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.
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 Soc