Intimacy & The Plural Self, with Forrest Gander
Bianca Stone and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Forest Gander, look at the complexities of multiple selves, and the very DNA that shows our biologically mongrel being, informed constantly by the landscape in which it is situated. We continue our discussion of the inward-outward, and the material and immaterial reality we have been honing in on with […]
Reading with Rilke: The Fifth Elegy, Alfred Corn
Poet and translator Alfred Corn, joins Bianca Stone to discuss his stunning translation of Rilke’s, Die Fünfte Elegie.
Reading with Rilke: The Fourth Elegy, Peter Gizzi
“Angel and Puppet: then, finally, the play begins” Bianca Stone in conversation with poet Peter Gizzi discussing Rainer Maria Rilke’s “The Fourth Elegy,” (Edward Snow translation). We’re working our way though the entire Duino Elegies. In today’s episode we begin by discussing the elegy form and both Gizzi’s personal uses of the form, as well […]
Reading with Rilke: The Third Elegy, Dara Barrois/Dixon
Bianca Stone talks with the poet Dara Barrios/Dixon about Rilke’s “The Third Elegy,” from his famous Duino Elegies. Exploring more directly the poem and its language, Barrios/Dixon and Stone look at the magnificent poetic devices Rilke uses in his unique way, such as questioning, pathetic fallacy and fungibility of pronouns in the direct address. Join […]
Reading with Rilke: The Second Elegy, Mark Wunderlich
We continue our series on Rilke’s Duino Elegies with Edward Snow’s translation of The Second Elegy, talking with poet Mark Wunderlich. Wunderlich, who is currently at work on a book on Rilke, is deep research into the biography, which give us rich insight into creation of “The Second Elegy.” Beginning with what Wunderlich calls the […]
Reading with Rilke: The First Elegy, Alina Stefanescu
Rainer Maria Rilke has been hailed as one of the most profound and genius poets of the 20th century. His Duino Elegies in particular, in tandem with the Sonnets to Orpheus, are seen as the pinnacle of his poetic achievements. Whole books could be written on each elegy. Here, Bianca Stone joins with guests to […]
How Poetry Speaks to Change: Ovid’s Metamorphoses with Translator Stephanie McCarter
An incredible and in-depth conversation with Classical scholar, Stephanie McCarter about Ovid, Horace, greco Roman poetry, the tradition of translation, retelling of myth, and the movements of poetry across the ages. Ovid’s Metamorphoses continues to speak to our fundamental issues, but how, and why? What can this new translation tell us about not only Ovid’s […]
A Place Beyond Shame: Ed Steck on the B Horror Film of Life
Talking today about the work of creating a book from our private work on the self, reckoning with the most unbearable past; as it overlaps and interacts with the art in our lives, which in turn connects to the history of our relationship with art and others: Ed Steck, who spent much of his childhood […]
MARISA CRAWFORD, the DIARY & the 90s
What is the private space of a diary, what is the public space of a poem, and what does the psyche do in each? What is confession and what is memory in the poem, if it plays with the mechanism, or tone of Diary? How to explore and play the the personal expectations of those […]
Haunting Performances of the (un/discovered) Self: Dorothea Lasky
Dorothea Lasky and I discuss her newest collection of poetry The Shining, the deceptive nature of the “I” in poetry; the undiscovered language that haunts our very psyche–and of course a lot about Kubrick’s film adaptation of The Shining. Mactaggart Jewelry: use the code Psyche20 for 20% off! Louise Glück’s The Wild Iris Jung’s The […]