Touchstone Poems

The gals talk foundational poems--and they might just surprise you! 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. Quan Barry"s "The 1986 Apple Super Bowl Commercial as Intervention" refers to this iconic 1984 Apple Computer commercial aired during the SuperBowl. The Brigit Pegeen Kelly poem we mention is "Three Cows and the Moon" was originally published in New England Review in 1993. You can hear Kelly read the poem here (~10 minutes). It"s fucking worth it! William Stafford, "Traveling Through the Dark" was the title poem of Stafford"s 2nd book, published in 1962, which won the 1963 National Book Award. To look at some drafts of this poem, check out the Stafford archive online. Hear him read it here. Read more about Kevin Killian"s Selected Amazon Reviews.  And check out this brief (~1min) Instagram post of Killian reading from it here.  The poem by Linda Gregg that James mentions (with women standing in the trees knocking down figs) is "The Poet Goes About Her Business."  You can read Kate Daniels "War Photograph" here. For more about the photograph and the people in it, read this article. Read Nazim Hikmet"s "On Living" and learn more about Hikmet here.