Look to the Future: Ruth Stone Reading from Ordinary Words and Simplicity (Paris Press)

About the Author

Ruth Stone is the author of 13 books of poetry, for which she has received the National Book Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Shelley Memorial Award. She taught creative writing at many universities, finally settling at SUNY Binghamton. She lived in Vermont until her death in 2011. Bianca Stone is the granddaughter of Ruth Stone. She grew up in Vermont, often living with Ruth Stone in her farmhouse in Goshen, VT. Bianca Stone is a poet and visual artist. She is the author of the poetry collections Someone Else's Wedding Vows, Poetry Comics from the Book of Hours, and multiple chapbooks. She is a contributing artist for Anne Carson's Antigonick. With her husband, the poet Ben Pease, Stone co-edits the small poetry press Monk Books, and is executive director of The Ruth Stone Foundation, an organization dedicated to the furthering of poetry and the arts and preserving Ruth Stone's legacy and house in Vermont.