Tuesday, June 9th
Co-sponsored by Works/San José art and performance center!
Works/San José
38 S. 2nd Street, San José
7:00 p.m. (PDT)
Well-RED features a reading by poet Bianca Stone & a presentation of the film Ruth Stone's Vast Library of the Female Mind, by filmmaker Nora Jacobson!
Come visit and celebrate the new gallery space for Works/San José!
Register for your ticket to attend in-person at Eventbrite. Link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/631953729617
Consider attending Bianca Stone's poetry workshop on Sunday, June 11th at 12:30 p.m. at Markham House, 1650 Senter Road, San José. The workshop will be on the power of conversation in poetry, with both the self and reader. In our time together we will discuss poetry, how it has touched us as readers and writers, and how to better expand our writing, reading and listening practice. For more information and to register, visit link:
https://bit.ly/3B2gTSz
BIANCA STONE author of the poetry collections What is Otherwise Infinite (Tin House, 2022), The Möbius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House, 2018), Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Octopus Books and Tin House, 2014) and collaborated with Anne Carson on the illuminated version of Antigonick (New Directions, 2012). Her work has appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic and The Nation. She teaches classes on poetry and poetic study at the Ruth Stone House (501c3) where she is editor-at-large for ITERANT magazine and host of Ode & Psyche Podcast.
RUTH STONE was born in Roanoke, Virginia, in 1915 and attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She lived in a rural farmhouse in Vermont for much of her life and received widespread recognition relatively late with the publication of Ordinary Words (1999). The book won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was soon followed by other award-winning collections, including In the Next Galaxy (2002), winner of the National Book Award; In the Dark (2004); and What Love Comes To: New & Selected Poems (2008), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Stone’s compact lyrics are known for their accuracy, strangeness, and ability to speak to domestic concerns and metaphysical problems at once. Witty and wry, her poems strike “a tragic/comic register few other American poets have struck,” noted Chard deNiord in the Guardian. He described Stone’s work as “often reminiscent of Emily Dickinson’s double-edged verse, only in a more conversational style.” The poet Sandra Gilbert, an early champion of Stone’s, noted that the “special boldness” of Stone’s poetry is “at least in part a product of the pain and loss she’s had to confront, the perilous life she’s lived at the edge of comforts most other people of letters take for granted in our society … her extraordinary words are among those that will flow through the valley of our saying from here to there, from now to then, into the farthest reaches of the twenty-first century and beyond.”
NORA JACOBSON directs both documentaries and scripted films. After her first commercially released film, the documentary Delivered Vacant (New York Film Festival, Sundance), she went on to make two low-budget narrative films from her home in Vermont: My Mothers Early Lovers and Nothing Like Dreaming and the featurette The Hanji Box. Her 2022 mixed-media documentary Ruth Stone’s Vast Library of the Female Mind about iconic poet Ruth Stone (Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, Santa Fe International Film Festival, Reading FilmFest Audience Award, Middlebury New Filmmakers Film Festival, Boston Film Festival, Vermont International Film Festival, New Jersey International Film Festival, Literature in Cinema Film Festival Best Biography, Through Women’s Eyes International Film Festival), has been acquired for distribution by Icarus Films and for National Broadcast by American Public Television.