Outside the Lines

Aaron spills the tea about recording a spoken word album, then the queens get on all fours for some  Poet Sex Positions. Woof woof, darlings!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. You can find Aaron's Outside the Lines album here on iTunes. You can listen here to Aaron Smith's "Outside the Lines," the title poem of his spoken word album.The Partridge Family is an American musical sitcom created by Bernard Slade, which aired September 25, 1970, to August 24, 1974, on ABC. Watch the pilot episode here. Its stars included Shirley Jones, David Cassidy, Susan Day, and Danny Bonaduce. The family was loosely based on the real-life musical family the Cowsills, a popular band in the late 1960s and early 1970s.The verse sung by Aaron and Belinda which proceeds Aaron's poem "Pray the Gay Away" – "at the cross, at the cross" is from the hymn "Alas, and did my Savior bleed." "Pray the Gay Away" appears in Aaron's most recent book, Stop Lying, which you can purchase at the link above. Aaron's poem "After All These Years You Know They Were Wrong About the Sadness of Men Who Love Men" can be read online at the Poetry Society, followed by a short essay Aaron wrote about writing the poem.Sister Act 2 has a subtitle and it is:  Back in the Habit. It stars It starred Lauryn Hill in her breakout role, as well as Sheryl Lee Ralph and Jennifer Love Hewitt. Watch Lauryn Hill sing "Joyful Joyful." Watch Linda Pastan read her poem, "Why are Your Poems So Dark?" (The announcer lets us know that she won a poetry prize from Mademoiselle -- the runner up was Sylvia Plath.)