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

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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.

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


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 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