Your favorite bridesmaids are (drunk and dis)orderly in this episode about writing for special occasions.

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SHOW NOTES

Here's a cinematic example of an epithalamion--an e.e. Cummings poem (from In Her Shoes).

James’s poem “A Monument for This Morning” appears on p. 4 here. It’s not supposed to be centered on the page. But oh well.

Signed copies of Cher’s book The First Time is a collectible, being sold here for $600. We did find copies in the more affordable $300-range too.

Mike and the Mechanics’s song “The Living Years” was their biggest hit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDA0Hecw1kHere's the video for the song.

The name “Shayla” was Charlotte’s secret baby name, and her friend Laney stole it for her baby. The episode appeared in Season 1, E. 10. Watch the scene, including a great bit from Samantha, here.

You can pre-order Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift, which includes work by both of us, as well as Carl Phillips, Diane Seuss, Joy Harjo, and others.

The queens are all lubed up and waiting for you in the badlands that is Breaking Form.

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SHOW NOTES

See Beckian Fritz Goldberg read poems here (at 1:04 mark)

Our friend Maureen Seaton died on August 26, 2023. Watch her read poems for Alaska Quarterly here. You can listen to our tribute episode to Maureen here, and our Breaking Form episodes with her here and here.

Anne and Nancy Wilson of Heart have actually reunited and will tour all over the US in 2024. Watch them sing with Kelly Clarkson here.

Here's a short interview with Ellen Bryant Voigt.

Here's a short interview and reading with Frank O'Hara.

Crisco is 113 years old. Watch this 1981 ad for it, featuring Loretta Lynn.

Throb Magazine can be found online at: https://www.throbmag.com/about

Listen to Ander Monson in this short poetic video "PREDATOR vs. Alien vs. Predator"

Here are three clips from Julianne Moore that we reference in the show:
Julianne Moore and Robert Pattinson (Maps to the Stars) talking about gloves and sex.
Maps to the Stars: bleeding on the $12,000 couch
Heather Graham and Julianne Moore doing coke together in Boogie Nights.

Go tell it on the mountain, darlings! Join the queens for a special Breaking Form report on the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

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SHOW NOTES

If you don't know about Absolutely Fabulous, which first ran from 1992-95, you're missing out. Catch Edina and Patsy's best moments here.

Mona van Duyn taught at Bread Loaf at least once--according to this poster.

Check out audio recordings of Bread Loaf readings and lectures here. I can also recommend the reading by Adrian Matejka & Paul Lisicky, both of whom read from work about celebrity icons (it was like a class on how to do that well).

The t-slur has been recognized as an offensive slur for at least 10 years, if not more, as this Advocate article about the slur indicates.

Daniel Mendelsohn's review ("A Striptease Among Pals") of Hana Yanagihara's A Little Life can be read here (sorry about the paywall!) and the whole dustup gets further press in this Guardian article.

For more information about and to apply to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences (there are other conferences in environmental writing and in translation), visit their website here.

Join the queens for this last poetry salon, where we highlight fabulous poets we haven't discussed much on the show.

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Settle in for this fourth poetry salon, a show as jam-packed with radiant pleasure as a dark room in Rehoboth.

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This Summer Salon has zero tan-lines and a ton of fabulous poetry!

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Who wears short shorts? Celebrate summer with the queens as we read poets we haven't focused on before.

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The Breaking Form girls are taking a little August break, but we still want to brighten your summer with poems!