If you bring along to Breaking Form Book Club an extra bottle of chardonnay, we'll read some poems from books you may have missed....

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
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Read more about Zando and Sarah Jessica Parker’s SJP Lit: https://zandoprojects.com/imprints/sjp-lit/

Read the entirety of Marilyn Chin's poem "How I Got that Name"

Read the title poem of Denis Johnson's collection The Incognito Lounge.

You can read more about the poet 'Annah Sobelman here, including a few poems.

Randall Jarrell's poem "Losses" appeared in August 1944 issue of Poetry Magazine. It is the title poem of his 1948 book (Harcourt). You can read Jarrell's NY Times obit here.

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Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
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You can purchase The Selected Shepherd edited by Jericho Brown directly from the press at: https://upittpress.org/books/9780822948216/

Check out Jericho Brown's website. Read the title poem from his Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Tradition here.

Reginald Shepherd's blog can be found online here. The specific posts on the AWP Panel "Gay Male Poetry: Post Identity Politics?" Can be found here:
Part 1
Part 2
Shepherd also wrote a post for Harriet, the blog for the Poetry Foundation, as he was getting ready to deliver the panel. You can read that post here.

Robert Philen's remarks about Reginald Shepherd's memoir were delivered at the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society in 2013. You can read them here.

In the show, Jericho references Frank O'Hara being gay/putting phallic things around his mouth. You can read O'Hara's poem "Homosexuality" here.

Richard Hugo's book of essays The Triggering Town was published in 1979 and reissued in 2010. You can read an essay from the book about "the triggering subject" here.

Read Reginald Shepherd's poem "Syntax."

Watch Shepherd read his poems at Berry College here. (~1 hour.) Poems include "Difficult Music," "White Sargasso Sea," "Slaves," "The Friend," "Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair," "Unused," "Tantalus in May," "Maritime," and "The Gods at 3am" (at the 30:55 min mark).

The queens love to love you--but it didn't always start out like that. Stick around for our game: "Pulitzer Prize Winning Titles from an Alternate Universe."

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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.

If you have library access, Ena Jung's 2015 article "The Breath of Emily Dickinson's Dashes" is worth the time.

Watch Bill Murray read two of the more obscure Wallace Stevens poems here.

Watch Jonathan Pryce read Wordsworth's "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge"

Watch James Wright read some of his iconic poems, including "A Blessing" (at 33:15--he calls the poem "a description") here.

John Ashbery's Flow Chart is a book-length poem comprising 4,794 lines, divided into six numbered chapters, each of which is further divided into sections or verse-paragraphs, varying in number from seven to 42. The sections vary in length from one or two lines, to seven pages. It includes at least one double-sestina (and one of them references oral sex between men).

Hear Linda Gregg read and be interviewed in 1986 (~25 mins).

Here's a quick book-trailer of C. Dale Young's The Halo, including a reading of one of the poems by Young.

Listen to a few minutes of Archibald Macleish's Conquistador here.

We can recommend Peter Maber's 2008 article about John Berryman's Dream Songs, "'So-called black': Reassessing John Berryman’s Blackface Minstrelsy" as a good starting place to think about the racism in that book.

Jazz Age poet, translator, and Poetry editor George Dillon was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1906.

At 24, Audrey Wurdemann is the youngest person to win the poetry Pulitzer (for Bright Ambush). Read a few poems here.

Read Robert P. Tristram Coffin's poem "Messages"

Here's Mark Strand reading "Sleeping With One Eye Open"

We reference Stevie Nicks (a Gemini) singing her iconic song "Landslide"

Winner of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, Robert Lowell’s The Dolphin controversially included letters from Elizabeth Hardwick (Lowell's former wife). The letters were sent to him after he left her for the English socialite and writer Caroline Blackwood. He was warned by many, among them Elizabeth Bishop, that “art just isn’t worth that much.”