Visiting Writer, Bianca Stone will give a featured reading at Vermont Studio Center in the Red Mill Building on May 6, 2026 at 8:00 pm ET. This event is free and open to the public.

Bianca Stone is a Vermont-based poet and scholar currently serving as Vermont’s poet laureate. Stone is the author of many books, including the poetry collections What is Otherwise Infinite which received the 2022 Vermont Book Award, and The Near and Distant World, (Tin House in January, 2026). Her poetry and writings have appeared widely in such magazines as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poets and Writers, and The Nation. In 2013 she co-founded the poetry-based nonprofit, Ruth Stone House, where she organizes events and retreats, teaches classes on poetry and poetic study, hosts the Ode & Psyche Podcast.

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The 2026 Visiting Writers Program is generously supported by The Rona Jaffe Foundation.

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