Tomorrow on Breaking Form, we revisit one of the 20th Century's most important & influential poem: Brigit Pegeen Kelly's "Song"
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Co-hosted by poets James Allen Hall & Aaron Smith. Online at https://breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your podcasts. 30 min shows every Monday. We're like a poetry quickie in a filthy motel with a faaaaaabulous library!
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!
22.10.2025 14:36 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0This 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.π)
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.
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This is the best interview so far of the βAbout Timeβ (David Duchovnyβs poetry book) promotion. Great insight and discussion and even a little tidbit of how a Chris Carter writing quirk unintentionally influenced Duchovnyβs 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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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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Iβll prob use this earbud break to go buy Richard Sikenβs 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!
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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 βSUPER GAY POEMS LGBTQIA+ Poetry after Stonewallβ by Stephanie Burt
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At long last my copy of @notquitehydepark.bsky.socialβs Super Gay Poems has arrived!
(I bought this book after hearing about it on @breakingformpod.bsky.social so I know itβs π₯)
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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...
04.08.2025 17:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We 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!
04.08.2025 17:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Smoke '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.
29.07.2025 12:45 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0In 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
23.07.2025 14:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0All 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).
Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you plant your eggplants. π
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.
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17.04.2025 14:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0We'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!
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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...
31.03.2025 15:29 β π 13 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1New 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.