April 24: Anne Elezabeth Pluto Closes Out National Poetry Month 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 April 24, Lily Annie Pluto closes out our National Poetry Month features with aplomb.

 

Anne Elezabeth Pluto grew up in Brooklyn, NY before it was cool. She is Professor of Literature and Theatre at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA where she is the artistic director of the Oxford Street Players. She is an alumna of Shakespeare & Company and was a member of the Worcester Shakespeare Company 2011 – 2016. She was a member of the Boston small press scene in the late 1980s and is one of the founders and editors at Nixes Mate Review and Nixes Mate Books. She has two full-length collections The Deepest Part of Dark, Unlikely Stories Press, NOLA (2020), and How Many Miles to Babylon?, Lily Books, (2023).

 

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April 17: Sue Savoy 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 April 17, multiple time feature Sue Savoy finally makes her way to our virtual podium.

 

Sue Savoy is a Boston area poet. She is a longtime regular at the Cantab lounge open mike and has featured there for the Boston Poetry Slam and across New England, including The Dirty Gerund, Slam Free or Die, and Stone Soup. Her book, T Poems: 1995-2024, a collection of poems about humanity via the lense of the MBTA, is in the works at Crooked Treehouse Press.

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April 10: Mary Ann Honaker 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 April 10, Mary Ann Honaker visits our virtual podium this National Poetry Month from her latest collection.

Mary Ann Honaker is the author of Becoming Persephone (Third Lung Press, 2019), and Whichever Way the Moon (Main Street Rag, 2023). Her poems have appeared in Bear Review, JMWW, Juked, Little Patuxent Review, Rattle.com, Solstice, Sweet Tree Review, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Beaver, West Virginia.

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April 3: Rich Boucher 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 April 3, Rich Boucher kicks off National Poetry Month.

Rich Boucher resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Rich has been a member of five poetry slam teams representing cities all across the U.S (Worcester, Mass. (1995 and 1996), Washington, D.C (2001)., Wilmington, Delaware (2007) and twice representing Albuquerque, New Mexico (2008 and 2014). In 2012 Rich was named to the first inaugural Albuquerque Poet Laureate Selection Committee for a two-year term, and his participation helped to select Hakim Bellamy, the City of Albuquerque’s first official Poet Laureate. In the same year, partially owing to his connections with the Delaware and Philadelphia art, music and poetry scenes, Rich appeared on the album, Dylan – Philadelphia pays tribute to a Legend, an album featuring various Philadelphia artists performing covers of Dylan songs to benefit Amnesty Inrnational and the End Hunger Network; Rich’s contribution to the album was a spoken-word rendition of Bob Dylan’s “My Back Pages.” 

Rich’s poems have appeared in The Nervous Breakdown, Neon, Malpais Review, Gargoyle, Menacing Hedge, Neon, Shot Glass Review, Bending Genres and Stink Eye, among others, and most recently has had work published in Unknotting the Line: The Poetry in Prose from Dos Gatos Press. He has erotic work forthcoming in Issue #3 of Pink Disco Magazine. Rich served for a year as the Associate Editor at the Albuquerque-based Elbow Room Magazine and is currently (since August of 2020) the Associate Editor of the online literary magazine BOMBFIRE, and he is the author of All Of This Candy Belongs To Me, published by Jules’ Poetry Playhouse Publications. Visit richboucher.bandcamp.com for exclusive, unpublished works.

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March 27: Linda Carney-Goodrich 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 March 27, we close out the month with poet Linda Carney-Goodrich reading from her debut collection.

Linda Carney-Goodrich is a writer and teacher from Boston. Her work has appeared in spoKe 10, Lily Poetry Review, The MacGuffin, Nixes Mate Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, Literary Mama, Muddy River Poetry Review, Wordgathering Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature, Gyroscope Review, and others. Her work has been translated in Spanish and published in Columbia and Mexico. Several of her poems have been displayed at Boston City Hall as part of the Boston Mayor’s Poetry Program. Linda is the Poetry Coordinator for the Menino Art Center in Hyde Park and founder of Home Scholars of Boston. Her first book of poetry, Dot Girl, was released in March from Nixes Mate Books.

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March 20: Stone Soup 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 March 20, we have an all-open mic before kicking off March with a double feature.

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March 13: Don Kingfisher Campbell 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 March 13, we welcome west coast poet Don Kingfisher Campbell, who is celebrating the release of his new collection, A Poem Is.

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. 

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March 6: Philip J. Curtis and John Chance Acevedo 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 March 6, we kick off the new month with a double feature by poetic partners Philip J. Curtis and John Chance Acevedo.

Author, spoken word artist, host, workshop facilitator, and mentor Philip J. Curtis is a native of Brooklyn, New York with roots in Jamaica West Indies, who arrived on the Colorado Springs poetry scene in 2006 bringing with him a brand of New York City straightforwardness and swag along with the sensual sun of Jamaica West Indies. Mr. Curtis is the Founder of Poetry 719. Phil aka Midnight recently published his first book entitled, What’s It All For? which covers over forty years of writing and performing. You can follow Mr. Curtis on IG midnightpoet00 or Philip J. Curtis 9n Facebook.

John "Chance" Acevedo has been reciting and hosting for over 2 decades. As the eldest of three, he receives inspiration from everyday life situations and most commonly uses a blend of comedy and drama to reflect his real- life experience. Chance has become a recognized feature performer in many poetry venues and universities. He has been known for hosting some of NYC’s most popular Open mics. Chance hosted The First Annual New York Hip-Hop Dance Convention at Sony Studios. He currently co-curates and hosts virtual Poetry Open Mics with The Dumping Grounds and Put it In Da Chat. Chance has been published in Raul Maldonado`s The Company We Keep, The BX FIles Contemporary Poetry from the Bronx and Me No Habla With Acento just to name a few. Since moving to Homestead Florida, Chance has mentored youth poets for The Dranoff International 2 Piano Foundation, PIano Slam where his mentees have one 1st place two consecutive years. As an educator he is an employability coach for young adults living with Autism. Chance is a founding member of the all Latino poetry troupe El Grito de Poetas a collective of diverse Latino and Latina poets dedicated to the craft and performance of modern poetry. Chance is also a board member for Latinos NYC. Chance`s confident stage presence makes him a performer to watch. Ladies and gentlemen the Author of his New collection of poetry Sketched of my Writes, your favorite Troll and self proclaimed A-Hole, John Chance Acevedo

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February 28: Stone Soup 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 February 28, we end February with an all-open mic before kicking off March with a double feature.

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February 21: Stone Soup 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 February 21, we kick off the new year with an all-open mic.

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February 14: Stone Soup's First (and possibly only) Open Mic Gathering of Lonely Bastards

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 February 14, we gather for a Valentine's Day open mic of a different time. 

Lonely bastards unite! Bring your anti-Valentines. Bring your anti-erotica. Bring your love poems and defy your own loneliness. Or wax nostalgic about the poems you wrote when you were lonely. Basically it's an hour to goof off before you either go out on a date or hide in your bed.

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February 7: Jamilla VanDyke-Bailey Features at Stone Soup Poery

 

 

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 February 7, Jamilla VanDyke-Bailey rings in the month of February with a long-awaited feature to celebrate the release of her new collection, the womxn.

Jamilia Danae Vandyke-Bailey is the daughter of Karyn Vandyke and Dana Bailey, and stepdaughter to Lita Bailey. She is the granddaughter of Kathryne Vandyke and Brenda Caney. she is the mother of Dana-Morrison Sellassie Awuye. She is a sister, aunt, cousin, friend, ex-girlfriend, and enemy. She is black. She is a poet. She is a writer. She is an educator. And she is womxn.

 

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January 31: Margaret Young 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 January 31, Margaret Young closes out January with a feature to promote her new work.

Margaret Young is the author of Willow From the Willow, Almond Town, and Blight Summer. She has translated two collections of haiku from the Spanish by Sergio Inestrosa. Two collections are forthcoming: a chapbook titled How Else Can We Know What’s Beautiful? and The Water Bear. She lives in Beverly.

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January 24: Stone Soup 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 January 24, we continue our break between features with an all-open mic.

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January 17: Stone Soup 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 January 17, we take a break between features with an all-open mic.

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January 10: Robert Fleming Features at Stone Soup Poetry

 

 

Stone Soup Poetry meets nearly every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. On January 10, Robert Fleming is our first feature of 2024.

Robert Fleming (b. 1963), the Doodleman, is a visual poet born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada who emigrated to Lewes, Delaware, United States. Robert follows his mother as a visual artist and his grandfather as a poet. He explores masculinity, sexual orientation, sin, virtue, and dystopia. 

He is influenced by the writers Robert Frost, Dr. Seuss, and the Beats and his digital graphics by the artists Salvador Dali and Andy Warhol. Since 2017, more than 600 of his works were published internationally in more than 200 print and online publications, art galleries and open mic features. His books are White Noir, an Amazon best seller, and Con-Way in 4 in 1, #4 by Four Feathers Press. A founding and contributing editor of Old Scratch Press, he is a Member of the Rehoboth Beach Writers Association. He is the winner of the 2022 San Gabriel Valley California-broadside and the 2021 Best of Mad Swirl poetry.

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January 3: Stone Soup 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 January 1, we kick off the new year with an all-open mic.

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