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.
Excerpt from Heart Stoner Bingo:
Instead of this going into this outer space screen saver, could I
go into Eileen Myles' head instead? The one where she gravitated from CBGB's to St. Mark's Poetry Project, that time that place here in NYC in the 1970's? Would it be a lot like going into outer space anyway? Or how about Dorothy Parker's head minutes after she wrote "men rarely make passes at girls who wear glasses"? Or how about going into the hand that was bitten that feeds you? How deep was the wound? Do I really want to see it? Or how about into the tunnel split open between the 7 in Long Island City and Grand Central? Will all the half-dead fish swim in? Will we make it soaking wet to work? Will the train burrow under the water to join the other disappeared trains? Instead of this going into space screen saver, can I go into that now? You cut me off yesterday, and now I'm ready to go into it. Are you ready for me to go into it?
