Ode & Psyche Podcast

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Conversations in poetry & consciousness with Bianca Stone.

  1. The Work of a Book of Poetry

    10 HR AGO

    The Work of a Book of Poetry

    There is a tension in the poet’s longing towards the complete book, wanting not to be too swept up in the commercialism, yet needing some kind of readership to engage with the poems. As poetry has evolved from the utterance from the mouth alone, and has changed and moved with technology over the centuries, consciousness […]

  2. Reading with Rilke: The Ninth Elegy, with Charles Dashings

    14/11/2025

    Reading with Rilke: The Ninth Elegy, with Charles Dashings

    Bianca Stone is joined with the host of Moral Minority Podcast, Charles Dashings, for the penultimate moment: Rilke’s 9th elegy. The Ninth Elegy. The “last but one.” We are not actually at the end, yet the end has somehow begun, like a wave just as it begins to form into a visible wave, nearing the […]

  3. Reading with Rilke: The Eighth Elegy, Mathias Svalina

    04/08/2025

    Reading with Rilke: The Eighth Elegy, Mathias Svalina

    “With all its eyes the natural wo,rld looks out / into the Open. Only our eyes are turned / backward, and surround plant, animal, child / like traps, as they emerge into their freedom. Bianca and Mathias Svalina talk about Rilke’s 8th elegy! Find out more about Mathias Svalina here! ‘

  4. Reading with Rilke: the Seventh Elegy

    13/07/2025

    Reading with Rilke: the Seventh Elegy

    Bianca Stone reads and discusses Rilke’s 7th Elegy, translation by Stephen Mitchell. Also some Wallace Stevens, Larry Levis, Lucretius, and more…. Not only all the dawns of summer–, not only how they change themselves into day and shine with beginning. Not only the days, so tender around flowers and above, around patterned treetops, so strong, […]

  5. The Heretical Gift of Poetry with Alina Stefanescu

    30/06/2025

    The Heretical Gift of Poetry with Alina Stefanescu

    Bianca Stone talks with the Romanian born poet, Alina Stefanescu about her incredible new collection of poetry, My Heresies, from Sarabande Books. We discuss the art of the heretical, the absurdity of confessional speaker, the dialectical push through fallenness and goodness; the barbaric and so much more. The Illiterate By William Meredith Alina Stefanescu was born […]

  6. Disturbing the City of the Self: Rilke’s Radical Book of Hours

    31/05/2025

    Disturbing the City of the Self: Rilke’s Radical Book of Hours

    Read along with the PDF available in the show-notes! Bianca Stone is back to discuss Rilke, taking a break from the Elegies to look back at Rilke’s first collection, A Book for the Hours of Prayer (Das Stundenbuch) from the Robert Bly translated “Selected Rilke.” In these poems there is a fierce commitment to the […]

  7. 12/02/2025

    The Fragments of Franz Wright with Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright 

    In this rich and searching episode, Bianca Stone talks with the translator Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright about her partner, the late poet, Franz Wright, focusing on a new chapbook from Foundling Press, At His Desk In The Past. This chapbook is the first U.S. publication of new work by Franz Wright since his death in 2015. […]

  8. Reading with Rilke: the Sixth Elegy, Ben Pease

    01/01/2025

    Reading with Rilke: the Sixth Elegy, Ben Pease

    The hero dominates the 6th elegy w his strange cosmic presence against the lovers; as a fig tree & its self-contained fruit/flower fuels Rilke’s sundry metaphor & crescendos into the Samson myth. Much is gleaned in the complex image of the fig tree & its strange fruit-flower-seed pod, that encompasses so much rich metaphor and […]

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Conversations in poetry & consciousness with Bianca Stone.

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  • Creator
    Ruth Stone House, Bianca Stone
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    70
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2018 Ruth Stone House, INC
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    Ode & Psyche Podcast

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