POETRY/ART/NEWS/ BY BIANCA STONE
Monday, June 17, 2013
Warren Craghead on TheThe Poetry Comics!
There's a new poetry comic artist featured this month on The The, in infamous Warren Craghead. His wispy, thin lines, spindly text and use of white space makes for a stunning movement down the page. I'm so honored to have him on there! Make sure to check it out, and all his other amazing work on his website HERE.
Saturday, June 8, 2013
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RUTH STONE!
Today, on June 8th, Ruth Stone's 98th birthday, our inaugural fundraising campaign for the The Ruth Stone Foundation comes to a fitting close. While it says on the RocketHub page that we're just shy of our goal, in fact we exceeded it! Counting the generous checks that were sent in that went straight into our fiscal sponsorship account at Fractured Atlas, we've raised a $15,287.45!!!
I can't thank all my amazing friends and family for all their support in this--And especially co-foundation members Ben Pease and Chard DeNiord. It's an honor to grandma, and an honor to our family, and a testament to the incredible poetry community.
I'm kind of blown away. Thank you thank you thank you so much for your support--all of you who are too numerous to name here, you know who you are. ♥ ♥ ♥
Remember also, that if you didn't get a chance to give, you can donate at any time on our Fractured Atlas page: HERE.
In the Next Galaxy
Things will be different.
No one will lose their sight,
their hearing, their gallbladder.
It will be all Catskills with brand
new wrap-around verandas.
The idea of Hitler will not
have vibrated yet.
While back here,
they are still cleaning out
pockets of wrinkled
Nazis hiding in Argentina.
But in the next galaxy,
certain planets will have true
blue skies and drinking water.
--Ruth Stone
I can't thank all my amazing friends and family for all their support in this--And especially co-foundation members Ben Pease and Chard DeNiord. It's an honor to grandma, and an honor to our family, and a testament to the incredible poetry community.
I'm kind of blown away. Thank you thank you thank you so much for your support--all of you who are too numerous to name here, you know who you are. ♥ ♥ ♥
Remember also, that if you didn't get a chance to give, you can donate at any time on our Fractured Atlas page: HERE.
In the Next Galaxy
Things will be different.
No one will lose their sight,
their hearing, their gallbladder.
It will be all Catskills with brand
new wrap-around verandas.
The idea of Hitler will not
have vibrated yet.
While back here,
they are still cleaning out
pockets of wrinkled
Nazis hiding in Argentina.
But in the next galaxy,
certain planets will have true
blue skies and drinking water.
--Ruth Stone
Monday, June 3, 2013
pacificUV Band t-Shirts/Deluxe Package
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Alina Gregorian / Lonely Christopher / Monk Books / Updates
Ugh! It's been ages since I've done a post. So let's knock a few things out here.
For one, I featured Alina Gregorian on TheThe Poetry Blog's Poetry Comics section HERE.
This is a sample of her amazingness:
Alina is one of my dearest friends, and we've known each other for quite some time now. We met back in (2007?) when she was studying poetry at The New School's MFA and I was at the NYU MFA, and we ended up both having Matthew Zapruder teaching our classes. Thus, I have had the lovely honor of knowing her and her poems and her artwork, and I'm pleased to announce that Monk Books, will be putting out her chapbook Flying Bark this year! Hooray for Alina and for us! Here's a teaser:
Also we'll be publishing Lonely Christopher's full-length book of poetry DEATH AND DISASTER SERIES! That will be out this coming winter.
If you haven't checked out MONK BOOKS yet, PLEASE DO! We're rapidly expanding. We have two new books out and they're fantastic. Buy them now!
For one, I featured Alina Gregorian on TheThe Poetry Blog's Poetry Comics section HERE.
This is a sample of her amazingness:
Alina is one of my dearest friends, and we've known each other for quite some time now. We met back in (2007?) when she was studying poetry at The New School's MFA and I was at the NYU MFA, and we ended up both having Matthew Zapruder teaching our classes. Thus, I have had the lovely honor of knowing her and her poems and her artwork, and I'm pleased to announce that Monk Books, will be putting out her chapbook Flying Bark this year! Hooray for Alina and for us! Here's a teaser:
Also we'll be publishing Lonely Christopher's full-length book of poetry DEATH AND DISASTER SERIES! That will be out this coming winter.
If you haven't checked out MONK BOOKS yet, PLEASE DO! We're rapidly expanding. We have two new books out and they're fantastic. Buy them now!
ANIMAL SPIRITS
by Tom Healy
NOTES ON MELANCHOLIA
by M. A. Vizsolyi
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Monday, April 22, 2013
The Wonder Years: Entirely Depressed. But Thrilling!
Creative Compulsive Disorder and the Art of Journaling
Monday, April 15, 2013
THE RUTH STONE FOUNDATION IS HERE!!
INAUGURAL FUNDRAISING DRIVE!
I’m thrilled to announce the Ruth Stone Foundation s first-ever fundraising drive. When the celebrated and award-winning poet Ruth Stone passed away in the winter of 2011, she left her entire physical and literary estate in trust. Her wishes were that the three houses on the property be put towards the cultivation and furthering of poetry and the creative arts. The Ruth Stone Foundation has been created to make her wish a reality. In order to bring life back into Ruth Stone’s home in Goshen, Vermont, the foundation plans to transform it into a writing retreat and creative space.
While the houses were left in trust, Ruth Stone died without leaving money to maintain them. The houses are in disrepair and in great need of renovation. The estimates for restoration of these historical sites are over $200,000. The first step is a RocketHub campaign to raise a crucial $15,000 to get started on this exhilarating and ongoing project.
With this initial $15,000, we will be able to organize group cleanup projects to ready the houses for restoration, repair the plumbing and electricity to provide necessary accommodations for workers/volunteers (and visitors!), and provide a memorial for Ruth Stone who is buried on the land itself.
Without your help, we will be unable to proceed with rescuing the houses and land or creating a vibrant and innovative space for the future. Donations will breathe new life into a space that once harbored many poets and writers under one roof.
Thank you so much!
While the houses were left in trust, Ruth Stone died without leaving money to maintain them. The houses are in disrepair and in great need of renovation. The estimates for restoration of these historical sites are over $200,000. The first step is a RocketHub campaign to raise a crucial $15,000 to get started on this exhilarating and ongoing project.
With this initial $15,000, we will be able to organize group cleanup projects to ready the houses for restoration, repair the plumbing and electricity to provide necessary accommodations for workers/volunteers (and visitors!), and provide a memorial for Ruth Stone who is buried on the land itself.
- This fundraiser will allow us to work towards our long-term goals, which include:
- Renovating the house and the surrounding properties to stand as a dedicated, living commemoration to Stone, displaying her diverse and extraordinary life’s work and distinct personality
- Educating and inspiring visitors, offering a rare and intimate experience
- Providing space, time, and inspiration for creative guests of the house, located deep in the Green Mountain National Forest of Vermont
- Inviting the public on certain days for readings, tours, and multimedia performances
- Maintaining a physical space for artists to explore physical artistic work, through landscaping, gardening and sculpting
- Creating a haven for writers and artists to stay, work, and collaborate
- Small press publishing of books made by hand on a letterpress machine inside the house
Without your help, we will be unable to proceed with rescuing the houses and land or creating a vibrant and innovative space for the future. Donations will breathe new life into a space that once harbored many poets and writers under one roof.
Thank you so much!
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