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
Please enjoy this Summer Salon Series episode of Breaking Form Selects: Ai
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
Notes:
The poet Ai was noted for her uncompromising poetic vision and dramatic monologues which give voice t...
Please enjoy this Summer Salon Series episode of Breaking Form Selects: Lucie Brock-Broido.
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
Notes:
Lucie Brock-Broido was born in Pittsburgh. Her collections include: A Hunger (1988), The M...
Please enjoy this Summer Salon Series episode of Breaking Form Selects: Tim Dlugos.
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
Notes:
Tim Dlugos was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and grew up in Arlington, Virginia. From 1...
Please enjoy this Summer Salon Series episode of Breaking Form Selects: Melvin Dixon.
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
Notes:
Scholar, novelist, and poet Melvin Dixon was born in Stamford, Connecticut. He earned a BA from ...
Please enjoy this Summer Salon Series episode of Breaking Form Selects: Larry Levis--one of our favorite straight guys!
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
Notes:
Larry Patrick Levis (September 30, 1946 – May 8, 1996) w...
Please enjoy this Summer Salon Series episode of Breaking Form Selects: Tommye Blount.
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
Notes:
Tommye Blount was born and raised in Detroit. He holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and is...
Our summer salon series is here! Please enjoy this episode of Breaking Form Selects: Lynda Hull
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
Notes:
Lynda Hull was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1954. Her collections include Ghost Mone...
Season 4 ends with some much-needed poetic Cherapy!
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
Notes:
Poets and poems we mention in this episode include:
Mark Strand, "Eating Poetry"
Rob Schlegel, "Poetry"
Sandra Lim, "Some...
Richie Hofmann returns for a game that shows the queens that being well-versed can mean getting well-bred.
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
Notes:
Visit Richie Hofmann's website here: https://www.richiehofmann.com/ which i...
The ladies are joined by Richie Hofmann for one hell of a Breaking Form interview!
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
Notes:
Visit Richie Hofmann's website here: https://www.richiehofmann.com/ which includes links ...
The queens shine a rainbow spotlight on some fabulous, emerging queer poets.
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
Notes:
Xavier Searle is a poet and educator. A recipient of an Academy of American Poets University & Colleg...
Travel through time with the Breaking Form ladies as we revisit some queer times and places.
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
Notes:
Check out Felice Picano's website https://www.felicepicano.net/, and this tribute to the ...
The queens visit The Lowells in a game of "Amy Robert Lowell"
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
Notes:
Watch a brief biographical video about Amy Lowell here.
Poems we mention include these by Amy Lowell:
Laura Kasischke joins the queens to talk about her new collection of poems (and her new novel)!
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
Notes:
"The Crying Towel" was first published in The Massachusetts Review Volume 57, Issue 4
The queens take on two impossible topics: death, and mothers.
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
Show Notes:
Aaron mentions the Marie Howe poem "Letter to My Sister" from The Good Thief, which Howe talks about here.
Come with the queens as they travel back to a time of gay bookstores, queer anthems, and a boom in LGBT+ publishing: the gay 90s!
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
Show Notes:
Check out Michael Nava's wonderful essay "Creat...
Let's talk about Sex!
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.
James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
Show Notes:
Poems we read and texts we mention include:
Dorianne Laux, "The Lovers" (Visit Laux's website here).
Jenny Johnson, "Daddy Scene" (published in ...
Please Support Breaking Form!
Review the showon Apple Podcasts here.
Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.
James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
All the queens want is boundless love in this episode about the love life of Frank O'Hara.
Please Support Breaking Form!
Review the showon Apple Podcasts here.
Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.
James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
Show Notes:
Read Frank O'Hara's "Homosexuality"
For more about Chester Kallman, read here. K...
The queens talk about writing through sadness and grief in order to move forward and gain a different vantage point.
Please Support Breaking Form!
Review the showon Apple Podcasts here.
Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.
James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
Show Notes:
Take a look at the Tracey Emin sculpture "My Bed." It...
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