Bianca Stone Explained
| Occupation: | Poet, cartoonist |
| Nationality: | American |
| Notableworks: | Someone Else's Wedding Vows |
| Spouse: | Ben Pease |
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
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
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]
External links
Notes and References
- http://www.newsadvance.com/the_burg/features/cover_story/riverviews-rebus-exhibit-showcases-poetry-comics/article_9f0ea09e-a484-11e3-b048-0017a43b2370.html "Riverviews' 'Rebus' exhibit showcases poetry comics"
- http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-brevity-is-the-soul-of-the-honest-pint-20141027-story.html "Brevity is the soul of 'The Honest Pint,' a broadside on poetics"
- http://www.ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=theatre&article=1123 "Tragic figures & top girls"
- Web site: Bianca Stone Visiting Faculty . Vermont College of Fine Arts . 29 May 2019.
- Web site: Interview with Bianca Stone . TELL TELL POETRY . 29 May 2019.
- http://www.brooklynrail.org/2014/05/books/those-raw-imperfect-impulsesbianca-stone-with-matt-bell "THOSE RAW IMPERFECT IMPULSES": Bianca Stone in conversation with Matt Bell"
- Web site: O'Gorman. Josh. Putting Life into Words. The Barre Montpelier Times Argus. December 16, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402113214/http://www.timesargus.com/article/20090426/FEATURES07/904260326. April 2, 2015. dead. mdy-all.
- https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2002#.Uq99u-KzKTk National Book Award for Poetry
- Web site: Harball. Elizabeth. Drawing Verse. The Poetry Foundation. Interview. December 16, 2013.
- http://www.tcj.com/a-bianca-stone-interview/ "FEATURES: A Bianca Stone interview"
- http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2012/09/antigonick_by_anne_carson_and_bianca_stone_reviewed_.html "How Is a Greek Chorus Like a Lawyer"
- http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/reviews/ct-antigonick-sideshow-review-story.html "A martyr gets another chance in 'Antigonick'"
- https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance/theatre-reviews/antigone-and-the-elusive-ghosts-of-justice/article19992316/ "Antigone and the elusive ghosts of justice"
- http://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/someone-elses-wedding-vows/ "Book Review: Someone Else’s Wedding Vows"
- http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-935639-74-9 "Someone Else’s Wedding Vows"
- News: Fried . Daisy . 2018-07-06 . Sex, Death, Suffering and Surrealism, in New Books of Poetry . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-03-12 . 0362-4331.
- News: 'What Is Otherwise Infinite' asks for granular honesty in our search for meaning . en . NPR.org . 2022-03-12.
- http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/08/5-kinds-of-poems-you-hear-at-weddings.html "The 5 Kinds of Poems You Hear at Weddings"
