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.

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About the host:

Bianca Stone is a Vermont-based poet and scholar currently serving as Vermont’s poet laureate. Stone is the author of the poetry collections, What is Otherwise Infinite (Tin House, 2022) winner of the 2022 Vermont Book Award; The Möbius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House, 2018), Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Octopus Books and Tin House, 2014); The Near and Distant World (Tin House, 2026), and collaborated with Anne Carson on the illuminated version of Carson’s translation of Sophocles’ Antigonick (New Directions, 2012). Her poetry and writings have appeared widely in such magazines as The New Yorker, The 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, (in honor of her grandmother, the late poet, Ruth Stone) where she organizes events and retreats, teaches classes on poetry and poetic study and hosts the Ode & Psyche Podcast. Bianca Stone has been serving as an alternating visiting faculty member in poetry at Bennington College’s MFA program, UMass Amherst MFA, Dartmouth College, and Vermont College of Fine Arts.