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THE

PAPER

POET

Bianca Amira Zanella

I create a world of

collective compassion by

understanding my place in it

one poem at a time —

an adventure giving me 

a present moment

to cherish and choose —

a new dusty day

    noticing now

    and floating

    among daydreams —

Today, I am

       Poet.

       Artist.

       Healer. 

       Creative. 

       Innovator.

       Welcome  —  let's connect.

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                      MEET BIANCA:

                THE PAPER POET

Bianca Amira Zanella is a queer Vermont-based performance poet, artist, and advocate living on unseated Abenaki land.

She is the Poet-in-Residence at Phoenix Books, hosting an international monthly open mic. Her poems have most recently appeared in The Artful Mind, The Rutland Herald, The Mountain Troubadour, and The Reverie. Their poem films, sculptural poems, and poem paintings have also been on exhibit with PoemCity Montpelier, Merwin Gallery, Stone Valley Arts, SPACE: a Pop Up Art Gallery, and Surdam Gallery.

In 2019, Bianca acted as Wellness Coordinator for the Feminine Empowerment Movement Slam (FEMS) tournament based in Cambridge, MA, and founded "Infinite Lit: a night of spoken word poetry." She wishes to lift up her community via poetry. 

In 2020, Bianca founded The Paper Poet, offering healing poetic experiences to anyone experiencing suffering and continues to perform around the US and globally, including reading for the American Club of Brussels and competing at the Women of the World Poetry Slam. Bianca attended the Ruth Stone House 2021 Next Galaxy Poetry Retreat and was elected to the Presidency of Poetry Society of Vermont in 2022.

 

She continues to serve Vermont poets individually and partners with different organizations such as Social Tinkering, Come Alive Outside, the Henry Sheldon Museum, and The Mentor Connector. In 2022, Bianca completed certifications in WisdomVerse and Poetry as a Tool for Wellness with The Institute for Poetic Medicine under John Fox.   

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