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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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30:35

Be Afraid to Say It

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2024/10/07

Join the Salami Sisters for this episode of The Real Housef*gs of Breaking Form. 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:Soufiane Ababri is the artist we talk about whose series of artworks is Bedwork / Yes I AMHere are are versions (one & two & three) of Dickinson's "One need not...

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28:34

National Book Awards

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2024/09/30

The queens get out their big smooth (crystal) balls to predict the National Book Award shortlist in poetry. Play along! The shortlist is announced Oct. 1. 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:You can find the National Book Awards longlists for fiction, translation, young people's liter...

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30:13

Following Orders (Occasional Poems)

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2024/09/23

Your favorite bridesmaids are (drunk and dis)orderly in this episode about writing for special occasions. 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 NOTESHere's a cinematic example of an epithalamion--an e.e. Cummings poem (from In Her Shoes).James’s poem “A Monument for This Morning” appears on p...

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29:16

Wet Geography

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2024/09/16

The queens are all lubed up and waiting for you in the badlands that is Breaking Form.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 NOTESSee Beckian Fritz Goldberg read poems here (at 1:04 mark)Our friend Maureen Seaton died on August 26, 2023. Watch her read poems for Alaska Quarter...

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28:20

James Goes to Bread Loaf

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2024/09/09

Go tell it on the mountain, darlings! Join the queens for a special Breaking Form report on the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.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 NOTESIf you don't know about Absolutely Fabulous, which first ran from 1992-95, you're missing out. Catch Edina...

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7:28

Summer Poetry Salon #5

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2024/09/02

Join the queens for this last poetry salon, where we highlight fabulous poets we haven't discussed much on the show.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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8:17

Summer Poetry Salon #4

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2024/08/26

Settle in for this fourth poetry salon, a show as jam-packed with radiant pleasure as a dark room in Rehoboth.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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9:04

Summer Poetry Salon #3

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2024/08/19

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.

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7:02

Summer Poetry Salon #2

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2024/08/12

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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8:28

Summer Poetry Salon #1

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2024/08/05

The Breaking Form girls are taking a little August break, but we still want to brighten your summer with poems!

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30:48

Stoned

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2024/07/29

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 NOTESCougar Town is an American television sitcom that ran for six seasons, from 2009 to 2015. See the best moment of Lauri...

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25:14

Commitments: A Revisit of Essex Hemphill

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2024/07/22

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 NOTESRead Hemphill's biographical sketch on the Poetry Foundation.We reference Hemphill's canonical poem, which you can read: "American Wedding" (listen...

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29:09

Secrets

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2024/07/15

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 NOTESMadonna's "Secret" was the lead single off of her sixth album, Bedtime Stories. Watch the video here. Read Sharon...

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30:39

Funny

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2024/07/08

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 NOTESWatch Stacey Waite give a full reading here (at 38:00); here's Stacey reading one poem: "The Kind of Man I Am at the DMV." Watch Gary Jackson's poem "Tryouts" in Mot...

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27:59

F*ck You Poems

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2024/07/01

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 NOTESListen to Taylor Swift sing a mash-up of "thanK you aIMee" (about Kim Kardashian) and "Mean" on the Eras tour in London he...

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28:32

Golden Girls

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2024/06/24

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 NOTESChristian Wiman's book Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair. It's part memoir and part a collection of his p...

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28:23

Versesucker

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2024/06/17

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.NOTESTess Gallagher's "Stopping Place" is from her book Willingly.Donna Stonecipher's "Inlay 18 (Sei S...

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27:40

The Tortured Poets Department

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2024/06/10

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.NOTESWatch the official lyric video for "But Daddy I Love Him" and read this article about what the pub The Black Dog (the titular pub from the Taylor Swift Song) s like.Read M...

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30:24

Leading Ladies

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2024/06/03

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, appearing with Natalie Portman to promote May December, Julianne Moore names her performance in Far From Heaven as her "pe...

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29:25

Early Reads

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast ·

2024/05/27

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 Live"Read an interview with Wayne Koestenbaum, "Dirty Mind: An Interview with WK" which appeared i...

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