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Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast

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The queens discuss and revise a recent list of "best poetry," adding other tops (& bottoms & verses & sides, you get the point, miss thing).

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
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NOTES:

For a few lists of best 21st Century poetry: The Atlantic (which we read in the show). The New York Times

Read Mark Strand's titular poem "Man and Camel"

Read Craig Morgan Teicher's review of Glück's Faithful and Virtuous Night

Watch Tracy K. Smith's answer to "Does poetry matter" in this conversation with Tracey E. Hucks at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. If you'd like to see Smith read from her Pulitzer-Prize-winning Life on Mars, here's a particularly good one.

Read "Deception Story" by Solmaz Sharif from Look

James mediated a conversation and workshop with Diane Seuss on poetry and mental health, which can be viewed on YouTube here

Read a selection of poems from Patricia Smith's Blood Dazzler

The Brigit Pegeen Kelly poem James talked about in the show is "Closing Time; Iskandariya." Here it is, posted on Ilya Kaminsky's social media.

Read a portfolio of writers on Kelly's book Song published recently in West Branch online (edited by Shara Lessley with short essays by David Baker, Amit Majmudar, Gabrielle Bates, and C. Dale Young).

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