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Get frankly franking frank with the queens this week--then let's talk about sex, baby! Support Breaking Form!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.Read more about Frank O'Hara. And read here about Tim Dlugos.  Frank O'Hara wrote "Personism: A Manifesto" that was both manifesto and send-up of manifestos. In it, he advocates for poems that sound like they've got a real person in mind as an audience. In one part of it, he writes, "You just go on your nerve'." You can read the whole manifesto here. Read O'Hara's poem "F. (Missive & Walk) I. 53" which appeared in The Paris Review in Summer 1970. Read  O'Hara's "Pearl Harbor"Watch the official video for the INXS song "Suicide Blonde" ( which includes the line, "You want to make her suicide blonde") here. Read Diane Seuss talk about O'Hara in this Adroit Journal interview: "On Frank O'Hara and Marilyn Monroe."Frank O'Hara's poem "Avenue A" begins "we hardly ever see the moon anymore." Read the whole poem.Hear Tim Dlugos read "The Nineteenth Century is 183 Years Old"Read a review of Tim Dlugos's collected poems edited by David Trinidad called A Fast Life. In the segment "Sex Lives of Poets" we mention the following books/poets:Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours & Glass, Irony and GodSandra Cisneros, Loose WomanMegan Fernandes, I Do Everything I'm ToldBeckian Fritz Goldberg, Never Be the HorseBenjamin Garcia, Thrown in the ThroatAllen Ginsberg, Howlfrancine j. harris, Play DeadTom Healey, What the Right Hand KnowsBrenda Hillman, Loose SugarThylias Moss, Last Chance for the Tarzan HollerNaomi Shihab Nye, Mint SnowballMary Oliver, ThirstWillie Perdomo, The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon BonKevin Prufer, The Finger Bone & Strange WoodAdrienne Rich, Diving Into the WreckWesley Rothman, Subwoofer