
Reading with Rilke: The Ninth Elegy, with Charles Dashings
14/11/2025
Bianca Stone is joined with the host of Moral Minority Podcast, Charles Dashings, for the penultimate moment: Rilke’s 9th elegy. The Ninth Elegy. The “last but one.” We are not actually at the end, yet the end has somehow begun, like a wave just as it begins to form into a visible wave, nearing the […]

Reading with Rilke: The Eighth Elegy, Mathias Svalina
04/8/2025
“With all its eyes the natural wo,rld looks out / into the Open. Only our eyes are turned / backward, and surround plant, animal, child / like traps, as they emerge into their freedom. Bianca and Mathias Svalina talk about Rilke’s 8th elegy! Find out more about Mathias Svalina here! ‘

Reading with Rilke: the Seventh Elegy
13/7/2025
Bianca Stone reads and discusses Rilke’s 7th Elegy, translation by Stephen Mitchell. Also some Wallace Stevens, Larry Levis, Lucretius, and more…. Not only all the dawns of summer–, not only how they change themselves into day and shine with beginning. Not only the days, so tender around flowers and above, around patterned treetops, so strong, […]

The Heretical Gift of Poetry with Alina Stefanescu
30/6/2025
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
31/5/2025
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 […]



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