Golden Girls

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast

Are you a friend of Dorothy? This episode pays tribute to The Golden Girls, but in the most Breaking Form way possible!
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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
Christian Wiman's book Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair. It's part memoir and part a collection of his poems and poems by others related to the book's themes. Hear Wiman interviewed on Fresh Air

Read Brenda Shaughnessy's "Panopticon" first published in Ecotone.
Read Aaron Smith's poem "Blue Exits" (about self-harming and self-exiting)
A gay couple had an epic, viral meltdown in an airport. If you haven't seen the original TikTok go "Remember Them: Shelby and Dolly"

We reference Dana Levin's fourth book, Banana Palace. Read the title poem.
Read Erin Belieu's poem "Erections"