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Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast

Aaron Smith and James Allen Hall

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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27:31

Location! Location! Location!

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2025/08/11

How do poets write about place, and how does place shape a poet? Play along as the queens place these poems! Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. SHOW NOTES: Poems/Poets mentioned in this week's show include: Traci Brimhall, "Shelter in Place." Visit Brimhall's website here. And you can watch her craft talk on revision here (1 h...

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31:55

Touchstone Poems (Part 2)

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2025/08/04

Touchstones part 1 hit so good, we decided to go another round! Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Poems mentioned in this episode: Tomas Transtromer: "The Name" (translated by May Swenson with Leif Sjöberg) Cornelius Eady: "My Heart" Eady also turned Brutal Imagination into a play, too, and you can read the Variety review here. Wayne...

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25:11

Poetry Babies

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2025/07/28

The queens play poetry matchmakers and nine months later, boom, there's a poetry baby! Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Robyn Schiff's most recent book is Information Desk: An Epic (Penguin Poets, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2024). Read more about Karyna McGlynn's book I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl Check out Randa...

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30:21

Touchstone Poems

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2025/07/21

The gals talk foundational poems--and they might just surprise you! Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Quan Barry's "The 1986 Apple Super Bowl Commercial as Intervention" refers to this iconic 1984 Apple Computer commercial aired during the SuperBowl. The Brigit Pegeen Kelly poem we mention is "Three Cows and the Moon" was originally ...

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32:55

Prose for Poets

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2025/07/14

The library is open--to prose the queens find indispensable for poets! Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. You can find John Hollander's Rhyme's Reason here. Check out an excerpt in the NYT from Michael Schmidt Lives of the Poets. Here's an NPR review of Olivia Laing's Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency. For more abo...

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30:39

Where Are They Now

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2025/07/07

The queens put the "arch" in "archive" and rediscover some favorite poetry blasts from the past. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Listen to a reading Scott Cohen gave with poet Tom Weatherly at St. Mark's Poetry Project in 1968. Read his poem "Coke" from a 1971 issue of The Paris Review. David Henderson was raised in...

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30:42

A Pride Episode: Trans Poetry

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2025/06/30

The queens talk literary confidantes; then we discuss the pros and pitfalls of poetic friendships. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. NOTES: Read a bit more about Spencer Williams's Tranz, including from the poem "Laramie" in the book, here. Watch this reading celebrating the Transgender Day of Visibility, featuring some p...

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31:22

Thank You for Being a Friend

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2025/06/23

The queens talk literary confidantes; then we discuss the pros and pitfalls of poetic friendships. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. NOTES: Check out Toni Morrison's 1987 eulogy for James Baldwin in the New York Times. We read from Fran Lebowitz's remembrance of her friend Toni Morrison, printed in the Paris Review. If you have...

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32:01

The Broads Abroad

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2025/06/16

The Breaking Form broads recount their poetic travels abroad in this Season 3 opener. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. NOTES: The David Hockney retrospective in Paris is on view until August 31. For more about his painting "Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Percy," click here. For more about Hockney and the Muse, read "David Hockney's Literary...

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26:12

Encore Presentation: The Bones of Power (with Special...

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2025/06/09

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29:55

Encore Presentation: The Great Unsayable Sex Workshop...

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2025/06/02

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24:10

Encore Presentation: Mona in the Corner (Ep. 6)

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2025/05/26

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Encore Presentation: Fan Fic (Ep. 137)

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2025/05/19

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26:46

Really?

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2025/05/12

The queens boil down the essence of some favorite poems and poets in this game that decides what poetry is *really* about. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. NOTES: Read the NY Times review of Michael Schmidt's The Lives of the Poets Listen to James Merrill read his poem "For Proust" and while we're on the subject, here's a madeleine ...

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30:17

Just the Tips: Literary Submissions

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2025/05/05

If you're looking to submit, the queens have some advice for you! Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. NOTES: Check out On the Seawall: a community gallery of new writing, art and commentary hosted by poet Ron Slate. Here's some great advice about submitting & publishing poetry. Here's another good article about submitting to litera...

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30:38

The Poems of Brad Pitt

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2025/04/28

The ladies ask AI to write poems about Brad Pitt's butt. It’s not so bad Brad, sad Brad, is it? Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. NOTES: Aaron's "Brad Pitt" appeared in his first book, Blue on Blue Ground. Read the poem here. Here's the official video for the Miley Cyrus song "End of the World" and here's a remix that is rocking ...

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38:59

The Final Countdown

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2025/04/21

The queens discuss and revise a recent list of "best poetry," adding other tops (& bottoms & verses & sides, you get the point, miss thing). Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. NOTES: For a few lists of best 21st Century poetry: ...

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32:53

James Went to AWP

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2025/04/14

The queens dish this year’s AWP Conference! Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Notes: The Association of Writers and Writing Programs can be found online at www.awpwriter.org Marcela Fuentes is the author of the award-winning novel Malas and you can find her online at https://www.marcelafuentes.com Check out the exhibit F...

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29:10

Leather Bar

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2025/04/07

Get in, gurl, we're reading poetry at your unfriendly neighborhood leather bar. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. NOTES: Learn more about Tom of Finland, the artist name of Finnish Touko Laaksonen who signed his erotic work "Tom." Follow messygayspod on Instagram, or @messygays.bsky.social on Blue Sky, or on FB at MessyGaysPo...

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60:17

Super Gay Poems w/ Guest Stephanie Burt

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2025/03/31

The queens super-gay it up with Stephanie Burt, the editor of the new poetry anthology, SUPER GAY POEMS. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. NOTES: Check out SUPER GAY POEMS: LGBTQIA+ Poetry after Stonewall, edited by Stephanie Burt, out on April 1, 2025. Read Hera Lindsay Bird's "Bisexuality" Check out Best New Zealand Poets and 2...

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