Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture

Tomorrow on Breaking Form, we revisit one of the 20th Century's most important & influential poem: Brigit Pegeen Kelly's "Song"

Catch up on past episodes online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your poetry podcasts.

Cherry Tree is delighted to reveal our second Pushcart Prize nomination: Julie Marie Wade's "From the Jeopardy! Category, THE SUBJUNCTIVE:" which appeared in Issue 11. We know we can always turn to Julie's work for the exact right questions!

This week on Breaking Form, we put the SIS in ekphrasis, featuring poems that respond to art by @tommyeblount.bsky.social, Amy Gerstler, Paul Tran, David Trinidad, and Walta Borawski, among others!
Check it out online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your Arse Poetica'd.

Check out our interview with David Duchovny, author of the poetry book _About Time_ (@akashicbooks.bsky.social).
You can listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you find your podcasts (& sure, we absolutely 100% coincided this release with the character Fox Mulder's birthday.👌)

So glad you enjoyed it, Pamela! We also had such a fun time nerding out about poetry with David! We hope he'll come back.

About Time (with Special Guest David Duchovny) Podcast Episode · Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast · 10/13/2025 · 1h 14m

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This is the best interview so far of the “About Time” (David Duchovny’s poetry book) promotion. Great insight and discussion and even a little tidbit of how a Chris Carter writing quirk unintentionally influenced Duchovny’s Mulder.

This week on Breaking Form, we're picking between eminently datable poetry-bachelors and deciding where to take them on our dates....

Listen anywhere you get your Ms. Pacman sated and full, or online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com

The queens visit Pittsburgh for a big dose of poetry -- occasioned by a weekend of events held in tribute to Ed Ochester (1939-2023). It's a dishy episode, despite the elegiac occasion. Listen online at
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or wherever you mine your poetry.

What Senior Fiction Reader @nicanstett.bsky.social is enjoying when not reading submissions: fabulous books by @riggstah.bsky.social and @tonytula.com

Cherry Tree is open for submissions until October 1!
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I Do Know Some Things (with Richard Siken) Podcast Episode · Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast · 25/08/2025 · 1h 20m

Omg this episode of @breakingformpod.bsky.social is so good I had to stop halfway to tell you to go listen.

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I’ll prob use this earbud break to go buy Richard Siken’s book

This week's episode takes place, places place, and plants poetry in your [placeholder]. Poets mentioned include @tracibrimhall.bsky.social @joseolivarez.bsky.social & @adrianmatejka.bsky.social among others!

Listen wherever you get your poetry podcasts, or online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com

Cherry Tree is open for submissions through October 1. Send us your poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. All accepted pieces are considered for our special section of Literary Shade!

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A ginger and white cat in loaf pose beside a hardcover book “SUPER GAY POEMS LGBTQIA+ Poetry after Stonewall” by Stephanie Burt

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At long last my copy of @notquitehydepark.bsky.social’s Super Gay Poems has arrived!

(I bought this book after hearing about it on @breakingformpod.bsky.social so I know it’s 🔥)

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Also, here's a link to a list of Touchstone poems we asked readers on FaceBook to help us make -- feel free to add to it there! The link is in the show notes, and hopefully this will continue to grow as a resource for folks! www.facebook.com/JamesAllenHa...

We had so much fun talking about the poems that always remind us of (and renew for us) the power of poetry to invoke awe that we made Touchstone 2! Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever poetry podcasts electrify you!

Smoke 'em if you got 'em! "Poetry Babies" is now streaming on Breaking Form. You can listen wherever you get your cigars and strollers, or online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com.

In our current episode, now streaming, we discuss touchstone poems: those works we return to when we need to remember the power and inspiration of poetry. Take a listen wherever you get touched (by poetry!) or online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com

All aboard for Season 3 of @breakingformpod.bsky.social !
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We join Edmund White's partner, Michael Carroll, as well as the legion of Ed's & admirers in mourning his passing. We had the privilege of interviewing Ed, & we're glad his voice will continue to be heard.

He made queer life more possible.

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While we're working on Season 3 of Breaking Form, please enjoy a few encore presentations that you might have missed, or might enjoy revisiting.

This week: Fan Fic Poetry. You can listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your podcasts.

In the Season 2 closer, we boil down the work of certain iconic poets down to their seeds, asking what is this poet *really* about?
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Literary submissions are sometimes mysterious to folks, so in this episode, we're giving some of our favorite advice to people submitting to literary journals and book publishers (mostly poetry).

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Inspired by Aaron Smith's poem "Brad Pitt," we asked AI to write about Brad in the style of..... We were curious: what could our pedagogy and poetry gain? And what would Anne Carson's poem about Brad Pitt's butt look like?

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This week on the podcast, we talk about the Atlantic's list of "25 most consequential" books of the 21st C.

Who's making your list?

This week on Breaking Form, we're discussing (yet another) article that purports to name "The Best Poetry of the 21st Century" (so far). Our episode title is obvs. very tongue-in-cheek. Have a listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your listicles.

We 💜the books you publish, and your mission is incredible. 🔥

We're spilling the poetry at a Sunday tea dance down at the leather bar. Come join us--

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or wherever you get your Privates Benjamined.

We harness the power of poetry in this leather-bar themed episode. It's gonna sting real good!

Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your studs.

Super Gay Poems w/ Guest Stephanie Burt - Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast 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 a...

I had So Much Fun doing this Super Gay Podcast for Super Gay Poems! @breakingformpod.bsky.social @harvardpress.bsky.social breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com/1865753/epis...

New on Breaking Form, we super-gay talk about the new super-gay anthology SUPER GAY POEMS, edited by @notquitehydepark.bsky.social and out tomorrow from @harvardpress.bsky.social

Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get super, gay.