Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast

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

December 4, 2023 30 mins

The queens play poetry detective in this episode devoted to true crime-inspired poems.

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Buy our books:
     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
     James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

You can check out the Killer Psyche podcast here, hosted by  retired FBI agent Candice DeLong.

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The queens' Kissing Booth is now open! We talk poetic kisses and then read some recent poetry crushes.

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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 more about Rimbaud here, and watch Patti Smith's video about prep...

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November 23, 2023 14 mins

The queens get stuffed as they rehash Thanksgivings past. No poetry, but this episode does make hilarity rhyme with vulgarity. After all, a Breaking Form Thanksgiving special wouldn't be complete without talk of clitoris, lesbian octogenarians, and Listerine cocktails. Unbuckle your seatbelts and your pants, cuz this is a messy wild ride -- definitely not for the feint of heart!

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November 20, 2023 25 mins

Snap out of it! The queens use Cher to revise some poems and the result is ICONIC!

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Buy our books:
     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
     James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.


 You can hear Louise Glück read "The Mirror" here and read it for yourself here. (The...

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November 13, 2023 28 mins

The queens play "Just Jane!" featuring a jackpot of J. Kenyon and J. Mead poems. James just can't jank a jackdaw but refuses to be jaded.

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Buy our books:
     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
     James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

Kenyon published four volumes of poetry ...

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November 6, 2023 28 mins

The gorls chop up some gorgeous lines before playing Mean, Queen, or Blue Jean.

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Buy our books:
     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
     James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.


"It was a time when they were afraid of him" is from Jimmy Santiago Baca's poem "Ancesto...

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October 30, 2023 29 mins

The queens put the ass in astonishment & tease out favorite  moments in poems.

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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.

Please consider buying your books from Bluestockings Cooperative, a feminist and queer indie bookselling cooper...

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October 23, 2023 27 mins

Aaron and James are joined by special guests to pay tribute to Maureen Seaton.

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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.

Please consider buying your books from Bluestockings Cooperative, a feminist and queer indie bookselling cooperati...

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October 16, 2023 30 mins

The queens leave you breathless in antici....pation with this crafty episode focused on enjambed lines.

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.

Please consider buying your books from Bluestockings Cooperative, a feminist and queer in...

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October 9, 2023 29 mins

Get on your spurs & chaps and join our country queens down at the poetry gay bar!

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.

Please consider buying your books from Bluestockings Cooperative, a feminist and queer indie bookselling co...

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October 2, 2023 30 mins

The queens hypothesize that erotic/love poems must always have one "f*ckstick."

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.

Please consider buying your books from Bluestockings Cooperative, a feminist and queer indie bookselli...

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September 25, 2023 31 mins

Get vasodilated with the queens in this episode filled with heady poetry games.

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Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.
Buy our books:
     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate."
     James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Writing in Lit Hub, Rebec...

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September 18, 2023 29 mins

The queens talk bad words and get Sharon Stoned with Lynn Emanuel in part 2 of the interview.

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Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.
Buy our books:
     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate."
     James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Writing in ...

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The ladies pop a poetry pill with guest Lynn Emanuel in part one of the interview.

Support Breaking Form!
Review the show on Apple Podcasts here
Buy our books:
     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate.
     James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Writing in Lit Hub, Rebecc...

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September 4, 2023 28 mins

The divas are telling the truth and shaming some devils in this tea-spilling episode about horrible men with wide readerships.

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  • Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.  

Buy our books:

  • Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate."
  • James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way ...
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August 28, 2023 30 mins

Our intrepid pansies talk  prompts--but first up it's a scandal of grave proportions.

Support Breaking Form!

  • Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.  

Buy our books:

  • Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate."
  • James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Writing in Lit Hub, Rebecca M...
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August 21, 2023 31 mins

The queens talk music, monsters, and masturbation with Diannely Antigua.

Support Breaking Form!

  • Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.  

Buy our books:

  • Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate."
  • James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Writing in Lit Hub, Rebecca Morgan Frank says t...
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August 14, 2023 27 mins

The gays gaze into their crystal balls and predict the National Book Awards.

Support Breaking Form!
Review the show on Apple Podcasts here
Buy our books:
Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate."

James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Writing in Lit Hub, Rebecca Mor...

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August 7, 2023 29 mins

Our intrepid hosts talk Deep Image poetics and nearly break into rosebud....er blossom.

Support Breaking Form!
Review the show on Apple Podcasts here
Buy our books:
Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate."

James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Writing in Lit Hub, ...

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July 31, 2023 28 mins

The ladies get a little bit Alexis in this episode that mixes poetry quotes with Alexis Rose quotes from Schitt's Creek.

Support Breaking Form!
Review the show on Apple Podcasts here
Buy our books:
Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate."

James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available fro...

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