The queens get out their big smooth (crystal) balls to predict the National Book Award shortlist in poetry. Play along! The shortlist is announced Oct. 1.

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You can find the National Book Awards longlists for fiction, translation, young people's literature, and poetry here.

Watch Lena Khalaf Tuffaha read her poem "Mountain, Stone" here. You can find the text of the poem here.

Check out this NY Times article, "The Inscrutable Brilliance of Anne Carson." Or check out this Lannan conversation with Carson.

Here is an hour-long conversation, "Aesthetics of Return: Palestinian Poetry," with Fady Joudah and Prof. Fida Adely, moderated by Bassam Haddad.

Watch Elizabeth Willis give a reading at the Univ. of Georgia in Feb. 2024.

Watch this fabulous reading and interview with Diane Seuss, conducted by Ron Charles.

Watch Rowan Ricardo Phillips read his poem "Boys" at the Griffin Prize ceremony.

Watch Octavio Quintanilla read his poem "Exiliados"

Dorianne Laux appeared on Grace Cavalieri's fabulous The Poet and the Poem series July 2024. Watch here.

Watch m.s. RedCherries give a reading as part of the Fellows Reading of the Indigenous Nations Poets here.

Your favorite bridesmaids are (drunk and dis)orderly in this episode about writing for special occasions.

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SHOW NOTES

Here's a cinematic example of an epithalamion--an e.e. Cummings poem (from In Her Shoes).

James’s poem “A Monument for This Morning” appears on p. 4 here. It’s not supposed to be centered on the page. But oh well.

Signed copies of Cher’s book The First Time is a collectible, being sold here for $600. We did find copies in the more affordable $300-range too.

Mike and the Mechanics’s song “The Living Years” was their biggest hit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDA0Hecw1kHere's the video for the song.

The name “Shayla” was Charlotte’s secret baby name, and her friend Laney stole it for her baby. The episode appeared in Season 1, E. 10. Watch the scene, including a great bit from Samantha, here.

You can pre-order Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift, which includes work by both of us, as well as Carl Phillips, Diane Seuss, Joy Harjo, and others.

The queens are all lubed up and waiting for you in the badlands that is Breaking Form.

If you'd like to 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.

SHOW NOTES

See Beckian Fritz Goldberg read poems here (at 1:04 mark)

Our friend Maureen Seaton died on August 26, 2023. Watch her read poems for Alaska Quarterly here. You can listen to our tribute episode to Maureen here, and our Breaking Form episodes with her here and here.

Anne and Nancy Wilson of Heart have actually reunited and will tour all over the US in 2024. Watch them sing with Kelly Clarkson here.

Here's a short interview with Ellen Bryant Voigt.

Here's a short interview and reading with Frank O'Hara.

Crisco is 113 years old. Watch this 1981 ad for it, featuring Loretta Lynn.

Throb Magazine can be found online at: https://www.throbmag.com/about

Listen to Ander Monson in this short poetic video "PREDATOR vs. Alien vs. Predator"

Here are three clips from Julianne Moore that we reference in the show:
Julianne Moore and Robert Pattinson (Maps to the Stars) talking about gloves and sex.
Maps to the Stars: bleeding on the $12,000 couch
Heather Graham and Julianne Moore doing coke together in Boogie Nights.