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The queens are all lubed up and waiting for you in the badlands that is Breaking Form.
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SHOW NOTES
See Beckian Fritz Goldberg read poems here (at 1:04 mark)
Our friend Maureen Seaton died on August 26, 2023. Watch her read poems for Alaska Quarterly here. You can listen to our tribute episode to Maureen here, and our Breaking Form episodes with her here and here.
Anne and Nancy Wilson of Heart have actually reunited and will tour all over the US in 2024. Watch them sing with Kelly Clarkson here.
Here's a short interview with Ellen Bryant Voigt.
Here's a short interview and reading with Frank O'Hara.
Crisco is 113 years old. Watch this 1981 ad for it, featuring Loretta Lynn.
Throb Magazine can be found online at: https://www.throbmag.com/about
Listen to Ander Monson in this short poetic video "PREDATOR vs. Alien vs. Predator"
Here are three clips from Julianne Moore that we reference in the show:
Julianne Moore and Robert Pattinson (Maps to the Stars) talking about gloves and sex.
Maps to the Stars: bleeding on the $12,000 couch
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Go tell it on the mountain, darlings! Join the queens for a special Breaking Form report on the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
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SHOW NOTES
If you don't know about Absolutely Fabulous, which first ran from 1992-95, you're missing out. Catch Edina and Patsy's best moments here.
Mona van Duyn taught at Bread Loaf at least once--according to this poster.
Check out audio recordings of Bread Loaf readings and lectures here. I can also recommend the reading by Adrian Matejka & Paul Lisicky, both of whom read from work about celebrity icons (it was like a class on how to do that well).
The t-slur has been recognized as an offensive slur for at least 10 years, if not more, as this Advocate article about the slur indicates.
Daniel Mendelsohn's review ("A Striptease Among Pals") of Hana Yanagihara's A Little Life can be read here (sorry about the paywall!) and the whole dustup gets further press in this Guardian article.
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Join the queens for this last poetry salon, where we highlight fabulous poets we haven't discussed much on the show.
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Settle in for this fourth poetry salon, a show as jam-packed with radiant pleasure as a dark room in Rehoboth.
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This Summer Salon has zero tan-lines and a ton of fabulous poetry!
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Who wears short shorts? Celebrate summer with the queens as we read poets we haven't focused on before.
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The Breaking Form girls are taking a little August break, but we still want to brighten your summer with poems!
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Spill all the tea but spill it slant with the Breaking Form queens in this episode dedicated to the art of secrets.
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SHOW NOTES
Cougar Town is an American television sitcom that ran for six seasons, from 2009 to 2015. See the best moment of Laurie Keller (played by Busy Phillips) here.
The music journalist Hugh McIntyre is indeed gay.Patsy Stone's full name is: Eurydice Colette Clytemnestra Dido Bathsheba Rabelais Patricia Cocteau Stone. See some of her best moments from Absolutely Fabulous here.
Read Lucille Clifton's "Lost Baby Poem"Read Nomi Stone's poems "La Ghriba (“The Stranger”) Tells How and Why," "Waiting for Happiness," and "Archiving What We Saw"
Read Ruth Stone's "Speculation," "Shapes," and "As Real As Life"Read Bianca Stone's "Cutting Odette's Fingernails,"Marcus Aurelius," and "The Request of the Doe"
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Aaron and James revisit an iconic poem about queer duty and erasure by Essex Hemphill.
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SHOW NOTES
Read Hemphill's biographical sketch on the Poetry Foundation.
We reference Hemphill's canonical poem, which you can read: "American Wedding" (listen to Justin Smith read the poem here).
Hemphill's Ceremonies was published by Cleis Press in 1992.
Hit the 1:04 mark on this clip to hear Hemphill read a poem as part of Tongues Untied.
Hemphill took part in a panel during the Black Nations/Queer Nations Conference in the early 90s alongside Samuel R. Delaney and Coco Fusco. His talk is about HIV, Blackness, and queerness. -
Spill all the tea but spill it slant with the Breaking Form queens in this episode dedicated to the art of secrets.
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SHOW NOTES
Madonna's "Secret" was the lead single off of her sixth album, Bedtime Stories. Watch the video here.Read Sharon Olds's "Killing My Sister's Fish"
Len Roberts's "The Problem" appeared in APR March/April 2001 and can also be found in The Silent Singer.
Julia Kasdorf's "Eve's Curse" appears in her book Eve's Striptease. You can watch her give a reading (from As Is) here.Read Emily Dickinson's 260. And check out her handwritten copy here. Dickinson published TEN poems and a letter in her lifetime.
Aaron reads the July 17, 1996 entry from Letters to Wendy's and you can read the text of that here.
Read CP Cavafy's "The Afternoon Sun" (trans. Edmund Keeley). Cavafy's complete literary corpus includes the 154 poems that constitute his poetic canon; his 75 unpublished or "hidden" poems, that were found completed in his archive or in the hands of friends, and weren't published until 1968; his 37 rejected poems, which he published but later renounced; his 30 incomplete poems that were found unfinished in his archive; as well as numerous other prose poems, essays, and letters.[16] According to the poet's instructions, his poems are classified into three categories: historical, philosophical, and hedonistic or sensual.[10]
Here's W.H. Auden's "If I Could Tell You" & you can hear him read it.
Read Laura Kasischke's "Bike Ride with Older Boys" (from her book Dance and Disappear).
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Knock knock, darlings! Join the queens as we talk about funny poems.
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SHOW NOTES
Watch Stacey Waite give a full reading here (at 38:00); here's Stacey reading one poem: "The Kind of Man I Am at the DMV."
Watch Gary Jackson's poem "Tryouts" in Motionpoems (Button Poetry) here.
Read Tim Dlugos's "David Cassidy, I Want to Fuck You"; listen to Terence Winch read "Incredible Risks" (the title of one of Dlugos's books) here.
Read "Note Passed to Superman" as well as some other of Lucille Clifton's "Clark Kent Poems" here.
Here's an interview in Adroit Journal with Denise Duhamel, in which she discusses the craft of chattiness and comedy in her poetry.
Visit Nick Lantz's website.
You can read Aaron Smith's "Jennifer Lawrence" here (scroll down).
Watch Anita Bryant get some queer comeuppance here. James's poem about this is: "On Dark Days, I Imagine My Parents' Wedding Video." Their poem, "A Fact Which Occurred in America" can be read here.
Read Matthew Olzmann's "Letter to the Person Who, During the Q&A Session After the Reading, Asked for Career Advice" (from Constellation Route).
Go read A.R. Ammons's poem "Their Sex Life" here.
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Celebrating the art of the poetic punch & helping Form Breakers everywhere say "f*ck you" to their nemesissies.
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Listen to Taylor Swift sing a mash-up of "thanK you aIMee" (about Kim Kardashian) and "Mean" on the Eras tour in London here.
Read John Dryden's "MacFlecknoe"
Visit Lisa Glatt online.Read "Wanda in Worryland" by Wanda Coleman (scroll down). Aaron reads her poem "What it Means to Be Dark." Read this consideration of Coleman's work by Dan Chiasson in The New Yorker.
You can read Catallus's fuck you poem (#33 translated by AZ Foreman) here. The link here has a recording of the poem recited in Latin too.Adrienne Rich's poem "Song" is the 9th poem in Diving Into the Wreck. The first poem is "Trying to Talk With a Man." And you can read "The Phenomenology of Anger" here. The receipt about Rich driving Bishop is here.
Read Jayne Cortez's "There it Is." There It Is is also the title of the album released in 1982 by Jayne Cortez and the Firespitters, which contains Cortez's poem as the lead track. Listen to the poem set to music here. And you can watch Cortez perform here.
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Are you a friend of Dorothy? This episode pays tribute to The Golden Girls, but in the most Breaking Form way possible!
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SHOW NOTES
Christian Wiman's book Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair. It's part memoir and part a collection of his poems and poems by others related to the book's themes. Hear Wiman interviewed on Fresh AirRead Brenda Shaughnessy's "Panopticon" first published in Ecotone.
Read Aaron Smith's poem "Blue Exits" (about self-harming and self-exiting)
A gay couple had an epic, viral meltdown in an airport. If you haven't seen the original TikTok go "Remember Them: Shelby and Dolly"We reference Dana Levin's fourth book, Banana Palace. Read the title poem.
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On your knees with the queens in the poetry darkroom, poetic pleasures await! Then we wipe off our kneecaps before hitting the Pride Parade.
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NOTES
Tess Gallagher's "Stopping Place" is from her book Willingly.
Donna Stonecipher's "Inlay 18 (Sei Shõnagun)" is from her book The Cosmopolitan. Read a bit about the book here.
Sei Shōnagon's actual given name is not known. It was the custom among aristocrats in those days to call a court lady by a nickname taken from a court office belonging to her father or husband. Sei Shōnagon (c. 966–1017 or 1025) was a Japanese author, poet, and a court lady who served the Empress Teishi (Sadako) around the year 1000 during the middle Heian period. She is the author of The Pillow Book.
The Dick Dock in Provincetown is so popular it has its own Facebook page. Or check out this Youtube video called "Provincetown's Dick Dock: Making Gay Sex Magic!"
If you want to know more about the history of the Meat Rack on Fire Island, here's a good starting place.Read Ocean Vuong's poem "Theology"
Marilyn Nelson's "For Mary, Fourth Month" is available in her The Fields of Praise: New and Selected.
Jim Powell did indeed win a MacArthur in 1993. Read more poems by Powell here.
Read Frank Stanford's "Blue Yodel of the Desperado"
Read more about Osip MandelstamKevin Prufer's book of poems The Fears won the Rilke Prize. Read the judges' citation here.
Visit Michelle Tea's website here. Or read an excerpt from her poem "I Used to Be Straight" here (scroll down).
Read Franny Choi's "Unlove Poem"
Read "Prayer/Oracion" by Francisco X. Alarcón, trans. Francisco AragónRead "American Wedding" by Essex Hemphill
Here's June Jordan's fiery "Poem About My Rights"
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We're snatching wigs in this one! The queens get real about bad poetry.
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Watch 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 Mona van Dun's minimalist sonnet "Closure" here.
If you hate your eyeballs and poetry, go read Helen Steiner Rice's "It Takes the Bitter and the Sweet" and her foundation's website.The article Aaron talks about is Vice's "Bad Poetry is Everywhere," which quotes Yasmin Belkhyr. It includes links to the receipts about the poet we note has been alleged to have plagiarized--and here's the Daily Beast article about that poet too.
Javier O. Huerta in an essay for the Poetry Foundation named a few good bad poems, including Elizabeth Bishop's "Casabianca"Here is the first sonnet from Sonnets From the Portuguese.
Read Wallace Stevens's "Anecdote of the Jar"
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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 "personal best performance." On another episode, Moore talks about being fired from CanYou Every Forgive Me? by Nicole Holofcener. Here's the receipts for why.
It's not just Aaron who doesn't think of Moonstruck as romantic comedy.Read "The Wicked Candor of Wanda Coleman."
Read this terrific appreciation of Kathy Acker in The LA Review of Books.
Here's the New Yorker profile in which Judith Butler tells the story of her job interview at Williams in the late 1980s.James Wright's first book The Green Wall won the Yale Younger in 1957 (chosen by Auden) and is full of formal verse. Compare "On the Skeleton of a Hound" (from The Green Wall) with "A Blessing" (from his 3rd book, The Branch Will Not Break).
Kim Addonizio's poem "What Women Want" is the poem James was thinking about. It was first published in Tell Me.
You can buy Diannely Antigua's new book Good Monster, just out from Copper Canyon Press.
The epitaph on Auden's grave is from his poem "In Memory of WB Yeats," which you can listen to Auden reading here.
Read Dorothy Parker's "Interview."
Watch this intro to the project at Canterbury Christchurch University's celebrating Aphra Behn. Read her poem "Love Armed."
The epitaph on Kenyon's and Hall's tombstone is from her poem "Afternoon at MacDowell"
At the end of the episode, Monica Ferrell reads Michael Dumanis's poem "East Liverpool, Ohio" from his new book Creature. Read a conversation with Michael in Adroit here. -
The queens revisit some early, inspiring books of poetry that still slap! Come nerd out with us.
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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 in LA Review of Books
Read "Boy at the Patterson Falls" from Toi Derricotte's Captivity.
Listen to Susan Mitchell read "A Rainbow" -- the fun starts around 11:08. It includes her singing in German….
Read Cathy Song's "Ikebana" from Picture Bride, which won the 1982 Yale Series of Younger Poets and was also nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.
Listen to Cornelius Eady read some poems from Brutal Imagination (including "How I Got Born") and talk about Susan Smith here (forward to 23:50 mark). You can read the text of "How I Got Born" here (scroll down and click title to expand the whole poem). Eady turned the poems into a play of the same name; you can listen to Eady in conversation with Joe Morton about that process here (~47 min). -
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!
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When she released her 2nd book of poems, TheTrees The Trees, Heather Christle set up a phone number which people could call to have her read a poem to them. The number was (413) 570-3077. You can read more about that endeavor here and here.
You can read Heather McHugh's poem "I Knew I’d Sing," listen to McHugh read it, or watch Mary Karr discuss it.
Read McHugh's ars poetica "What He Thought" or click here to listen to her read it (at the 30:45 mark).
Find out more about the singer Conan Gray.
Watch here the clip of the father eulogizing his son at the funeral for Jake and Ram.
Check out Dustin Brookshire's poem "If Dolly Parton Had Been My Mother" And then check out the magazine Dustin edits, Limp Wrist.
Read GC Waldrep's poem "What Is a Soprano"
Read Frank Bidart's "Herbert White"
Check out a lunchtime poll in Heathers.
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The queens blur the boundaries between Dylan Thomas James, then become shady ladies about Broetry.
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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 of this poem by actors:
Here's Anthony Hopkins getting choked up reading it.
And here's Michael Sheen's rendition.
Listen to Thomas read "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London." You can read the text of the poem here.
Read Dylan Thomas's "The Girl's Story"
Watch a short (30 min) Dylan Thomas documentary here.
Read Dylan Thomas's poems "Once Below a Time" and "Where Once the Waters of Your Face"
Read Thomas James's poem "Dragging the Lake" and his poem "Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh"
Read another pair of Thomas James poems: "Reasons" and "Waking Up"
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The art of losing isn't hard to master in this episode devoted to the loves and losses of Elizabeth Bishop's life.
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Read Bishop's villanelle (the only one she ever published!) "One Art." Read about her drafting process (at least 16 versions) here.
You can listen to Bishop read a few of her poems, including "In the Waiting Room" here--recorded at the 92nd Street Y in October 1977. And here's a much younger Bishop reading "The Fish."
Bishop's Paris Review interview is absolute gold.
For more on Lota and Samambaia, the house she built north of Rio, read this Paris Review article on two recent movies made about Bishop and Lota.
Other receipts for what we say in the show are found in this New York Times article, "The Love of Her Life"
For more about the acrimonious "war of the legal wills" between Bishop and Macedo Soares, I recommend David Hoak's article "Proofs of Love: The Last Letters of Lota de Macedo Soares," published in PN Review Volume 42 Number 2 (Nov-Dec 2015). The link contains a paywall.
See more photographs of Samambaia, the glass butterfly-shaped house Lota built in Petrópolis.
Here are the receipts about Judy Flynn.
Receipts for the Louise Crane-Billie Holiday tryst are here and here.
Read "The Loneliness of Elizabeth Bishop" in The Nation.
Crusoe in England" was a coded coping with grief over Soares' death. when the repatriated Robinson Crusoe recalls the loss of “Friday, my dear Friday,” who “died of measles / seventeen years ago come March.” Had Soares lived to one more March birthday, the couple would have spent seventeen years together. You can hear Bishop read (and follow along the text of) "Crusoe in England" here. - Visa fler
