Stone
Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue
Art Gallery at 106 Prospect Street with an open mike sign-up at 7:30
p.m. On 13th, we welcome the poem and music of Peter Fulton.
Peter Fulton was born and raised in Massachusetts. He performed his first verse drama, Death of a Worn Man, accompanied by
guitar and harmonica, at Mount Hermon,
Massachusetts in the
mid-sixties. He made the rounds as a
singer-songwriter in Boston
coffee houses in the late 60’s. He has
written a collection of poems, Boulders in Ice; a novella with a CD of
songs, Silicon in Sand; a book of poems and photographs in collaboration
with sculptor McAlister Coleman, Figures.
In January,
2010, The Seventh Quarry Press published
Peter’s lengthy poem How to Carve
an Angel with a forward by Peter Thabit Jones, in English and Russian
translation, with a CD of original accompaniments by four master musicians. How to Carve an Angel was presented in
world premier in June of 2010 at the International
Poetry Festival in Swansea, Wales. In September 2010, Peter
hosted An Evening in Dylan Thomas’ Wales,
a presentation of The Seventh Quarry Drama
Group, on tour in New England, featuring Peter
Thabbit Jones’ The Boy and the Lion’s
Head and John Dotson’s Thumps or Waking up Dreaming in the 21st
Century, with Lisa Miroski, as well as readings at the Robert Frost Farm in Derry, New Hampshire, The Farmer’s Market in Lawrence Massachusetts, the Rockport Public Library in Rockport,
Massachusetts and The Grolier Poetry Book
Store at Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, including American
poets Ifeanyi Mankiti, Tino Villanueva and Mark Schorr.
The Seventh Quarry Poetry Press
has
recently published Peter’s interactive
ebook of poems, flying stones. Peter
has also written a yet-to-be performed verse drama, The Ordination.
