Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast

John Bonanni joins the queens to talk about queer history, protest, and documentary poetics.
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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. 

Notes:
Visit John Bonanni online: https://www.johnbonanni.com
Visit the ACT UP Oral History project, and read more about when the group seized control of the FDA here
Watch El DeBarge's video for "Who's Johnny" 
Here's more about Provincetown's Fine Arts Work Center.
Listen to this NPR interview with Dave Cullen about his book Columbine
In 1998, the Bay Area Reporter ran a story with the headline, "No Obits," which was about the fact that there was no obits printed for the first time in 17 years.
Read one of the articles John used for his poem on Gaeton Dugas.
For more about Keats's idea of negative capability click here
Watch Laurie Lynd's 2019 documentary Killing Patient Zero
Read and view Felix Gonzalez-Torres's "Untitled (billboard of an empty bed)" here.
Watch Derrick Jarman's 1993 experimental film Blue.
Watch the 2012 documentary United in Anger: A History of ACT UP, directed by Jim Hubbard and produced by Sarah Schulman.
Get more info on David France's How to Survive a Plague
Get more information about PrEP here
For more about Pedro Zamora's activism and impact, watch this short video
Read more about Anita Bryant being pied here, and watch it happen here.
In the Beverly Hills, 90210 episode "Disappearing Act" (Season 7, Episode 4), Kelly Taylor meets Jimmy Gold, a character living with AIDS. Watch the episode on ParamountPlus here 
Philadelphia is a PG-13 American legal drama film directed by Jonathan Demme, and starring Denzel Washington and Tom Hanks, who won an Oscar for his role as Andrew Beckett.
Season 2, Episode 4 of Designing Women is sarcastically entitled "Killing All the Right People," and in it we meet Kendall Dobbs, a young gay man dying of AIDS who enlists the Sugarbaker Interior Design firm to design his funeral. Dobbs is played by actor Tony Goldwyn. You can watch the key scene here.
There wasn't a separate AIDS-character in The Golden Girls, but in an episode titled "72 Hours" (Season 5, Episode 19; 2/17/1990), Betty White's character Rose Nylund receives news that a blood transfusion may have exposed her to HIV. Watch the key scene here.
Read more about Bowers vs Hardwick, decided in 1986.
Read more about Sarah Schulman's Let the Record Show
Listen to the Breaking Form episode entitled "The Gay 90s" we reference in today's show.

Call them Princess of Prompts: the ladies get into generative prompts' pitfalls & powers.
Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.
Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. 

Notes:
The article James's therapist sent them was Priya Elan's article published in The Guardian in 2020 called "How Harry Styles Became the Face of Gender Neutral Fashion." 
Learn more about sonnets (including the Italian, or Petrarchan, sonnet) here.
You can discover more about Ed Field's poems and biography through his Poetry Foundation page or on his website: http://www.edwardfield.com
Terrance Hayes's "Talk" is 36 lines, and you can find in his book Wind in a Box or online here
Tracy K. Smith joined us for the Breaking Form interview on Episode 24 in Season 3. You can check it out here.
You can read James's poem "Portrait of My Mother as the Republic of Texas" plus a small essay on its making here.
For the word nerd fabulous among us: The Ultimate English Conjunctions List
Jack Antonoff is the lead singer of The Bleachers and produced many a Taylor Swift project like The Tortured Poets Department, Lover, folklore, and Midnights. Follow his Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jackantonoff/?hl=en
Max Martin and Shellback produced Swift's The Life of a Showgirl. Here's a list of all the songs Max Martin worked on with T.S. 
Check out Mickie Kennedy on his website https://www.mickiekennedy.com
Read more about Josh Tvrdy on his website: https://www.joshtvrdy.com/
Subscribe to Queer Poem-a-Day: https://www.queerpoems.com
You can find "Dark Awful Man" and "Things I Could Never Tell My Mother" in Aaron's first book, the Agnes Lynch Starrett-winning volume Blue on Blue Ground. 
 Watch Kristen Wiig in the "1920s Party" sketch from SNL.
 Watch Harry Styles's "Together Together" show in NYC from Sept. 26 online here.

The queens really zhuzh some riah in this discussion of queer tropes. As Ezra Poundtown always says: Make it fabulous! 

Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.
Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. 

Notes:
I Remember is a 1970 experimental memoir and book-length poem by American artist and writer Joe Brainard. Check it out here. Or you can hear Brainard read from the book in Matt Wolf's short documentary, I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard, an archival montage which combines audio recordings of Brainard reading from the poem.
Read Louise Gluck's "Persephone the Wanderer" from Averno.
Read Brigit Pegeen Kelly's poems "Song" and "Dead Doe" (originally in Kenyon Review)
Susan Mitchell's poem "Rainbow" first appeared in the August/July 1992 issue of APR and then in her book Rapture. You can read it on JStor (paywall, though maybe free through a library) here. 
Read "Dead Deer" by David Groff

Erin Belieu joins us for the Breaking Form interview to talk about her New and Selected Poems, Cocklebur!
Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.
Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. 

Notes:
Belieu is the author of 6 books of poetry, including Come-Hither Honeycomb (2020); Slant Six (2014); Black Box (2006), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; One Above & One Below (2000); and Infanta (1995), selected by Hayden Carruth for the National Poetry Series, and most recently, Cocklebur: New and Selected Poems. 
Read a review of Cocklebur in Literary Hub here. 
Read the title poem "Cocklebur" and order the book here. 
Visit Erin's website here: https://www.erinbelieu.com/
Watch Erin read alongside Carl Phillips and Maggie Dietz here. And you can watch her read "The Scent from a Cupboard" from Cocklebur here. 
Read this fabulous conversation with Erin and former Breaking Form guest Joy Priest in On the Seawall. 
Tour the Library at the Breakers 
"The Pope's Penis" is a 7-line poem by Sharon Olds which appears in her 2nd book, The Gold Cell (1987) 
Read Erin's "The Death of Humphrey Bogart" mentioned in the pod here.
Some of the other flower/plant names we read include: bastard toadflax, pussytoes, hellebore, cow vetch, candytuft, scarlet pimpernel, skunk cabbage, sneezeweed, and toad lily.

The ladies revisit the post-reading Q&A's most classic questions. Play along!

Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.
Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. 

Notes:
The reading James went to was with Matt Bell, who was recently a judge for the National Book Award in Fiction. You can watch the reading and the Q&A here.
The residency James mentioned is Civitella Ranieri, which lodges artists, composers, and writers in  a beautiful thick-walled 15th century castle – a fortress that provided protection, sustenance, and renewal to generations of the Ranieri family and its extended community. 
The poem "After My Mother Apologized for My Childhood, We Went to Brunch" appears in Aaron Smith's book Stop Lying, and also on his spoken word album, Outside the Lines, which you can listen to here. 
 Here's some advice about getting published from Poets.org.
We mention the following online magazines:
On the Seawall (ed. Ron Slate)
Under a Warm Green Linden
The Commuter/Electric Lit
Memorious (rip; June 2023 was the last issue), ed. Rebecca Morgan Frank
Limp Wrist