Dress shopping is cardio & life for the Breaking Form fashionistas.

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.

James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

Show Notes:

Paul Tran's "Provenance" appeared first February 22/March 1, 2021 issue of The Nation and was included in All the Flowers Kneeling, which was published by Penguin in 2022 and was a finalist for the 2023 PEN Open Book Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Visit Tran's website here: https://iampaultran.com/

The poem "'What Do Women Want?'" is from Kim Addonizio's Tell Me (2000)

Read "Boy in a Stolen Evening Gown" by Saeed Jones

Read "Esta Noche" by Mark Doty

The poem we read of Allison Benis White's is from “Please Bury Me in This” [Maybe my arms lifted ...]"

In recollection of a first memory in A Sketch of the Past, Virginia Woolf wrote: "My mother would come out onto her balcony in a white dressing gown. There were passion flowers growing on the wall; they were great starry blossoms, with purple streaks, and large green buds, part empty, part full."

Read torrin a. greathouse's "Ekphrasis on My Rapist's Wedding Dress" and visit their website: https://www.torringreathouse.com/

Read Victoria Chang's "OBIT [The Blue Dress]" from her 2020 book, Obit. You can watch Chang read from Obit here (~43 min).

Get set for a poetry gabfest for the ages! The fabulous Joy Priest joins us for the Breaking Form Interview.

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.

James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

Show Notes:

Buy Joy's prizewinning collection of poems, Horsepower, from the University of Pittsburgh Press here or from Loyalty Books, a Black, Queer, and Asian owned independent bookstore in DC.

Visit Joy Priest's website: https://www.joypriest.com

You can see Joy reading from her work here, here, and here. Or read this interview with her here.

Read Joy's ode to Whitney Houston, "When I See the Stars in the Night Sky"

Nikky Finney won the 2011 National Book Award for her book Head Off and Split. Watch her iconic speech here.

Read more about American Honey, a film by Andrea Arnold starring Sasha Lane

We mention a few forms, including the Abecedarian and the Sestina. Click the links for more information about them.

Poets we mention:

Emily Dickinson and Poem 269 ("Wild nights!")

Hear poet Jane Kenyon read her poem "Otherwise."

Donald Hall

Terrance Hayes

Ross Gay

Louise Glück's "Anniversary"

The queens kindly request your presence for some piping hot tea as they recap the AWP Conference in Baltimore.

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.

James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

Show Notes:

James posted some AWP tips on Facebook here.

For the curious, AWP has posted its "Community Participation in #AWP26 Conference & Bookfair" stats here.

The journals mentioned on the "Editing for Change and Community" panel were:

Small Orange edited by Carlie Hoffman. Carlie's poems were included in our Breaking Form episode "The Hof[f]man[n]s" which you can listen to here.

Georgia Review edited by Gerald Maa.

Brink edited by Nina Lohman

Hopkins Review edited by Dora Malech

Cherry Tree: A National Literary Journal at Washington College, by James.

AWP has said it will post the video of John Waters's keynote address for conference registrants to view, but we can't find it yet. But if you're curious, here's a written recap of the event by Baltimore Fishbowl.

You can find The Adroit Journal online at https://theadroitjournal.org. They're open for submissions currently (til April 1, 2026). They are a paying market.