Until looking up I saw myself like a cloud, like ectoplasm, like an angel among the branches of trees. Then peeling layer after layer I went to it letting go... Ruth Stone * * (I ripped this poem today, and saw it was its day) – at Center Rutland, VT

**Scholarships** for Financial Need Available Now @RuthStoneHouse Poetics of Matter August Poetry Retreat -- DM with any questions. ruthstonehouse.org/retreat/t…

New Episode w editor & poet David St. John on the collected Larry Levis @GraywolfPress David was a dear friend of Levis, & has carefully edited this comprehensive work. Mathias Svalina joins us, as a longtime reader of Levis @dreamdeliveryer @OdeAndPsyche podcast.ruthstonehouse.org/p…

Ruth Stone – at Center Rutland, VT

A new Patreon @OdeAndPsyche for anyone to support the podcast. *All* $ goes to 501(c)(3) @RuthStoneHouse Members have access to video, extra recordings, poems--even letters 💌sent by mail & letterpress broadsides made by my hand on the Vandercook Sp15 patreon.com/odeandpsyche?utm…

"I do not know what I hold more clearly in my mind: the pain of what I can never have, or the pain of knowing I have its equivalence, which is a shocking contrast, a kind of magnificent reality." aprweb.org/issue-index/2026-… buy issue for all poems🖤 honored to be among these poets

Erklär mir, Liebe! – at Center Rutland, VT

I dreamed the line: "DJ, leave me hidden!"👁️"Who Rules"? Celan asked in his poem. The song is given & we're revealed in the listening. Yet we're also given a place to be concealed. I don't know. Here's an episode on making a book of poetry @OdeAndPsyche podcast.ruthstonehouse.org/p…

🥀🖤 @RuthStoneHouse DM to reserve spot space limited IRL [What will I fit in a mere three hours we will see -- more to come on @OdeAndPsyche ] – at Center Rutland, VT

I serve as editor-at-large, but I am in the midst of expanding the next issues to include poetry criticism and essays. And we want more translation. DM with any ideas.

New ITERANT @RuthStoneHouse's poetry magazine is here! & it's🔥one of the best🙌 Poems by James Tate, Dara Barrois/Dixon, Cathy Linh Che, Tomaž Šalamun, Alina Stefanescu @aliner, Ryan Ruby, translations of Turkish poems by Enver Ali Akova. Enjoy free: iterant.org/ 🖤

Another poem from the book out next week... 🖤👁️ The Topography of the Unseen "See the resident Übermensch unpinning tear from little spikes in the brain and leading them on gold chains to the eyelid...."

for those of us who have ascended back from the inferno into the tiny blizzards of reality to give poetry readings about it: 🖤

"Transform stamen on stamen, fill your interior rose" – at Center Rutland, VT

*Life* and *death*: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a drop of wine and throws himself into the purest flame. Rilke, Christmas, 1922 – at Center Rutland, VT

I have a poem in the @NewYorker to end our year. Heidegger saw memory as a gathering together of what calls out to be thought. This is the poem: containing inchoate fragments of existence, calling out to the reader to think-with & make whole. Hear me read: newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

here is her the little plot, unmarked in the traditional sense, at the @RuthStoneHouse in Goshen, VT.