The queens talk bisexual poetics and genius with Nicky Beer, before getting all dolled up in a game of real vs fake Dolly.

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

SHOW NOTES:

Visit Nicky Beer’s website: http://www.nickybeer.com

Read this conversation with Nicky Beer published in The Adroit Journal in 2022.

Read this review of Beer’s The Octopus Game in F(r)iction.

Nicky mentions the Las Culturistas podcast and you can check that out here.

Read Nicky’s fabulous 3-line poem “Sawing a Lady in Half”

Learn more about Jim Steinmeyer’s Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear.

Read Nick’s poem “The Demolitionists”

“Death is god’s apology for suffering”--a line Aaron mentions in the show--is from Nicky’s poem “The Poet Who Does Not Believe in Ghosts.”

Nicky mentions Steel Magnolias, in which Dolly Parton starred as Truvy Jones. Watch the trailer for the movie here.

Visit the HRC’s Resource Guide to Coming Out Bisexual. Also check out Bi.Org’s coming out guide.

Learn more about June Thomas’s A Place of Our Own

The queens have one thing to say: you better werk!

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:

Click here to read Philip Levine's "What Work Is"

Read more about Philip Levine

Read Ada Límon's poem “How We Are Made” dedicated to Levine, who was her teacher. Límon talks about Levine in this interview.

Read the iconic and heartbreaking James L. White poem "Making Love to Myself"

You can watch Jimmy Merrill read from his 560-page epic poem “The Changing Light at Sandover” in this 12-minute clip.

Read more about the Academy of American Poets's Poem-a-Day series here.

Read Carl Phillips’s Poem-a-Day that James loves: “That Part in the Music”

And check out Poetry Daily: https://poems.com

Snap INTO it, girlarina! The queens re-cast Cher movies with poets.

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:

Read Patricia Smith's "Incendiary Art."

Here's Cher's cover of “Shoop Shoop (It's in His Kiss)." And here's Merry Clayton's version.

Cher starred in the movie Mask, which was released in 1985. Mask won the Academy Award for Best Makeup at the 58th ceremony, while Cher and Stoltz received Golden Globe Award nominations for their performances. Watch the scene where Rusty Dennis (Cher) barges into a high school to fight for her son. The director, when asked a question about the most difficult actor he'd worked with, replied it was Cher.

If you haven't read Mary Oliver's "The Summer Day," go here.

For more about the Future Library, read an article here.

One of Jorie Graham's poems that make James cry is "At Luca Signorelli's Resurrection of the Body."

Read Marie Ponsot's poem "Language Acquisition"

You can read Jericho Brown's iconic poem "Track 5: Summertime" here. Or watch a video of him reading it here.

Here's the trailer for The Witches of Eastwick, which is also a 1984 novel by John Updike.

Read Sandra Beasley's blog here. Listen to Beasley read her poem "Peaches" (first published in Cherry Tree).

Read more about Rigoberto González here.

Cher was just inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Watch her induction speech and a live performance of "Believe" here.