Bianca Spriggs
Affrilachian Poet and Cave Canem Fellow, Bianca Spriggs, is a freelance instructor of composition, literature, and creative writing. She holds degrees from Transylvania University and the University of Wisconsin. She is a Kentucky Humanities Council Lecturer and the creator and programmer of the Gypsy Poetry Slam featured annually at the Kentucky Women Writers Conference. Having lived most of her life in Kentucky, Bianca’s poems reflect the trials and triumphs of growing up as a woman of color in a border state.
A Diggable Planet: Project SEE Theatre brings Lonely Planet by Steven...
By Bianca SpriggsWe will leave some traces, for we are people and not cities—Ionesco, The ChairsSteven Dietz is lying to you. You think...
Kickstarter: The Guy Mendes 40/40 Project 12.09.2010
On the cover, Ace December 9 issue.Cover photo by Dan Silvestri.Other photos by Guy Mendes, courtesy Ann Tower Gallery and Phillip Jones. Forty Years/Forty...
Lexington Kickstarter Projects in this Week’s Ace
As part of this week's Ace coverstory on Guy Mendes's 40/40 project, additional Lexington Kickstarter projects are featured. Profiles of A Few Lexington Kickstarter...
A Musical Feast: Killer Meteor Plays On Your Heartstrings
by Bianca SpriggsTo hear Eric Smith tell it, he’s just this guy who loves to make music. If you’ve ever been to the...
November is National Novel Writing Month Meet the Lexington WriMos
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
—Franz Kafka
In 1999 twenty-one writers in the San Francisco area decided to binge-write...
National Novel Writing Month
This story appears on page 4 of the November 11 edition of Ace.BY BIANCA SPRIGGS A book must be the axe for the frozen...
The Late Lexington Artist Charlie Williams
BY BIANCA SPRIGGS
You old black gold, you’ve taken my lung/And your dust has darkened my home/And now that we’re old, you’re turnin’ your back/Where...
THE BIBELOTS OF CHARLIE WILLIAMS
by Bianca SpriggsYou old black gold, you've taken my lung/And your dust has darkened my home/And now that we're old, you're turnin' your back/Where...
Little/Gaines Series presents: Out of Body, photos by Kremena Todorova and...
BY BIANCA SPRIGGS What makes a woman feel like an assortment of disconnected body parts? For a time she might feel like a heart...
Holler If You Hear Me: Holler Poets
BY BIANCA SPRIGGSIn the midst of all the fanfare surrounding WEG, I daresay that this is the perfect opportunity to remind folks that for...