Ode & Psyche Podcast

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Constructing the Manuscript with Words & Memory: Julia Guez & Emily Brandt Jul 04, 2021

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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 Jun 14, 2021

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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 Jun 08, 2021

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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 May 28, 2021

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“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 May 17, 2021

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“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 Apr 23, 2021

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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 Apr 21, 2021

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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 […]

The Anxiety of Art’s Capacity: John James, Candace Jensen & Bianca Stone Apr 13, 2021

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The poet John James talks with RSH Letterpress Director Candace Jensen, and Bianca Stone, about his latest book MILK HOURS, reads new poems, getting into the anxiety of art’s capacity to effect social justice, or even the questions art and artist can ask in those emotions. About the Guests: John James is the author of […]

Speculative Destinations with the Poet Ted Dodson Mar 23, 2021

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Bianca Stone and Ben Pease sit down with the poet, Ted Dodson, to discuss his new collection of poetry “An Orange” from Pioneer Works / Wonder Books BUY HERE!!! About “An Orange”“It would be too easy to say love vanished from the earth…” begins Ted Dodson’s An Orange, his thoughtful, experiential second collection of poems. It’s a provocation […]

Editing a Poetry Manuscript Mar 11, 2021

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Bianca Stone & Leanne Ruell talk about their experiences working on a poetry manuscript, helpful practices and mindset tools, the mechanics of editing poetry, and provide fire for that dead-inside feeling about your own! If you’re working on your first book, second book, thesis, or chapbook, or simply interested in the idea you might have […]

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