Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast

The gals talk foundational poems--and they might just surprise you! 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. Quan Barry's "The 1986 Apple Super Bowl Commercial as Intervention" refers to this iconic 1984 Apple Computer commer...

The library is open--to prose the queens find indispensable for 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. You can find John Hollander's  Rhyme's Reason  here. Check out an excerpt in the NYT from Michael Schmidt  Lives of th...

The queens put the "arch" in "archive" and rediscover some favorite poetry blasts from the 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. Listen to a reading Scott Cohen gave with poet  Tom Weatherly at St. Mark's P...

The queens talk literary confidantes; then we discuss the pros and pitfalls of poetic friendships. 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. NOTES: Read a bit more about Spencer Williams's Tranz, including from the poem "Laramie&qu...

The queens talk literary confidantes; then we discuss the pros and pitfalls of poetic friendships. 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. NOTES: Check out Toni Morrison's  1987 eulogy for James Baldwin in the New York Times. We read...

The Breaking Form broads recount their poetic travels abroad in this Season 3 opener. 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. NOTES: The David Hockney retrospective in Paris is on view until August 31. For more about his painting "Mr....

The queens boil down the essence of some favorite poems and poets in this game that decides what poetry is *really* about. 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. NOTES: Read the NY Times review of Michael Schmidt's The Lives of the P...

If you're looking to submit, the queens have some advice for you! 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. NOTES: Check out On the Seawall: a community gallery of new writing, art and commentary hosted by poet Ron Slate. Here's so...

The ladies ask AI to write poems about Brad Pitt's butt. It’s not so bad Brad, sad Brad, is it? 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. NOTES: Aaron's "Brad Pitt" appeared in his first book, Blue on Blue Ground . Read t...

The queens discuss and revise a recent list of "best poetry," adding other tops (& bottoms & verses & sides, you get the point, miss thing). 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. NOTES: For a few lists of best 21st...

The queens dish this year’s AWP Conference! 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.  Notes:  The Association of Writers and Writing Programs can be found online at www.awpwriter.org  Marcela Fuentes is the author of the award-winning novel M...

Get in, gurl, we're reading poetry at your unfriendly neighborhood leather bar. 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. NOTES: Learn more about Tom of Finland , the artist name of Finnish Touko Laaksonen who signed his erotic work &qu...

The queens super-gay it up with Stephanie Burt, the editor of the new poetry anthology, SUPER GAY 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. NOTES: Check out SUPER GAY POEMS: LGBTQIA+ Poetry after Stonewall , edited by Stephanie Burt,...

We're talking resistance, joy, and queer communities with Brenda Shaughnessy! 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. NOTES: Click here for Brenda’s Queer Resistance Playlist 2025 (Spotify). Check out Brenda's poem " Panopti...

The queens get to the poetic essence with the help of erasure and re-envisioning. 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. NOTES: The Nicole Sealey poem we read at the end of the episode comes from the first four pages of her book The Fergu...

Join the thirsty queens for a gin & Sextonic, in this tribute to the iconic work of Anne Sexton. 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. NOTES: Click here for a pdf from the Poetry Society that includes a folio of essays about Sexton&a...

The queens talk with gay literary icon Edmund White about his new book, The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir. (Miguel Murphy joins in the fun, too!) 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.                             Miguel's SHORE DITC...

The queens prove that it's not the size of the ship but the motion etc etc in this episode devoted to short poems. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Pretty Please with Aaron's cherry on top.....  Buy our books:      Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.  ...

Get out your UV lights & swabs--the queens play a game that fuses poems, then guess the poetic DNA samples. Then we spark up a fusion of a different strain! Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Pretty Please..... Buy our books:      Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way B...

The queens get sassy and sissify toxic cisheteronormative gender ideas about poetry. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Pretty Please..... Buy our books:      Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. The site in such desperate need of sissification (and better poets) ca...

The queens discuss gay icon status with Brenda Hillman--and then launch in to a revisit of several of her poems, including her fabulous "Male Nipples." Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Pretty Please..... Buy our books:      Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way...