Bianca Stone
Bianca Stone | |
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| Occupation | Poet, cartoonist |
| Nationality | American |
| Notable works | Someone Else's Wedding Vows |
| Spouse | Ben Pease |
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Bianca Stone is a Vermont based poet.[1] Her poems have appeared in literary magazines[2] and poetry collections, and her illustrations are a part of Anne Carson's project, Antigonick. [3]
Early life and education
[edit]Stone graduated from Antioch College with a BFA in Language, Literature & Culture, and completed an MFA in poetry at New York University in 2009.[4][5][6] Stone's grandmother, the poet Ruth Stone, was the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships,[7] the National Book Award for Poetry[8] in 2002, and remains a major influence in Stone's life.[9]
Career
[edit]Stone's poems have been published in Best American Poetry 2011, Conduit, and Tin House, among others, and she is the author of the chapbooks I Want To Open The Mouth God Gave You, Beautiful Mutant[10] (Factory Hollow Press, 2012), and I Saw The Devil With His Needlework (Argos Books, 2012). Her illustrations have appeared in a collaboration with former teacher, Anne Carson, entitled Antigonick.[11][12] This is both a printed book and a multimedia performance piece.[13]
Tin House Books published Stone's book, Someone Else's Wedding Vows, in March 2014.[14][15] Tin House also published her collection The Möbius Strip of Grief in 2018 and What Is Otherwise Infinite in 2022.[16][17]
She also edits a small press, Monk Books, with husband Ben Pease in Brooklyn, New York. Stone and Pease were married in August 2014.[18]
References
[edit]- ^ "Riverviews' 'Rebus' exhibit showcases poetry comics". BURG, March 5, 2014 Brent Wells.
- ^ "Brevity is the soul of 'The Honest Pint,' a broadside on poetics". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ "Tragic figures & top girls". Bay Area Reporter, Theatre, March 19, 2015, Richard Dodds
- ^ "Bianca Stone Visiting Faculty". Vermont College of Fine Arts. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
- ^ "Interview with Bianca Stone". TELL TELL POETRY. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
- ^ "THOSE RAW IMPERFECT IMPULSES": Bianca Stone in conversation with Matt Bell". The Brooklyn Rail.
- ^ O'Gorman, Josh. "Putting Life into Words". The Barre Montpelier Times Argus. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
- ^ National Book Award for Poetry
- ^ Harball, Elizabeth. "Drawing Verse". The Poetry Foundation. Interview. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
- ^ "FEATURES: A Bianca Stone interview" By Alex Dueben The Comics Journal. August 24, 2012.
- ^ "How Is a Greek Chorus Like a Lawyer". Slate.
- ^ "A martyr gets another chance in 'Antigonick'". Chicago Tribune, (login required)
- ^ "Antigone and the elusive ghosts of justice". J. Kelly Nestrick, The Globe and Mail, Monday, August 11, 2014,
- ^ "Book Review: Someone Else’s Wedding Vows". Center for Literary Publishing
- ^ "Someone Else’s Wedding Vows". Publishers Weekly.
- ^ Fried, Daisy (July 6, 2018). "Sex, Death, Suffering and Surrealism, in New Books of Poetry". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 12, 2022.
- ^ "'What Is Otherwise Infinite' asks for granular honesty in our search for meaning". NPR.org. Retrieved March 12, 2022.
- ^ "The 5 Kinds of Poems You Hear at Weddings". by Maureen O'Connor, New York Magazine.
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