Alison Stone the author of Dangerous Enough (Presa Press 2014), Borrowed Logic (Dancing Girl Press 2014), From the Fool to the World: Poems in the Voices of the Major Arcana of the Tarot (Parallel Press 2012) and They Sing at Midnight, which won the 2003 Many Mountains Moving Poetry Award and was published by Many Mountains Moving Press. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, NYQ, Barrow Street, Poet Lore, and a variety of other journals and anthologies. She has been awarded Poetry's Frederick Bock Prize and New York Quarterly's Madeline Sadin award. She is also a painter and the creator of The Stone Tarot. A licensed psychotherapist, she has private practices in NYC and Nyack. She is currently editing an anthology of poems on the Persephone/Demeter myth.

Other poems by Alison Stone in Verse Daily:
November 1, 2019:   "Graveyard Ghazal" "With prayer and song, I call to the dead...."
June 17, 2018:   "Emergency" (w/ Eric Greinke) "A siren blares down the highway..."
October 29, 2016:   "Amazon-Persephone After" "True, the first time I went willingly. What girl..."

Books by Alison Stone:

Other poems on the web by Alison Stone:
Two poems
"Poem Inspired by the Historian with the Loud Laugh"
"Boy on a Hothouse"
"Persephone After"
"Beneath the Beautiful"
"Timely Ghazal"
Three poems
"Ink Threads"

Alison Stone's Website.

About Caught in the Myth:

"The first poem in Caught in the Myth begins 'Every story starts in the body,' and indeed this collection embodies and voices classical, religious, and historical figures, fairy tale characters, and contemporary icons alike, from Medusa to Ivanka Trump, from Pandora to the prom queen, from Homer and Hadrian to Reeva Steenkamp. Stone imagines her way in and brings nuance and intimacy to her speakers. 'If my life can be no more / than surface, / let each surface shine,' her Midas vows. Medusa tells us 'Evil has its own loveliness,' a wounded Amazon that 'A woman is more than her injuries.' In other poems, Stone writes at the border between myth and apparent autobiography, as in a poem on Sisyphus, whose 'pointless pushing' is compared to her mother, who 'offered her body / to the surgeon's knife, made her chest / a port for the delivery of drugs,' all for 'a chance at six more months.' Each poem, in its way, releases a living voice from stone."
—Diane Seuss

"Alison Stone's Caught in the Myth provides a sharp rejoinder to the misogyny that has shaped western culture from the Hellenic world to the Trump era. As Stone herself notes in opening lines of this collection, "Every story starts / in the body." Stone's deftly-constructed poems anatomize narratives that begin in the female body, in the body politic, in the sculpted bodies of gods, goddesses, and emperors, and in the body of discourses that have been braided into our official and unofficial histories. In these pages, Ivanka Trump squares off against Pandora, while Olympian Gabby Douglas vaults over a re-envisioned Medusa. Caught in the Myth owes a profound debt to Anne Sexton's Transformations; like Sexton, Alison Stone knows how to transubstantiate the psychic pain of cultural conflict, personal struggle, and political injustice into the bread of poetry."
—Dante Di Stefano