The Heretical Gift of Poetry with Alina Stefanescu
Bianca Stone talks with the Romanian born poet, Alina Stefanescu about her incredible new collection of poetry, My Heresies, from Sarabande Books. We discuss the art of the heretical, the absurdity of confessional speaker, the dialectical push through fallenness and goodness; the barbaric and so much more. The Illiterate By William Meredith Alina Stefanescu was born […]
Disturbing the City of the Self: Rilke’s Radical Book of Hours
Read along with the PDF available in the show-notes! Bianca Stone is back to discuss Rilke, taking a break from the Elegies to look back at Rilke’s first collection, A Book for the Hours of Prayer (Das Stundenbuch) from the Robert Bly translated “Selected Rilke.” In these poems there is a fierce commitment to the […]
The Fragments of Franz Wright with Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright
In this rich and searching episode, Bianca Stone talks with the translator Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright about her partner, the late poet, Franz Wright, focusing on a new chapbook from Foundling Press, At His Desk In The Past. This chapbook is the first U.S. publication of new work by Franz Wright since his death in 2015. […]
Reading with Rilke: the Sixth Elegy, Ben Pease
The hero dominates the 6th elegy w his strange cosmic presence against the lovers; as a fig tree & its self-contained fruit/flower fuels Rilke’s sundry metaphor & crescendos into the Samson myth. Much is gleaned in the complex image of the fig tree & its strange fruit-flower-seed pod, that encompasses so much rich metaphor and […]
A History of Poetry & the Social Function of the Poet with Ryan Ruby
Talking with critic, novelist, poet and translator, Ryan Ruby about his new book Context Collapse, which investigates the secret history of poetry in a verse essay filled with wit and wisdom. Order the book here Check out the recording of the reading on Saturday, November 13th in The Flow Chart Foundation’s Flow Chart Space, celebrating […]
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 […]