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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The queens summon lines designed to stop readers in their tracks. 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: Sharon Olds says that early in her poetic career, when she'd send out her poems, "[…
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I Do Know Some Things (with Richard Siken)
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The queens are joined by poetry crush Richard Siken, & talk heroes, rabbits, robots, & healing. 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: You can order I Do Know Some Things here. Visit Richa…
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The hosts get familiar with the poetry of three Hof(f)man(n)s--Carlie, Michael, and Richie. 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: Visit Carlie Hoffman on the web here. She is the author o…
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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 sho…
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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 Le…
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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 Poet…
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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 198…
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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 Mi…
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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 …
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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, includi…
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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…
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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.…
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Encore Presentation: The Bones of Power (with Special Guest Diane Seuss) (Ep. 132)
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Encore Presentation: The Great Unsayable Sex Workshop (Ep. 71)
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Encore Presentation: Mona in the Corner (Ep. 6)
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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 Mic…
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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 …
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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 Bl…
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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 lis…
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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 th…
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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 Laaksone…
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Super Gay Poems w/ Guest Stephanie Burt
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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 …
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Brenda's Resistance Playlist (w/ Brenda Shaughnessy)
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We're talking resistance, joy, and queer communities with Brenda Shaughnessy! 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: Click here for Brenda’s Queer Resistance Playlist 2025 (Spotify). Check out …
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The queens get to the poetic essence with the help of erasure and re-envisioning. 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 Nicole Sealey poem we read at the end of the episode comes from the …
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Join the thirsty queens for a gin & Sextonic, in this tribute to the iconic work of Anne Sexton. 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: Click here for a pdf from the Poetry Society that include…
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The Loves of My Life (with Special Guest Edmund White)
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The queens talk with gay literary icon Edmund White about his new book, The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir. (Miguel Murphy joins in the fun, too!) 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. Miguel's SHORE…
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The queens prove that it's not the size of the ship but the motion etc etc in this episode devoted to short poems. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Pretty Please with Aaron's cherry on top..... Buy our books: Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from F…
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Get out your UV lights & swabs--the queens play a game that fuses poems, then guess the poetic DNA samples. Then we spark up a fusion of a different strain! Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Pretty Please.....Buy our books: Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is av…
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The queens get sassy and sissify toxic cisheteronormative gender ideas about poetry. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Pretty Please.....Buy our books: Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. The site in such desperate need of sissific…
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Male Nipples (with Special Guest Brenda Hillman)
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The queens discuss gay icon status with Brenda Hillman--and then launch in to a revisit of several of her poems, including her fabulous "Male Nipples." Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Pretty Please.....Buy our books: Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is availab…
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Candle-extinguishing butts, 3am afterparties, collections of seamen (and semen)--this dishy tour of Langston Hughes's love life will leave you gagging with the gays. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Pretty Please.....Buy our books: Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COM…
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Whet your appetite with half a poem from 3 fabulous poets and choose your own poetic fulfillment! Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Pretty Please.....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: Read Catherine Bow…
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The queens go in (and out) on poetry trends for 2025, all while doing their Kegel exercises. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Pretty Please.....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: Watch Marie Howe in con…
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A special encore presentation of our World AIDS Day episode from last year, featuring work by writers we've lost to AIDS. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Pretty Please.....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 N…
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The queens play a round of Step Your Poetry Up before poet-voicing porn dialogue. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Pretty Please.....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: Here are links to some of the poem…
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If they wanted only to hold you, the queens could hold you prisoner in this tribute to America's most recent Nobel Laureate. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Pretty Please.....Buy our books: Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. SHO…
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The queens get Bossy Rossy before they compare thee to a summer's eve. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Pretty Please.....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: Ross Gay is a Leo who has authored four books…
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Darling Nicky ( w/ special guest Nicky Beer)
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The queens talk bisexual poetics and genius with Nicky Beer, before getting all dolled up in a game of real vs fake Dolly. 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: Visit Nicky Beer’s…
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The queens have one thing to say: you better werk! 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: Click here to read Philip Levine's "What Work Is" Read more about Philip Levine Read Ada L…
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Snap INTO it, girlarina! The queens re-cast Cher movies with poets. 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: Read Patricia Smith's "Incendiary Art." Here's Cher's cover of “Shoop Sho…
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The queens get all Brenda on that Brenda, you Brenda? 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: Read more about Brenda Coultas here. Watch Coultas read with Alice Notley here (1 hour)…
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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 …
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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…
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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 NOTES Here's a cinematic example of an epi…
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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 NOTES See Beckian Fritz Goldberg read poems …
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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 NOT…
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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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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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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.By Aaron Smith and James Allen Hall
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