About the Podcast

Ode & Psyche Podcast, (formally “Ruth Stone House Podcast“) is a podcast hosted by poet Bianca Stone, devoted to starting conversations around how poetry illuminates the mechanisms of human consciousness. Focusing in on elements of poetic theory, as well as psychoanalysis, philosophy, spirituality and the intricacies of our ever-changing understanding of the mind, this podcast explores honestly the lyrical and uncertain areas of being.

Ode & Psyche Podcast queries can be sent to: [email protected]  Before reaching out, please note that the podcast has shifted away from author’s book interviews, and we won’t be able to respond to requests for features. Although we do have guests to discuss themes in poetry around various topics, we rarely have unsolicited guests on the show. We DO love to hear from you with any responses to past episodes or questions you’d like Bianca to address!

Bianca Stone is the author of three poetry collections, most recently What is Otherwise Infinite (Tin House, 2022).  Her work has appeared in The New YorkerThe Atlantic, The Nation and The Brooklyn Rail. She is the current poet laureate of Vermont.

Reading with Rilke: The Eighth Elegy, Mathias Svalina

reading with Rilke: DIE SIEBENTE ELEGIE, The Cry

The Heretical Gift of Poetry with Alina Stefanescu

God In the Inward Dark: Rilke’s Radical Book of Hours

It’s Raining in a Dead Language: The Fragments of Franz Wright, with Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright 

Reading with Rilke: the Sixth Elegy, Ben Pease

A History of Poetry & the Social Function of the Poet with Ryan Ruby

Intimacy & The Plural Self, with Forrest Gander

Reading with Rilke: The Fifth Elegy, Alfred Corn

Reading with Rilke: The Fourth Elegy, Peter Gizzi

Reading with Rilke: The Third Elegy, Dara Barrois/Dixon

Reading with Rilke: The Second Elegy, Mark Wunderlich

Reading with Rilke: The First Elegy, Alina Stefanescu

How Poetry Speaks to Change: Ovid’s Metamorphoses with Translator Stephanie McCarter

A Place Beyond Shame: Ed Steck on the B Horror Film of Life

MARISA CRAWFORD, the DIARY & the 90s

Haunting Performances of the (un/discovered) Self: Dorothea Lasky

Poetry & Dreams with Mathias Svalina

Violence in Language & Finding Repair in Poetry: Paul Hlava Ceballos

Poetry & Dreams with Ana Božičević

THE HUMAN DRIVE: SOPHIE KLAHR ON POETRY, MEMORY, LOOKING & LISTENING

Muse of the Unconscious: mind, body & poetry

“Varied Expressions of the Very Same Thing” with Charif Shanahan

“Distance Avails Not” Hannah Zeavin on the History of Teletherapy & Reorienting Intimacy

Translation’s Strange Gifts + Speaking Patterns of Violence in the Lives of Women & World: Mira Rosenthal

Thinking, Reading and Imaging the Essay with Hilary Plum

Alone & Together in Poetry: Talking with Ben Fama about what it means to watch the relational

The Role of Psyche in Poetry (& Keats)

Writing From Within: The Language of Psychosis & Irreverent Narrators With Khashayar Mohammadi

Elisa Gabbert, The Beautiful Strangeness of Boredom & Fact

In the Kitchen Talking about Poetry & Process with Dara Barrois/Dixon

The Exquisite Humor & Truth of Sommer Browning

Ben Purkert & the Continuously Emerging Poet

Generous Space: Emily Kendal Frey

Skateboarding, Poetry & Psychotherapy with Matt L. Roar

Oral Traditions & Issues of Space: Shanta Lee Gander on Lucy Terry Prince

The Silent Theater of the Mind: Mark Leidner & Bianca Stone in Conversation

Episode 43: Talking Life & Poetry with Charles Simic

Episode 42: The Poems that Write Towards Nothing; Natalie Shapero

Episode 41: Sex, Poetry and Angels with Chariot Wish & Ben Fama

Episode 40: Love, Anger & Waves with Sarah Arvio

Episode 39: Poetry & Art with Anselm Berrigan

No One Can Dig Forever: Poetry, Childhood, Children, Music and More with Craig Morgan Teicher

The Self-States: Poetry & Therapy with Nathan Rice

Bianca Stone & Arisa White On Teaching & Play in Poetry

Matthew Zapruder: The Sound of Ordinary Language & Unfamiliar Selves

I Was Under a Spell: Talking with Sharon Olds about Poetry & Life

“Endanger yourself in your poems”: Mark Wunderlich & Shanta Lee Gander in Conversation

CONSCIOUSNESS IS ANATOMY: A Conversation with Anoop Kumar, MD

Inhabiting the Poem: Clepsydra, by John Ashbery

The Unease of Self & Writing It Into the Book, with Justin Marks

Constructing the Manuscript with Words & Memory: Julia Guez & Emily Brandt

Places Real & Imagined: Shanta Lee Gander

New Chapbook Series: Hyperspace by Zoë Ryder White

World Building, RPG & Poetry: With Ed Steck

The Spontaneously Creative Mode: Poets & Therapists, Again

Trusting in Poetry for Teens & Girls: Diana Whitney

The Anxiety of Art’s Capacity: John James, Candace Jensen & Bianca Stone

Speculative Destinations with the Poet Ted Dodson

Editing a Poetry Manuscript

The Nature of Duality in Poetry & Psychotherapy

A Sentence Unsaid: Julia Cohen

Why I Make Poetry Comics (This Podcast Won’t Tell You!)

A Conversation with Major Jackson

Poets in VT: Ben Aleshire, Modern Troubadour

Living Down the Tempers We Are Born With

Nor Am I Able to Use the Main Thrusters

Capable of Feeling

Can Poetry Save Us? Bianca Stone with Candace Jensen

08: Poetry, Comics & Runes with Catherine Bresner

Sharp Intuition & the Unexpected: an Interview with Ben Fama

Inhabiting the Earth: a Conversation with Three Poets

Episode V: Diana Arterian + Ruth Madievsky

Episode IV: RSF Book Club: Jessica Fjeld’s Redwork

Episode III: A Year of Love’s Grief in Poetry Comics

Episode II: The Elegy, Part I

Episode I: Dorothea Lasky