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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Our summer salon series are designed as a dive into one poet; we read 4 poems and give you a taste of the writer's work as a whole. First up: Lynda Hull! Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your star ledgers.

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This week on the podcast, we highlight fabulous poems by emerging writers! Give it a listen wherever you get your podcasts, or online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com

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Rose O'Neill Literary House @ Washington College @literaryhouse.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

There are only 8 spots left in the One-Day Young Writers' Studio, a full day of creative writing workshops for high-school age writers. (Rising freshmen and just-graduated are also welcome!) More info / to register (by June 28): www.washcoll.edu/admissions/v...

a group of 5 young writers laughing together foregrounds this flyer for the One-Day Young Writers' Studio; text graphics show that the day takes place on July 17, 2026. 8 spots are left. Register by June 28. Participants can register for $125.00 and receive 3 writing workshops with renowned writers; an open mic; a literature seminar; and lunch/snacks.

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Laura Kasischke joins us to talk about her new book of poems, I Was Bonnie & Clyde, just out from @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social and her novel, Lifeguard, published by @redhenpress.bsky.social Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your bonnie gay podcasts.

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

This week on @breakingformpod.bsky.social we're revisiting Louise Glück's incredible book _The Wild Iris_ (1992), winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you go wild, Iris.

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Rose O'Neill Literary House @ Washington College @literaryhouse.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

TODAY at 6pm ET, the Lit House sponsors a visit by @johnjharwood.bsky.social to Washington College to deliver the Richard L. Harwood Lecture in American Journalism. Harwood's talk will center on "truth in unsettling times." A livestream is available here: www.youtube.com/live/BlBI3TX...

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This week, Aaron and James celebrate the iconic Lucille Clifton. Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your starshine and clay.

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Fall for our first episode of a topsy-turvy season 4 here: breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

If you missed Season 3's interviews, now's a good time to catch up. We loved each of these conversations! breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com (Now playing: new, ~10 minute poetry salons as we enjoy a recharge through the new year)

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Did you catch the season closer of Breaking Form yet? Talk about going out on top. breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com FYI: We'll still be releasing new, short salon episodes each Monday until Season 4 starts mid-January. Gift tip: always wash your toys before you play with them.

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Rose O'Neill Literary House @ Washington College @literaryhouse.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Can you pitch in $5 to help these youngsters get a little light? We're raising money for the Light of Day Internships, which pair students with literary organizations. Please, help us give the Light of Day. Visit tinyurl.com/tx827sfj & select "Centers of Excellence" & "Literary House Light of Day"

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

This week, we welcome former Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith to talk about poetry, democracy, fear, & poems by Joy Harjo, Francisco Márquez, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Lucie Brock-Broido, and @dseuss.bsky.social Listen wherever you get your fearless podcasts, or online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

This week on Breaking Form, we talk poems that give us literal life (including one by @kathyfagan.bsky.social Check it out online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your thriving spirit.

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

We get out our pair of big crystal balls and predict the 2025 National Book Award in Poetry. Tune in for the tea at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your piping hot awards gossip served.

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Tomorrow on Breaking Form, we revisit one of the 20th Century's most important & influential poem: Brigit Pegeen Kelly's "Song" Catch up on past episodes online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your poetry podcasts.

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CherryTreeLit.bsky.social @cherrytreelit.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Cherry Tree is delighted to reveal our second Pushcart Prize nomination: Julie Marie Wade's "From the Jeopardy! Category, THE SUBJUNCTIVE:" which appeared in Issue 11. We know we can always turn to Julie's work for the exact right questions!

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

This week on Breaking Form, we put the SIS in ekphrasis, featuring poems that respond to art by @tommyeblount.bsky.social, Amy Gerstler, Paul Tran, David Trinidad, and Walta Borawski, among others! Check it out online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your Arse Poetica'd.

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Check out our interview with David Duchovny, author of the poetry book _About Time_ (@akashicbooks.bsky.social). You can listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you find your podcasts (& sure, we absolutely 100% coincided this release with the character Fox Mulder's birthday.👌)

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Pamela Stafford @pjsposts.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

@breakingformpod.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... This is the best interview so far of the “About Time” (David Duchovny’s poetry book) promotion. Great insight and discussion and even a little tidbit of how a Chris Carter writing quirk unintentionally influenced Duchovny’s Mulder.

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About Time (with Special Guest David Duchovny)

Podcast Episode · Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast · 10/13/2025 · 1h 14m

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

This week on Breaking Form, we're picking between eminently datable poetry-bachelors and deciding where to take them on our dates.... Listen anywhere you get your Ms. Pacman sated and full, or online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The queens visit Pittsburgh for a big dose of poetry -- occasioned by a weekend of events held in tribute to Ed Ochester (1939-2023). It's a dishy episode, despite the elegiac occasion. Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com or wherever you mine your poetry.

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CherryTreeLit.bsky.social @cherrytreelit.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

What Senior Fiction Reader @nicanstett.bsky.social is enjoying when not reading submissions: fabulous books by @riggstah.bsky.social and @tonytula.com Cherry Tree is open for submissions until October 1! cherrytree.submittable.com/submit

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Omg this episode of @breakingformpod.bsky.social is so good I had to stop halfway to tell you to go listen. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/b... I’ll prob use this earbud break to go buy Richard Siken’s book

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I Do Know Some Things (with Richard Siken)

Podcast Episode · Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast · 25/08/2025 · 1h 20m

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

This week's episode takes place, places place, and plants poetry in your [placeholder]. Poets mentioned include @tracibrimhall.bsky.social @joseolivarez.bsky.social & @adrianmatejka.bsky.social among others! Listen wherever you get your poetry podcasts, or online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com

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CherryTreeLit.bsky.social @cherrytreelit.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Cherry Tree is open for submissions through October 1. Send us your poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. All accepted pieces are considered for our special section of Literary Shade! cherrytree.submittable.com

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Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 At long last my copy of @notquitehydepark.bsky.social’s Super Gay Poems has arrived! (I bought this book after hearing about it on @breakingformpod.bsky.social so I know it’s 🔥) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

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LGBTQIA+ Poetry after Stonewall” by Stephanie Burt

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

We had so much fun talking about the poems that always remind us of (and renew for us) the power of poetry to invoke awe that we made Touchstone 2! Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever poetry podcasts electrify you!

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Smoke 'em if you got 'em! "Poetry Babies" is now streaming on Breaking Form. You can listen wherever you get your cigars and strollers, or online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com.

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

In our current episode, now streaming, we discuss touchstone poems: those works we return to when we need to remember the power and inspiration of poetry. Take a listen wherever you get touched (by poetry!) or online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com

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James Allen Hall @jamesallenhall.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

All aboard for Season 3 of @breakingformpod.bsky.social ! Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com/1865753, or wherever you get your bags packed.

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

We join Edmund White's partner, Michael Carroll, as well as the legion of Ed's & admirers in mourning his passing. We had the privilege of interviewing Ed, & we're glad his voice will continue to be heard. He made queer life more possible. breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com/1865753/epis...

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

While we're working on Season 3 of Breaking Form, please enjoy a few encore presentations that you might have missed, or might enjoy revisiting. This week: Fan Fic Poetry. You can listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

In the Season 2 closer, we boil down the work of certain iconic poets down to their seeds, asking what is this poet *really* about? Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your brain goosed.

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Literary submissions are sometimes mysterious to folks, so in this episode, we're giving some of our favorite advice to people submitting to literary journals and book publishers (mostly poetry). Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you plant your eggplants. 🍆

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Inspired by Aaron Smith's poem "Brad Pitt," we asked AI to write about Brad in the style of..... We were curious: what could our pedagogy and poetry gain? And what would Anne Carson's poem about Brad Pitt's butt look like? breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This week on the podcast, we talk about the Atlantic's list of "25 most consequential" books of the 21st C. Who's making your list?

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

This week on Breaking Form, we're discussing (yet another) article that purports to name "The Best Poetry of the 21st Century" (so far). Our episode title is obvs. very tongue-in-cheek. Have a listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your listicles.

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

We're spilling the poetry at a Sunday tea dance down at the leather bar. Come join us-- online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com or wherever you get your Privates Benjamined.

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

We harness the power of poetry in this leather-bar themed episode. It's gonna sting real good! Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your studs.

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

New on Breaking Form, we super-gay talk about the new super-gay anthology SUPER GAY POEMS, edited by @notquitehydepark.bsky.social and out tomorrow from @harvardpress.bsky.social Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get super, gay.

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This week on the podcast, @brendashaughnessy.bsky.social joins us to talk about resistance, poetry, & joy. Listen anywhere you get your podcasts, or online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com. And here's a Spotify link to Brenda's resistance playlist!: open.spotify.com/playlist/5W4...

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Let's get the erasers out and see what turns up when we erase some boorish poetry..... Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your f_unding f_th__s.

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Get in, queens! This week on Breaking Form, we're getting out our erasers! Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your cisheteropatriarchal poetry adjusted.

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Have you been her kind? This week we're talking Scorpio Queen, "Confessional" Icon, and author of poems like "Her Kind." Listen wherever you get your spells and break your curses, or online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Next week, we're serving up Sextonics in tribute to the author of poems like "The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator," "The Abortion," "Menstruation at Forty," and "The Fury of Cocks." Bottoms up! Catch up online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your reference work in sin.

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

It's Friday. Let's talk about (literary) sex with Edmund White--who's just published a sex memoir that'll whet your appetite for tenderness, lit gossip, and orgies. Listen at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com or wherever you get your heart fired up.

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The EDMUND WHITE joins us this week to talk sex, style, & spill so much scalding literary tea. It's such a big deal we had to call in reinforcements: @miguelmurphy.bsky.social joins in for the fun, too! Catch it at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your podcasts!

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Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture @breakingformpod.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Need some small but mighty poems? We've got you (barely) covered this week! Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your micros mini'd.

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