Ode & Psyche Podcast

This a recording that happened after the poetry reading at Next Galaxy writers retreat, between Bianca Stone and Arisa White. Here we talk about what it means to be in a community of writers, to teach poetry, the containment of poetry and the classroom, and how we keep learning as teachers. Thanks to Leanne Ruell […]

Many exciting things happen in this conversation with Matthew Zapruder (forgive the audio!) starting with discussing self-inquiry in poetry, poetry as a reaction against power, providing a space for the self, but also others within the poem. What does it mean to be flat and logical in your language? What impulses in poetry and come […]

I’m always lucky to be with my dear friend and mentor, the poet Sharon Olds. I sat down with her during a visit to New York City, in her apartment on Washington Square, with my 4yo daughter, Odette in tow, and we discussed the complexities of thought and identity during the isolation of the pandemic, […]

I’m thrilled to have had a conversation with two incredible minds, at different stages of their career, Mark Wunderlich and Shanta Lee Gander. Mark talks how he almost became CIA, but thanks to “early luck” in having some amazing creative writing teachers (“This creature comes into the room–she was wearing all purple. Her winter coat […]

“Poetry is a voicing, a calling forth, and the lyric poem exists somewhere in the region–the register–between speech and song.” –Edward Hirsch “I made it out of a mouthful of air,” –W.B. Yeats I”m very excited for this new series on the Podcast, where I will be reading you a poems out loud! It is […]

It was really a pleasure to talk with Justin Marks about his new poetry book THE COMEDOWN from Publishing Genius. We discuss the complexities of memoir/poetry, sobriety, politics and most of all the huge unease of the self and how to explore that in a book of poetry. What I love about this book is […]

Bianca Stone sitting on a creaky floor with a very good, sensitive mic, talking with the poets Emily Brandt & Julia Guez about constructing their first books of poetry, published in 2019 and 2021, respectively. Rambling about poems to the lull of traffic. Emily Brandt is a Brooklyn-based poet of Sicilian, Polish & Ukrainian descent. […]

In this podcast, Bianca Stone talks with VT writer and multi-faceted artist, Shanta Lee Gander, about her new book GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues, from Diode Editions June 2021 * ORDER HERE “What does it mean to move away from the shadow of one’s mother, parents, or family […]

Bianca Stone talks with the poet Zoe Ryder White about her new chapbook, HYPERSPACE, out now from Factory Hollow Books! ORDER HERE! The poems in Hyperspace inhabit an invented liminal space into which the psyche is projected. The psyche drifts around there, wondering things. At first, I thought I was writing poems about solitude and […]

“I am a spelunking, trekking, foraging, veteranmyco-mountaineer equipped with all-terrain-positioned outer textiles, skin-wrapping bodywarmers, o-hiking tools and gear, a fine hat. “ Ed Steck, From, “MycoMountaineer from At The Mountains of the Mycoverse“ Read the whole poem HERE: ASPHALTE MAGAZINE In this episode we’re very excited to be talking with the poet, Ed Steck about his […]