Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast

Candle-extinguishing butts, 3am afterparties, collections of seamen (and semen)--this dishy tour of Langston Hughes's love life will leave you gagging with the gays. 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...

Whet your appetite with half a poem from 3 fabulous poets and choose your own poetic fulfillment! 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. SHOW NOTES: Read Catherine Bowman's poem "1-800...

The queens go in (and out) on poetry trends for 2025, all while doing their Kegel exercises. 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. SHOW NOTES: Watch Marie Howe in conversation with poet and fri...

A special encore presentation of our World AIDS Day episode from last year, featuring work by writers we've lost to AIDS. 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. SHOW NOTES: According to the...

The queens play a round of Step Your Poetry Up before poet-voicing porn dialogue. 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. SHOW NOTES: Here are links to some of the poems we mention: Amy Lowell, &...

If they wanted only to hold you, the queens could hold you prisoner in this tribute to America's most recent Nobel Laureate. 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. SHOW NOTES: " Happin...

The queens get Bossy Rossy before they compare thee to a summer's eve. 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. SHOW NOTES: Ross Gay is a Leo who has authored four books of poetry: Against Wh...

The queens talk bisexual poetics and genius with Nicky Beer, before getting all dolled up in a game of real vs fake Dolly. Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Buy our books:      Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. SHOW NOTES: Visit Nicky Beer’s website: http://www.nickybe...

The queens have one thing to say: you better werk! Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Buy our books:      Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. SHOW NOTES: Click here to read Philip Levine's "What Work Is" Read more about Philip Levine Read Ada Límon's p...

Snap INTO it, girlarina! The queens re-cast Cher movies with poets. Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Buy our books:      Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. SHOW NOTES: Read Patricia Smith's " Incendiary Art ." Here's Cher's cover of “Shoop Shoo...

The queens get all Brenda on that Brenda, you Brenda? Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Buy our books:      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 Brenda Coultas here. Watch Coultas read with Alice Notley here (1 hour). And read this conversation...

Join the Salami Sisters for this episode of The Real Housef*gs of Breaking Form. Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Buy our books:      Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. SHOW NOTES: Soufiane Ababri is the artist we talk about whose series of artworks is Bedwork / Yes I...

The queens get out their big smooth (crystal) balls to predict the National Book Award shortlist in poetry. Play along! The shortlist is announced Oct. 1. Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Buy our books:      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 find t...

Your favorite bridesmaids are (drunk and dis)orderly in this episode about writing for special occasions. Support Breaking Form! Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Buy our books:      Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. SHOW NOTES Here's a cinematic example of an epithalamion--an e.e. Cumm...

The queens are all lubed up and waiting for you in the badlands that is Breaking Form. If you'd like to support Breaking Form: Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Buy our books:      Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. SHOW NOTES See Beckian Fritz Goldberg read poems here (at 1:04 mark) Our...

Go tell it on the mountain, darlings! Join the queens for a special Breaking Form report on the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. If you'd like to support Breaking Form: Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Buy our books:      Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. SHOW NOTES If you don&apos...

Join the queens for this last poetry salon, where we highlight fabulous poets we haven't discussed much on the show. If you'd like to support Breaking Form: Review the show on Apple Podcasts here . Buy our books:      Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

Settle in for this fourth poetry salon, a show as jam-packed with radiant pleasure as a dark room in Rehoboth. If you'd like to support Breaking Form: Review the show on Apple Podcasts here . Buy our books:      Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

This Summer Salon has zero tan-lines and a ton of fabulous poetry! If you'd like to support Breaking Form: Review the show on Apple Podcasts here . Buy our books:      Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

Who wears short shorts? Celebrate summer with the queens as we read poets we haven't focused on before. If you'd like to support Breaking Form: Review the show on Apple Podcasts here . 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 Breaking Form girls are taking a little August break, but we still want to brighten your summer with poems! 

Spill all the tea but spill it slant with the Breaking Form queens in this episode dedicated to the art of secrets. If you'd like to support Breaking Form: Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Buy our books:      Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. SHOW NOTES Cougar Town is an American telev...

Aaron and James revisit an iconic poem about queer duty and erasure by Essex Hemphill. If you'd like to support Breaking Form: Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Buy our books:      Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. SHOW NOTES Read Hemphill's biographical sketch on the Poetry Founda...

Spill all the tea but spill it slant with the Breaking Form queens in this episode dedicated to the art of secrets. If you'd like to support Breaking Form: Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Buy our books:      Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. SHOW NOTES Madonna's "Secret&quot...

Knock knock, darlings! Join the queens as we talk about funny poems. If you'd like to support Breaking Form: Review the show   on Apple Podcasts here. Buy our books:      Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. SHOW NOTES Watch Stacey Waite give a full reading here (at 38:00); here's Stacey read...