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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 · 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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CherryTreeLit.bsky.social @cherrytreelit.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

4/29/26 at 7pm ET on Zoom we’re launching this fabulous issue into the stratosphere with 1-minute readings by Issue 12 contributors. Register here: washcoll.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Rose O'Neill Literary House @ Washington College @literaryhouse.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Announcing the Cherry Tree & Lit House Press post-AWP sale! washington-college.square.site/literary-hou... and use code CTAWP26

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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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James Allen Hall @jamesallenhall.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Thanks to Gabriel Fried for being a fabulous interview guest and to @anmlymag.bsky.social for publishing this conversation about queerness, poetic form, and subversive beauty. medium.com/anomalyblog/...

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bestofthenet.bsky.social @bestofthenet.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Check out one of our 2025 Poetry Selections, "Inheritance at Corresponding Periods of Life, at Corresponding Seasons of the Year, as Limited by Sex" by @jamesallenhall.bsky.social (The Adroit Journal) selected by Ruben Quesada #bestofthenetanthology #poetrywriting #finalist

INHERITANCE AT CORRESPONDING PERIODS OF LIFE, AT CORRESPONDING SEASONS OF THE YEAR, AS LIMITED BY SEX
“Some species invent facts about the living
to explain the dead. I cannot fathom the bones
I find in the woods posed themselves like this,
though some species of grief find meaning
in minutia, a mechanism for survival. It is hard
to imagine a face for each skull.”
James Allen Hall (The Adroit Journal)
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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

“‘Are you all right,’ Duhaney asks me at the bar, / ‘You look like you just stepped on a nail.’ He bends / to my ear, ‘I have such a crush on you’” — @jamesallenhall.bsky.social, “Dirty Joke” www.greenlindenpress.com/issue17-jame...

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Under a Warm Green Linden, Issue 17 — Green Linden Press

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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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James Allen Hall @jamesallenhall.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Can you find $5 for amazing, deserving, bright students? We're close to reaching our goal of meeting a match challenge! Every dollar would make a difference in these kids' lives. tinyurl.com/LightofDayIn... select Centers of Excellence then Literary House Light of Day

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December Do Good Days 2025

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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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James Allen Hall @jamesallenhall.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Each birthday, I beg for donations for my students. It's easy to make a plea for kids whose idea of a good time is making books from scratch. If you can give $5, I'd be so grateful to pass it on! Visit tinyurl.com/tx827sfj & select "Centers of Excellence," then "Lit House Light of Day"

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Rose O'Neill Literary House @ Washington College @literaryhouse.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Chip in $5 to help us build the Light of Day Internship Program. Please? Super please? Fly on over to advancement.washcoll.edu/portal/ddgd2... and select "Centers of Excellence," and then "Literary House--Light of Day." Thank you for doing some good for our deserving students!

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

Cherry Tree is published once per year. Subscriptions to are $15 for one year and $26 for two. More information here: washington-college.square.site/literary-hou...

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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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CherryTreeLit.bsky.social @cherrytreelit.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

We're revealing our Pushcart Prize nominations this week. Follow along and help us to celebrate these terrific writers! And you can subscribe here, if you're so moved: washington-college.square.site/shop/cherry-...

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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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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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Rose O'Neill Literary House @ Washington College @literaryhouse.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

HUUUUUGE congratulations to Lit House Associate Director Roy Kesey for winning this prestigious prize for his new book, LORE, out from Sarabande in May 2027.

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CherryTreeLit.bsky.social @cherrytreelit.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Two weeks left to submit to Cherry Tree! Check out our guidelines at cherrytree.submittable.com

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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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CherryTreeLit.bsky.social @cherrytreelit.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

When she's not reading submissions, CNF Editor Sufiya Abdur-Rahman is reading recent books by Rachel L. Swarns @rachelswarns.bsky.social and by CT 9 contributor Kristin Keane. Cherry Tree is open for submissions til October 1 at cherrytree.submittable.com/submit

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CherryTreeLit.bsky.social @cherrytreelit.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

We asked our editors to name 2 books they're reading (when they're not reading Cherry Tree submissions). Fiction Editor extraordinaire @sarahblackman.bsky.social recommends books by former CT contributor @alvinlu.bsky.social and by Thalia Field. We're open til Oct 1! cherrytree.submittable.com

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CherryTreeLit.bsky.social @cherrytreelit.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

We asked our editors: what are 2 books you're reading when you're not reading Cherry Tree submissions? Poetry Editor Alyse Bensel's answer: Rara Avis by former CT contributor @blasfalconer.bsky.social & Anelise Chen's Clam Down. Cherry Tree is open til October 1 cherrytree.submittable.com

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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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James Allen Hall @jamesallenhall.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Many thanks to @rubenq.bsky.social for curating a terrific poetry section in Best of the Net 2025, and for including a poem of mine first published in @adroitjournal.bsky.social! bestofthenetanthology.com/2025-2/2025-...

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Inheritance At Corresponding Periods Of Life, At Corresponding Seasons Of The Year, As Limited By Sex – Best of the Net

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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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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

“The father parks outside the Pleasure Place / but does not turn off the ignition. / Tells his son, I’ll just be a second. An hour later, / is found among the lifelike vaginas” — @jamesallenhall.bsky.social, “Fantasy” @fourwaybooks.bsky.social

FANTASY. The father parks outside the Pleasure Place but does not turn off the ignition. Tells his son, I’ll just be a second. An hour later, is found among the lifelike vaginas: your mom wants something but I can’t do it, and when his kid asks, my father says, rape fantasy, and his good son buys the video while he sits in the car. No big deal, I lie, handing over the paper bag that means it’s a sin to see inside. The movie plays inside my head. Every time I take to my bed alone, begin the ritual, private tenderness, I can’t stop unreeling it, can’t stop the man, his chest above my face so close I could punch him in his ribs, scrape off skin or a nipple, anything not to replay it exactly. James Allen Hall

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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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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

“my mother dismantles / the false wall with the plastic crucifix, she explores / the passage from the dreamworld to the one / whose reign I herald, the world of hoarded women.” — @jamesallenhall.bsky.social, “Portrait of My Mother as Rosemary Woodhouse” pbqmag.org/james-allen-...

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James Allen Hall: Portrait of my Mother as Rosemary Woodhouse - Painted Bride Quarterly

My mother dreams she’s adrift on the Adriatic Sea. Naked men and women lounge all around her. Blue waves slap against her thigh and stones fall from unspeakable cliffs. I am dropped into her, boulder ...

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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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CherryTreeLit.bsky.social @cherrytreelit.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Scholarships available! Find your voice & your writing kindred at the Cherry Tree Young Writers' Conference for high school students (rising sophomores, juniors, & seniors). July 15-18.2025 on the @washcoll.bsky.social campus. More info at www.washcoll.edu/ywc

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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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Rose O'Neill Literary House @ Washington College @literaryhouse.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

We join our community in mourning Robert Earl Price, and celebrating his life & poetry. Here's an interview & reading Robert Earl did with Grace Cavalieri on The Poet and the Poem: www.gracecavalieri.com/images/Rober...

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CherryTreeLit.bsky.social @cherrytreelit.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

FAQ: What's a literature discussion like at the Cherry Tree Young Writers' Conference? A: Here's Dr. Courtney Rydel, Chair of Washington College's English Dept., leading a discussion about what medieval stories can teach us about modern craft. More info can be found online at www.washcoll.edu/ywc

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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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CherryTreeLit.bsky.social @cherrytreelit.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

If you'll be in Los Angeles for AWP, please stop visit Cherry Tree at Booth 432 in the Bookfair to say hi, buy an issue, browse our famous letterpress broadsides, grab a free pin, tattoo, or mini notebook and bask in our LA Winter Wonderland vibe!

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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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