June 26th, 2009 / 11:11 am
 Author Spotlight

Meet Bianca Stone

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Bianca Stone makes poetry comics. I’m really in love with them. The first time I met her she gave me a chapbook of a collaboration she made with Matthew Rohrer, and then last night, after we read together at Happy Ending, I was lucky enough to obtain two more sweet, sweet poetry comics: “The Secret Intimacies of Insects,” and “Book of Beasts,” a collection of her abandoned fragments, revisions, and drawings. I’m really excited to read these little books, and to get to keep them. I think you could do a lot worse with your Friday afternoon than make friends with Bianca’s work. Here’s her blog.  And here’s a sweet little poem, comic-less but that’s OK, “Watching Superman” in the current issue of elimae (which, btw, also features Mike Topp, our own comment-thread regular Darby Larson, fiction by Elizabeth Ellen, Michael Kimball interviewing David McLendon, and more. Maybe somebody else will post soon about the new elimae.)

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11 Comments

  1. June 26th, 2009 / 6:07 pm Mark Doten—

      Thanks for the intro Justin. Drawings on her blog are the tops. So, so jealous of writers who can also draw. And yeah, that sure is a sweet little poem.

  2. June 26th, 2009 / 2:07 pm Mark Doten—

      Thanks for the intro Justin. Drawings on her blog are the tops. So, so jealous of writers who can also draw. And yeah, that sure is a sweet little poem.

  3. June 26th, 2009 / 6:58 pm reynard—

      sweetness indeed, the world needs more comics… i mean, more good comics. way too much bad comics already.

  4. June 26th, 2009 / 2:58 pm reynard—

      sweetness indeed, the world needs more comics… i mean, more good comics. way too much bad comics already.

  5. June 26th, 2009 / 9:01 pm joe seife—

      why can (n’t) people only comment on certain pieces, not all–e.g. no comments on justin’s recent opium thing …

  6. June 26th, 2009 / 5:01 pm joe seife—

      why can (n’t) people only comment on certain pieces, not all–e.g. no comments on justin’s recent opium thing …

  7. June 26th, 2009 / 9:45 pm Nathan Tyree—

      I agree.

  8. June 26th, 2009 / 5:45 pm Nathan Tyree—

      I agree.

  9. June 26th, 2009 / 10:12 pm André—
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  11. September 9th, 2010 / 9:58 am HTMLGIANT / Round this–—

      […] Bianca Stone has a new chapbook coming out. Someone Else’s Wedding Vows is now available for pre-order from Argos Books. Tender, imaginative, wry and wise, the poems in Stone’s first collection take the reader from the bottom of the ocean to the orbit of the moon.  In between, the geography of the heart is mapped lyrically and unexpectedly. […]