"poetry [has existed] in every society, throughout all time...so it is one of those things that is coterminal with Human Being, and in a way, this is why AI represents a great deal of threat..." 👀 @_ryanruby_ Bianca Stone Ruth Stone House podcast.ruthstonehouse.org/podcast/ryan-r…

🚨New Episode! 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 Ode & Psyche Podcast Ben Pease Ruth Stone House podcast.ruthstonehouse.org/podcast/sixth-…

Here is Franz Wright -- as Yeats might have said, "echoing into life." Check out this new collection + audiobook in Franz's own voice. And follow Ode & Psyche Podcast for more on the book and how it came to be!

🚨I'm beyond honored to share this episode of Ode & Psyche Podcast!! Talking w brilliant German translator, Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright, about her late partner, Franz Wright's poetry & Foundlings Press' new chapbook of Fragments. Including audio of Franz 😱😭 podcast.ruthstonehouse.org/podcast/franzw…

Eric Kuelker James Barnes MSc., MA Totally agree. AND I've found that even "childhood sexual desires" is not a blaming of victim necessarily, but another ignored complex area of psyche: Jung pointed to this well, of BOTH inner/outer experience being traumatic; I appreciate how D. Kalsched articulates (below)

If you're looking for a short but intensive revitalization in your poetry (or short-form prose) writing, Caroline Kessler is back to teach a three-part workshop starting MARCH 17th ONLINE for Ruth Stone House!! Sign up by following the link below! classroom.ruthstonehouse.org/product/openin…

Deep analysis of poems, and important discussion of erroneous ideas of "productivity" and the "generative" One class dedicated to craft, three full workshops. Ruth Stone House classroom.ruthstonehouse.org/product/poetry…

"To sing of the beloved is one thing. Ah, but of the hidden,/culpable river-god that our blood is, quite another." Im back for some M-other things: Rilke spends good Freudian time it in 3rd elegy. Here's my conversation w friend & mentor Dara Barrois/Dixon podcast.ruthstonehouse.org/podcast/readin…

here's a poem for the masochists, and their rejection letters, in the thin air, on Mother's Day-- long-suffering Odysseus vying for the cold leftover breast turning in the soundless dark -- vimeo.com/campgardner/mo…

ahhhhh a poem that nearly killed me for two years straight: "ON THE NATURE OF THINGS" from my forthcoming book THE NEAR & DISTANT WORLD in a seriously stacked issue of the amazing *blush* in my continued existential obsession w nothing. Includes AUDIO 🔊 blush-lit.com/journal#/bianc…

Then I know that there is room in me For a second huge and timeless life. Rilke, from A Book for the Hours of Prayer I'm doing a little Ode & Psyche Podcast podcast today on the Bly translation of these little ones.... I just love Rilke's devotion to night consciousness in these.

🚨New Episode! Rilke’s first book A Book for the Hours of Prayer(Das Stundenbuch) Robert Bly trans. In these poems there's a fierce commitment to the inward gaze, specific to the darkness of self, active unconscious; explored radically via the devotional podcast.ruthstonehouse.org/podcast/godand…

What does this mean in the radical exploration of self to address God & "you" & self in one sweeping gesture? There's enormous power Rilke continuously comes to in the work of going inward, to “disturb” the cities of oneself; the libidinous force blown through us. Ode & Psyche Podcast

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1.) NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS! Concepts of “nothing,” absence, the unseen, immaterial–whatever it is or isn’t–has been a deeply important investigation in the poetic tradition. This rigorous retreat seeks... Ode & Psyche Podcast Ruth Stone House DreamDeliveryService classroom.ruthstonehouse.org/retreat/nothin…

In Greensboro, Vermont, Sun., July 6th, 3-4:30 p.m. Highland Center for the Arts Bianca Stone reads Ruth Stone and will have a conversation with the audience in an open Q&A

New episode w Alina Stefanescu on her incredible poems in My Heresies. We discuss the art of the heretical, absurdity of confession, the dialectics of fallenness, one's goodness; the barbaric self & more Alina Stefanescu Ode & Psyche Podcast Sarabande Books podcast.ruthstonehouse.org/podcast/alinas…

I went solo in a shorter new Episode on Rilke's *7th Elegy* (we're getting there!) on Ode & Psyche Podcast bringing in some Keats, Stevens, Levis & Lucretius: their cries are very much in the Rilkiean chorus of purely wooing larks. I love this poem so so much podcast.ruthstonehouse.org/podcast/sevent…

A tree rising. What a pure growing! Orpheus is singing! A tree inside the ear! Silence, silence. Yet new buildings, Signals, and changes went on in the silence. Rilke (trans. Bly) Maybe it's bc I know he had this book, but this poem feels very Lynchian "Silencio!" 👂