Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast
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.
Episodes
The hosts get familiar with the poetry of three Hof(f)man(n)s--Carlie, Michael, and Richie.
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
SHOW NOTES:
Visit Carlie Hoffman on the web here. She is the author of three books, most recently One More Like This World (Four Way, 2...
How do poets write about place, and how does place shape a poet? Play along as the queens place these poems!
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
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SHOW NOTES:
Poems/Poets mentioned in this week's show include:
Traci Brimhall, "Shelter in Place."...
Touchstones part 1 hit so good, we decided to go another round!
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
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Poems mentioned in this episode:
Tomas Transtromer: "The Name" (translated by May Swenson with Leif Sjöberg)
Cornelius Eady: "My Heart" Eady als...
The queens play poetry matchmakers and nine months later, boom, there's a poetry baby!
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
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Robyn Schiff's most recent book is Information Desk: An Epic (Penguin Poets, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2024).
The gals talk foundational poems--and they might just surprise you!
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Quan Barry's "The 1986 Apple Super Bowl Commercial as Intervention" refers to this iconic 1984 Apple Computer commercial aired during the Super...
The library is open--to prose the queens find indispensable for poets!
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
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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 o...
The queens put the "arch" in "archive" and rediscover some favorite poetry blasts from the past.
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
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Listen to a reading Scott Cohen gave with poet Tom Weatherly at St. Mark's Poetry Project in 1968. Read his ...
The queens talk literary confidantes; then we discuss the pros and pitfalls of poetic friendships.
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
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NOTES:
Read a bit more about Spencer Williams's Tranz, including from the poem "Laramie" in the book, here.
The queens talk literary confidantes; then we discuss the pros and pitfalls of poetic friendships.
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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.
The Breaking Form broads recount their poetic travels abroad in this Season 3 opener.
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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,&q...
The queens boil down the essence of some favorite poems and poets in this game that decides what poetry is *really* about.
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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
If you're looking to submit, the queens have some advice for you!
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
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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 submitt...
The ladies ask AI to write poems about Brad Pitt's butt. It’s not so bad Brad, sad Brad, is it?
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
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NOTES:
Aaron's "Brad Pitt" appeared in his first book, Blue on Blue Ground. Read the poem here.
The queens discuss and revise a recent list of "best poetry," adding other tops (& bottoms & verses & sides, you get the point, miss thing).
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
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NOTES:
The queens dish this year’s AWP Conference!
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
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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 h...
Get in, gurl, we're reading poetry at your unfriendly neighborhood leather bar.
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
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NOTES:
Learn more about Tom of Finland, the artist name of Finnish Touko Laaksonen who signed his erotic work "Tom."
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