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Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast — 244 episodes
Mothered into Art
The Gay 90s
Sex Poems
On Explicitness
Sex Lives of Poets: Frank O'Hara
Boy in Video Arcade
Say Yes to the Dress
Horsepower (with Special Guest Joy Priest)
James Went to AWP (2026)
The Wild Iris: A Breaking Form Revisit
Fum*ble*cunk: Victorian Slang
Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?
Rimshot
Perfectly Good Dick
Lucille Clifton
The Eras: a Poetry Tour
Hap
I Am a Receptical (A Poetry Salon)
François Sagat (A Poetry Salon)
Vitamin D (A Poetry Salon)
Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (A Poetry Salon)
Knight Him (A Poetry Salon)
That Moon Will Kill Me (A Poetry Salon)
All Tops
OnlyForms
Fear Less (with Special Guest Tracy K. Smith)
Language of Survival
National Book Awards 2025
Song
Ekphrastic Poetry
About Time (with Special Guest David Duchovny)
The Dating Game
Aaron and James Went to Pittsburgh
Pairings
Tossing off with Tommy
That's What She Said
I Myself Am Hell
I Do Know Some Things (with Richard Siken)
The Hof(f)man(n)s
Location! Location! Location!
Touchstone Poems (Part 2)
Poetry Babies
Touchstone Poems
Prose for Poets
Where Are They Now
A Pride Episode: Trans Poetry
Thank You for Being a Friend
The Broads Abroad
Encore Presentation: The Bones of Power (with Special Guest Diane Seuss) (Ep. 132)
Encore Presentation: The Great Unsayable Sex Workshop (Ep. 71)
Encore Presentation: Mona in the Corner (Ep. 6)
Encore Presentation: Fan Fic (Ep. 137)
Really?
Just the Tips: Literary Submissions
The Poems of Brad Pitt
The Final Countdown
James Went to AWP
Leather Bar
Super Gay Poems w/ Guest Stephanie Burt
Brenda's Resistance Playlist (w/ Brenda Shaughnessy)
Erase-Him Poems
Her Kind: Anne Sexton
The Loves of My Life (with Special Guest Edmund White)
Shorties
Fusion
Sissy
Male Nipples (with Special Guest Brenda Hillman)
Sex Lives of Poets: Langston Hughes
Half a Poem
In & Out (2025)
World AIDS Day (Encore Presentation)
Step Your Poetry Up
Circe’s Power: A Tribute to Louise Glück
Ross Gay Mathews
Darling Nicky ( w/ special guest Nicky Beer)
What Werk Is
Cherapy: Poet Casting Call
The Brendas
Be Afraid to Say It
National Book Awards
Following Orders (Occasional Poems)
Wet Geography
James Goes to Bread Loaf
Summer Poetry Salon #5
Summer Poetry Salon #4
Summer Poetry Salon #3
Summer Poetry Salon #2
Summer Poetry Salon #1
Stoned
Commitments: A Revisit of Essex Hemphill
Secrets
Funny
F*ck You Poems
Golden Girls
Versesucker
The Tortured Poets Department
Leading Ladies
Early Reads
Heathers
Letters to a Stranger
The Art of Losing: The Love Life of Elizabeth Bishop
The Gods at 3 A.M. (guest Jericho Brown on Reginald Shepherd pt. 2)
Book Club
Make Myself a Myth (guest Jericho Brown on Reginald Shepherd)
Love at First Hate
Fan Fic
Outside the Lines
The King Is Dead (with guest Diane Seuss)
Satan Says
Queer Eye for the Str8 Poet
The Bones of Power (with special guest Diane Seuss)
Hanky Code
Galentine's Day (with Guest Diane Seuss)
Dead Poets Society
Red Flags
Your Next Seduction
Sex Lives of Poets: Eliot
Frankly
Queer-Ass Poems
Winter Poems
James Does a Prompt
True Crime Part 2
True Crime Part 1
Kiss Kiss
Cranberry Shade: A Thanksgiving Mess
Cher Revises Poetry
The Janes
Doing Lines
Astonishment
Portals: a Tribute to Maureen Seaton
Enjambment
Hoedown
F*CKSTICK
Poppers
True and Actual (with Lynn Emanuel / part. 2)
Pills, Portraits, Pessoa (with Lynn Emanuel / pt. 1)
Horrible Men
Digging for Poems
The In-Between (with Diannely Antigua)
National Book Award Predictions
Deep Image Poets
A Little Bit Alexis
Keeping It 100
In Real Time (with Terrance Hayes / pt. 2)
Tools vs. Weapons (with Terrance Hayes / pt. 1)
Hereditary
Shimmering Terror (with Guest Randall Mann)
Crimes Against Diction
Banned Books
Summer Fun
The Impossible
Favorite Least Favorite
Mercy Mercy: Cherapy
Hero Ratio
Hot Takes
In Brief
HaydenCarRuthStone
Elegy
Spin the Bottle
John Cranberryman
The Consequences (with Guest Manuel Muñoz)
Supporting Actress Smackdown with Guest Manuel Muñoz
Romantic Comedy
Pop Poets
The End of Triumph: Breakup Poems with Diane Seuss
Worm Sh*t: A Valentine's Day Special with Guest Diane Seuss
Poetry Pyramid
Stop Lying
Endings
Survival Is in the Stories (interview with Lynn Melnick pt. 2)
Defiant Acts of Joy (interview with Lynn Melnick pt. 1)
The Great Unsayable Sex Workshop
Living in Clips
69 (Anniversary)
Before You Were a Story
Statements and Questions
World AIDS Day: Listening for My Name
Doomsday (with C. Russell Price)
Personal Anthology
Pet Project
Frank Other Frank
Game Day w/ David Trinidad and Denise Duhamel
Uh-Oh Plutonium!
The Invisible Embrace
Poetry Karaoke
De-Collins-izing Emily Dickinson
Grief Motel (Pt. 2)
Grief Motel (Pt. 1)
The Flame (interview w/ Maureen Seaton pt. 2)
Just Keep Going (interview w/ Maureen Seaton pt. 1)
When Rita Doves Cry
I Love the Part
On Thin Ice (with Jacques J. Rancourt)
Big Sonny
Schitt Poetry (Moira Rose Edition)
Aaron Awards the Pulitzer
We Can Shift the Canon
(Taylor's Version)
More Moore and Moore
Theoretically 30
Aperture (interview with Carl Phillips pt. 3)
Unexpected Kindness (interview with Carl Phillips pt. 2)
Next Step Forward (interview with Carl Phillips pt. 1)
RuPaul RuPoet
Tear All This Ugly Mess Down Now
Simply Roger (interview with David Trinidad pt. 2)
Finding Bobby (interview with David Trinidad pt. 1)
The Real Flip Ditty
Odd Jobs
The Rainbow Came Back (interview with Diane Seuss pt. 3)
Marginal (interview with Diane Seuss pt. 2)
The Living World (interview with Diane Seuss pt. 1)
TIM THOM JESUS JORIE
Reading Shame
Celebration (interview w/ Denise Duhamel pt. 2)
We Were the Ones (interview w/ Denise Duhamel pt. 1)
Beginnings
F*CKFACE
Crimes Against Poetry Readings
Debbie's Hairy
AWP: Mean Girls (pt. 3)
AWP: Mean Girls (pt. 2)
AWP: Mean Girls (pt. 1)
Saving All My Love for You (interview w/ Miguel Murphy pt. 2)
A Silent Climb (interview w/ Miguel Murphy pt. 1)
Banned
Bad Animals
Phillip These Holes
Fleabaggots
Don't Play for Safety
Poetry Gay Bar
Family Issues
2 Books, 1 Poet
Queers of Pop
Simply the Best
Boys on the Side
Mona in the Corner
What Got Us Through (End-of-the-Year Countdown pt.2)
What Got Us Through (End-of-the-Year Countdown pt.1)
Cherapy
Prancing Across the Page
First Loves
We Are not for Everyone: an Introduction
Breaking Form Trailer