BELLOWS FALLS — “Cocktail Continuum: An Evening of Expanded Poetics” will feature a reading by poets Seth Landman, Bianca Stone, and Ben Pease and what event organizers describe as “curated cocktails.”
Readings by the poets will begin promptly at 8 p.m. at Wunderbar, at 22 Rockingham St.
Stone, a writer and visual artist, was born and raised in Vermont and in 2007 moved to New York City, where she received her master's of fine arts degree from New York University.
She collaborated with Anne Carson on Antigonick, a 2012 book pairing Carson's translation of Antigone with Stone's illustration and comics. She is the author of the poetry collection Someone Else's Wedding Vows (2010), Poetry Comics from the Book of Hours (2016), and The Möbius Strip Club of Grief (2018).
Her poems, poetry comics, and nonfiction have appeared in a variety of magazines.
She has returned to Vermont with her husband and collaborator, poet Ben Pease, and their daughter Odette.
Pease is the author of Chateau Wichman (2017) and Wichman Cometh (2011). He holds degrees from Emerson College and Columbia University. He is an editor of Monk Books.
Stone and Pease run the Ruth Stone Foundation and letterpress studio in Goshen.
Landman, an English teacher and assistant boys basketball coach at The Putney School, is the author of the poetry collections Confidence (2015) and Sign You Were Mistaken (2013).
He received his Ph.D. in creative writing and literature from the University of Denver and a MFA degree from the University of Massachusetts.