149 episodes
Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast Aaron Smith and James Allen Hall
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5.0 • 82 Ratings
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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.
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The Tortured Poets Department
We're snatching wigs in this one! The queens get real about bad poetry. 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.NOTESWatch the official lyric video for "But Daddy I Love Him" and read this article about what the pub The Black Dog (the titular pub from the Taylor Swift Song) s like.Read M...
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Leading Ladies
A leading ladies game leads to a tombstone-poetry pop quiz before Monica Farrell reads a poem by Michael Dumanis. Happy Pride Month!Watch Anne Sexton respond to a vile review (published in The Southern Review) of Live or Die. Read "Menstruation at Forty" from Live or Die. Read "Rapunzel" from Sexton's Transformations.On Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, appearing with Natalie Portman to promote May December, Julianne Moore names her performance in Far From Heaven as her "pe...
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Early Reads
The queens revisit some early, inspiring books of poetry that still slap! Come nerd out with us. 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 Linda Gregg's "Part of Me Wanting Everything to Live"Read an interview with Wayne Koestenbaum, "Dirty Mind: An Interview with WK" which appeared i...
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Heathers
Break out the croquet for a game of poets named Heather before the queens talk poetry inspired by the movie Heathers. No, Heather, it's Heather's turn!Please 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. When she released her 2nd book of poems, TheTrees The Trees, Heather Christle set up a phone number w...
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Letters to a Stranger
The queens blur the boundaries between Dylan Thomas James, then become shady ladies about Broetry.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 Dylan Thomas's incredible villanelle "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" or listen to Thomas read it here. We reference a few readings ...
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The Art of Losing: The Love Life of Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn't hard to master in this episode devoted to the loves and losses of Elizabeth Bishop's life. 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 Bishop's villanelle (the only one she ever published!) "One Art." Read about her drafting process (at least 16 versions) h...
Customer Reviews
Breaking In
Loving this podcast. Learning a lot about poetry, poets, form and breaking it with these two (sage and sassy sirens). Truly, thank you for your compassionate accessible teaching and for giving a louder voice to women and queer poets.
Information-rich & Thought-provoking—but in a fun way
Aaron and James are the Trixie and Katya of poetry—and I am here for it. At a time when too many contemporary U.S. poets and poetry critics take it all too seriously, along come Aaron and James, who are a fizzy anodyne to the stuffiness. The epi on T. S. Eliot’s “love” life is a thing of wonder. ♥️
Half kiki, half seminar
A must-listen for poets. I love the depth of discussion on craft and how approachable they make it with their expertly curated mini syllabus for each episode. I can't multitask with this pod, it's for close listening and co-reading. Luckily, it's a breezy and fun 30 minutes! Truly a gift.
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