Stone Soup Poetry meets every Monday from 7-9 p.m. every Monday at the
Out of The Blue Art Gallery, now at its new location at 541
Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts. On May 16, Stone Soup continues its forty-fifth anniversary with the return of Lee Litif and Mark Hänser.
The most infamous open miker at the venue. Lee Litif has been a regular contribution to the Stone Soup open mike since 1991. He's the author of several chapbooks, including Unpatriotic Flags and Abominating White Houses, Reckless Paella and Defecating Republicans, and Ultrasonic Amplifiers and Marshall Amps/Genital Wart Puking Rednecks. He's been described as "The love child of Gallagher and Larry Fischer with G.G. Allin as midwife" by Chad Parenteau.
Mark Hänser may have come from Neptune. Or more likely, he was a changeling left by celluloid fairies in a basket filled with orange blooms beneath a starry Southern California sky, later to be reared beneath barren maple trees underneath a Berkshire sky of Maxfield Parrish blue. The bastard love child of Judy Garland and Dr. Seuss, Mark Hänser — as a painter and a poet and a performer — draws his inspiration from pop culture, the tragically romantic, the romantically tragic, and the absurd. In his performing guise as the Whore of Babylon, Mark was a well-known presence in the millennial Boston poetry scene. But the Babylonian had to be slain as the millennium came, and Mark fled to Neptune. But now he's back, with more rhymes and tales from the ether!
