Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast

Celebrating the art of the poetic punch & helping Form Breakers everywhere say "f*ck you" to their nemesissies. 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 Listen to Taylor Swift...

Are you a friend of Dorothy? This episode pays tribute to The Golden Girls, but in the most Breaking Form way possible! 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 Christian Wiman's book Z...

On your knees with the queens in the poetry darkroom,  poetic pleasures await! Then we wipe off our kneecaps before hitting the Pride Parade. 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. NOTES Tess Gallagh...

We're snatching wigs in this one! The queens get real about bad 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. NOTES Watch the official lyric video for " But Daddy I Love Him " and rea...

A leading ladies game leads to a tombstone-poetry pop quiz before Monica Farrell reads a poem by Michael Dumanis. Happy Pride Month! Watch Anne Sexton respond to a vile review (published in The Southern Review ) of Live or Die .  Read " Menstruation at Forty " from Live or Die.  Read " Rapunzel " from Sexton's Transformations. On Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, ap...

The queens revisit some early, inspiring books of poetry that still slap! Come nerd out with us. 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. Read Linda Gregg's " Part of Me Wanting Everything to...

Break out the croquet for a game of poets named Heather before the queens talk poetry inspired by the movie Heathers. No, Heather, it's Heather's turn! Please 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.   When she re...

The queens blur the boundaries between Dylan Thomas James, then become shady ladies about Broetry. 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.   Read Dylan Thomas's incredible villanelle " Do No...

The art of losing isn't hard to master in this episode devoted to the loves and losses of Elizabeth Bishop's life. 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. Read Bishop's villanelle (the...

Jericho Brown returns to finish the conversation about Reginald Shepherd, (in)formalism, and inspiration. 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.      Jericho's THE SELECTED SHEPHERD is available...

If you bring along to Breaking Form Book Club an extra bottle of chardonnay,  we'll read some poems from books you may have missed.... 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. Read more about Zand...

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. You can purchase The Selected Shepherd edited by Jericho Brown directly from the press at: https://upittpress.org/books/9780822948216/ Check out Jericho Brown&a...

The queens love to love you--but it didn't always start out like that. Stick around for our game: "Pulitzer Prize Winning Titles from an Alternate Universe." Please 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. If...

The queens remake the endings of iconic poems, then play a round of "Gay or Homophobic?" 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. Read William Wordsworth's " I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud." Or hear i...

Aaron spills the tea about recording a spoken word album, then the queens get on all fours for some  Poet Sex Positions. Woof woof, darlings! 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.   You can find Aaron's Outside the...

It's a queens' jubilee as we discuss  Clifton and  Glück poems with Diane Seuss, who concludes by reading a new poem! Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here . Buy our books:       Diane Seuss's MODERN POETRY is available now from Graywolf Press.      Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is availabl...

Get ready to unlock your box with the Breaking Form queens as they discuss Sharon Olds's icon poem, "Satan Says" Read the text of " Satan Says " here. Check out the wild facts about Valerie Bertinelli on her IMDB page ! Read Sharon Olds's poem, " I Go Back to May 1937 " Here's a famous " Church Chat " sketch with Dana Carvey as Enid Strict, ak...

Join the gals for the queer makeover you secretly knew straight cis guy poetry needed. 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 word  zhuzh  is part of Polari, an argot used in Britain since perhaps the 18th century,...

In every symptom is a seed of power, ladies! Diane Seuss joins to talk Adrienne Rich and Gwendolyn Brooks. 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.       Diane's MODERN POETRY is available March 5, 2024 from Graywolf P...

The ladies reach into your back pocket to talk gay hanky codes and the poets they ASSociate with them. 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. Bob Damron's Address Book was actually published in 1964 and hand-sold by...

The ladies are joined by the Queen herself, Diane Seuss, to spread some love for Galentine's Day. Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here . Buy our books:       Diane Seuss's MODERN POETRY is available March 5, 2024 from Graywolf Press.       Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Wa...

The queens discuss some unusual, at times outlandish (or downright made-up), and unfortunate ends  some poets have met.  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. Read more about Charlotte Brontë (including some of her poems...

The queens issue a BOLO for  poetry red flags before getting around to a satisfying Jack-Off. 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. Watch Lucie Brock-Broido read her poem " You Have Harnessed Yourself Ridiculously t...

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. Please consider supporting the poets we mention in today's show! If you need a good indie bookstore, we recommend Loyalty Bookstores , a DC-area Black-owned bookshop. Read Rick...

It's the love song of J. Alfred Prufcock--er, Prufrock this week as the queens discuss the sex life of T.S. Eliot. 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. Valerie Eliot died in 2012 at age 86. Her net worth was about...