I Do Know Some Things (with Richard Siken)

The queens are joined by poetry crush Richard Siken, & talk heroes, rabbits, robots, & healing.Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.SHOW NOTES:You can order I Do Know Some Things here. Visit Richard Siken's website here, and read work from the new book.Read Christopher Nelson's review of I Do Know Some Things here.Some interviews with Richard we can recommend:   This one in Adroit Journal   This one in BOMB Magazine   And this one in Gulf Coast from 2005, with James Allen Hall.Paratext is the text surrounding the main published text (like the book jacket copy, the blurbs, the cover text, etc).For more about War of the Foxes, check out this short video "Postcards from Richard Siken"Louise Glück (1943-2023) selected Siken's first book Crush for the Yale Series of Young Poets Prize. For more about Glück, including her period of silences, read here.For more about the tester straw we mention, click here.