Celebrating the art of the poetic punch & helping Form Breakers everywhere say "f*ck you" to their nemesissies.

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SHOW NOTES

Listen to Taylor Swift sing a mash-up of "thanK you aIMee" (about Kim Kardashian) and "Mean" on the Eras tour in London here.

Read John Dryden's "MacFlecknoe"

Visit Lisa Glatt online.

Read "Wanda in Worryland" by Wanda Coleman (scroll down). Aaron reads her poem "What it Means to Be Dark." Read this consideration of Coleman's work by Dan Chiasson in The New Yorker.

You can read Catallus's fuck you poem (#33 translated by AZ Foreman) here. The link here has a recording of the poem recited in Latin too.

Adrienne Rich's poem "Song" is the 9th poem in Diving Into the Wreck. The first poem is "Trying to Talk With a Man." And you can read "The Phenomenology of Anger" here. The receipt about Rich driving Bishop is here.

Read Jayne Cortez's "There it Is." There It Is is also the title of the album released in 1982 by Jayne Cortez and the Firespitters, which contains Cortez's poem as the lead track. Listen to the poem set to music here. And you can watch Cortez perform here.

Are you a friend of Dorothy? This episode pays tribute to The Golden Girls, but in the most Breaking Form way possible!

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
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SHOW NOTES

Christian Wiman's book Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair. It's part memoir and part a collection of his poems and poems by others related to the book's themes. Hear Wiman interviewed on Fresh Air

Read Brenda Shaughnessy's "Panopticon" first published in Ecotone.

Read Aaron Smith's poem "Blue Exits" (about self-harming and self-exiting)

A gay couple had an epic, viral meltdown in an airport. If you haven't seen the original TikTok go "Remember Them: Shelby and Dolly"

We reference Dana Levin's fourth book, Banana Palace. Read the title poem.

Read Erin Belieu's poem "Erections"

On your knees with the queens in the poetry darkroom, poetic pleasures await! Then we wipe off our kneecaps before hitting the Pride Parade.

If you'd like to support Breaking Form:
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
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NOTES

Tess Gallagher's "Stopping Place" is from her book Willingly.

Donna Stonecipher's "Inlay 18 (Sei Shõnagun)" is from her book The Cosmopolitan. Read a bit about the book here.

Sei Shōnagon's actual given name is not known. It was the custom among aristocrats in those days to call a court lady by a nickname taken from a court office belonging to her father or husband. Sei Shōnagon (c. 966–1017 or 1025) was a Japanese author, poet, and a court lady who served the Empress Teishi (Sadako) around the year 1000 during the middle Heian period. She is the author of The Pillow Book.

The Dick Dock in Provincetown is so popular it has its own Facebook page. Or check out this Youtube video called "Provincetown's Dick Dock: Making Gay Sex Magic!"

If you want to know more about the history of the Meat Rack on Fire Island, here's a good starting place.

Read Ocean Vuong's poem "Theology"

Marilyn Nelson's "For Mary, Fourth Month" is available in her The Fields of Praise: New and Selected.

Jim Powell did indeed win a MacArthur in 1993. Read more poems by Powell here.

Read Frank Stanford's "Blue Yodel of the Desperado"

Read more about Osip Mandelstam

Kevin Prufer's book of poems The Fears won the Rilke Prize. Read the judges' citation here.

Visit Michelle Tea's website here. Or read an excerpt from her poem "I Used to Be Straight" here (scroll down).

Read Franny Choi's "Unlove Poem"

Read "Prayer/Oracion" by Francisco X. Alarcón, trans. Francisco Aragón

Read "American Wedding" by Essex Hemphill

Here's June Jordan's fiery "Poem About My Rights"

You can read torrin a. greathouse's "Aubade Beginning in Handcuffs" here.