About the Podcast

Ode & Psyche Podcast, (formally Ruth Stone House Podcast) is a podcast dedicated to cultivating meaningful conversations about the history, function, and intricacies of poetry, illuminating the truths and paradoxes of human consciousness. In both monologue and conversation with poets and thinkers, Ode & Psyche looks deeply at the project of Poetry itself throughout time to the present. In exploring new and old poetry collections, Stone and guests look at mechanisms of poetic craft, as well as theory in poetics, philosophy, psychoanalysis theology and more.

This podcast is part of the Ruth Stone House, a literary organization based in Goshen, Vermont and online.

Ode & Psyche Podcast queries can be sent to: [email protected]

About the host:

Bianca Stone is a Vermont-based poet and scholar currently serving as Vermont’s poet laureate. Stone is the author of four poetry collections, most recently, The Near and Distant World (Tin House, 2026). Her poetry and writings have appeared widely in such magazines as The New YorkerThe Atlantic, Poets and Writers and The Nation. In 2013 with her partner the poet, Ben Pease, she co-founded the poetry-based nonprofit, Ruth Stone House.

Reading with Rilke: The Ninth Elegy, with Charles Dashings

Reading with Rilke: The Eighth Elegy, Mathias Svalina

Reading with Rilke: the Seventh Elegy

The Heretical Gift of Poetry with Alina Stefanescu

Disturbing the City of the Self: Rilke’s Radical Book of Hours

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

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