December 3: g emil reutter Features at Stone Soup Poetry

Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. On December 3, we welcome the return of Stone Soup alum g emil reutter. 

A writer of poems and stories and on occasion literary criticism, g emil reutter was born in Bristol, Pa., raised in Levittown, Pa. and has lived most of his life in of Philadelphia, Pa. A highly decorated member of the Railroad Police, he retired from a 26 year career in the patrol, anti-crime and criminal investigation division. Prior he worked as a steelworker, tea blender and a number of other jobs. A graduate of Neshaminy High School, he graduated from the New England Institute of Law Enforcement Management, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. He attended Temple University and Penn State University among others. His poetry and fiction have been widely published in the small and electronic press as well as numerous newspapers and magazines. Twenty-one of his collections have been published. He published The Fox Chase Review (2008 – 2015). He is currently a contributing editor at North of Oxford. 

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November 26: Stone Soup Poetry Online All-Open Mic

Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. On November 26, Stone Soup has one last open mic for the month before we plunge into Thanksgiving.

 

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November 19: john compton features at Stone Soup Poetry

Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. On November 19, john compton makes his Stone Soup feature debut. 

 

john compton (b. 1987), author of 17 books/chapbooks, is a gay poet/writer who lives in kentucky with his husband josh and their dogs and cats, and mice. his latest full length book is my husband holds my hand because i may drift away & be lost forever in the vortex of a crowded store published with Flowersong Press (dec 2024); his forthcoming full length book house as a cemetery will be published with Rebel Satori Press (March 2026). you can find his books, some poems and other things here. 

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The meeting ID is 880 7967 9182

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November 12: Ryk McIntyre Features at Stone Soup Poetry

Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. On November 12, we welcome back the legendary Ryk McIntyre.

Ryk McIntyre is an actor, content writer, historian, and amateur expert on Lizzie Borden and the famous murders. He is currently the senior tour guide at the Borden House in Fall River, MA, and an amateur paranormal investigator as well. Yes, the Lizzie Borden House is haunted. He is also a published author and performance poet with decades of experience. Tonight, he’s going to be the second thing. 

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The meeting ID is 872 4044 4404

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November 5: Stone Soup Poetry Online All-Open Mic

Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. On November 5, Stone Soup kicks off November with an all-open mic before a academical of features. 

 

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The meeting ID is 846 3754 4307

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October 29: Stone Soup's Trilogy of (not really) Terror

Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. On October 29, we welcome a Trilogy of (not really) Terror as our favorite California poets led by Don "My Birthday is on Halloween" Kingfisher.

Don Kingfisher Campbell received his MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles and taught Writers Seminar at Occidental College Upward Bound for 36 years. He's been a coach and judge for Poetry Out Loud, a performing poet/teacher for Red Hen Press Youth Writing Workshops, an L.A. Coordinator and Board Member of California Poets In The Schools, poetry editor of the Angel City Review, publisher of Four Feathers Press, and host of the Saturday Afternoon Poetry reading series in Pasadena, California. 

Marvin Louis Dorsey was raised in the San Fernando Valley and now resides in the high desert. He worked for decades as a kennel manager for a boxer rescue facility. Marvin has been writing poetry for over twenty years. He is the inventor of the poetic libretto. He has been published in the book Looking Out Of Alhambra and in these print and online publications: The San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, Spectrum, Poetic Diversity, and Four Feathers Press. He also has produced six books: Desert Prowl, Gathered Pieces of Broken Glass, Masquerades, Casual Conversations, The Poetic Librettos, and Snacky Snacks.

Carl Stilwell (aka CaLokie) is a retired teacher who taught for over 30 years in the Los Angeles Unified school District and participated in UTLA’s teachers’ strikes in 1970 and 1989. He was born during the depression in Oklahoma and came to California in 1959 and has lived here ever since. His pen name was inspired by the Joad's struggle for survival In The Grapes of Wrath and the songs and life of Woody Guthrie. His poems have been published in Altadena Poetry Review, Blue Collar Review, Four Feather’s Press, Lummox, Pearl, Prism, Revolutionary Poets Brigade--Los Angeles, Rise Up, Sequoyah Cherokee River Journal, The Sparring Artists,    ZZyZx WriterZ and The New Verse News.

Join us on Wednesday April 16 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 821 9367 6301

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October 22: Elliot Gray Boodhan Features at Stone Soup Poetry

Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. On October 22, Elliot Gray Boodhan is our next October feature. 

"A sad philosopher just trying to create something that matters, Elliot Gray Boodhan’s poetry is transformative. His work appears in new words {press}, Poet’s Choice and Queeah. Elliot’s debut chapbook to have survived is now available from Bottlecap Press. Check out his Instagram @apoetgray.

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The meeting ID is 880 9982 9864

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October 15: Stone Soup Poetry Online All-Open Mic

Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. On October 15 Stone Soup has one more all-open mic interlude for October.

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The meeting ID is 814 3166 8471

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