Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast

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Knock knock, darlings! Join the queens as we talk about funny poems.

If you'd like to support Breaking Form:
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Buy our books:
     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
     James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

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.

Read Ed Ochester's "Monroeville, PA."

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Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture PodcastBy Aaron Smith and James Allen Hall

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