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 NOTES: According to the website for World AIDS Day, more than 38 million people are currently living with HIV. And, since 1984, more than 35 million people have died of HIV or AIDS-related illnesses, makin ..read more

Are you a friend of Dorothy? This episode pays tribute to The Golden Girls, but in the most Breaking Form way possible! 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 Christian Wiman's book Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair. It's part memoir and part a collection of his poems and poems by others related to the book's themes. Hear Wiman interviewed on Fresh Air&nbs ..read more

The queens play poetry detective in this episode devoted to true crime-inspired poems. 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. You can check out the Killer Psyche podcast here, hosted by  retired FBI agent Candice DeLong. You can read more about Kenneth Patchen as well as some of his poems here. It's worth taking a look at the poem Aaron reads ("The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lem ..read more

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 poems we mention: Amy Lowell, "Patterns" Robinson Jeffers, "Credo" H.D., "Sea Rose" Sara Teasdale, "Moonlight" An essay on Hart Crane's "The River" Robert Duncan, "My Mother Would Be a Falconress" Theodore Ro ..read more

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. SHOW NOTES: "Happiness" from Descending Figure Part 9 of "Marathon" in Meadowlands "Adult Grief" in The Triumph of Achilles "Lost Love" in Ararat "New World" in Ararat "Averno" from Averno "Winter Morning" i ..read more

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 of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding, and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. In addi ..read more

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 website: http://www.nickybeer.com Read this conversation with Nicky Beer published in The Adroit Journal in 2022. Read this review of Beer’s The Octopus Game in F(r)iction. Nicky mentions the Las Cul ..read more

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 Límon's poem “How We Are Made” dedicated to Levine, who was her teacher. Límon talks about Levine in this interview. Read the iconic and heartbreaking James L. White poem "Making Love to Myself" You c ..read more

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 Shoop (It's in His Kiss)." And here's Merry Clayton's version. Cher starred in the movie Mask, which was released in 1985. Mask won the Academy Award for Best Makeup at the 58th ceremony, while Cher and St ..read more

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). And read this conversation between Coultas and Stacy Szymaszek.   Watch the best of Brenda Walsh’s outfits from Season 3 of Beverly Hills, 90210 You can find Brenda Hillman's website here. Hear ..read more