Bianca Stone

Bianca Stone is a Brooklyn based poet and visual artist.[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]

Bianca Stone
OccupationPoet, cartoonist
NationalityUnited States
Notable worksSomeone Else's Wedding Vows
SpouseBen Pease
Website
poetrycomics.org

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]

She also edits a small press, Monk Books, with husband Ben Pease in Brooklyn, New York. Stone and Pease were married in August 2014.[16]

References
  1. "Riverviews' 'Rebus' exhibit showcases poetry comics". BURG, March 5, 2014 Brent Wells.
  2. "Brevity is the soul of 'The Honest Pint,' a broadside on poetics". Los Angeles Times.
  3. "Tragic figures & top girls". Bay Area Reporter, Theatre, March 19, 2015, Richard Dodds
  4. "Bianca Stone Visiting Faculty". Vermont College of Fine Arts. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  5. "Interview with Bianca Stone". TELL TELL POETRY. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  6. "THOSE RAW IMPERFECT IMPULSES": Bianca Stone in conversation with Matt Bell". The Brooklyn Rail.
  7. O'Gorman, Josh. "Putting Life into Words". The Barre Montpelier Times Argus. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
  8. National Book Award for Poetry
  9. Harball, Elizabeth. "Drawing Verse". The Poetry Foundation. Interview. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
  10. "FEATURES: A Bianca Stone interview" By Alex Dueben The Comics Journal. August 24, 2012.
  11. "How Is a Greek Chorus Like a Lawyer". Slate.
  12. "A martyr gets another chance in 'Antigonick'". Chicago Tribune, (login required)
  13. "Antigone and the elusive ghosts of justice". J. Kelly Nestrick, The Globe and Mail, Monday, August 11, 2014,
  14. "Book Review: Someone Else’s Wedding Vows". Center for Literary Publishing
  15. "Someone Else’s Wedding Vows". Publishers Weekly.
  16. "The 5 Kinds of Poems You Hear at Weddings". by Maureen O'Connor, New York Magazine.
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