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Break The Line is a monthly podcast where artists engage with contemporary poetry. Poet-host Rebecca Farivar chats with actors, comedians, memoirists, and more about themes in poetry related to their own field.

Rebecca Farivar


    • May 6, 2013 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 10 EPISODES


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    10: Web Series Based on Poetry

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2013


    10: Web Series Based on Poetry Ram Devineni discusses his poetry-based web series Verse: A Murder Mystery.

    09: Joshua Marie Wilkinson on “Poemfilms”

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2013


    09: Joshua Marie Wilkinson on “Poemfilms” Poet Joshua Marie Wilkinson discusses three of his “poemfilms.”

    08: Yew Journal: Visual Art Paired With Poetry

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2013


    Stephenie Foster, the designer for Yew Journal, discusses how she pairs visual art with poetry for the monthly journal. Yew Journal: Visual Art Paired with Poetry

    07: Novelists on Short Poems

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2013


    Novelists Mary Volmer and Michael David Lukas discuss short poems by Rebecca Wolff and Carol Snow. 07_ Novelists on Short Poems

    06: Journalists on Documentary Poetics

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2013


    06_ Journalists on Documentary Poetics

    Educators on School Memories

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2012


    Educators Michele Jonas and Monica Tirado discuss poems by Mary Karr and Will Hubbard. Educators on Memories from School

    04: Comedians on Funny Poems

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2012


    Duncan Wold and Evan Winchester, two members of the sketch comedy troupe Mission CTRL, discuss poems by Linh Dinh and Graham Foust. 04:Comedians on Funny Poems

    03: A Tarot Reading of Brenda Shaughnessy

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2012


    Carolyn Agis does a tarot reading of poems from the Arcana section of Our Andromeda by Brenda Shaughnessy. The poems in that section are found in the following order: Card 5: Hierophant Card 12: The Hanged Man Card 0: The Fool Card 20: Judgment Card 14: Temperance Card 7: The Chariot Card 9: The Hermit […]

    02: Memoirists on Confessional Poems

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2012


    Memoirists from the San Francisco Bay Area discuss poems by Beth Ann Fennelly and Louise Glück. 02: Memoirists on Confessional Poems

    01: Actors on Persona Poems

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2012


    Actors from the San Francisco Mime Troupe discuss persona poems by Ai and Holly Iglesias. 01_ Actors on Persona Poems

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