This week, we welcome former Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith to talk about poetry, democracy, fear, & poems by Joy Harjo, Francisco Márquez, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Lucie Brock-Broido, and @dseuss.bsky.social Listen wherever you get your fearless podcasts, or online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com

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.

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.

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.

Cherry Tree is delighted to reveal our second Pushcart Prize nomination: Julie Marie Wade's "From the Jeopardy! Category, THE SUBJUNCTIVE:" which appeared in Issue 11. We know we can always turn to Julie's work for the exact right questions!

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.

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.👌)

@breakingformpod.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... This is the best interview so far of the “About Time” (David Duchovny’s poetry book) promotion. Great insight and discussion and even a little tidbit of how a Chris Carter writing quirk unintentionally influenced Duchovny’s Mulder.

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

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 breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com or wherever you mine your poetry.

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

Omg this episode of @breakingformpod.bsky.social is so good I had to stop halfway to tell you to go listen. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/b... I’ll prob use this earbud break to go buy Richard Siken’s book

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

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! cherrytree.submittable.com

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 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 🔥) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

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!

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.

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

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

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. breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com/1865753/epis...

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.

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.

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. 🍆

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? breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com

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?

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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

Next week, we're serving up Sextonics in tribute to the author of poems like "The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator," "The Abortion," "Menstruation at Forty," and "The Fury of Cocks." Bottoms up! Catch up online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your reference work in sin.

It's Friday. Let's talk about (literary) sex with Edmund White--who's just published a sex memoir that'll whet your appetite for tenderness, lit gossip, and orgies. Listen at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com or wherever you get your heart fired up.

The EDMUND WHITE joins us this week to talk sex, style, & spill so much scalding literary tea. It's such a big deal we had to call in reinforcements: @miguelmurphy.bsky.social joins in for the fun, too! Catch it at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your podcasts!

Need some small but mighty poems? We've got you (barely) covered this week! Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your micros mini'd.

Need to listen to a couple of queens talk poetry and ways not to drink alcohol? We got you covered, girl. Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your skirt and your spirits lifted.

If you are interested, on the one hand, in mashed-up poems, and on the other, strains of marijuana, then you are interested in Breaking Form. Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your fuses popped.

Have you gotten #sissified yet? If not, you need a good Sissy in your life, and wow, sis, it's like Christmas came early.... breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com

Built sissy tough. New episode streaming now! Online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your poems and podcasts sissified.

Jennifer K. Sweeney had her poem “Dear Y2K” featured on SWWIM. Here’s an excerpt, and you can read the whole at swwim.org. Congratulations, Jennifer! 🌊 @swwim.bsky.social

Marie Howe • What the Living Do and the power of sitting with another in their grief

Liberation and poetry--just one of the topics we discuss with this unforgettable & fun interview with Brenda Hillman! Check it out online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your electrifying nipples.

Kent Monkman, mistikôsiwak (wooden boat people): Resurgence of the People, 2019. Acrylic paint on canvas. Kent Monkman is a Cree artist known for his interventions into ‘canonical’ Euro & American art history that highlight colonial violence, queer sexualities, and resilience.

This week on Breaking Form, we interview the fabulous poet & gay icon Brenda Hillman. It's a fascinating conversation about freedom & poetry, & begins by revisiting Hillman's poem "Male Nipples." Check it out online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your piercing insights.

I don’t really like eggs unless the yolk is runny, so I’m not buying any of these $10 bird flu eggs. good luck in the egg games.

Today is Langston Hughes's birthday! Check out this deep dive into his love life and his poetic work for a fascinating portrait of a man and a generation of queer Black artists. You can listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your square pegs & round holes.

Queer art has always existed. Nothing and no one can stop us. Charles Demuth, Dancing Sailors, 1917.