Ode & Psyche Podcast

Ruth Stone House, Bianca Stone
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Conversations in poetry & consciousness with Bianca Stone.

Episodes

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

    11/14/2025

    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 […]

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

    08/04/2025

    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! ‘

  3. Reading with Rilke: the Seventh Elegy

    07/13/2025

    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, […]

  4. The Heretical Gift of Poetry with Alina Stefanescu

    06/30/2025

    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 […]

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

    05/31/2025

    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 […]

  6. 02/12/2025

    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. […]

  7. 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 […]

  8. 12/19/2024

    A History of Poetry & the Social Function of the Poet with Ryan Ruby

    Talking with critic, novelist, poet and translator, Ryan Ruby about his new book Context Collapse, which investigates the secret history of poetry in a verse essay filled with wit and wisdom. Order the book here Check out the recording of the reading on Saturday, November 13th in The Flow Chart Foundation’s Flow Chart Space, celebrating […]

  9. 10/17/2024

    Intimacy & The Plural Self, with Forrest Gander

    Bianca Stone and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Forest Gander, look at the complexities of multiple selves, and the very DNA that shows our biologically mongrel being, informed constantly by the landscape in which it is situated. We continue our discussion of the inward-outward, and the material and immaterial reality we have been honing in on with […]

  10. 09/03/2024

    Reading with Rilke: The Fifth Elegy, Alfred Corn

    Poet and translator Alfred Corn, joins Bianca Stone to discuss his stunning translation of Rilke's, Die Fünfte Elegie.

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Conversations in poetry & consciousness with Bianca Stone.

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  • Creator
    Ruth Stone House, Bianca Stone
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2025
  • Episodes
    10
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2018 Ruth Stone House, INC
  • Show Website
    Ode & Psyche Podcast

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