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.
James Allen Hall
@jamesallenhall.bsky.social
Poet. Essayist. Co-host of Breaking Form: A Podcast of Poetry and Culture. All opinions are my own.
@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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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.
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...
Announcing the Cherry Tree & Lit House Press post-AWP sale! washington-college.square.site/literary-hou... and use code CTAWP26
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.
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/...
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
“‘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...
Under a Warm Green Linden, Issue 17 — Green Linden Press
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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)
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
December Do Good Days 2025
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Rose O'Neill Literary House @ Washington College@literaryhouse.bsky.social · 9mo agoThe Literary House is our students' home away from home, & also a launching pad for their literary lives. If you can give $5 to help us grow our internship program, I'd be so grateful. These bright students deserve every ray of light we can give them. tinyurl.com/LightofDayIn... #decemberdays
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"
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"
December Do Good Days 2025
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Rose O'Neill Literary House @ Washington College@literaryhouse.bsky.social · 10mo agoWho wouldn't want to help these students? The Lit House is raising $ for Light of Day Internships, pairing students w/ national lit organizations. Even $5 helps! Visit tinyurl.com/tx827sfj Select "Centers of Excellence" & "Lit House Light of Day" & give these booklovers some light. #decemberdays
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!
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
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.
I have a new essay (about gay porn, cicadas, internet time, and longing as mourning) up at @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social. The piece comes from a collaborative book-length essay written alongside poets Aaron Smith & David Trinidad. anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/11/04/d...
“Draw Me Back Again, a porn elegy” by James Allen Hall
I like art best when its artifice dissolves. Pull back the curtain: It’s me, looking sheepish. Which me is almost irrelevant: I’ll answer to any name you call. Surrendering is only erotic when what…
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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...
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!
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-...
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.👌)
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.
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.
Sarabande Books@sarabandebooks.bsky.social · 12mo agoCongratulations to Roy Kesey (@roykesey.bsky.social) whose collection LORE was selected by Ed Park as the 2025 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction winner and is scheduled for publication in May 2027!! Learn more here: www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
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
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
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
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
