as the speaker (in a good way) and mesmerized. Todd is currently rereading War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad, by Christopher Logue and the chapbook Weird Vocation, by Art Zilleruelo.
First up in this episode is Todd Pierce, with “If Only You Could Remember” which had us both as lost as the speaker (in a good way) and mesmerized. Todd is currently rereading War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad, by Christopher Logue and the chapbook Weird Vocation, by Art Zilleruelo. He hopes that 2016 is the year that he finishes Don Quixote. Other facts: he once flew a plane without crashing it, and once crashed a bicycle without riding it.
Todd Pierce has been published in Opium Magazine, Annapolis Underground, and Poet Lore. Stay tuned to see if he can add Painted Bride Quarterly to that growing list! Until then, we are honored to publish his first ever selfie!
You really have to scroll down or click here and check out the format of “Brazilian”—it’s one of the best executions of this difficult format that we’ve seen.
We had so much fun discussing this one, and were very happy we could finally educate Jason Schneiderman on SOMETHING. But to be even more mysterious, though (spoiler alert) we loved the poem, we found out some bad news after this podcast, which we will discuss in Episode 9!
Beau Boudreaux is New Orleans born and raised, and he uses his deep, southern roots for inspiration in his writing. Read more in Louisiana Literature and Southern Poetry Anthology, buy Running Red, Running Redder (Cherry Grove Collections, 2012) and see even more here.
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KVM
Present at the Editorial Table:
Kathleen Volk Miller
Marion Wrenn
Jason Schneiderman
Tim Fitts
Production Engineer:
Joe Zang
PBQ Box Score: 2=0
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If Only You Could Remember
When we came upon the muddy river
between the mountains I realize
now were not there, our dog crawling
out of the lungs of the mysterious beast he found
ahead of us, lost as much but more at home,
we learned to distinguish dream from wish, surrounded
by the forest’s tired breath chilling the sky, our noses
bunched up against the scent of something not quite death,
as I plucked a bloated tick off your nape
and popped it under the rolling clouds,
fine raindrops running red down the dog’s white sides.
Brazilian
She leans in towards my ear
overwhelmed, awash shock of perfume
zoo stench, sniff an old Easter lily
no, I really do admire the cut of her
hemline, zebra skin bangs on the brow
oh commando Ms. Orlando
information I don’t need a cheat, she’s the only one
smoking, cocktailed touching my arm.