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Ode & Psyche Podcast

Bianca Stone

Conversations of poetry and poetics with Bianca Stone; the interior and exterior reality of language in verse.

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August 27 · length unknown
The Black Sun Part I. Nerval, Kristeva, Wright — (notes, “melody, rhythm, semantic polyvalency” for the depressive theist position: )
Some of the psychoanalytic returns, passing through the black hole sun. “But they were still asleep…” –Nerval. If you are here you can think through this knot with me, perhaps. (SO insane to put such a melody at the end….) B
August 19 · length unknown
Between the Idea & The Reality: TS ELIOT, the words information, the mystery of tone
Here is the famous T.S. Eliot poem, The Hollow Men. There is rain at dawn, and some birds. And one might pause over how the same words hold between poets, across continents, at different time periods; the rose in Eliot and the rose in Rilke, the tone of
July 10 · length unknown
Poetry & Its Education of Paradoxes
However well the poet bears the unclear word within themselves, they are dedicated to precision. To arrive without fully knowing one’s function in language, but utter faith in it nonetheless. An episode riffing off a lecture to some education retir
June 25 · length unknown
Silent friend[s] of many distances! In Switzerland with Rilke’s Grave
“Silent friend[s] of many distances,” I write to you from the mountains where Rilke wrote his final elegies and the whole of the Sonnets to Orpheus. I am thankful to the Dartmouth Leslie Center Faculty Research Fellowship funds for their support. Someone
June 18 · length unknown
On-Site with Rilke’s Muzot: a promo
“Silent friend[s] of many distances,” I write to you from the mountains where Rilke wrote in final elegies and the whole of the Sonnets to Orpheus. I am thankful to the Dartmouth Leslie Center Faculty Research Fellowship funds for their support. Listen t
May 24 · length unknown
The Poetry of Larry Levis, with David St. John & Mathias Svalina
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 and scholar of Levis’ work, and so I knew I needed him
March 22 · length unknown
Poetry’s Knowing Ignorance: with Joseph Acquisto
“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 (Bloomsbury). Friedrich Schlegel said tha
March 9 · length unknown
Two Poems, Two Poets: Paul Celan & Rilke
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 Us]”. https://www.mathiassv
February 9 · length unknown
Bianca Stone on her Newest Collection, The Near & Distant World
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, an
Nov 14, 2025 · length unknown
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
Aug 4, 2025 · length unknown
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!
Jul 13, 2025 · length unknown
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
Jun 30, 2025 · length unknown
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 fa
May 31, 2025 · length unknown
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 &#
Feb 12, 2025 · length unknown
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.
Jan 1, 2025 · length unknown
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
Dec 19, 2024 · length unknown
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
Oct 17, 2024 · length unknown
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
Sep 3, 2024 · length unknown
Reading with Rilke: The Fifth Elegy, Alfred Corn
Poet and translator Alfred Corn, joins Bianca Stone to discuss his stunning translation of Rilkes, Die Fünfte Elegie.
Jun 25, 2024 · length unknown
Reading with Rilke: The Fourth Elegy, Peter Gizzi
“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 way though the enti

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