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 […]

Analog vs. digital; Vermont vs. Seattle; spirituality and poetry: a rich late-night conversation with the poet Catherine Bresner who has been one of the incredible women pushing the limits of language and image in her work with poetry comics. (Bonus feature of Odette podcast bomb!) Catherine Bresner is the author of the chapbook The Merriam Webster Series; the […]

Bianca Stone sits down with poet Ben Fama to discuss his newest collection DEATH WISH. Ben Fama is a writer based in New York City. He is the author of DEATHWISH (Newest York Arts Press, 2019), FANTASY (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015), and the chapbooks Odalisque (Bloof, 2014), Cool Memories (Spork, 2013), New Waves (Minutes Books, […]

Conversation with John James, Gabriel Don and Jasmine Dreame Wagner. John James is the author of The Milk Hours, selected by Henri Cole for the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize and published in June 2019 by Milkweed Editions. His poems appear in Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, Best American Poetry 2017, and elsewhere. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he […]

Diana Arterian DIANA ARTERIAN is the author of the poetry collection Playing Monster :: Seiche (1913 Press, 2017), the chapbooks With Lightness & Darkness and Other Brief Pieces(Essay Press, 2017), Death Centos (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013), and co-editor of Among Margins: Critical & Lyrical Writing on Aesthetics (Ricochet, 2016). A Poetry Editor at Noemi Press, her creative work has been recognized with fellowships from […]

“No sadness, just disaster,” (John Cage, talking about Jasper Johns’ “In Memory of My Feelings“) Jessica Fjeld is a poet, teacher, and lawyer. She is the author of Redwork (BOAAT Press, 2018) and the chapbooks The Tide (Pilot Books, 2010) and On animate life (Poetry Society of America, 2006), for which she received the PSA’s Chapbook Fellowship. In 2015, she was awarded […]