The Ruth Stone Foundation Presents:
A POETRY READING with visiting writers: Ben Fama, Bridget Talone, Joseph Caplan & Wendy Chin-Tanner!

These four incredible new voices in poetry will be reading from their recent books, which will be available at the reading. The Ruth Stone Foundation is dedicated to growing and enriching the poetry community in Vermont, bringing writers together from around the country. Please join us for a night of poetry, drinks, books, and conversation!

Hosted by Bianca Stone & Ben Pease at Wishbone Collective in Winooski VT.

Wishbone Collective
4 West Center Street
Winooski, Vermont

THE READERS:
Wendy Chin-Tanner is the author of the poetry collections "Turn" (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014), which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards, and "Anyone Will Tell You" (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019). She is a poetry editor at The Nervous Breakdown and co-publisher at A Wave Blue World, an independent publishing company for graphic novels. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals including the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series, RHINO Poetry, Denver Quarterly, The Rumpus, Vinyl Poetry, The Collagist, North Dakota Quarterly, and The Mays Anthology of Oxford and Cambridge. A trained sociologist specializing in race, identity, discourse analysis, and cultural studies, Wendy was born and raised in NYC and educated at Cambridge University, UK. She is the mother of two daughters and the proud daughter of immigrants.

Ben Fama is a writer based in New York City. He is the author of DEATHWISH (Newest York Arts Press, 2019), FANTASY (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015), and the chapbooks Odalisque (Bloof, 2014), Cool Memories (Spork, 2013), New Waves (Minutes Books, 2011), and Aquarius Rising (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). He is also the author of the artist book Mall Witch (Wonder, 2012). He is the co-founder of Wonder.

Bridget Talone is the author of THE SOFT LIFE (Wonder, 2018) and two chapbooks: Sous Les Yeux (The Catenary Press) and In the Valley Made Personal (No, Dear/Small Anchor Press). Bridget lives in Philadelphia, and is the recipient of a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Josef Kaplan is the author of Poem Without Suffering (Wonder, 2015), Kill List (Cars Are Real, 2013), and Democracy Is Not for the People (Truck Books, 2012). He lives in Philadelphia.