Ode & Psyche Podcast

In this podcast I’m talking with the poet Chariot Wish and their editor, the poet Ben Fama, about Chariot’s new chapbook called: a new heaven and a new earth, from Wonder. The poems in the book are intensely intimate, exploring sexuality, spirituality and the place of the self in a patchwork whirlwind of culture, society […]

like a spree of free association that comes to make meaning Talking with the acclaimed poet, Sarah Arvio about her beautiful new book. Cry Back My Sea, a book meditating on love and anger in the domestic relationship. Here, we discuss the musicality of words, their long associations and allusions; and writing the poems we […]

Talking with the New York City based poet, Anselm Berrigan about his amazing new collection of poetry, Pregrets–our relationships to visual arts, interacting with it in poetry, the uses of narrative in art and the assembly of a line of poetry. We go deep, we go far. Poetry entails:::::: “It’s…figuring out when specific conditions of […]

Riding Bareback on a Good Associative Leap! “But as soon as I notice how happy I am. how close to the sun, there I go plummeting into the background of the same same painting as ever.” Talking with the poet, Craig Morgan Teicher about his most recent collection of poetry from BOA, Welcome to Sonnetsville, […]

Well, this ongoing saga continues. I’m talking with the psychotherapist, Nathan Rice, who I connected with on Twitter this past year. What caught my eye on his feed was a clear appreciation for good poetry, and an eye for the overlaps in how poetry works, and how therapy works. We talk about these things in […]

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, E...

“It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.” ― Donald Woods Winnicott, Playing and Reality Bianca Stone & Leanne Ruell talk with the psychotherapist James […]

Bianca Stone talking with poet Diana Whitney about her new anthology “You Don’t Have To Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves” (Trigger warning, discussions of sexual assault) Stone and Whitney discuss the complexities of teenage trauma, love, friendship, sexuality, independence, the necessity of poetry and self-expression, and look closely at a few poems from [&#823...

The poet John James talks with RSH Letterpress Director Candace Jensen, and Bianca Stone, about his latest book MILK HOURS, reads new poems, getting into the anxiety of art’s capacity to effect social justice, or even the questions art and artist can ask in those emotions. About the Guests: John James is the author of […]

Bianca Stone and Ben Pease sit down with the poet, Ted Dodson, to discuss his new collection of poetry “An Orange” from Pioneer Works / Wonder Books BUY HERE!!! About “An Orange”“It would be too easy to say love vanished from the earth…” begins Ted Dodson’s An Orange, his thoughtful, experiential second collection of poems. It’s a provocation […]

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 [&#823...

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 […]