Break The Line: Recent Episodes
Rebecca Farivar
Break The Line is a monthly podcast where artists engage with contemporary poetry. The catch: the guests aren't poets. Poet-host Rebecca Farivar ("Correct Animal," "American Lit") chats with actors, comedians, memoirists, and more about themes in poetry related to their own field.
10: Web Series Based on Poetry Ram Devineni discusses his poetry-based web series Verse: A Murder Mystery.
09: Joshua Marie Wilkinson on “Poemfilms” Poet Joshua Marie Wilkinson discusses three of his “poemfilms.”
Stephenie Foster, the designer for Yew Journal, discusses how she pairs visual art with poetry for the monthly journal. Yew Journal: Visual Art Paired with Poetry
Novelists Mary Volmer and Michael David Lukas discuss short poems by Rebecca Wolff and Carol Snow. 07_ Novelists on Short Poems
Educators Michele Jonas and Monica Tirado discuss poems by Mary Karr and Will Hubbard. Educators on Memories from School
Duncan Wold and Evan Winchester, two members of the sketch comedy troupe Mission CTRL, discuss poems by Linh Dinh and Graham Foust. 04:Comedians on Funny Poems
Carolyn Agis does a tarot reading of poems from the Arcana section of Our Andromeda by Brenda Shaughnessy. The poems in that section are found in the following order: Card 5: Hierophant Card 12: The Hanged Man Card 0: The Fool Card 20: Judgment Card 14: Temperance Card 7: The Chariot Card 9: The Hermit […]
Memoirists from the San Francisco Bay Area discuss poems by Beth Ann Fennelly and Louise Glück. 02: Memoirists on Confessional Poems
Actors from the San Francisco Mime Troupe discuss persona poems by Ai and Holly Iglesias. 01_ Actors on Persona Poems