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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 13d

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.

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CherryTreeLit.bsky.social @cherrytreelit.bsky.social · 25d

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

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

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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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · Aug 11

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

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CherryTreeLit.bsky.social @cherrytreelit.bsky.social · Aug 9

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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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · Aug 5

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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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A ginger and white cat in loaf pose beside a hardcover book “SUPER GAY POEMS
LGBTQIA+ Poetry after Stonewall” by Stephanie Burt

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · Aug 4

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...

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · Aug 4

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!

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · Jul 29

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.

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · Jul 23

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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James Allen Hall @jamesallenhall.bsky.social · Jun 16

All aboard for Season 3 of @breakingformpod.bsky.social !
Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com/1865753, or wherever you get your bags packed.

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · Jun 13

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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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · May 19

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.

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · May 13

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.

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · May 7

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. 🍆

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · Apr 29

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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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · Apr 25

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?

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · Apr 23

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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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · Apr 17

We 💜the books you publish, and your mission is incredible. 🔥

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · Apr 13

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.

Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · Apr 8

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.

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Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social · Mar 31

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...

Super Gay Poems w/ Guest Stephanie Burt - Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast

The queens super-gay it up with Stephanie Burt, the editor of the new poetry anthology, SUPER GAY POEMS.Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is a...

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · Mar 31

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.

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · Mar 24

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...

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