Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast

Get frankly franking frank with the queens this week--then let's talk about sex, baby! 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 Frank O'Hara . And read here about Tim Dlugos .   Frank O'Hara w...

The queens help you start your new year off right: with some fierce, unapologetic, fabulous queer writers! 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. J Jennifer Espinoza's first full-length collection of poems, I Don&apo...

The queens have a mind of winter in this showcase of iconically cold poems. Ice, ice, baby! 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 " Those Winter Sundays " or listen to Robert Hayden read it here . Read mor...

Write with the Breaking Form queens before we play a game of poetry homonyms. 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 read more about and poems by Thomas Centolella here .  The poems we mention in "Homonyms&q...

The queens talk more True Crime poems in an episode so good, it'll feel like you're breaking the law! 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 Natasha Trethewey's " Imperatives for Carrying on in...

The queens play poetry detective in this episode devoted to true crime-inspired poems. 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 check out the Killer Psyche podcast here , hosted by  retired FBI agent Candice DeLong....

The queens' Kissing Booth is now open! We talk poetic kisses and then read some recent poetry crushes. 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 Rimbaud here , and watch Patti Smith's video about pr...

The queens get stuffed as they rehash Thanksgivings past. No poetry, but this episode does make hilarity rhyme with vulgarity. After all, a Breaking Form Thanksgiving special wouldn't be complete without talk of clitoris, lesbian octogenarians, and Listerine cocktails. Unbuckle your seatbelts and your pants, cuz this is a messy wild ride -- definitely not for the feint of heart!

Snap out of it! The queens use Cher to revise some poems and the result is ICONIC! 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 hear Louise Glück read "The Mirror" here and read it for yourself here . (The sh...

The queens play "Just Jane!" featuring a jackpot of J. Kenyon and J. Mead poems. James just can't jank a jackdaw but refuses to be jaded. 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. Kenyon published four volumes...

The gorls chop up some gorgeous lines before playing Mean, Queen, or Blue Jean. 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. "It was a time when they were afraid of him" is from Jimmy Santiago Baca's poem "...

The queens put the ass in astonishment & tease out favorite  moments in poems. 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 buying your books from Bluestockings Cooperative, a feminist and queer indie bookse...

Aaron and James are joined by special guests to pay tribute to Maureen Seaton. 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 buying your books from Bluestockings Cooperative, a feminist and queer indie booksellin...

The queens leave you breathless in antici....pation with this crafty episode focused on enjambed lines. 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 buying your books from Bluestockings Cooperative, a feminist a...

Get on your spurs & chaps and join our country queens down at the poetry gay bar! 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 buying your books from Bluestockings Cooperative, a feminist and queer indie boo...

The queens hypothesize that erotic/love poems must always have one "f*ckstick." 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 buying your books from Bluestockings Cooperative, a feminist and queer indie...

Get vasodilated with the queens in this episode filled with heady poetry games. Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here . Buy our books:      Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate."      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Writing in Lit...

The queens talk bad words and get Sharon Stoned with Lynn Emanuel in part 2 of the interview. Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here . Buy our books:      Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate."      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books....

The ladies pop a poetry pill with guest Lynn Emanuel in part one of the interview. Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here .  Buy our books:      Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Writing in Lit H...

The divas are telling the truth and shaming some devils in this tea-spilling episode about horrible men with wide readerships. Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here .   Buy our books: Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate." James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is availa...

Our intrepid pansies talk  prompts--but first up it's a scandal of grave proportions. Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here .   Buy our books: Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate." James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Writing in...

The queens talk music, monsters, and masturbation with Diannely Antigua. Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here .   Buy our books: Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate." James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Writing in Lit Hub, Rebecca M...

The gays gaze into their crystal balls and predict the National Book Awards. Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here .  Buy our books: Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate." James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Writing in Lit Hub, Rebecc...

Our intrepid hosts talk Deep Image poetics and nearly break into rosebud....er blossom. Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here .  Buy our books: Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate." James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Writing in Lit...

The ladies get a little bit Alexis in this episode that mixes poetry quotes with Alexis Rose quotes from Schitt's Creek. Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here .  Buy our books: Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate." James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is availabl...