Our Spring AMP (Art, Music, Poetry) event features poetry from Bianca Stone and Ben Pease, music from Aesthesia Orchestra, and photography from Bram Towbin. Join us at the beautifully renovated Calais Town Hall for this afternoon event.
Free admission.
Photo: Daniel Schechner
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.
BEN PEASE is a poet and multi-disciplinary writer who is dedicated to fostering a more accessible literary community in Vermont and beyond. He is the author of the full-length poetry collection Chateau Wichman: A Blockbuster in Verse, a Dungeons & Dragons adventure module set on the Ruth Stone property called The Light of Mount Horrid, the hybrid illustrated edition Furniture in Space, and several chapbooks. He holds undergraduate degrees in Political Communication and Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. He is the Executive Director of the Ruth Stone House, Communication Coordinator at Otter Creek Engineering, and book designer for factory hollow press. He lives in Brandon, VT with his wife, Bianca Stone, and their daughter, Odette.
Photo: Bram Towbin
AESTHESIA ORCHESTRA is a spoken-word orchestra of changing sizes, with music composed by Stephen Callahan (piano) and words sometimes by Stephen and other times by Genese (the oratrix).
Photo: Bram Towbin
BRAM TOWBIN was born in New York City where he was raised by a mother who took photographs incessantly, which drove him crazy. He started taking pictures every day after her death over a decade ago.