Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture
@breakingformpod.bsky.social
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!
30 min shows every Monday. We're like a poetry quickie in a filthy motel with a faaaaaabulous library!
This week on Breaking Form, we talk poems that give us literal life (including one by @kathyfagan.bsky.social
Check it out online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your thriving spirit.
Check it out online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your thriving spirit.
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This week on Breaking Form, we talk poems that give us literal life (including one by @kathyfagan.bsky.social
Check it out online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your thriving spirit.
Check it out online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your thriving spirit.
We get out our pair of big crystal balls and predict the 2025 National Book Award in Poetry. Tune in for the tea at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your piping hot awards gossip served.
November 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
We get out our pair of big crystal balls and predict the 2025 National Book Award in Poetry. Tune in for the tea at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your piping hot awards gossip served.
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.
Catch up on past episodes online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your poetry podcasts.
October 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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.
Catch up on past episodes online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your poetry podcasts.
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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!
October 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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 it out online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your Arse Poetica'd.
October 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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 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.👌)
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.👌)
October 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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.👌)
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.👌)
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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.
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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.
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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October 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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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.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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
Listen anywhere you get your Ms. Pacman sated and full, or online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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
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
breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com
or wherever you mine your poetry.
breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com
or wherever you mine your poetry.
September 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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
breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com
or wherever you mine your poetry.
breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com
or wherever you mine your poetry.
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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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Cherry Tree is open for submissions until October 1!
cherrytree.submittable.com/submit
September 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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!
cherrytree.submittable.com/submit
Cherry Tree is open for submissions until October 1!
cherrytree.submittable.com/submit
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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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I’ll prob use this earbud break to go buy Richard Siken’s book
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I’ll prob use this earbud break to go buy Richard Siken’s book
I Do Know Some Things (with Richard Siken)
Podcast Episode · Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast · 25/08/2025 · 1h 20m
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September 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/b...
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
Listen wherever you get your poetry podcasts, or online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com
August 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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
Listen wherever you get your poetry podcasts, or online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com
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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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August 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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!
cherrytree.submittable.com
cherrytree.submittable.com
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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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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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August 5, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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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 🔥)
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
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 🔥)
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
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!
August 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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.
July 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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
July 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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
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All aboard for Season 3 of @breakingformpod.bsky.social !
Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com/1865753, or wherever you get your bags packed.
Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com/1865753, or wherever you get your bags packed.
June 16, 2025 at 11:27 AM
All aboard for Season 3 of @breakingformpod.bsky.social !
Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com/1865753, or wherever you get your bags packed.
Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com/1865753, or wherever you get your bags packed.
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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He made queer life more possible.
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June 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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.
breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com/1865753/epis...
He made queer life more possible.
breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com/1865753/epis...
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.
This week: Fan Fic Poetry. You can listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your podcasts.
May 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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.
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?
Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your brain goosed.
Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your brain goosed.
May 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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?
Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your brain goosed.
Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your brain goosed.
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. 🍆
Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you plant your eggplants. 🍆
May 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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. 🍆
Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you plant your eggplants. 🍆
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?
breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com
breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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?
breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com
breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com
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?
Who's making your list?
April 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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?
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.
April 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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.