At 7:30pm EST, on Thursday, September 29th, poet Bianca Stone will read her work as part of the 2022 Prout Chapel Reading Series, hosted by Bowling Green State University. This event will take place virtually, via Zoom.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bianca Stone is a writer and artist from Vermont. She has published several books of poetry and hybrid work including Someone Else\u2019s Wedding Vows<\/em>, The M\u00f6bius Strip Club of Grief<\/em>, and What is Otherwise Infinite<\/em>. In Vermont, Stone teaches on poetry and consciousness, and serves as Creative Director for The Ruth Stone House literary nonprofit and studio. Her poems, essays, and comics may be found in Poetry Magazine, Powder Keg, The Rumpus, American Poetry Review, Conduit<\/em>, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bianca Stone\u2019s work strikes a keen balance between existential woe and items of human scale; her precision, as well as her ability to forge significance through detail, never flags. Her poems frequently wrestle, as many poems do, with what it means \u201cto be,\u201d though Stone\u2019s work sets itself apart from others examining the same questions by nature of its careful attention to, and occupation of, varied existential positions. \u201cIt is said this planet came to be \/ when I was pulled apart,\u201d says God, in her poem \u201cGod Searches for God.\u201d And whether embodying God, barbers, or the ego-space of self-realization, Stone uses poetry as a lens through which she looks not at, but through<\/em> the self. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That said, these poems do not often linger in overtly heady territory, rooting their questions of belonging and meaningful existence instead in wine bottles, artichokes, and plastic sports apparel. \u201cI thought we fit well in the bottle from the wine club,\u201d Stone writes in \u201cEven Moon,\u201d \u201cthough I wasn\u2019t happy with the grape.\u201d It is in these always vivid details where Stone\u2019s eye for poetically expedient gestures toward existential questions is most apparent. However, she also expresses that a cost sometimes accompanies such rapt attention; in \u201cAgain Trying to Write a Poem About a B&W Photograph of a Wolf\u201d Stone writes that \u201cat times poetry fills me with loathing \/ for what cannot be left alone.\u201d Indeed, these poems peel scabs and worry at wounds, making meaning as much from what is in us as the little things which surround us, intriguing us and causing us pain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014Samuel Burt, MAR<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAnd of having felt<\/p>\n\n\n\n like a small event for so long\u2014having felt<\/p>\n\n\n\n like an artichoke, scraped away at with the front teeth,<\/p>\n\n\n\n one scale at a time, worked down<\/p>\n\n\n\n to the meaty heart, but with the ultimate<\/p>\n\n\n\n disappointment of meager flesh\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n of being thus, I bet I will live again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014From Bianca Stone\u2019s poem \u201cArtichokes\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Poems and biographical detail courtesy of poetrycomics.org) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At 7:30pm EST, on Thursday, September 29th, poet Bianca Stone will read her work as part of the 2022 Prout… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}