Ode & Psyche Podcast

Bianca Stone & Leanne Ruell talk about their experiences working on a poetry manuscript, helpful practices and mindset tools, the mechanics of editing poetry, and provide fire for that dead-inside feeling about your own! If you’re working on your first book, second book, thesis, or chapbook, or simply interested in the idea you might have […]

Bianca Stone talking with James Barnes This conversation is ongoing and sprawling. There is a huge amount in common between modern psychoanalytic theory and poetry theory, particularly in the importance of negative capability, and the mutual experience needed between therapist and patient, poet and poem. In this episode I’m talking with James Barnes, a psychotherapist […]

Bianca Stone sits down and talks with the poet and essayist, Julia Cohen, about her newest chapbook, Good Timing & Gertrude Stein, and the intensity of the unsaid sentences in us. About the Collection Out of invisible gauze or membrane, some sentences construct a wall within you. A black plum riding on the tongue. These […]

Leanne Ruell (poet, Iterant Editorial Assistant and RSH Grant Writer) talks with Bianca Stone about her new essay on why she writes poetry comics. Sort of. At first I thought I should make this into two shorter digestible episodes out of this interview…but then I realized that if you’re going to listen to 30 minutes […]

Bianca Stone & Ben Pease talk with the acclaimed poet, Major Jackson, about his new book The Absurd Man, the complexities of self, the importance of readings and constructing communities in poems. *** Major Jackson is the author of five books of poetry, most recently, The Absurd Man (Norton: 2020). His edited volumes include: Best American Poetry 2019, Renga for […]

Our new series meeting poets living in Vermont right now. Bianca Stone sits down and talks with Ben Aleshire about what he’s been up to and where he’s been. Ben Aleshire, (who is currently quarantining in Burlington), a first generation college student, lived over a decade on streets around the world making a living writing […]

Vague transmissions come through the com-systems. A poem by James Tate, entitled, THE NAMELESS ONES, The Eternal Ones of the Dream: Selected Poems 1990 – 2010. Read by Walter Stone. Did you know some moths love sipping the tears of sleeping birds “With its proboscis extended, the dusty-winged creature was gently slurping up the tears […]

Poems and sounds for isolated humans and animals in the epidemic. We will be doing daily very short podcasts of poetry and thoughts, a balm for these difficult and unsure times. Love, RSH “WHAT IS A MAN IF NOT A SIPHON,” from Rome, by Dorothea Lasky, Liveright / Norton “KIERKEGAARD PROPOSES,” from Kindetotenwald, by Franz […]

How do poets and artists fit into to the political and environmental intensity of the moment? In this follow up episode to the Ruth Stone House January Newsletter, Bianca Stone and visual artist, writer, calligrapher, Candace Jensen, discuss the complexities of action through art. Original January Newsletter “Can Poetry Save Nature?” Facebook Post Matthew Burgess […]