CONSCIOUSNESS IS ANATOMY: A Conversation with Anoop Kumar, MD
HEALTH / POETRY / CARE / CONSCIOUSNESS / DYAD / INFINITUDE / BODY MIND “Having spent most of his life exploring the philosophy of Advaita Vedanta and its implications on the relationships among consciousness, mind, body, and society, Anoop found that our understanding of these is outdated and incomplete. He’s spent the last several years speaking around […]
Inhabiting the Poem: Clepsydra, by John Ashbery
“Poetry is a voicing, a calling forth, and the lyric poem exists somewhere in the region–the register–between speech and song.” –Edward Hirsch “I made it out of a mouthful of air,” –W.B. Yeats I”m very excited for this new series on the Podcast, where I will be reading you a poems out loud! It is […]
The Unease of Self & Writing It Into the Book, with Justin Marks
It was really a pleasure to talk with Justin Marks about his new poetry book THE COMEDOWN from Publishing Genius. We discuss the complexities of memoir/poetry, sobriety, politics and most of all the huge unease of the self and how to explore that in a book of poetry. What I love about this book is […]
Constructing the Manuscript with Words & Memory: Julia Guez & Emily Brandt
Bianca Stone sitting on a creaky floor with a very good, sensitive mic, talking with the poets Emily Brandt & Julia Guez about constructing their first books of poetry, published in 2019 and 2021, respectively. Rambling about poems to the lull of traffic. Emily Brandt is a Brooklyn-based poet of Sicilian, Polish & Ukrainian descent. […]
Places Real & Imagined: Shanta Lee Gander
In this podcast, Bianca Stone talks with VT writer and multi-faceted artist, Shanta Lee Gander, about her new book GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues, from Diode Editions June 2021 * ORDER HERE “What does it mean to move away from the shadow of one’s mother, parents, or family […]
New Chapbook Series: Hyperspace by Zoë Ryder White
Bianca Stone talks with the poet Zoe Ryder White about her new chapbook, HYPERSPACE, out now from Factory Hollow Books! ORDER HERE! The poems in Hyperspace inhabit an invented liminal space into which the psyche is projected. The psyche drifts around there, wondering things. At first, I thought I was writing poems about solitude and […]
World Building, RPG & Poetry: With Ed Steck
“I am a spelunking, trekking, foraging, veteranmyco-mountaineer equipped with all-terrain-positioned outer textiles, skin-wrapping bodywarmers, o-hiking tools and gear, a fine hat. “ Ed Steck, From, “MycoMountaineer from At The Mountains of the Mycoverse“ Read the whole poem HERE: ASPHALTE MAGAZINE In this episode we’re very excited to be talking with the poet, Ed Steck about his […]
The Spontaneously Creative Mode: Poets & Therapists, Again
“It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.” ― Donald Woods Winnicott, Playing and Reality Bianca Stone & Leanne Ruell talk with the psychotherapist James […]
Trusting in Poetry for Teens & Girls: Diana Whitney
Bianca Stone talking with poet Diana Whitney about her new anthology “You Don’t Have To Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves” (Trigger warning, discussions of sexual assault) Stone and Whitney discuss the complexities of teenage trauma, love, friendship, sexuality, independence, the necessity of poetry and self-expression, and look closely at a few poems from […]
Standing Tall Even When the Room is Crooked: Arisa White Arisa White
Bianca Stone talking with the poet, Arisa White about her incredible new book “Who’s Your Daddy,” from Augury Books We discuss everything from the hybridity of memoir and poetry, to the epistolary documentarian forms of writing, to the incredible transformation that can happen in the time it takes to really create a manuscript. “Somewhere nearing its […]