Aaron Smith

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2,298 appearances 12 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 25 Aug

Aaron Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast · Queer Emergence · 8 Jun 2026 podcast

And Randy Schildz apparently went ahead and put that in as the theory, from what I understand. voice-verified

And this poor guy was vilified as the one who gave everybody AIDS and started AIDS in North America. voice-verified

Oh, killing patient zero, there's a documentary that came out in twenty nineteen that debunked it and his family like basically had to live off the grid and they were apparently very happy to know that that it's been debunked, but just how terrible and this poor guy just for being you know, sexually liberated and himself, you know, was blamed. voice-verified

And the yeah, and the sense that I get from the poem is that he let them study him too. voice-verified

So he was helping while still being vilified. voice-verified

And I looked up some of John's other poems online and there's a lot of stuff like like this sort of mixing text, and I think it will be a book two that you'll enjoy reading on the page and really get the full understanding. voice-verified

But I'm looking forward to it. voice-verified

It's called Retroviology or Retrovirology, and it was selected by Honore Fannon Jeffers. voice-verified

Mm. voice-verified

The one I want to read next is by a poet named Denise Froman, and she's a poet and performer from New York City. voice-verified

And I think it's interesting. voice-verified

Um she's the former women of world poetry slam champion, and she's performed from the Apollo to the White House. voice-verified

So I think it's really cool. voice-verified

And this poem uh is in the New York Times and it's called Lady Jordan. voice-verified

It didn't matter that I married the game or slept with a ball under my arm. voice-verified

Mom said girls don't hoop, they wear hoops. voice-verified

And around here's basinus chirped, it's always E two novio season, but beauty is a finger roll, a backdoor cut on the blacktop, a fadeaway jump shot, two seconds left on the clock, two. voice-verified

So what mattered was Danny Talkin' smack even though his teeth were out of order. voice-verified

This isn't the only history, but is the history of everything. voice-verified

The neighborhood boys who shot crooked never learned my name, so I played them twenty one, turned their ankles to jello, made their backs kiss the floor until they donned me Lady Jordan. voice-verified

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