Ode & Psyche Podcast

Ode & Psyche Podcast

Ruth Stone House, Bianca Stone

Episodes 82
Avg. Duration 43m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.6 (37)
Since Jul 2018
Latest Episode May 2026

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Conversations in poetry & consciousness with Bianca Stone.

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Recent Episodes

SWIRL & VORTEX: The Poetry of Larry Levis

May 24, 2026

We’re talking today with Mathias Svalina and David St. John about the new collected Larry Levis book Swirl and Vortex, which has just come out from Graywolf Press. Mathias has been a long-time reader…

Poetry’s Knowing Ignorance: with Joseph Acquisto

Mar 22, 2026

“What kind of knowledge, if any, does poetry provide?” Joseph Acquisto, French language and poetry professor at the University of Vermont, asks in his incredible book, Poetry’s Knowing Ignorance…

Two Poems, Two Poets: Paul Celan & Rilke

Mar 09, 2026

Bianca Stone talks with Mathias Svalina and Ben Pease about two poems, Paul Celan’s posthumously published book Schneepart, “I HEAR THE AXE HAS FLOWERED,” and “[God Talks to Each of Us as He Makes…

Bianca Stone on her Newest Collection, The Near & Distant World

Feb 09, 2026

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…

Reading with Rilke: The Ninth Elegy, with Charles Dashings

Nov 14, 2025

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,…

Reading with Rilke: The Eighth Elegy, Mathias Svalina

Aug 04, 2025

“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…

Reading with Rilke: the Seventh Elegy

Jul 13, 2025

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…

The Heretical Gift of Poetry with Alina Stefanescu

Jun 30, 2025

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…

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

May 31, 2025

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…

The Fragments of Franz Wright with Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright

Feb 12, 2025

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,…

Reading with Rilke: the Sixth Elegy, Ben Pease

Jan 01, 2025

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…

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

Dec 19, 2024

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…

Intimacy & The Plural Self, with Forrest Gander

Oct 17, 2024

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…

Reading with Rilke: The Fifth Elegy, Alfred Corn

Sep 03, 2024

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

Reading with Rilke: The Fourth Elegy, Peter Gizzi

Jun 25, 2024

“Angel and Puppet: then, finally, the play begins” Bianca Stone in conversation with poet Peter Gizzi discussing Rainer Maria Rilke’s “The Fourth Elegy,” (Edward Snow translation). We’re working our…

Reading with Rilke: The Third Elegy, Dara Barrois/Dixon

May 30, 2024

Bianca Stone talks with the poet Dara Barrios/Dixon about Rilke’s “The Third Elegy,” from his famous Duino Elegies. Exploring more directly the poem and its language, Barrios/Dixon and Stone look at…

Reading with Rilke: The Second Elegy, Mark Wunderlich

Apr 11, 2024

We continue our series on Rilke’s Duino Elegies with Edward Snow’s translation of The Second Elegy, talking with poet Mark Wunderlich. Wunderlich, who is currently at work on a book on Rilke, is deep…

Reading with Rilke: The First Elegy, Alina Stefanescu

Mar 04, 2024

Rainer Maria Rilke has been hailed as one of the most profound and genius poets of the 20th century. His Duino Elegies in particular, in tandem with the Sonnets to Orpheus, are seen as the pinnacle…

How Poetry Speaks to Change: Ovid’s Metamorphoses with Translator Stephanie McCarter

Dec 31, 2023

An incredible and in-depth conversation with Classical scholar, Stephanie McCarter about Ovid, Horace, greco Roman poetry, the tradition of translation, retelling of myth, and the movements of poetry…

A Place Beyond Shame: Ed Steck on the B Horror Film of Life

Dec 02, 2023

Talking today about the work of creating a book from our private work on the self, reckoning with the most unbearable past; as it overlaps and interacts with the art in our lives, which in turn…

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