Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast

Male Nipples (with Special Guest Brenda Hillman)

Aaron Smith and James Allen Hall Season 2 Episode 4

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."


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 You can see readings by Brenda Hillman here (one poem, ~4 min, 2020), here (20min, 2012), and here (2024, poetry and conversation with Jesse Nathan).

For a review and discussion of Hillman's new book, Three Talks, check out this episode of The Only Property. (~30 min).

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Discover more about Barbara Guest and her 9 collections of poetry here.

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Read about Objectivist Poetics here.