PUTNEY — Next Stage Arts Project continues its literary series, Next Stage Speaks, on Friday, Sept. 16, at 7 p.m., with Bianca Stone hosted by poet Chard DeNiord. There is a suggested donation at the door of $10.
Bianca Stone is a poet and visual artist and the author of several chapbooks, most recently “I Saw The Devil With His Needlework” (Argos Books), and the poetry-comic “I Want To Open The Mouth God Gave You, Beautiful Mutant” (Factory Hollow Press).
Her first full-length collection is “Someone Else's Wedding Vows” (2014).
Stone is the editor of Monk Books, a small press that publishes limited-edition chapbooks of poetry and art, and is also a regular contributor for The Poetry Blog. She lives in Brooklyn with her boyfriend, poet Ben Pease, and their cat. She is the chair of the Ruth Stone Foundation, an organization honoring the work of Stone's grandmother, poet Ruth Stone.
The Next Stage Speaks format includes poet Chard DeNiord conducting an interview with the featured guest about their career and recent works. The interview is followed by a reading and then a Q&A.
DeNiord is the author of five books of poems. A co-founder of the New England College MFA Program in Poetry, he works as a Professor of English at Providence College and lives in Westminster West.