Boston's weekly Stone Soup Poetry series and The University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast Review join forces in Roxbury's beloved Dudley Café for the release party of the Journal’s 9th issue on Saturday, October 27.
The
event will include an open mic hosted by Stone Soup Poetry’s Chad
Parenteau and a selection of Stonecoast contributors introduced by Lo
Galluccio, poet, memoirist, and former Cambridge Poet Populist who is
currently enrolled in the university's MFA program.
Features
listed will include Skoot Mosby, a Boston-based performance poet, as
well as issue 9 contributor Lee Karhs (creative non-fiction) and
Stonecoast Managing Editor Emily Bernhard (fiction).
Admission
is free. There will be delicious food available from the Café’s
kitchen. The event will go from 7:00 to 9:30 pm. Copies of the Review
will be on hand for sale. All are welcome!
The
Café is located at 45 Warren Street in Roxbury Center and is easily
accessible via numerous buses including the #1 bus in Cambridge.
Skoot
Mosby is a heavy hitting poet. As the Poetry Club president and the
face of Roxbury Community College, he has created many successful
events, such as No Filter, Man vs Police,” and What That Mouth Do. Skoot
is taking the poetry world by storm with his freestyle abilities on the
mic. Skoot has featured at Rapping With The Writers, Comic Con, Roxbury
Rocks, Art is Life Itself, Hope Inc., Verbalization, Lizard Lounge, and
Stone Soup. In a major addition to his features, Skoot has been a 3x
Semi finalist National Slam Team. Skoot is currently a member of the
Compassionate Poets and an assistant facilitator for Writers Without
Margins.
Lee Kahrs is the managing editor of The Other Paper,
a weekly community newspaper in South Burlington, Vt. with a loyal
following and a circulation of 10,400. She is a July 2018graduate of the
University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program, majoring in
creative nonfiction. Lee’s essays have appeared in Idol Talk: Women Writers on the Teenage Infatuations That Changed Their Lives, and the July 2018 issue of The Stonecoast Review.
She has completed a collection of essays titled Hair on Fire: Essays
From a Life, detailing her life as a 9/11 refugee and her move to
domestic life in Vermont. She is also working on a TV show, and a
nonfiction book about the dearth of Butch lesbian characters in modern
literature, film and television. Lee is currently seeking
representation.
Emily
Bernhard has written, produced, and directed documentaries that have
appeared on National Geographic, PBS, History, NOVA scienceNow!, and
American Public Television. She has led documentary expeditions to the
Britannic at the bottom of the Aegean Sea, the Lighthouse of Alexandria
in the Mediterranean, Loch Ness in Scotland and the Pyramids in Egypt.
She has captured intimate moments of life lived with autism and
Parkinson’s and recreated a Civil War Siege at Petersburg, Virginia. Her
documentaries have won a number of awards including two Cine Golden
Eagles, a Science Journalists Award and has won four regional Emmys®.
She is currently at work on her first novel and halfway through her MFA
program at Stonecoast.
