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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture
@breakingformpod.bsky.social
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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!
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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.
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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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
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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.
October 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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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.
October 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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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.👌)
October 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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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
October 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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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.
September 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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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
August 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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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
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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
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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
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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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June 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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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.
May 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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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.
May 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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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. 🍆
May 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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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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April 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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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?
April 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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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
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We're spilling the poetry at a Sunday tea dance down at the leather bar. Come join us--

online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com

or wherever you get your Privates Benjamined.
April 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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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.
April 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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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.
March 31, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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This week on the podcast, @brendashaughnessy.bsky.social joins us to talk about resistance, poetry, & joy.

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

And here's a Spotify link to Brenda's resistance playlist!: open.spotify.com/playlist/5W4...
March 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Let's get the erasers out and see what turns up when we erase some boorish poetry.....

Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your f_unding f_th__s.
March 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Get in, queens!

This week on Breaking Form, we're getting out our erasers!

Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your cisheteropatriarchal poetry adjusted.
March 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Have you been her kind? This week we're talking Scorpio Queen, "Confessional" Icon, and author of poems like "Her Kind."
Listen wherever you get your spells and break your curses, or online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM