Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast

Cher Revises Poetry

Aaron Smith and James Allen Hall Episode 117

Snap out of it! The queens use Cher to revise some poems and the result is ICONIC!

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 You can hear Louise Glück read "The Mirror" here and read it for yourself here. (The show was taped before LG's untimely death.)

Read "Old Ironsides" by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Read "Homage to my hips" by Lucille Clifton

You can read Alexandra Teague's excellent poem "Language Lessons" here.

Tess Gallagher's "I Stop Writing the Poem" can be found here.

Go here to read Dorothea Lasky's poem "If you can't trust the monitors"

Here's Robert Lowell's poem "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket"

Finally, we mention Hart Crane's poem "Chaplinesque"

Here are two clips from Moonstruck"
Meeting outside the opera

"I want you to come upstairs with me and get in my bed!"