Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast Supporting Actress Smackdown with Guest Manuel Muñoz
The queens get fictional, discussing the poetry equivalents of best supporting actresses with guest Manuel Muñoz.
Kay Ryan won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for her book The Best of It: New and Selected Poems (2010).
Randall Mann's Deal: New and Selected Poems is currently out from Copper Canyon Press.
Watch Olympia Dukakis's famous "Why do men cheat?" scene in Moonstruck.
When Anne Hathaway accepted the Critics Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2013, she said, “This is a bittersweet moment for me because I have this award, but you spelled my name wrong." She kind of forgot to thank the Broadcast Film Critics Association for the honor. “It is with an ‘e,’” she clarified, adding, “It’s probably in bad taste for me to point that out here.”
Watch Anne Hathaway's cupcake tutorial here.
The movie Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough is a 1975 American romance film, directed by Guy Green, starring Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, David Janssen, George Hamilton, Brenda Vaccaro, Melina Mercouri, and Deborah Raffin.
When Louise Gluck accepted her National Book Award for Faithful and Virtuous Night, she said, in part, "I'm astonished. My thanks to the judges for their mercy. Four times," she said, "This is a difficult evening. It's very difficult to lose. I've lost many times. And it is also, it turns out, is very difficult to win. It is not in my script," she said, to a general scattering of laughter in the audience. Watch it here.
Gary Soto was born April 12, 1952. He published The Elements of San Joaquin in 1977 through the Pitt Poetry Series, which released the book on February 1 that year—so he was actually 24! Read more about Soto here. He lists his address on his website, in case you want to write to him: https://garysoto.com
Heather McHugh read and gave a lecture in April 2009 at the University of Arizona's Poetry Center, which keeps a terrific audio/video recording archive. You can watch the reading here. The poems she reads are:
"The Gift"
"Not to Be Dwelled On"
"Granny's Song"
"No Sex for Priests"
"I Knew I'd Sing"
"Coming"
"Etymological Dirge"
"Glass House"
"From the Tower"
"Webcam the World"
"Hackers Can Sidejack Cookies"
"Philosopher Orders Crispy Pork"
"DOMESTIQUE"
watch McHugh give a lecture about the design and impact of the ends of poems, including close readings of powerful last lines including examples from the work of Emo Philips, Abd-ar-Rahman III, Su Tung-po, Anthony Hecht, D.H. Lawrence, Paul Valéry, Alan Dugan, Julio Cortázar, Louis Simpson, Samuel Beckett, and John Frederick Nims.
Watch Bette Davis chain-smoke on the Dick Cabot Show while praising Gladys Cooper.