Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast

By: Aaron Smith and James Allen Hall
  • Summary

  • 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.
    © 2024 Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast
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  • Wet Geography
    Sep 16 2024

    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 here (at 1:04 mark)

    Our friend Maureen Seaton died on August 26, 2023. Watch her read poems for Alaska Quarterly here. You can listen to our tribute episode to Maureen here, and our Breaking Form episodes with her here and here.

    Anne and Nancy Wilson of Heart have actually reunited and will tour all over the US in 2024. Watch them sing with Kelly Clarkson here.

    Here's a short interview with Ellen Bryant Voigt.

    Here's a short interview and reading with Frank O'Hara.

    Crisco is 113 years old. Watch this 1981 ad for it, featuring Loretta Lynn.

    Throb Magazine can be found online at: https://www.throbmag.com/about

    Listen to Ander Monson in this short poetic video "PREDATOR vs. Alien vs. Predator"

    Here are three clips from Julianne Moore that we reference in the show:
    Julianne Moore and Robert Pattinson (Maps to the Stars) talking about gloves and sex.
    Maps to the Stars: bleeding on the $12,000 couch
    Heather Graham and Julianne Moore doing coke together in Boogie Nights.





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    29 mins
  • James Goes to Bread Loaf
    Sep 9 2024

    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 NOTES

    If you don't know about Absolutely Fabulous, which first ran from 1992-95, you're missing out. Catch Edina and Patsy's best moments here.

    Mona van Duyn taught at Bread Loaf at least once--according to this poster.

    Check out audio recordings of Bread Loaf readings and lectures here. I can also recommend the reading by Adrian Matejka & Paul Lisicky, both of whom read from work about celebrity icons (it was like a class on how to do that well).

    The t-slur has been recognized as an offensive slur for at least 10 years, if not more, as this Advocate article about the slur indicates.

    Daniel Mendelsohn's review ("A Striptease Among Pals") of Hana Yanagihara's A Little Life can be read here (sorry about the paywall!) and the whole dustup gets further press in this Guardian article.

    For more information about and to apply to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences (there are other conferences in environmental writing and in translation), visit their website here.

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    28 mins
  • Summer Poetry Salon #5
    Sep 2 2024

    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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    7 mins

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