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.
Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast
Next Step Forward (interview with Carl Phillips pt. 1)
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Aaron Smith and James Allen Hall
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Season 1
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Episode 40
Carl Phillips stops by to talk poetry, survival, harnesses, and censorship.
You can buy Carl Phillips's books -- particularly his newest, Then the War -- here at Loyalty Bookstores, a Black-owned independent bookstore in DC.
You can hear Carl read the title poem from Then the War here (~2 min).
Read Richie Hofmann's review of Then the War in the LA Review of Books here.
You can read "All the Love You've Got," the poem banned by the Academy of American Poets here.