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.
Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry & Culture
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Co-hosted by poets James Allen Hall & Aaron Smith. Online at https://breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your podcasts. 30 min shows every Monday. We're like a poetry quickie in a filthy motel with a faaaaaabulous library!
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
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...
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.
@poetmorgan.bsky.social recommends 7 new poetry collections, including work by Carolina Ebeid, Laura Kasischke, and Luis Muñoz.
7 New Poetry Collections to Read This May
2026 keeps bringing back the dead: there are new books of poems from Larry Levis, Fanny Howe, Franz Wright, and of course Lucille Clifton’s At the Gate: Uncollected Poems 1987-2010 (BOA Editions), …
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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.
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...
This week, Aaron and James celebrate the iconic Lucille Clifton. Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your starshine and clay.
Fall for our first episode of a topsy-turvy season 4 here: breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com
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)
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.
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"
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.👌)
@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.
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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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
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.
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
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
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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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
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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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!
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.
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
