Poetry. Gay & Lesbian Studies. HEART STONER BINGO explores that nebulous and mysterious ground between pop culture, fact, fiction, and desire. Its prose poems riff and sample like a DJ on the flotsam and jetsam of colloquialisms lifted from the newspaper and speculation, a la language poetry. A beat, a sing-song, rap and repetition. Investigating the ground of the unknown and cracks and crevices lurking beneath the reading surface: a former heavy metal fan gets philosophical, a working-class-raised-now-academic reconciles a past--it happens in ways un-pedantic or in your face. The quiet moments bubble to the cap of the poems and lead to a real-world, real-time, real-people sophisticated epiphany. An elevation of high and low culture done wrong and rite at the same time.

Author City: New York, NY USA

Stephanie Gray is a poet and an experimental filmmaker whose films often incorporate poetry. Her Super 8 film "Dear Joan" (about Joan of Arc) with a poem voiceover has screened internationally. Her poems have appeared in the on-line poetry journals Can We Have our Ball Back?, Unpleasant Event Schedule, and Lodestar Quarterly. She has read her work at the 2006 Poetry Project Marathon, and within the last year at Collective Unconscious and Glass House Gallery (live readings with her films). She was one of five finalists for a Constance Saltonstall Poetry Fellowship in 2000. In the mid-1990s she was active in the Portland poetry scene, winning the 1993 championship of the Portland Poetry Slam, which garnered a reading at the 1993 Artquake fest.