# Rebecca Morgan Frank

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Digging for Poems

Our intrepid pansies talk  prompts--but first up it's a scandal of grave proportions.Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.   Buy our books: Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate.…

Horrible Men

The divas are telling the truth and shaming some devils in this tea-spilling episode about horrible men with wide readerships.Support Breaking Form! Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.   Buy our books: Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the b…

Pills, Portraits, Pessoa (with Lynn Emanuel / pt. 1)

The ladies pop a poetry pill with guest Lynn Emanuel in part one of the interview.Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.  Buy our books:     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate.   …

True and Actual (with Lynn Emanuel / part. 2)

The queens talk bad words and get Sharon Stoned with Lynn Emanuel in part 2 of the interview.Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Buy our books:     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassi…

Poppers

Get vasodilated with the queens in this episode filled with heady poetry games.Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Buy our books:     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate."     Ja…

Rebecca Morgan Frank on Louise Glück's "Snowdrops"

I talk with poet, editor, teacher, et. al. Rebecca Morgan Frank (Oh You Robot Saints!; Memorious) about Louise Glück's poem "Snowdrops" from her 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning collection The Wild Iris. Then we play a game called "Oh, You Robots Ain't S." Bonus: I forget the word "grammatical" exists, …

Madison Poet Cynthia Marie Hoffman On “Exploding Head”

Cynthia Marie Hoffman’s latest book of prose poetry, Exploding Head (Persea Books, February 2024) is described as an OCD memoir in prose poems. It chronicles her childhood onset and adult journey through obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), which manifests in fearful obsessions and counting compul…

Episode 252: The Weakening Pulse of Life

This episode explores new research, which has found that a magnetic field collapse may have triggered the emergence of animals on Earth. --- Read this episode’s science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘The Moon’s Magnetic Field Once Came from an Asteroid’ by Rebec…

1265: Gorgon Loves Googie's by Rebecca Morgan Frank

Today’s poem is Gorgon Loves Googie's by Rebecca Morgan Frank. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Yet, how do we refresh and enfold long-standing tales, figures, and voices such that they hold special meaning for us tomorrow? Today’s poem intertwines a figure…

Q & A

The ladies revisit the post-reading Q&A's most classic questions. Play along! 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 fro…