Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast

Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: We read poems by Amy Lowell and Jubi Arriola-Headley Check out Jubi Arriola-Headley's website here , and an obituary here .  Learn more about Amy Lowell here: https://www.poetryfound...

Happy New Year! Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: We read poems by Giada Scodellaro and Natalie Louise Tombasco. Check out Giada Scodellaro's website here: https://giadascodellaro.com/ Check out Natalie Louise Tombas...

Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: We read poems by Kelli Russell Agodon and Afaa Michael Weaver. Learn more about Afaa Michael Weaver here: https://www.theshipmanagency.com/afaa-michael-weaver Check out Kelli Russell Agod...

Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: We read poems by Jonterri Gadson & Patrica Traxler Check out Jonterri Gadson's website: https://www.jonterrigadson.com/ You can read more about Patricia Traxler on this Wikipedia...

Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: We read poems by Mary Helen Callier & Virginia Chase Sutton Check out Mary Helen Callier's website: https://maryhelencallier.com/ Check out Virginia Chase Sutton's website:...

Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: We read poems by David Hernandez and Dorian Elizabeth Knapp.  Check out Dorian Elizabeth Knapp's website: https://dorianelizabethknapp.com/ Check out David Hernandez's website:...

Nerd tops, dom tops, soft tops: the queens go gaga over a discussion of their top poems by favorite poets.  Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. SHOW NOTES: Poems and poets discussed in this episode include: Sharon Olds: " The Race...

Let's get trioleted, girls! The queens delve into some fun poetic forms. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Watch TLC's music video for " No Scrubs "  Discover more about Jehanne Dubrow's The Arranged Marriage...

Tracy K. Smith joins for the Breaking Form Interview to discuss her new book of prose about poetry,  Fear Less . Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: See Tracy K. Smith read from Life on Mars at the Kelly Writers' House...

Sometimes poetry is a shield. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: Poems and poets mentioned in this episode include: Galway Kinnell, " Prayer "   A. Van Jordan, " Details Torn from MacNolia’s Diary ." Re...

The ladies break out the poetry crystal ball and predict the winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: The 76th National Book Awards Ceremony will be streamed live on Wednesday,...

The queens revisit and sing the praises of Brigit Pegeen Kelly's poem "Song."  Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: You can read the text of "Song" here . And read more about BPK here .  James was wr...

The queens put the SIS in ekphrasis! Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes: The Greek word ekphrasis (ἔκφρασις) is derived from the Greek prefix ek- ("out") and the verb phrazein ("to speak," "to expla...

The queens talk with David Duchovny about poetry, Lacanian psychotherapy, love, the future perfect, and the lost past.  Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. SHOW NOTES: David Duchovny's new book, About Time , is just out from Akash...

The queens select some very poetic bachelors and decide where they'd read them on their date. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. SHOW NOTES: Poets and poems mentioned include: " blessing the boats " by Lucille Clifton J...

The queens descend upon Pittsburgh for a bittersweet (but dishy) tribute for Ed Ochester (1939-2023). Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. SHOW NOTES: For more about the weekend events and about Ed Ochester's impact on American poe...

The ladies pair poets together that prove complementary--or contrarian! Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. SHOW NOTES: Visit Gary Jackson's website . In this interview , Marie Howe talks a bit about Lucille Clifton and feminist p...

The judgy Judies play Toss or Keep to help their friend Tommy downsize his poetry library. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. SHOW NOTES: Some of the poems/poets/people mentioned in this episode include: Robert Creeley, "I Know a...

The ladies get manifesto on that butt! (And mouth.)  Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. SHOW NOTES: Read more about D.H. Lawrence here .  Read William Carlos Williams's "Paterson" here and "Asphodel, That Greeny Fl...

The queens summon lines designed to stop readers in their tracks.  Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. SHOW NOTES: Sharon Olds says that early in her poetic career, when she'd send out her poems, "[t]hey came back often with...

The queens are joined by poetry crush Richard Siken, & talk heroes, rabbits, robots, & healing. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. SHOW NOTES: You can order I Do Know Some Things here . Visit Richard Siken's website here...

The hosts get familiar with the poetry of three Hof(f)man(n)s--Carlie, Michael, and Richie. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. SHOW NOTES: Visit Carlie Hoffman on the web here . She is the author of three books, most recently  One Mor...

How do poets write about place, and how does place shape a poet? Play along as the queens place these poems! Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. SHOW NOTES:  Poems/Poets mentioned in this week's show include: Traci Brimhall, &quot...

Touchstones part 1 hit so good, we decided to go another round! Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Poems mentioned in this episode: Tomas Transtromer: " The Name " (translated by May Swenson with Leif Sjöberg) Cornelius Eady...

The queens play poetry matchmakers and nine months later, boom, there's a poetry baby! Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Robyn Schiff's most recent book is Information Desk: An Epic (Penguin Poets, a finalist for the Pulitz...