Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast
James Allen Hall and Aaron Smith talk about their favorite poems and poets, interview amazing writers, laugh a lot, gossip, and get real about life and art.
Episodes
195 episodes
Really?
The queens boil down the essence of some favorite poems and poets in this game that decides what poetry is *really* about.Please Support Breaking Form!
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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26:46
Just the Tips: Literary Submissions
If you're looking to submit, the queens have some advice for you!Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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30:17
The Poems of Brad Pitt
The ladies ask AI to write poems about Brad Pitt's butt. It’s not so bad Brad, sad Brad, is it?Please Support Breaking Form!
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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30:38
The Final Countdown
The queens discuss and revise a recent list of "best poetry," adding other tops (& bottoms & verses & sides, you get the point, miss thing).Please Support Breaking Form!
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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38:59
James Went to AWP
The queens dish this year’s AWP Conference!Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here....
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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32:53
Leather Bar
Get in, gurl, we're reading poetry at your unfriendly neighborhood leather bar.Please Support Breaking Form!Rev...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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29:10
Super Gay Poems w/ Guest Stephanie Burt
The queens super-gay it up with Stephanie Burt, the editor of the new poetry anthology, SUPER GAY POEMS.Please Support Breaking Form!
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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1:00:17
Brenda's Resistance Playlist (w/ Brenda Shaughnessy)
We're talking resistance, joy, and queer communities with Brenda Shaughnessy!Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show<...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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53:19
Erase-Him Poems
The queens get to the poetic essence with the help of erasure and re-envisioning.Please Support Breaking Form!R...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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29:04
Her Kind: Anne Sexton
Join the thirsty queens for a gin & Sextonic, in this tribute to the iconic work of Anne Sexton.Please Support Breaking Form!
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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30:38
The Loves of My Life (with Special Guest Edmund White)
The queens talk with gay literary icon Edmund White about his new book, The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir. (Miguel Murphy joins in the fun, too!)Please Support Breaking Form!
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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1:08:27
Shorties
The queens prove that it's not the size of the ship but the motion etc etc in this episode devoted to short poems.Please Support Breaking Form!
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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29:44
Fusion
Get out your UV lights & swabs--the queens play a game that fuses poems, then guess the poetic DNA samples. Then we spark up a fusion of a different strain!Please Support Breaking Form!
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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29:50
Sissy
The queens get sassy and sissify toxic cisheteronormative gender ideas about poetry.Please Support Breaking Form!Review th...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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31:40
Male Nipples (with Special Guest Brenda Hillman)
The queens discuss gay icon status with Brenda Hillman--and then launch in to a revisit of several of her poems, including her fabulous "Male Nipples."Please Support Breaking Form!
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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54:13
Sex Lives of Poets: Langston Hughes
Candle-extinguishing butts, 3am afterparties, collections of seamen (and semen)--this dishy tour of Langston Hughes's love life will leave you gagging with the gays.Please Support Breaking Form!
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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32:31
Half a Poem
Whet your appetite with half a poem from 3 fabulous poets and choose your own poetic fulfillment!Please Support Breaking Form!
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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29:18
In & Out (2025)
The queens go in (and out) on poetry trends for 2025, all while doing their Kegel exercises. Please Support Breaking Form!
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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30:28
World AIDS Day (Encore Presentation)
A special encore presentation of our World AIDS Day episode from last year, featuring work by writers we've lost to AIDS.Please Support Breaking Form!
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Season 1
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Episode 172
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17:12
Step Your Poetry Up
The queens play a round of Step Your Poetry Up before poet-voicing porn dialogue. Please Support Breaking Form!Review the...
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Season 1
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Episode 171
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38:08