Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast

Poppers

Aaron Smith and James Allen Hall Episode 109

Get vasodilated with the queens in this episode filled with heady poetry games.

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Watch fabulously messy Willam Belli, from RuPaul's Drag Race and host of the popular game "Poppers Slap," review poppers here.

Read this appreciation of Gwendolyn Brooks by Christian Wiman.

Watch Sharon Olds at the National Book Awards 2022 finalist reading (~5 min).

Louise Glück’s most recent book is Marigold and Rose: A Fiction, a 64-page fablesque novella publishedin 2022 by FSG. Read a review of it here.

Carl Phillips reads Linda Gregg’s poem “It Is the Rising I Love” from The Paris Review (~2 min).

Listen to Jorie Graham read “Why” from To 2040.

If you want to read Jack Kerouac’s haiku, check them out here.

Angelo Nikolopoulos’s website is https://www.angelonikolopoulos.com. Catch a reading with Angelo, Jameson Fitzpatrick, and Monica McClure here.