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Aaron and James talk about Poetry Firsts -- first workshops, first journal publications, first poems by which we were awestruck.
Writers discussed include:
John Ashbery
Lucille Clifton
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Louise Glück
Barbara Hamby
Irene McKinney 
Paul Monette
Maureen Seaton
Gerald Stern
Alice Walker  
Journals we discuss include:
Bellingham Review
Ploughshares
The James White Review
You can read Aaron Smith's poem "Fat Ass" here. 
According to the foundation named after her, "Helen Steiner Rice . . . is often referred to as the 'poet laureate of inspirational verse.'"
Please consider supporting the authors mentioned during today's episode of Breaking Form--and please think about buying from independent bookstores. If you need a good one, we recommend Loyalty Books, a black-owned bookstore in Washington, DC that ships everywhere.
 By Aaron Smith and James Allen Hall
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Aaron and James talk about Poetry Firsts -- first workshops, first journal publications, first poems by which we were awestruck.
Writers discussed include:
John Ashbery
Lucille Clifton
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Louise Glück
Barbara Hamby
Irene McKinney 
Paul Monette
Maureen Seaton
Gerald Stern
Alice Walker  
Journals we discuss include:
Bellingham Review
Ploughshares
The James White Review
You can read Aaron Smith's poem "Fat Ass" here. 
According to the foundation named after her, "Helen Steiner Rice . . . is often referred to as the 'poet laureate of inspirational verse.'"
Please consider supporting the authors mentioned during today's episode of Breaking Form--and please think about buying from independent bookstores. If you need a good one, we recommend Loyalty Books, a black-owned bookstore in Washington, DC that ships everywhere.

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