The Dating Game

06 Oct 2025 • 29 min • EN
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The queens select some very poetic bachelors and decide where they"d read them on their date. Please Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron"s STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James"s ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. SHOW NOTES: Poets and poems mentioned include: "blessing the boats" by Lucille Clifton Joe Wenderoth"s book, Letters to Wendy, "June 3, 1997" Li-Young Lee, "This Room and Everything In It" Frank O"Hara, "Having a Coke with You"  Carolina Ebeid, "Reading Celan in a Subway Station" Raymond Antrobus, "Echo" "Why Whales Are Back in New York City" by Rajiv Mohabir Arthur Sze, "At the Equinox" Jim Whiteside, "Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature" Ari Banias, "The Feeling" Steven Duong, "Ho Chi Minh City" "Offerings Iphis Pledged as a Girl and Paid as a Boy" by Oliver Baez Bendorf  James Ciano, “Coney Island Baby”  Oak Morse, "A Portrait of Black Man Wrestling with His Secret Self (or, an inner cosplay ode to the singer Brandy" 

From "Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast"

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