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Please enjoy this Summer Salon Series episode of Breaking Form Selects: Ai Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.  Notes:Toi Derricotte was born in Hamtramck, Michigan, on April 12, 1941. She earned her BA in special education from Wayne State University and her MA in English literature from New York University. Derricotte's books of poetry include I: New & Selected Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), which was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry; The Undertaker's Daughter (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011); and Tender (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997). She is also the author of a literary memoir, The Black Notebooks (W. W. Norton, 1997), which won the 1998 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction.Together with Cornelius Eady, Derricotte cofounded the Cave Canem Foundation in 1996, a national poetry organization committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets.For more about Derricotte (and her poems) go here and here. Watch Toi Derricotte give a reading here (2015; ~30 min)Watch Toi Derricotte talk about reading and writing long poems here. Read excerpts in Kenyon Review from Derricotte's Black Notebooks here.Read this Bettina Judd essay on Derricotte (from Poetry Northwest).Poems we read include:"Not Forgotten""In Knowledge of Young Boys""Touching/Not Touching: My Mother""The Undertaker's Daughter"

Please enjoy this Summer Salon Series episode of Breaking Form Selects: Rigoberto González Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.  Notes:Rigoberto González was born in Bakersfield, California and raised in Michoacán, Mexico. He earned a BA from the University of California, Riverside and graduate degrees from University of California, Davis and Arizona State University. He is the author of To the Boy Who Was Night: Poems Selected and New (2023), The Book of Ruin (2019), Unpeopled Eden (2013), winner of a Lambda Literary Award, and Black Blossoms (2011), all published by Four Way Books. His other poetry collections include Other Fugitives and Other Strangers (Tupelo Press, 2006) and So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water Until It Breaks (University of Illinois Press, 1999), a National Poetry Series selection. González has also written multiple books in other genres including the novel Crossing Vines (University of Oklahoma Press, 2003), the memoir Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006), the critical essay collection Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition: Toward a 21st Century Poetics (University of Michigan Press, 2017), and the book of stories Men without Bliss (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008).Read more about González (and more poems by him) here. Read this essay on González by Darrel Alejandro Holness here. Read this essay penned by González on writing memoir.Watch this short, fabulous interview with Rigoberto González here (~20 min). And watch González read his poem "A Note on Resentment" (~2 min).Poems we read include:"What Smells Dead""Casa""Thinking Stones""Carnivore"

This week I sat down with one of my dearest girlfriends, and identity alchemist Adele Tevlin. Adele helps entrepreneurs, leaders, and visionaries move through deep identity shifts by blending cognitive behavior therapy, NLP, deep brain reorienting, and inner child work into something that goes way beyond mindset; it recalibrates the nervous system and core self-concept. What we get into: What it really means to have an "identity upgrade" and why it can feel like glitching in the matrix The difference between the world of illusion (fear, scarcity, lack) and the world of truth (abundance, alignment, ease) Why baby steps toward transformation are actually more exhausting than diving in headfirst  Adele about "hero doses" versus micro-doses of change How to protect your energy and stay in your ascension without losing your capacity for connection The real difference between information, integration, and embodiment Why some relationships naturally fall away (and come back) as your frequency shifts The story behind my talk at Pink Skirt Project   Let's dive in! Thank you for joining us today. If you could rate, review & subscribe, it would mean the world to me! While you're at it, take a screenshot and tag me @jennpike to share on Instagram – I'll re-share that baby out to the community & once a month I'll be doing a draw from those re-shares and send the winner something special! Click here to listen: Apple Podcasts – CLICK HERESpotify – CLICK HERE Connect with Guest - Instagram | @adele_tevlin Facebook | @AdeleTevlinPage Identity Ascension Method | ACCESS HERE Website | adeletevlin.com   This episode is sponsored by: withinUs | Use the code JENNPIKE20 at withinus.ca for a limited time to save 20% off your first order and 20% off your first subscription order St. Francis | Go to stfrancisherbfarm.com and save 15% off your all your orders with code JENNPIKE15  Eversio Wellness | Go to eversiowellness.com/discount/jennpike15 and save 15% off every order with code JENNPIKE15 /// not available for "subscribe & save" option Free Resources: Free Perimenopause Support Guide | jennpike.com/perimenopausesupport Free Blood Work Guide | jennpike.com/bloodworkguide The Simplicity Sessions Podcast | jennpike.com/podcast Get 20% on thewalkingpad.com using code "JENNPIKE20" Metabolic Guide | jennpike.com/metabolic-guide Get discounts at happybumco.com using code "JENNPIKE" *code doesn't apply with Black Friday sale* Programs: Ignite: Your 8-Week Body Transformation Program | https://jennpike.com/ignite The Peri & Menopause Project  - Join the Waitlist | jennpike.com/theperimenopauseproject Synced Virtual Fitness Studio | jennpike.com/synced Services: Work With Jenn | https://jennpike.com/work-with-jenn/ Functional Testing | jennpike.com/testing-packages Business Mentorship | The Audacious Woman Mentorship:  jennpike.com/theaudaciouswoman Connect with Jenn: Instagram | @jennpike Facebook | @thesimplicityproject YouTube | Simplicity TV Website | The Simplicity Project Inc. Have a question? Send it over to hello@jennpike.com and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice.  

In this episode, I share a channeled message from the Guardians of the Akashic Records about navigating change and becoming the change we seek. I explore how small shifts in the way we think, feel, and show up for ourselves can create profound changes in our lives. I also dive into the subconscious illusions and stories that keep us stuck, and how becoming willing to see the truth can lead to powerful breakthroughs.We explore radical responsibility, choosing ourselves, and stepping back into the driver's seat of our lives. If you're moving through change or feeling called to create something new, this episode invites you to ask: What change are you seeking, and are you willing to be the change?Love and light, Amy RobesonP.S. Discover your Intuitive Superpower with this FREE 2-minute quiz and receive a personalized 5-Minute HeartSpace™ Activation based on your result.Take the quiz & get your activation today: theamyrobeson.com/quizFREE MASTERCLASS: theamyrobeson.com/masterclassFREE GIFT: theamyrobeson.com/freeCRYSTAL LIVE SHOW: theamyrobeson.com/crystals HANG OUT WITH ME ON SOCIAL MEDIA: IG:  instagram.com/amy.robesonYouTube: www.youtube.com/@amyrobesonTikTok: tiktok.com/@amy.robesonFacebook: facebook.com/awakeninglifecoachingFacebook Group: facebook.com/groups/1870669766485293

Iva's partner was always pulling away, avoiding her, preferring his friends, and hiding in his office to escape her. Then she started noticing small lies that made no sense to her. She would snoop, confront him, and the fights would spiral until he was shouting and she felt threatened and completely small. They almost called off their wedding, because a counselor told them it wouldn't work. They got married anyway, and a few months in, nothing had changed. Then a podcast found her at the right moment, and she decided to give the Six Intimacy Skills™ a try. Today Iva feels like a princess in her own home. Her husband cooks their meals, does the grocery shopping, fixes whatever breaks, and drives her wherever she wants to go. He tells his friends to get married because it is the best thing that ever happened to him. And Iva can't wait to grow old with him. If your husband has been lying and you can't figure out why, Iva's story may inspire your next step.

Self-trust and identity are at the center of this conversation with Lester Clowes, executive coach and author of Stop Lying to Yourself.Lester Clowes spent a decade running a school system before building a coaching practice around the exact motivational content he used to be hooked on himself. His new book, Stop Lying to Yourself, examines the quiet lies capable, organized people tell themselves right up until nothing changes.In this conversation, we cover:Promise debt: How years of small broken commitments to yourself compound into a negative balance — and why that balance, not your system, is usually the real problem.Act as if, not fake it till you make it: The difference between performing someone else's identity and architecting your own, and why one has an off-ramp and the other doesn't.Self-trust vs. self-reputation: Why the feeling and the record are two different things — and why feelings always snap back to match the record, no matter how good the pep talk was.The desert: The unglamorous middle phase between enthusiasm and momentum where most people quit, and why learning to act independent of your feelings is the whole game.Seasons, not sweeping change: How naming what season you're in — and giving it a boundary — restores the agency that an over-engineered system can't.If you've built the system and you're still, four years later, the same person — just better at being busy — this conversation is for you. It pairs well with Erik's solo episode on agency versus the illusion of control if you want the fuller framework behind why control was never really the goal.Connect with Lester:defytheaverage.comConnect with Erik:LinkedInThreadsFacebookBlueskyThis Podcast is Powered By:Brain.fm - 20% off your first monthDescriptDescript 101CastmagicEcammPodpageRodecaster ProGrab Shortcasts from Beyond The To-Do List by Blinkist:http://beyondthetodolist.com/blinkistSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Please enjoy this Summer Salon Series episode of Breaking Form Selects: Ai Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.  Notes:The poet Ai was noted for her uncompromising poetic vision and dramatic monologues which give voice to marginalized, poor, and abused speakers. She  legally changed her name to Ai which means “love” in Japanese. Ai self-identified as Japanese, Choctaw-Chickasaw, Black, Irish, Southern Cheyenne, and Comanche. Her collections include: Cruelty (1973), Killing Floor (1978), Sin (1986), Fate (1991), Greed (1993), Vice: New and Selected Poems (1999) which was awarded the National Book Award for Poetry, and Dread (2003).Read more about her (as well as poems by her) here. Read her obituary in the New York Times here, and this recollection essay by Tamiko Beyer in Kenyon Review here.Watch Ai read from her first book here (~6 min; recording made in November 1974).We discussed Ai in our episode "We Can Shift the Canon"Poems we read by Ai include:"The Hitchhiker" - hear Ai read it here. "Twenty-Year Marriage""James Dean""True Love" 

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Please enjoy this Summer Salon Series episode of Breaking Form Selects: Lucie Brock-Broido.Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.  Notes:Lucie Brock-Broido was born in Pittsburgh. Her collections include: A Hunger (1988), The Master Letters (1995), Trouble in Mind (2004), and Stay, Illusion (2013), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Books Critics Circle Award. Read more about her, and more poems, here. Read this interview with Elizabeth Metzger on Brock-Broido.Read Askold Melnyczuk's eulogy for LBB here. And read Joelle Biele's review of Stay, Illusion in Harvard Review here.Read LBB"s poem "After the Grand Perhaps"Read about the evolution of the Lady Godiva story here. Poems we read include:"Jessica, from the Well" (Jstor / Virginia Quarterly Review subscription required) -- this version is slightly different than the published version included in A Hunger."Domestic Mysticism""After Raphael""Dove, Interrupted"

Over a million words. Unfinished manuscripts abandoned across an entire lifetime. His daughters called him a writer. His wife called him a writer. He didn't believe it himself. That gap, between who others see you as and who you see yourself as, is where Lester Clowes built an entire coaching practice. And this episode is the most honest version of that work, out loud. Dr. Lester Clowes is the founder of Defy the Average and author of Stop Lying to Yourself, a framework-first book on promised debt, identity, and what it takes to finally start believing your own word again. In this wide-ranging conversation, he and George go deep on motivation porn, the default vs. directional identity, and why embarrassingly small promises beat massive Sunday-night overhauls every time. What You'll Learn In This Episode: What promised debt is and how deep in the red most people actually are Why motivation porn is the drug of choice for smart, ambitious people The difference between your default identity and your directional identity Why productivity without identity work just makes you a more efficient broken person The "so what" script for breaking out of the justified victim loop How to start embarrassingly small and why that's the fastest path forward The beliefs, values, and protocol framework for building the identity of your choosing Key Takeaways: ✔️Every broken promise to yourself is still on the ledger. Most people are so deep in the red they've stopped believing their own word entirely. ✔️Motivation porn gives you the dopamine hit of action without the action. If you feel productive while consuming, you're probably addicted. ✔️A more efficient system with a broken identity just makes a more efficient broken person. ✔️Your default identity doesn't have to win, it just has to delay long enough that the directional identity doesn't. ✔️The "so what" script: I'm right, the circumstances were real, so what? That question breaks the justified victim loop. ✔️Start embarrassingly small. When you've racked up massive promised debt, the smallest micro-commitment feels like a miracle. ✔️A flat tire is not a reason to slash the other three. One broken promise is data, not a verdict. ✔️What you have right now is a perfect reflection of who you are today. That's not judgment, that's a starting point. Timestamps & Highlights: [00:00] — A million abandoned words and the moment everything had to change [01:28] — The opening question: what would your life look like if you stopped lying to yourself? [04:04] — What becomes possible when you start keeping promises to yourself [09:27] — Motivation porn: the drug of choice for smart, ambitious people [14:52] — The common roadblocks: productivity trap, overcomplication, changing everything at once [16:55] — Promised debt defined and what Sunday-night overhauls actually cost you [20:25] — Getting real about where you are: the Google Maps problem [25:00] — Decision debt, the house-hunting case study, and how we avoid the real problem [30:00] — Starting embarrassingly small and the promise debt ledger exercise [31:38] — The "so what" script for breaking the victim loop [33:00] — Default vs. directional identity: beliefs, values, and protocol explained [36:00] — Limiting beliefs: just a story that doesn't have your greater good at heart [45:00] — The identity split and why dissonance is the real driver of self-sabotage [58:00] — Caught vs. taught beliefs and how to challenge them [1:10:00] — The owner's manual: why we never look inside ourselves [1:16:49] — Where to find the book, the free quiz, and how to connect with Lester [1:18:35] — Tattoo wisdom: what you have right now is a perfect reflection of who you are Connect with Dr. Lester Clowes  Performance and life coach, founder of Defy the Average, and author of Stop Lying to Yourself. With 10,000+ hours of one-on-one coaching across leaders, entrepreneurs, and organizations, he helps people architect an ideal state of being and reverse-engineer how to get there. Website + Free Quiz: defytheaverage.com Instagram: @defytheaverage YouTube: @defyles Book available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble Your Challenge This Week: Take the free quiz at defytheaverage.com, it'll show you exactly how you're lying to yourself right now. Then make one embarrassingly small promise today. Keep it. Build from there. Follow George: @itsgeorgebryant Work with George: The Alliance — Community for entrepreneurs done with motivation porn and ready to install real identity work.  1:1 Coaching — Limited spots. Apply at mindofgeorge.com/coaching-consulting/ Live Retreats — In-person experiences designed to close the gap between who you are and who you're becoming.

Please enjoy this Summer Salon Series episode of Breaking Form Selects: Tim Dlugos.Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.  Notes: Tim Dlugos was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and grew up in Arlington, Virginia. From 1968 to 1970, he was a Christian Brother at LaSalle College in Philadelphia. He left LaSalle and moved to Washington, DC, but later lived in New York City where he was a contributing editor to Christopher Street magazine and on the Poetry Project staff.Dlugos's books of poetry include High There (1973), Je Suis Ein Americano (1979), Incredible Risks (1980), Entre Nous (1981), A Fast Life (1982), Strong Place (1992), Powerless: Selected Poems 1973–1990 (1995), and the posthumous A Fast Life: Poems of Tim Dlugos (2011), edited by David Trinidad. Marked by witty observation, narratives that recount life's daily minutia, and heavily enjambed lines, Dlugos's poetry shares its immediate, offhand style with the work of Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler. Dlugos's work is also noteworthy for its firsthand depiction of the AIDS pandemic.Read this essay about Dlugos and Danez Smith.Poems we read include:"G9""An Undelivered Class Presentation on the Subject of Gay Consciousness""Incredible Risks" (scroll down)"Healing the World from Battery Park," which you can read in the 1993 Best American Poetry, available here on the Internet Archive.Watch Ry Dunn read "G-9" here (~15 min). And watch Tim Dlugos read a swath of poems here (~30 min).

Please enjoy this Summer Salon Series episode of Breaking Form Selects: Melvin Dixon.Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.  Notes:Scholar, novelist, and poet Melvin Dixon was born in Stamford, Connecticut. He earned a BA from Wesleyan University and an MA and a PhD from Brown University. His poetry collections include: Change of Territory (1983) and Love's Instruments (1995, published posthumously. He's the author of two novels, Trouble the Water (1989) and Vanishing Rooms (1991). Read Dixon's most-anthologized poem "Heartbeats" Watch Danez Smith read the poem here. CM Burroughs is joined by Adrian Metejka on this panel celebrating Melvin Dixon's work. Watch here (~30 min). CM Burroughs reads her essay published in Poetry Magazine, the text of which is here: "Poetic Kin: Meeting Melvin Dixon"Read "Looking Back: The AIDS Epidemic" for a bit more about the AIDS pandemic.Poems we read include:"Turning 40 in the Nineties""Change of Territory" "The 80s Miracle Diet""One by One""I'll Be Somewhere Listening for My Name"

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What if enlightenment isn't a mystical state—but the gradual destruction of the stories you tell yourself? Gary Cocciolillo speaks with Giotto De Filippi, creator of Practical Enlightenment, about radical honesty, identity, desire, ego, and the beliefs that quietly create suffering. Giotto explains why the word “should” can trap us inside an imaginary version of reality—and why effort often becomes another form of pretending.Gary pushes the conversation further into consciousness, dreams, paranormal experiences, meditation, time, existence, and whether anything we experience can truly be called real. They also explore the difference between chasing outcomes and simply tending to life like a gardener. Can enlightenment become practical? The first step may be brutally simple: stop lying to yourself. Learn more about Giotto's work at PracticalEnlightenment.com.AppleSpotify

Please enjoy this Summer Salon Series episode of Breaking Form Selects: Larry Levis--one of our favorite straight guys!Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.  Notes:Larry Patrick Levis (September 30, 1946 – May 8, 1996) was an American poet and teacher who published five books of poetry during his lifetime. Two more volumes of previously unpublished poems appeared posthumously. A collected volume called Swirl & Vortex (Graywolf, 2026, edited by David St. John) makes all of Levis's poetry available in one volume, including the five books published in Levis's lifetime, a brilliant reconfiguration of Levis's posthumous books, and unpublished late poems, with an afterword by St. John. Watch this 1984 reading Levis gave with Phil Levine (~67 min; Levis reads first).Watch the book launch for Swirl & Vortex here (~2 hours).Watch Analicia Sotelo read Levis's "My Story in a Late Style of Fire" (with a brief commentary; ~6 min).Read "Winter Stars" here.Poems Read include:"The Smell of the Sea""Unfinished Poem" "The Blue Hat Band""My Story in a Late Style of Fire"Read how to seduce a Libra here. If you've never seen Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, here's the trailer. 

Please enjoy this Summer Salon Series episode of Breaking Form Selects: Tommye Blount.Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.  Notes:Tommye Blount was born and raised in Detroit. He holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and is the author of Fantasia for the Man in Blue (Four Way Books, 2020), a finalist for the National Book Award, and the chapbook What Are We Not For (Bull City Press, 2016). Blount is the recipient of scholarships and fellowships from Kresge Arts in Detroit and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. In 2023, he received a Whiting Award in Poetry. A Cave Canem Fellow, Blount lives in Novi, Michigan.Visit Tommye's website: https://www.tommyeblount.com/homeBuy the book Fantasia for the Man in Blue from Four Way Books.Poems we mention include:"Fantasia for the Man in Blue" (one of four title poems in the book). Watch Tommye read this poem here. "Leroy Auditions for the Fame School""Ku Klux Klan Robe and Hood, Circa 1925" in Massachusetts Review "Palmer Park""Karl Lagerfeld's Line of Beauty"Read two poems by Tommye in Four Way Review here.See Tommye read his poem "Grand Dragon" at the Whiting Awards here (~1 min)Watch Leroy Johnson's audition in Fame here!Read this interview with Tommye in Adroit Journal

Part 2: Why do we keep repeating the same patterns even when they hurt us? In this episode, Stop Lying to Yourself examines the logic behind behavior: the beliefs, payoffs, and scripts that can quietly shape how we see ourselves, what we believe we deserve, and the choices we make. Viewers are challenged to assess actions by their results and thoughts by their rationality; identify the life chain, life script, and personal truth influencing their lives; and stop rewarding the behavior that keeps them stuck. Part 2 moves from insight to action, asking viewers to decide who they are on purpose, earn better by showing up differently, and take one courageous act of non-silence. The message is clear: you can respect others and still tell the truth and speaking up may be the first step toward finally living your own life. This episode is made possible with the support of our sponsors.on't wait! If you're on Medicare or will be soon, reach out to Chapter: Call: (352)-845-0659 or go to https://askchapter.org to learn about your Medicare options and get help finding ways to save money.Pure Blue Fish grows the freshest fish in the world. Sushi will never be the same again. Sushi will never be the same again. @purebluefish is on a mission to save the ocean and feed the world. Find out more: https://PureBlueFish.com/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Our summer salon series is here! Please enjoy this episode of Breaking Form Selects: Lynda HullSupport Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.  Notes:Lynda Hull was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1954. Her collections include Ghost Money (1986), recipient of the Juniper Prize; Star Ledger (1991), which won the 1991 Carl Sandburg and 1990 Edwin Ford Piper awards; and The Only World: Poems, published posthumously in 1995 and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. In 2006, Graywolf Press published her Collected Poems, edited by her husband, David Wojahn. We read these Lynda Hull poems:"Night Waitress""Adagio" from Star Ledger (the poem is dedicated to Mark Doty)"Chiffon" "Midnight Reports" (which was first published in Agni, alongside "Black Mare" and "Visiting Hour") also from Star Ledger.And check out this video of Erika Meitner reading Hull's poem "At Thirty" and Gary Jackson reading "Magical Thinking"

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Season 4 ends with some much-needed poetic Cherapy! Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.  Notes:Poets and poems we mention in this episode include:Mark Strand, "Eating Poetry"Rob Schlegel, "Poetry" Sandra Lim, "Something Something Something Grand"Margaret Walker, "Lineage"Sylvia Plath, "The Applicant"Diane Wakoski, "The Father of My Country"Carolyn Forche, "Selective Service"Mark Bibbins, "The Anxiety of Coincidence"Corey Marks, "Broken Music"Robert Frost, "Mending Wall"Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day" Louise Glück, "Anniversary"e.e. cummings, "somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond"           Cher's delivery of this rant in Witches of Eastwick is iconic.Burlesque is a 2010 American backstage musical film written and directed by Steven Antin. It stars Cher, Christina Aguilera, Kristen Bell, Cam Gigandet, Eric Dane, Stanley Tucci, Julianne Hough, Alan Cumming, and Peter Gallagher, and features cameos from Dianna Agron and James Brolin.Mermaids is a 1990 American family comedy-drama film directed by Richard Benjamin, and starring Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder, Michael Schoeffling, and Christina Ricci in her film debut. Based on Patty Dann's 1986 novel of the same name, and set in 1963, its plot follows a neurotic teenage girl who moves with her wayward mother and younger sister to a small town in Massachusetts.Silkwood is a 1983 American biographical drama film directed by Mike Nichols, and starring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, and Cher.The Witches of Eastwick is a 1987 American dark fantasy comedy film directed by George Miller from a screenplay by Michael Cristofer, based on the 1984 novel by John Updike. It stars Jack Nicholson alongside Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Veronica Cartwright.In Season 1, Episode 117, "Cher Revises Poetry," we ended famous poems with lines from Cher movies, including the Dolly Pelliker line, "Goddamn government fucks you coming and going!" Listen to the Green Acres theme song here.

Richie Hofmann returns for a game that shows the queens that being well-versed can mean getting well-bred.Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.  Notes:Visit Richie Hofmann's website here: https://www.richiehofmann.com/ which includes links to many of the poems Richie reads for us in the episode.Purchase The Bronze Arms Check out a reading Richie gave at LA's Hammer Museum in April 2022 here (~45 minutes)Poets we mention in this episode include:John AshberyElizabeth Barrett Browning was a Pisces. A portrait of EBB hung in Emily Dickinson's bedroom.Robert Browning, especially "My Last Duchess"Elizabeth BishopAnne Bronte, author of Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell HallCharlotte Bronte, author of  5 novels, including Villette, Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor, which was published posthumously in 1857. Upon her death, she left two chapters of an unfinished narrative called Emma. Emily Bronte, author of Wuthering HeightsCatullus threatens two friends who have insulted him with both irrumatio and pedicatio in his "Carmen 16" Amy ClampittAllen GinsbergGerard Manley HopkinsRobert Lowell, particularly his poem "Skunk Hour." For more about Lowell's violence towards his wives, receipts are here and here.  J.D. McClatchyFrank O'Hara, particularly his manifesto "Personism"; his poem "Having a Coke with You,"; several poems titled "On Rachmaninoff's Birthday," like this one; and the 56 poems he titled simply "Poem," including "Poem [I will always love you]," "Poem [I live above a dyke bar and I'm happy.]," "Poem [Dee Dum, dee dum, dum dum, dee da]," and "Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!)."Christina Rosetti, whose middle name is Georgina.Dante Gabriel Rosetti.The Rossetti children were quite artistic. There were two others in addition to Dante and Christina: Maria Rossetti, who published A Shadow of Dante (1871), and William Michael Rossetti, who became an editor, man of letters, and memoirist.Gertrude Stein  We also mention Susan M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's landmark book, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination, published by Yale UP in 1979 and reissued in 2020. 

Cam and Otis get real about generational work ethic differences, the "Where was Dad?" question, and why you need to stop lying to yourself and just fill out the damn application.Sometimes the best conversations happen when it's just the two of us. In this family episode, Cam and Otis dive into the generational gap in work ethic, what it was like growing up with a dad who was always gone, and the lessons learned from four years of high school rugby together. If you've ever wondered how work-life balance has shifted across generations- or why accountability sometimes means calling people out by name- this episode is for you.In this episode, you'll discover:• The generational work ethic gap - why Otis expects work done by 10 PM and what that says about how he was raised (21:27) • "Where was Dad? Otis was gone" - the reality of building a business and what it cost in family time (22:17) • Four years of high school rugby together - the father-son bond built through shared experience and competition (22:17) • Calling out real names for accountability - why Cam and Otis don't shy away from naming actual people when discussing leadership lessons (21:27) • Stop lying to yourself - the importance of being honest about where you are and what you need to do (36:06, 36:19) • Just fill out the application - Cam's recent website updates and why taking simple action beats overthinking (36:15) • Fidget spinners and focus - the reality of staying present during calls and conversations (00:29, 00:44) • How to be a better man - simple, actionable steps to improve yourself and your leadership (36:39)This episode is raw, honest, and packed with the kind of real talk that only happens between a father and son who've been in the trenches together. Whether you're navigating generational differences in your own team or trying to figure out what work-life balance really means, Cam and Otis break it down without the corporate polish.Ready to get real about work ethic, accountability, and what it takes to be better? Hit play and join the conversation.Chapters with Timestamps and Descriptions00:00 - Introduction: Wardrobe, Fidget Spinners, and Tucson Heat• Cam and Otis kick off with their usual wardrobe banter • Otis's fidget spinner moment - cleaning his earpiece on his shirt during the call • Cam adjusting the fan because it's freaking hot in Tucson • Setting the stage for a father-son conversation without a guest21:27 - Generational Work Ethic: Ten O'Clock at Night Standards• Calling out real names - Cam and Otis discuss actual people and accountability • Otis's perspective: "It's not ten o'clock yet, how come you ain't got that done?" (and he means 10 PM) • The generational difference in how Otis was brought up vs. how Cam's generation works • Why work ethic expectations have shifted across generations22:17 - "Where Was Dad?" - The Cost of Building a Business• The reality of Otis being gone during Cam's childhood • Cam's older siblings (brother and sister) remember it more clearly • Mom's answer: "Otis was gone" • Four years of high school rugby together - the time they did get to bond • How shared experiences shaped their relationship36:06 - Stop Lying to Yourself: Fill Out the Application• Cam's recent website updates at tenxyourteam.net • The importance of being honest with yourself about where you are • "Just click on the buttons. It's nice and pretty. Just click on the buttons, follow it through, you'll be alright" • Why taking simple action beats overthinking and procrastination36:19 - How to Be a Better Man: Simple Steps• Otis's challenge: "You wanna be a better man? This is how you do it" • Go to tenxyourteam.net and figure it out • The clip-worthy moment: "Just Justine, there's the clip. That's the intro. Cut it." • Why simplicity and action are the keys to improvement36:42 - Closing and Where to Find More• Thank you for listening to this family episode • Remember to watch full episodes on YouTube at 10xyourteam • Pass this episode along to other lifelong learners in your tribe • Follow on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn • Full archive available at www.tenxyourteam.netConnect with us here: https://www.10xyourteam.net/

This one comes at you hot — with so much love, and some truth wrapped in a bow. Lindsey gets real about the moment she stopped blaming everyone and everything else and finally took radical responsibility for her recovery. If you've been waiting to feel ready, waiting for the perfect time, waiting for someone to come save you — this is your wake-up call, and your invitation. You're not powerless. You never were. And this summer could be the beginning of your freedom. A note of care before you press play: this episode speaks honestly about the turning point in Lindsey's recovery. If you're in a tender, vulnerable place right now, it's completely okay to come back to it another time, or to listen with a trusted person nearby. You get to protect your peace. What this episode is really about Why "waiting to feel ready" keeps you exactly where you are The difference between playing the victim and taking radical responsibility — and why responsibility is actually the hopeful part How recovered women aren't better than you; they just stopped waiting The truth that if you have the power to choose the disorder, you also have the power to choose recovery Why you don't think your way into recovery — you act your way into it The come-to-Jesus moment that changed everything A few lines from the episode "You're not powerless. You've never been powerless." "Recovered women aren't better than you — they just don't wait to feel ready." "You don't think your way into recovery. You act your way into recovery." "If you have the power to choose your eating disorder, you also have the power to choose recovering from it." "Your future self is counting on the choice." "You weren't meant to live small." Your next step: The Best Self Breakthrough If this episode hit you right in the chest — if you're tired of the excuses and ready to make changes — Lindsey is opening the Best Self Breakthrough, a 21-day summer sprint for women done playing small and ready to take radical responsibility for their recovery. You'll work with Lindsey directly, get a real win, and start believing again that you're not meant to be controlled by these thoughts. Apply at www.herbestself.co — and don't overthink it. Action is the whole point. Taking radical responsibility sometimes means recognizing you need specialized, clinical support — and reaching for it is one of the bravest, most responsible choices there is. That's not failure. That's strength.

The ladies are joined by Richie Hofmann for one hell of a Breaking Form interview!Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.  Notes:Visit Richie Hofmann's website here: https://www.richiehofmann.com/ which includes links to many of the poems Richie reads for us in the episode.Purchase The Bronze Arms Check out a reading Richie gave at LA's Hammer Museum in April 2022 here (~45 minutes)Watch Bette Middler sing "Rose's Turn" from Gypsy here. To see the clip from Absolutely Fabulous we reference in the show, go here. For more about the recent sandals Chanel showed in their 2027 resort collection, read this article in Vogue.Read Richie's essay remembering Louise Glück, published in CNN, here.  REduardo Corral published Guillotine with Graywolf in 2020; it was Longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry and was a Finalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. Buy it here! Richie references the Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) poem "Whoso List to Hunt"Carl Phillips wrote on Instagram about The Bronze Arms: "Novelistic, cinematic…It's been more than a moment since I read a book of poems so accomplished not only poem by poem but as a book with a sensibility so clear and at the same time so layered in different shades of mystery — as if torn between withholding, craving, and demanding intimacy, all three at once…Congratulations @richiehof — I read the whole book last night, and here I am, starting all over —"Read more about the poet Kara van de Graaf, author of Spitting Image (SIU Press, 2018) on her website here: https://www.karavandegraaf.comLearn more about the poet Will Brewer via his website: https://www.williambrewer.netAnne Carson's translations of Sappho are collected in her book If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho first published in 2002. It contains Greek text on facing pages, based on Eva-Maria Voigt's 1971 critical edition. Carson's translation closely follows the word-order of Sappho's Greek, and marks lacunae in the manuscripts with square brackets.

The queens shine a rainbow spotlight on some fabulous, emerging queer poets.Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.  Notes:Xavier Searle is a poet and educator. A recipient of an Academy of American Poets University & College Prize, their work has appeared in The Broken Plate, Stone of Madness, and the anthology Broken Olive Branches. They hold an MFA from North Carolina State University. Read their poem "Elegy." Deon Robinson (he/him) is a Queer Afro-Latino poet born-and-raised in The Bronx. He received his B.A. in Creative Writing from Susquehanna University, where he was a two-time recipient of the Janet C. Weis Prize for Literary Excellence. Currently, he is a first year MFA Candidate in Poetry at the University of Urbana-Champaign where he is a recipient of a Graduate College Master's Fellowship and selected by Adrian Matejka for the 2022 Hobart L. and Mary Kay Peer Memorial Award. Read Deon Robinson's "(Pleasure-Knowledge) (Knowledge-Pain)" from The Adroit Journal. Visit his website: https://djrthepoet.weebly.com Kaitlin Hsu 徐欣 (she/她) is a queer Taiwanese poet, translator and editor from the Bay Area. Her work can be found in A Public Space, Poet Lore, Peach Mag and elsewhere. She is a 2024 Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers' Workshop and works at Kaya Press as an associate editor. Hsu was also a Brooklyn Poets Fellow. Check out Hsu's website at https://myrefoli.github.io and read her poem "As a Child, I Pretended to Be a Tree" here.Stefania Gomez is a 2025 Luminarts Fellow in Poetry and a 2023 Fulbright Research Award Grantee, and a finalist for the 2024 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship and 2023-2024 Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship Semifinalist. She has received additional fellowships from the Dirt Palace, Sewanee Writers Workshop, Lambda Literary, and the International Quilt Museum. She received her MFA in poetry at Washington University in St. Louis. She is currently a PhD candidate in English at the University of Illinois at Chicago and teaches Creative Writing at The Chicago High School for the Arts, Chicago's first public arts high school. Read her poem "Wreck" here and check out her website here. Another Gomez poem worth your time is "At the New York City AIDS Memorial"John Bonanni founded and edits the Cape Cod Review. His poems have appeared in North American Review, Foglifter, Black Warrior Review, Washington Square Review, Florida Review, and Gulf Coast, and his literary criticism has been featured in DIAGRAM, Denver Quarterly, The Rumpus, and The Kenyon Review. He teaches on Cape Cod. Visit his website and read "Elegy for Gaeton Dugas" here. Bonnani's book Retrovirology, won the Donald Hall Prize (judged by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers) and will be available in September from the Pitt Poetry Series. Alec Hershman is the author of the chapbooks Permanent and Wonderful Storage  (2019) and The Egg Goes Under (2017), both from Seven Kitchens Press. He lives in Michigan where he teaches literature and writing to college students. His poetry appears widely in literary journals and magazines such as Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, The Journal, Sycamore Review, DIAGRAM, Columbia, The National Poetry Review, and Harpur Palate. You can find links to his work online at https://alechershmanpoetry.com. Read Hershman's "Mercury Fields." Denice Frohman is a poet and performer from New York City. She has received support from The Pew Center for the Arts, Baldwin for the Arts, CantoMundo, Headlands Center for the Arts, the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Poem-A-Day, The BreakBeat Poets: LatiNext, Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color, The Rumpus and elsewhere. A former Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, she's featured on hundreds of stages from The Apollo to The White House. Currently, she is developing her one-woman show, Esto No Tiene Nombre, which centers the oral histories of Latina lesbian elders. Read or listen to Frohman's poem "Lady Jordan" here and check her website out here: https://www.denicefrohman.comZachary Scalzo (he/they) is a queer writer, translator, and theatremaker. They can be found at azachofalltrades.com and on Instagram at @zjscalzo. Their poetry has appeared in journals including Dear Poetry, Ghost City Review, and &Change. Read their poem “Sometimes—there's God—so quickly.” Journalist Randy Shilts popularized the concept of "Patient Zero" in his 1987 book, And the Band Played On. By 1987, however, it was known that an infected individual might not display symptoms for several years, and that the study on which Shilts based his assumption was unlikely to have revealed a network of infection. Still, Shilts uncritically spread the story of the Los Angeles cluster study and its ‘Patient 0,' with long-standing consequences. For more about this, read here.Director Laurie Lynd released a documentary in 2019, Killing Patient Zero, which delves more into Gaeton Dugas's life. Read more about the documentary here.

Inspired Choices for Business Growth with Christine McIver  There comes a point in business where the biggest thing standing in your way is no longer strategy, money, visibility, or even the market — it's the stories you keep telling yourself. In this episode of Inspired Choices for Business Growth, Christine McIver pulls back the curtain on the excuses, avoidance patterns, inflated narratives, and hidden fears that quietly sabotage business growth. This is not about shame or blame. It's about radical business honesty. Because the moment you stop lying to yourself about what's really happening in your business is the moment you regain your power to change it. Christine challenges entrepreneurs to confront where they are playing small, tolerating dysfunction, avoiding leadership, and pretending things are “fine” when they are not. If you are ready to stop performing entrepreneurship and start operating like the CEO your business requires, this conversation will hit hard — and move you forward fast. CEO Without Apology Author Christine McIver   Amazon.com – https://www.amazon.com/dp/1997615045 Amazon.ca – https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1997615045     ~ More About Inspired Choices for Business Growth with Christine McIver ~  Christine McIver is a Business Optimization Expert, Inspirational Speaker, TV & Radio Personality, and the Founder & Owner of Inspired Choices Network, ICN Summits & ICN Publishing. Christine is highly successful at inspiring individuals and businesses to make choices that will bring them increased success, greater joy, self-confidence and remarkable inspiring change.  All of which increased the abundance in their lives and businesses. Christine lives her life out loud and is a natural cheerleader.  She believes in the abilities of others to change their lives quickly and easily. Christine entices clients to show up more in their life, businesses & relationships than they ever have. She invites them to make all that they once knew was possible, possible. Christine believes that you can be living & loving your life with ease!  Her kind, direct and joy filled approach is both comforting and stretching.  Christine has impacted thousands of individuals with her enthusiastic message of possibilities.  Christine invites all into knowing that all things are possible beyond what is present in your life right now. https://christinemciver.com/ ~  christine@christinemciver.com https://www.facebook.com/InspiredChoicesCA ~  https://www.youtube.com/@InspiredchoicesBusinessGrowth   To get more of Inspired Choices for Business Growth ~ Christine McIver, be sure to visit the podcast page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/inspired-choices-for-business-growth-christine-mciver/

Travel through time with the Breaking Form ladies as we revisit some queer times and places.Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.  Notes:Check out Felice Picano's website https://www.felicepicano.net/, and this tribute to the writer, who died in 2025 at the age of 81. For more about how Saint Sebastian became a queer icon, read here. Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues is available in many formats on Feinberg's website: https://www.lesliefeinberg.net/In addition to publishing poetry and prose, Darrell g.h. Schramm writes for national and international rose publications, especially on heritage roses. He edits Rose Letter, a small quarterly of the Heritage Roses Group, and a newsletter The Vintage Rose for The Friends of Vintage Roses. For many years, he taught rhetoric at the University of San Francisco.Member of the Family: Gay Men Write About Their Families was edited by John Preston and published by Plume in 1994.Check out "The Truth That Must Be Told: Gay Subjectivity, Homophobia, and Social History in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'" by Dean Shackleford in The Tennessee Williams  Annual Review (available through jstor). Read more of Richard McCann's poem "Days of 1990" from Ghost Letters (buy it from Alice James Books here).The book David Wojnarowicz: A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side was edited by by Sylvère Lotringer, Giancarlo Ambrosino, Chris Kraus, Hedi El Kholti, Justin Cavin, and Jennifer Doyle, and it was published by Semiotext(e). The book resulted from Wojnarowicz's meetings with Lotringer; they'd arranged to meet In February 1991 to conduct a long-awaited dialogue on Wojnarowicz's work. Wojnarowicz was then at the peak of his notoriety as the fiercest antagonist of morals crusader Senator Jesse Helms–a notoriety that Wojnarowicz alternately embraced and rejected. Already suffering the last stages of AIDS, David saw his dialogue with Lotringer as a chance to set the record straight on his aspirations, his personal history, and his political views. Check out this video of Wojnarowicz reading "All I Can Feel Is the Pressure" 

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: We go to court today as numerous court decisions are rendered which involve Texas and Texans: Fifth Circuit Lifts Block on Texas Age Requirements for Apps, Paxton Secures Major Victory Protecting Children Online By Requiring Age Verification and Parental Approval for Minors' App Downloads Texas Supreme Court Denies Review Of Heartbeat Act Procedure Court Clears Way for Texas to Enforce Migrant Arrest Law Attorney General Paxton Secures Emergency Court Order Forcing Discord to Protect Texas Children and Stop Lying to Parents School Trustees Can Bypass Education Bureaucracy To Force Records From ISDs Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.City of Denton sued for violation of the Texas Women's Privacy Act related to homosexual “Big Gay Swim Day” at a city owned pool where the event expressly advertises it will be for all ages and that changing rooms will be “gender-neutral.” Denton failed to stop the violation despite having been put on notice.Oil and gas drilling rig count calmed down last week, Texas added only one rig.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The queens visit The Lowells in a game of "Amy Robert Lowell"Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.  Notes:Watch a brief biographical video about Amy Lowell here. Poems we mention include these by Amy Lowell:"Sword Blades and Poppy Seed""Opal""The Letter""A Winter Ride" (which includes the line "Everything mortal has moments immortal"; the poem appeared in her first book, A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass [Houghton Mifflin, 1912])."A Decade""September, 1918" (which we discuss at length)And these by Robert Lowell:"Night Sweat""Home After Three Months Away""The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket" which includes the line "The Lord survives the rainbow of his will.""Reading Myself"Watch a longer documentary about Robert Lowell here (~60 min).Here's the music video for Chappell Roan's "Casual"Here's an article about Amy and Robert Lowell that's worth reading. Here's a link to "Amy Lowell: Selected Poems" edited by Honor Moore; watch Moore discuss Lowell here (~60 min).Watch Naomi Shihab Nye read Amy Lowell's "The Garden by Moonlight."Watch Kids Magazine TV A bit about hyphenated use of words like "to-day" vs "today." In Old and in Middle English, the practice was to join the time with the preposition, using a hyphen "to-day," and "to-morrow," and "to-night," for instance. As the sense of their use as single notions developed, the two elements were brought together in written language (i.e., to night, to-night, and tonight). Nineteenth-century dictionaries opted for the hyphen in all three words. The OED shows hyphenated examples throughout the 19th century and into the early 20th. Latest examples are of to-day (1912), to-night (1908), and to-morrow (1927, with a possible further example as late as 1959). (Adapted from this article).

Laura Kasischke joins the queens to talk about her new collection of poems (and her new novel)!Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.  Notes:"The Crying Towel" was first published in The Massachusetts Review Volume 57, Issue 4Read a short essay  Kasischke wrote about the beginning of her poem "The First Resurrection" Uma Thurman starred in The Life Before Her Eyes (2007), adapted from Kasischke's novel of the same name. Evan Rachel Wood plays the younger version of the Uma Thurman character. Her other novels adapted for film include White Bird in a Blizzard (2014), directed by Gregg Araki and starring Shailene Woodley and Suspicious River (2000), directed by Lynne Stopkewich and starring Molly Parker. Kasischke also co-wrote the screenplay for this dark thriller.Laura Kasischke's novel The Lifeguard is available from Red Hen Press here, Read an interview about the novel here. Alberto Giacometti "Woman with Her Throat Cut (Femme égorgée)" serves as the ekphrastic inspiration for Kasischke's poem of the same name. View the artwork here. Giacometti completed the sculpture in 1932 and used bronze cast. Dimensions are 22.00 x 87.50 x 53.50 cm (or roughly 8.5 x 34.5 x 21 inches). Lucy Flint writes that the human figure is treated brutally in Giacometti's piece, and the woman appears in insectlike form. Woman with Her Throat Cut "is a particularly vicious image: the body is splayed open, disemboweled, arched in a paroxysm of sex and death. The psychological torment and the sadistic misogyny projected by this sculpture are in startling contrast to the serenity of other contemporaneous pieces by Giacometti, such as Woman Walking." (article on the Guggenheim site).Watch Kasischke give a reading here, here, and here.      

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The queens take on two impossible topics: death, and mothers.Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes:Aaron mentions the Marie Howe poem "Letter to My Sister" from The Good Thief, which Howe talks about here. Aaron reads his poem "After My Mother Apologized for My Childhood, We Went to Brunch," which you can hear him read again here -- on his cd Outside the Lines. You can read James's poem "Family Portrait" here. 

Come with the queens as they travel back to a time of gay bookstores, queer anthems, and a boom in LGBT+ publishing: the gay 90s! Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Show Notes:Check out Michael Nava's wonderful essay "Creating a Literary Culture: A Short, Selective, and Incomplete History of LGBT Publishing, Part II"Learn more about Gendertrash zineRead Melvin Dixon's essay "I'll Be Somewhere Listening for My Name." Read more about Texas Tech's limitations on studying gender and sexuality.Sabah as-Sabah's work appears in many 90s anthologies, including In the Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers (1992; edited by Kevin Powell & Ras Baraka), Catch the Fire!!: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (1998), and The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets (ed. Assotto Saint, 1991).  Read Audre Lorde's "The Electric Slide Boogie" in The Marvelous Arithmetic of Distance: 1987-1992.Read Marilyn Hacker's "The Boy"Justin Chin's "Cocksucker's Blues" is included in his first book of poems, Bite Hard (1997). Watch a tribute to Chin here. Here's the table of contents (with some hyperlinks) of The World in Us, edited by Elena Georgiou and Michael Lassell.You can read Maureen Seaton's "Blonde Ambition" (and the entirety of Furious Cooking)Read Dennis Cooper's "After School, Street Football, Eighth Grade"Read Gerry Gomez Pearlberg's "Marianne Faithfull's Cigarette" Some queer poets/poems we mention: Eileen Myles, "American Poem"JD McClatchy, "My Mammogram"David TrinidadRafael Campo, The Other Man Was MeEloise Klein HealyFrank Paino, The Rapture of MatterPaul Monette, 18 Elegies for RogJoan LarkinJudy GrahnRobin BeckerMaggie AndersonRichard McCann, Ghost LettersWayne Koestenbaum, The Queen's ThroatChrystosCheryl Clarke

Let's talk about Sex! Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.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:Poems we read and texts we mention include:Dorianne Laux, "The Lovers" (Visit Laux's website here).Jenny Johnson, "Daddy Scene" (published in Cherry Tree Issue 11). Subscribe here. Read Jenny's essay "Butch Blowjob" in Bomb Magazine.sam sax, "Ode to the Belt" can be read in The Nation Sept 2023--or you can watch sam perform the poem here. If you're looking for a theory reading about sexuality, might we recommend Sigmund Freud's "Three Contributions To The Theory Of Sex"Jericho Brown's "Host" appears in The New TestamentTimothy Liu's "The Size of It" appeared in The Paris Review Fall 1994Maya Abu Al-Hayyat's "Sex" Sophie Cabot Black, "Interrogation"You can read Minnie Bruce Pratt's "Peach" here (just scroll down/search for "peach").Aaron reads from this article ("50 interesting sex facts...") in the fact check. 

I used to wear my packed schedule like a trophy, convinced that being busy meant I was winning — until burnout hit me so hard I couldn't stand the sight of another hotel room. In this episode, I break down the lie that busyness equals success and share what I learned from ultra-successful mentors about where real progress actually comes from. If your calendar is overflowing but your life isn't moving forward, this one is for you. Key Takeaways Busyness is not productivity — a full calendar is not proof of success. In the absence of clarity, we fill our lives with distraction and call it hustle. The most successful people I know always seem to have time because they focus on outcomes, not activity volume. Gary Keller's concept from "The One Thing" challenges you to replace your to-do list with a success list — what actually moves you forward? Eliminating unnecessary low-yield tasks often produces the same results, and gives you back the most valuable currency of all: time. Action Steps Look at your to-do list this week and identify which items, if eliminated, would have zero negative impact on your actual goals. Identify the single most important task each day that, if completed, moves your career or life meaningfully forward — and protect that task above everything else. Start replacing your to-do list with a success list by asking: does this action get me closer to what I am truly trying to build? Notable Quote In the absence of clarity, we surround ourselves with distraction.

Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.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.

On today's episode of the CLS Experience, host Craig Siegel sits down with executive coach and bestselling author Keren Eldad for a powerful conversation on truth, surrender, and breaking free from the illusion of “getting ready to be ready.” Keren shares her gift for spotting self deception and unpacks how people unconsciously lie to themselves about fear, money, relationships, and identity, keeping them stuck in preparation mode instead of taking aligned action. The discussion introduces Kabbalah inspired tools like separating the ego from your true self, defining “the Light” as truth and harmonious intention, and shifting from reactivity to conscious response to change outcomes. They explore soulmate relationships as a refining force for growth, how to discern aligned coaches in a saturated space, and why true success is measured by fulfillment rather than external validation. Keren also opens up about her own rock bottom moment that led to radical honesty, spiritual discipline, and a complete life reinvention, along with her evolving relationship with money and manifesting through surrender and certainty. Let's go deep. 6:03 The Getting Ready Trap15:18 Soulmates and Twin Flames27:28 Healing Your Relationship with Money35:37 Spiritual Gym Habits41:26 Truth and Certainty44:45 Mastery and Personal DevelopmentCheck out Keren on Instagram HERE:Check out Keren's Website HERE:Check out Keren's Book HERE:Early Bird Tickets now available for our October live event, CLS: Formation HERE:To join our community click here.➤ Order a copy of Craig's book The Reinvention Formula today! ➤ Join our CLS texting community for free daily inspiration and wisdom to elevate your life, text (917) 634-3796➤ INSTAGRAM➤ FACEBOOK➤ TIKTOK➤ YOUTUBE➤ WEBSITE➤ LINKEDIN➤ X

All the queens want is boundless love in this episode about the love life of Frank O'Hara.Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.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:Read Frank O'Hara's "Homosexuality"For more about Chester Kallman, read here. Kallman was a poet, librettist, and writer who was also Auden's partner (and, later, his estate's executor). He published three collections of poems: Storm at Castelfranco (1956), Absent and Present (1963), and The Sense of Occasion (1971). Grace Hartigan's relationship with Frank O'Hara is detailed a bit more in this Sebastian Smee essay in Washington Post: "Portrait of a Poet." Read O'Hara's "In Memory of My Feelings"Much of Frank O'Hara's papers are at the Museum of Modern Art in NYCRead a review of Ada Calhoun's memoir "Also a Poet," about her father, art critic Peter Schjeldahl, who was working on a memorial project about O'Hara when he died. Calhoun believes that her father's book was torpedoed by O'Hara's sister and literary executor, Maureen Granville-Smith Calhoun. For more about The Glory Hole Café in Buenos Aires (which we mention in the show), go here. 

The queens talk about writing through sadness and grief in order to move forward and gain a different vantage point. Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.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:Take a look at the Tracey Emin sculpture "My Bed." It was sold at auction by Christie's in July 2014 for £2.5 million to German collector Count Christian Duerckheim.Read Larry Levis's poem "Boy in Video Arcade"Read Dickinson's 670 ("One Need not be a Chamber to be Haunted"). For more variations she included on the fascicle, visit the Emily Dickinson Online archive at Harvard's Houghton Library here. In an interview with Melanie Brooks and published in Creative Nonfiction (Winter 2017), Mark Doty says about grief: "It was like just pushing my way up this very tall, spirally staircase. I'd write and cry and write and cry and write and cry." Read the essay here (jstor access required).

Stop Lying to Yourself—For Real This TimeIn this raw, unfiltered solo episode of Raw & Unscripted, Christopher Rausch goes straight at the truth most people avoid…The one living inside your own mind. This isn't about motivation. This isn't about information.This is about confronting the internal voice that's been calling you out—and asking why you keep ignoring it.We're diving into:Where you're pretending vs. who you really areThe subtle ways you're bullsh*tting yourself (and calling it “being fine”)What you're tolerating that's slowly pulling you away from your truthWhy being the “bigger person” might actually be self-abandonmentAnd what it really takes to live in full alignment with who you KNOW you areNo filters. No excuses. No hiding.At the end of the day… You don't need another podcast.You need honesty.So the real question is— How much longer are you willing to ignore the truth you already know?

Dress shopping is cardio & life for the Breaking Form fashionistas. Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.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 JonesRead "Esta Noche" by Mark DotyThe 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.Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.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.comYou 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 HallTerrance HayesRoss GayLouise Glück's "Anniversary"                

We've all done things we wish we could undo. And beneath our shame is a fear that God is disappointed, angry, even ready to give punishment. By the end of this episode, you'll discover how to know you're truly forgiven, and how to understand God's discipline without confusing it with rejection. We'll also talk about why forgiving yourself can sometimes feel like the hardest step, and how to forgive yourself for the things God's already forgiven. Download the Audio Podcast Here:  

The queens kindly request your presence for some piping hot tea as they recap the AWP Conference in Baltimore. Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.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 MalechCherry 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.   

That which you call death, the queens remember in this episode that revisits The Wild Iris, Louise Glück's Pulitzer-Prize winning volume from 1992.Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.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:While the recording released by the Academy of American Poets of Glück reading from The Wild Iris and other work can be purchased online, you can also hear many of these poems read on SoundCloud here.  Much of our information about Glück's process comes from this interview with the poet Devin Becker, who was also her former student.Read Richie Hofmann's remembrance here.  Some of the poems from The Wild Iris that we mention (and links to read them) are:WitchgrassThe Red PoppyClear MorningThe GardenVespersRetreating LightThe White Lilies, which you can hear read by Glück here.We also mention the poem "Purple Bathing Suit" from Meadowlands, the book which follows The Wild Iris. Louise' Glücks astrological chart is here. (Taurus sun, Leo rising, Scorpio moon.)Watch interviews with Glück:1982, for Kalliope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAB-JqABvq82004, at Smith College: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw0nlVYZ39A 2012, Academy of Achievement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1rpGy8XRzU 2016, with Peter Streckfus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeoaLNGy_Ms2020, for NYPL with Colm Tóibín, on writing The Wild Iris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3kQGM_KhHQ

Dr. Phil walks you through a five-step plan to rewrite your life story, heal old wounds, and finally live from the truth not the trauma.In this episode, Dr. Phil takes you step by step through a powerful five-part action plan to stop letting one painful event run your entire life. First, you'll isolate a single target event that has shaped how you see yourself and the world. Then you'll audit your internal responses—blame, self-talk, labels, and the “tapes” that still play in your head. DPM shows you how to test those beliefs for authenticity, replace destructive fiction with Authentically Accurate Alternatives, and identify your Minimal Effective Response the smallest real action that brings emotional closure. By the end, you'll have a concrete process to stop reliving the same chapter and start writing a new one on purpose.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.