Ode & Psyche Podcast

However well the poet bears the unclear word within themselves, they are dedicated to precision. To arrive without fully knowing one’s function in language, but utter faith in it nonetheless. An episode riffing off a lecture to some education retirees the other day & the function of the poet in the world. The Laureates out […]

“Silent friend[s] of many distances,” I write to you from the mountains where Rilke wrote his final elegies and the whole of the Sonnets to Orpheus. I am thankful to the Dartmouth Leslie Center Faculty Research Fellowship funds for their support. Someone in Berlin said to me, You’re going to where there are cow bells. […]

“Silent friend[s] of many distances,” I write to you from the mountains where Rilke wrote in final elegies and the whole of the Sonnets to Orpheus. I am thankful to the Dartmouth Leslie Center Faculty Research Fellowship funds for their support. Listen to the promo and follow link to follow on Patreon and hear it […]

We’re talking today with Mathias Svalina and David St. John about the new collected Larry Levis book Swirl and Vortex, which has just come out from Graywolf Press. Mathias has been a long-time reader and scholar of Levis’ work, and so I knew I needed him on here today. He’s been on this podcast many […]

“What kind of knowledge, if any, does poetry provide?” Joseph Acquisto, French language and poetry professor at the University of Vermont, asks in his incredible book, Poetry’s Knowing Ignorance (Bloomsbury). Friedrich Schlegel said that “one can say that it’s a distinguishing mark of poetical genius to know a great deal more than he knows he […]