Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast

Hanky Code

February 19, 2024 Aaron Smith and James Allen Hall Episode 131
Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast
Hanky Code
Show Notes

The ladies reach into your back pocket to talk gay hanky codes and the poets they ASSociate with them.

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Bob Damron's Address Book was actually published in 1964 and hand-sold by Bob Damron. Read more about the Damron Guide here.

Read Ginsberg's poem "A Supermarket in California"

Buy Stephanie Brown's Allegory of the Supermarket  from The Ivy Bookshop (one of Baltimore's best indie bookstores!). The book was first published by U of Georgia Press (1999).

Beckian Fritz Goldberg's book referenced in the show is Never Be the Horse (U Akron Press, 1999). Read a recent suite of Goldberg's poems here in Plume. Watch Goldberg give a reading here (~30 min).

James references one of the first viral videos, Kelly's song "Shoes." Read more about the cultural impact of the video here.