The 2nd annual Ruth Stone House Poetry Retreat, NEXT GALAXY, will be hosting two poetry reading to the public! The second will be an in-person reading with poets Bianca Stone and Mark Leidner at the East Middlebury Sarah Partridge Community Library. Join us for poetry and conversation.

Friday, August 12
7:30pm
East Middlebury Public Library
431 E Main St, East Middlebury, VT 05740

Q&A and book signing to follow.

Bianca Stone is the author of the poetry collections Someone Else's Wedding Vows, The Möbius Strip Club of Grief, and most recently What is Otherwise Infinite (Tin House, 2022). Stone's poems, poetry comics, and essays have appeared in a variety of magazines including The New Yorker, The Nation, The Atlantic, Poetry Magazine and Brooklyn Rail. She teaches classes on poetry and consciousness in Vermont.

Mark Leidner is the author of two feature films: the sci-fi noir Empathy, Inc. (2019) and the relationship comedy Jammed (2014). He is also the author of the story collection Under the Sea (Tyrant Books, 2018), the poetry collection Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me (Factory Hollow, 2011), and the book of aphorisms The Angel in the Dream of Our Hangover (Sator, 2011).

The Ruth Stone House is a literary nonprofit in Vermont, dedicated to the promotion of poetry and book arts.