The queens revisit some early, inspiring books of poetry that still slap! Come nerd out with us.

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
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Read Linda Gregg's "Part of Me Wanting Everything to Live"

Read an interview with Wayne Koestenbaum, "Dirty Mind: An Interview with WK" which appeared in LA Review of Books

Read "Boy at the Patterson Falls" from Toi Derricotte's Captivity.

Listen to Susan Mitchell read "A Rainbow" -- the fun starts around 11:08. It includes her singing in German….

Read Cathy Song's "Ikebana" from Picture Bride, which won the 1982 Yale Series of Younger Poets and was also nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.

Listen to Cornelius Eady read some poems from Brutal Imagination (including "How I Got Born") and talk about Susan Smith here (forward to 23:50 mark). You can read the text of "How I Got Born" here (scroll down and click title to expand the whole poem). Eady turned the poems into a play of the same name; you can listen to Eady in conversation with Joe Morton about that process here (~47 min).

Break out the croquet for a game of poets named Heather before the queens talk poetry inspired by the movie Heathers. No, Heather, it's Heather's turn!

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Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.
Buy our books:
Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

When she released her 2nd book of poems, TheTrees The Trees, Heather Christle set up a phone number which people could call to have her read a poem to them. The number was (413) 570-3077. You can read more about that endeavor here and here.

You can read Heather McHugh's poem "I Knew I’d Sing," listen to McHugh read it, or watch Mary Karr discuss it.

Read McHugh's ars poetica "What He Thought" or click here to listen to her read it (at the 30:45 mark).

Find out more about the singer Conan Gray.

Watch here the clip of the father eulogizing his son at the funeral for Jake and Ram.

Check out Dustin Brookshire's poem "If Dolly Parton Had Been My Mother" And then check out the magazine Dustin edits, Limp Wrist.

Read GC Waldrep's poem "What Is a Soprano"

Read Frank Bidart's "Herbert White"

Check out a lunchtime poll in Heathers.

Watch the official video for P!nk's song "Trustfall"

The queens blur the boundaries between Dylan Thomas James, then become shady ladies about Broetry.

If you'd like to support Breaking Form:
Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

Read Dylan Thomas's incredible villanelle "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" or listen to Thomas read it here. We reference a few readings of this poem by actors:
Here's Anthony Hopkins getting choked up reading it.
And here's Michael Sheen's rendition.

Listen to Thomas read "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London." You can read the text of the poem here.

Read Dylan Thomas's "The Girl's Story"

Watch a short (30 min) Dylan Thomas documentary here.

Read Dylan Thomas's poems "Once Below a Time" and "Where Once the Waters of Your Face"

Read Thomas James's poem "Dragging the Lake" and his poem "Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh"

Read another pair of Thomas James poems: "Reasons" and "Waking Up"

Check out this FABULOUS Lucie Brock-Broido's essay on Thomas James: "The Rebirth of a Suicidal Genius"