The queens get all Brenda on that Brenda, you Brenda?


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SHOW NOTES:

Read more about Brenda Coultas here. Watch Coultas read with Alice Notley here (1 hour). And read this conversation between Coultas and Stacy Szymaszek.

Watch the best of Brenda Walsh’s outfits from Season 3 of Beverly Hills, 90210

You can find Brenda Hillman's website here. Hear her read “Species Prepare to Exist After Money." Read Jesse Nathan’s conversation with Hillman (in his “Short Conversations with Poets” series) here in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.

Follow Brenda K. Starr on Instagram @officialbrendakstarr. Watch Mariah Carey recall singing backup with Starr here. And here is Mariah’s official video for “I Still Believe” (covering BKS).

Visit Brenda Shaughnessy’s website. Hear her read from her newest book, Tanya. And read Hilton Als’s essay, “Brenda Shaughnessy’s Ferocious Mother Poems” in the New Yorker here.

Watch Brenda Blethyn get humped by her dog during a This Morning television interview.

For the craziest trip, visit Brenda Walsh Ministries online at https://brendawalsh.com

Join the Salami Sisters for this episode of The Real Housef*gs of Breaking Form.

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:

Soufiane Ababri is the artist we talk about whose series of artworks is Bedwork / Yes I AM

Here are are versions (one & two & three) of Dickinson's "One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted—”

Learn more about the etymology of the word “faggot."

Read John Donne's “The Flea”

Watch Cher on Graham Norton.

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.

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:

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.