James Allen Hall and Aaron Smith talk about their favorite poems and poets, interview amazing writers, laugh a lot, gossip, and get real about life and art.
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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.By Aaron Smith and James Allen Hall
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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.…
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The Breaking Form girls are taking a little August break, but we still want to brighten your summer with poems!By Aaron Smith and James Allen Hall
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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 To…
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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…
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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…
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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); …
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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 Tay…
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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 Chris…
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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 Bo…
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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" …
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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 wi…
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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 …
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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 B…
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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 villan…
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The Art of Losing: The Love Life of Elizabeth Bishop
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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 villane…
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The Gods at 3 A.M. (guest Jericho Brown on Reginald Shepherd pt. 2)
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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 SHEPHER…
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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. Re…
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Make Myself a Myth (guest Jericho Brown on Reginald Shepherd)
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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/ C…
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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…
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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 hea…
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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…
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The King Is Dead (with guest Diane Seuss)
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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 av…
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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, aka the Church…
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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 p…
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The Bones of Power (with special guest Diane Seuss)
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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, 20…
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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 i…
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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 …
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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 (…
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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 Y…
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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-own…
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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. …
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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. Fran…
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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 collec…
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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 i…
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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 m…
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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 …
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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 retire…
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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 Smit…
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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 -- definit…
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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 yours…
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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 publishe…
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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'…
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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 feminis…
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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 femini…
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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 Bluestocki…
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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 fem…
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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 femin…
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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. …
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True and Actual (with Lynn Emanuel / part. 2)
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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 Fo…
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