Vermont: Bianca Stone
Episode 35 of The Laureate Project—on those remains of last year's goldenrod, pockets of what's wild, and the games we play to liberate ourselves.
“I too put poetry at the top of the hierarchy in terms of it expressing something really important about what it means to be a human.”
Bianca Stone is the first Poet Laureate in this series whose position is dappled with family legacy. She is a second-generation Vermont Laureate, having taken on the position 17 years after her grandmother, Ruth Stone, was appointed. This matrilineal echo is one of the inheritances that comes to sit at the heart of this conversation. The other is that of words and the timeless power of diligently crafted utterances—rediscovered and renewed with every generation—to bring our humanity to the fore.
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Featured Sound:
"Absent" | Martin Baekkevold | Courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com
"Mayhap" | Lotus | Courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com
"Balancé" | Franz Gordon | Courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com
"Dunlin" | Dust Follows | Courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com
"Ruth Stone, part 1, Distinguished Poets Series, February 1996” | Poetry Center at PCCC | youtube.com/watch?v=nwmIuX48Cbs