Bianca Stone, an award-winning poet and teacher from Brandon, has been named Vermont’s next Poet Laureate. Stone is the author of five books, including the poetry collections, What is Otherwise Infinite, which was winner of the 2022 Vermont Book Award. She co-founded the poetry-based nonprofit Ruth Stone House, where she teaches classes on poetry and poetic […]
Every book I am lucky enough to make and share is an attempt to speak and listen to the world, to my life, and have it speak and listen to another person’s life,” Bianca Stone, the winner of the poetry award, said at the ceremony. “How we do this, in poetry, is its mysterious power.
Who are we? Why are we here? What makes us alive? Scholars and artists have pondered and drawn inspiration from these core questions of identity for millennia and poet and visual artist Bianca Stone is no different. Her upcoming book of poetry, What is Otherwise Infinite due to be released on Jan. 1