🌜We’ve got our first online workshop on the calendar! On Saturday, June 15 from 2-4PM EDT, Perilune will host “How to Write Your Artist Bio,” a one-day professional development workshop for artists in all mediums. (1/) periluneedits.com/product/how-to…

This week on Breakingformpod, we: Play a game called Leading Ladies Sing a thankfully brief paean to penises Visit poets’ graves Hear Monica Ferrell read a poem by Michael Dumanis Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your edible arrangements.

You know how to whistle, don’t you? Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your good gay poetry podcasts.

This is one of the funniest, queerest episodes of Breakingformpod Aaron texted me after listening, “It’s so *dirty,” & you know what it takes for that filth monster to call something “dirty.” (*** “dirty” is Breaking Form parlance for “good”) Listen at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com

We continue the Breakingformpod Pride fun with this Golden Girls-themed episode featuring a ton of poets, including Brenda Shaughnessy @ Erin Belieu Catch it online breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your cheesecake.

Happy Publication Day to Lorcán Black whose PoetryBookSoc recommended collection ‘Strange Husbandry’ is published today! Order online & in bookshops now serenbooks.com/book/strange-h…

Go on tell everyone you know about this episode of @BreakingFormPod about secrets! Lots of poets in this episode, including Cathy Linh Che, Laura Kasischke, & Sharon Olds. Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your best-kept-secret-podacasts.

Next week we're opening for submissions of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. We can't wait to read your work! cherrytree.submittable.com/submit

Submissions are now open for creative nonfiction, poetry, & fiction! All accepted pieces are considered for our Literary Shade feature. cherrytree.submittable.com/submit

At MQR, we're open for submissions across genres through November 1. Send us your best work!

NEW POEMS! Four new ones in the amazing 50th issue of The Adroit Journal. Thank you to Diane Seuss for being the first reader of these. theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty/gu…

“I shrivel— / by / bleak / acronym, / boutique / gym, / Commie / leak, / Jimmy / hats, / metallic / antibiotic, / lost / chats / on a hill.” —Randall Mann, “Deal” Copper Nickel Copper Canyon Press

“My father / said I can’t do it, sent my brother inside / the porn store to buy what my mother / wanted.” —James Allen Hall, “Inheritance at Corresponding Periods of Life, at Corresponding Seasons of the Year, as Limited by Sex” theadroitjournal.org/issue-forty-se…

New episode is up, featuring poems by Kathleen Ossip Stacie Cassarino Being Colm Tóibín & Mei-mei Berssenbrugge. Check it out online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you get your hot stuff.

Our final poetry salon of the summer spotlights poems by Saúl Hernández, Margaret Walker, Esd Smith, & Quan Barry. Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com/1865753/154820…, or wherever you get your premium pours.

I’m thrilled to share my new epistolary #essay, published today Off Assignment—auspicioisly one day before my 45th birthday.! ❤️📚🌊

Issue 7 is here!! All subscription and pre-order copies were mailed out this morning, now on their way to 23 different US states and 9 countries around the world. Thank you all SO MUCH for your continued support, I know you’re gonna love this issue 💚

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Loved this Carl Phillips poem this morning on Academy of American Poets poem-a-day.

One of our more…raucous shows….. breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com