If you bring along to Breaking Form Book Club an extra bottle of chardonnay,  we'll read some poems from books you may have missed.... 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 more about Zando and Sarah Jessica Parker’s SJP Lit: https://zandoprojects.com/imprints/sjp-lit/ Read the entirety of Marilyn Chin's poem "How I Got that Name" Read the title poem of Denis Johnson's ..read more

The queens remake the endings of iconic poems, then play a round of "Gay or Homophobic?" 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 William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud." Or hear it read by Dame Helen Mirren here.   Read Emily Dickinson's Poem 479 ("Because I could not stop for death"). James makes a reference to Linda Gregg's iconic "The Poet Goes About Her Business." Hea ..read more

It's a queens' jubilee as we discuss  Clifton and  Glück poems with Diane Seuss, who concludes by reading a new poem! Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Buy our books:       Diane Seuss's MODERN POETRY is available now from Graywolf Press.      Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Louise Glück's first book is Firstborn, published in 1968 when she was 25. You can read "Here Are My Black Clothes" Recorded on March 27, 2023, he ..read more

Get ready to unlock your box with the Breaking Form queens as they discuss Sharon Olds's icon poem, "Satan Says" Read the text of "Satan Says" here. Check out the wild facts about Valerie Bertinelli on her IMDB page! Read Sharon Olds's poem, "I Go Back to May 1937" Here's a famous "Church Chat" sketch with Dana Carvey as Enid Strict, aka the Church Lady, with guests Jim and Tammy Faye Baker (played by Phil Hartman and Jan Hooks). And, lastly, check out Aaron Smith's short essay "The Very Act of Telling" here.   ..read more

Join the gals for the queer makeover you secretly knew straight cis guy poetry needed. 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.   The word  zhuzh  is part of Polari, an argot used in Britain since perhaps the 18th century, primarily among gay theatrical and circus performers. Given the lack of a clear origin, it is impossible to tell if the verb has priority over the noun or vice versa ..read more

In every symptom is a seed of power, ladies! Diane Seuss joins to talk Adrienne Rich and Gwendolyn Brooks. 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.       Diane's MODERN POETRY is available March 5, 2024 from Graywolf Press. Read Adrienne Rich's poem about Marie Curie: "Power." You can hear Cheryl Strayed read the poem and discuss it here. Or listen to Adrienne Rich read the poem here ..read more

The ladies reach into your back pocket to talk gay hanky codes and the poets they ASSociate with them. 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. Bob Damron's Address Book was actually published in 1964 and hand-sold by Bob Damron. Read more about the Damron Guide here. Read Ginsberg's poem "A Supermarket in California" Buy Stephanie Brown's Allegory of the Supermarket  from The Ivy Bookshop (o ..read more

The ladies are joined by the Queen herself, Diane Seuss, to spread some love for Galentine's Day. Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Buy our books:       Diane Seuss's MODERN POETRY is available March 5, 2024 from Graywolf Press.       Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.      James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. We discuss Aaron Smith's Book of Daniel , and you can check that book out here. Read Marianne Moore's "No Swan So Fine,"  first published in Poetry Magazin ..read more

The queens discuss some unusual, at times outlandish (or downright made-up), and unfortunate ends  some poets have met.  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 more about Charlotte Brontë (including some of her poems) here. Brad Gooch's biography of Keith Haring is called Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring, and like Diane Seuss's book Modern Poetry, is releasing on March 5, 2 ..read more

The queens issue a BOLO for  poetry red flags before getting around to a satisfying Jack-Off. 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. Watch Lucie Brock-Broido read her poem "You Have Harnessed Yourself Ridiculously to This World," from Stay, Illusion at the National Book Award Finalists' reading (~3 min). Whitney Houston performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" on January 27, 1991. (We recorded t ..read more