Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast Fan Fic
The queens remake the endings of iconic poems, then play a round of "Gay or Homophobic?"
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Read William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud." Or hear it read by Dame Helen Mirren here.
Read Emily Dickinson's Poem 479 ("Because I could not stop for death"). James makes a reference to Linda Gregg's iconic "The Poet Goes About Her Business."
Hear Creeley read "I Know a Man" here and read the text of the poem here.
Here's the text of Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay." Watch Ponyboy in The Outsiders recite the poem here. Stay golden, Ponyboy.
In the episode, James recites the last line of Robert Pinksy's "Shirt."
We love this interview where Jericho Brown talks about line breaks (starting at the 7-minute mark).