Author: Bianca Stone

Bianca Stone is a writer and visual artist. She was born and raised in Vermont and moved to New York City where she received her MFA from NYU in 2009. She is the author of Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Tin House, 2014), Poetry Comics From the Book of Hours, (Pleiades, 2016), The Mobius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House, 2018) and the children’s book A Little Called Pauline, with text by Gertrude Stein. She collaborated with Anne Carson on the illuminated Antigonick, a book of Carson’s translation of Antigone (New Directions, 2012). Her poems, poetry comics, and nonfiction have appeared in a variety of magazines including The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, American Poetry Review and many others. She has returned to Vermont with her husband and collaborator, the poet Ben Pease, where she is director of programs for The Ruth Stone House, a literary nonprofit artist residency, letterpress studio and community poetry center.

Online Poetry Workshop Starting June 3rd!

Sign up before June 3rd! There are four spots left for this generative poetry workshop I’m teaching, “Creative Uncertainty” “Do not forget that a poem, although it is composed in the language of information, is not used in the language-game of giving information.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein SIGN UP HERE In this class, we will be workshopping […]

New Podcast: The Spontaneously Creative Mode: Poets & Therapists, Again

New Poem in New Yorker

“And the illusion of separateness,let it go back into remission.Just look at you—you looklike a resurrected child.A serious drama in a cosmic joke.” READ THE FULL POEM HERE

Podcast: Interview with the poet Arisa White

Podcast: Editing a Poetry Manuscript

Podcast: The Nature of Duality in Poetry & Psychotherapy

This conversation is ongoing and sprawling. There is a huge amount in common between modern psychoanalytic theory and poetry theory, particularly in the importance of negative capability, and the mutual experience needed between therapist and patient, poet and poem.

New Podcast!

Bianca Stone sits down and talks with the poet and essayist, Julia Cohen, about her newest chapbook, Good Timing & Gertrude Stein, and the intensity of the unsaid sentences in us.