True Crime Part 2

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast

The queens talk more True Crime poems in an episode so good, it'll feel like you're breaking the law!
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Read Natasha Trethewey's "Imperatives for Carrying on in the Aftermath." Listen to Trethewey interviewed by NPR here--it's a riveting and utterly heartbreaking story.
You can read Sharon Olds's poem "Photographs Courtesy of the Fall River Historical
Society" in the journal Calliope here and browse the Borden house crime scene photos reference in the poem here. The poem is from Satan Says. You can also read her poem "Death of Marilyn Monroe," from The Dead & the Living.
We mention Allison Benis-White's haunting and beautiful book of poems (about 5 Wendy's, including Wendy Coffield--the Green River Killer's first victim). Buy it here!
We also mention Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno's book Slamming Open the Door--which you can also buy (of course from an indie!) here.
Watch Mark Doty read his powerful poem "Charlie Howard's Descent." Charlie Howard, as Mark explains, was thrown off a bridge to his death in a 1985 hate crime.
For more about the Smiley Face Murders (not to be confused with the Smiley Face Killer), listen to this Crime Junkie episode.
Watch bigot Anita Bryant pied by Tom Higgins.
You can read James's poem about it, "On Dark Days, I Imagine My Parents' Wedding Video," from The Iowa Review Online.