Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast

Our summer salon series is here! Please enjoy this episode of Breaking Form Selects: Lynda Hull Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.   Notes: Lynda Hull was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1...

Season 4 ends with some much-needed poetic Cherapy!  Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.   Notes: Poets and poems we mention in this episode include: Mark Strand, " Eating Poetry &quo...

Richie Hofmann returns for a game that shows the queens that being well-versed can mean getting well-bred. Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.   Notes: Visit Richie Hofmann's website...

The ladies are joined by Richie Hofmann for one hell of a Breaking Form interview! Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.   Notes: Visit Richie Hofmann's website here:  https://www.richi...

The queens shine a rainbow spotlight on some fabulous, emerging queer poets. Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.   Notes: Xavier Searle is a poet and educator. A recipient of an Academy of...

Travel through time with the Breaking Form ladies as we revisit some queer times and places. Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.   Notes: Check out Felice Picano's website https://www...

The queens visit The Lowells in a game of "Amy Robert Lowell" Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.   Notes: Watch a brief biographical video about Amy Lowell here .  Poems we ment...

Laura Kasischke joins the queens to talk about her new collection of poems (and her new novel)! Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.   Notes: "The Crying Towel" was first publishe...

The queens take on two impossible topics: death, and mothers. Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.  Show Notes: Aaron mentions the Marie Howe poem "Letter to My Sister" from The G...

Come with the queens as they travel back to a time of gay bookstores, queer anthems, and a boom in LGBT+ publishing: the gay 90s!  Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.  Show Notes: Check ou...

Let's talk about Sex!  Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.  James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.  Show Notes: Poems we read and texts we mention include: Dorianne Laux, "The Lovers" (Visit Laux's w...

Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.  James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

All the queens want is boundless love in this episode about the love life of Frank O'Hara. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.  James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.  Show Notes: Read Frank O'Hara's &quo...

The queens talk about writing through sadness and grief in order to move forward and gain a different vantage point.  Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.  James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.   Show Notes: Take a look...

Dress shopping is cardio & life for the Breaking Form fashionistas.  Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.  James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.   Show Notes: Paul Tran's " Provenance " appeared first...

Get set for a poetry gabfest for the ages! The fabulous Joy Priest joins us for the Breaking Form Interview. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.  James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.   Show Notes: Buy Joy's prize...

The queens kindly request your presence for some piping hot tea as they recap the AWP Conference in Baltimore.  Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.  James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.   Show Notes: James posted some...

That which you call death, the queens remember in this episode that revisits The Wild Iris , Louise Glück's Pulitzer-Prize winning volume from 1992. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.  James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four...

What nanty narking our Reginas have with some slang from the Victorian era.  Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.  James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.   Show Notes: Marilyn Nelson's poem in The New Yorker that Aa...

The queens read for filth another toxic masculinist article before we play a saucy game based on a gay novel.  Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.  James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.   Show Notes: Heather Christle&a...

"Dawns are heartbreaking," as is the queer love story of Arthur Rimbaud & Paul Verlaine. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.  James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: Paul Verlaine was born in 18...

James has to choose his favorite from an array of poetic Dicks. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.  James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: Read Richard Wilbur's " The House " from Anterooms:...

Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.  James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.   Show Notes: Read the London Review of Books praising Aracelis Girmay's volume,  How to Carry Water: Selected Poems by Lucille Clifton.  ...

Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.  James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. NOTES: Gwendolyn Brooks published " The Bean Eaters " in Poetry Magazine in 1959. Check out the video of this interview with Gwendoly...

Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.  James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. NOTES: Read " Hap " by Thomas Hardy. And watch a here's a video enactment/reading of "Hap" by Thomas Hardy. And watch...