For the past few years, Stone Soup Poetry has met every Monday from 7-9 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery, at 541 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts. On November 20, Krystal Spencer helps provide one of our last features at the Out of The Blue at it's current location.
Krystal Spencer
Boston bred, vegan fed, Jesus loving Nubian Queen. Number five of seven children. Dislikes cilantro, Brussel sprouts, beets, cauliflower and mean people.
Allergic to almond butter. Loves food, roller skating, salsa dancing, volunteering, traveling, crossword puzzles, learning new languages, music and watching Jane Austen movies.
I began performing poetry publicly in 2013, although I’ve been writing since High School. A friend invited me to her Creative Writing class after school at Umass Boston. From there I began to write more and it became therapy for me to deal with the challenges of life, i.e, peer pressure (drugs, sex, alcohol), domestic violence, depression, heart break, fear, doubts, self-esteem issues, etc.
Now I realize it’s a gift that God has blessed me with. And I hope by sharing it, others may be blessed, healed and inspired.
Curtis Luke
The product of things forced to live together in
an imperfect harmony – and the beauty, confusion, and hilarity that results
from such an arrangement.
A mathematician at heart and an engineer by trade, I’ve
resorted to using words to express what I feel and observe culturally (being
Southern born to Caribbean parents and raised in the Boston suburbs),
philosophically (the nature of God, intellectual and emotional knowledge,
truth, the value of things) and emotionally (love, fear, hope, peace)
I typically organize my musing within a loose framework of
different mathematical disciplines including:
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Algebra (identity, uniqueness, ideals, ring
theory, field extensions)
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Combinatorics (counting principles and
partitioning, recurrence functions)
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Calculus (integration, differentiation,
evaluation)
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…and more!
I hold a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern in
2004 and when I’m not writing poems I love to travel to other cultures (near
and far), play and watch basketball, and search for the missing operating
instructions that should’ve come with the teenage girl in our house.
