In anticipation of the Collingswood Book Festival, we thought it might be nice to have some of our senior editors and a couple of festival participant...

This episode is about allusions, Slushies. How do poems gain dimension by relying on references? Where is that ekphrastic sweet spot?  Listen in as we...

Daydream Believer   Listen in as pop culture, nostalgia, and formal craft converge in a discussion of poems by Jeff Royce. As of this recording “we ar...

This episode is all about craft and connections:  literary craft and professional connections. In the notoriously small world of poetry and creative w...

POEMS BY KAILEY TEDESCO THREE POEMS ACCEPTED April 28, 2020 Bloomwards & Eggsome   What’s your background, Slushies? Sounds like a loaded question, ri...

Courtesy of www.FridaKahlo.org Frida Khalo’s 1946 oil painting The Wounded Deer     Dear Slushies, on this episode we focus on the heart of literary ...

How big is an alligator heart, Slushies? Have seen the wingspan of a Sand Hill Crane (a bird once mistaken for the Jersey Devil)? And what happens whe...

Dramatic tension in this episode, slushies! “There are no ties in baseball,” but what are the rules for editorial meetings? What happens when the edit...

Dear Slushies, have you ever heard a theremin? Visited Utah? Tried a baked Alaska? Join us for an episode dedicated to poems by Natasha Sajé, whose wo...

It’s a rainy day in Philly, even rainier in NYC, and curiously blue in Abu Dhabi. We’re wondering whether you can OD on zinc, what’s happening on plan...