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 July 29, we conclude the month of July with former Boston poet Diana Saenz.
Diana Saenz has been writing since 1964, at the age of 16, when she attained her first typewriter by saving Green Stamps. This instinct for the advantage of technology has never waned. Neither has her commitment to the written word. Her life in the arts, surrounded by actors, playwrights, poets, dancers, artists, and writers, is the gift that writing gave her, and for this she is ever humble and grateful.Join us on Wednesday, July 29, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
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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 July 22, Stone Soup alum and local poetry legend Marc Goldfinger features for July.
Marc Goldfinger has been published by Ibbetson Street, the Aurorean, Pegasus, The Boston Poet, the Crooked River Press, Earth First! Journal, The New Renaissance, User’s News, Poiesis, The Porter Gulch Review, Rubber-Side-Down and many others. Goldfinger is also a member of the Liberation Poetry Collective and is included in the Liberation Anthology put out by the Trilingual Press. He is currently the poetry editor and a regular columnist for the Spare Change News, a paper put out for the benefit of homeless people. He is a member of The Road Scribes of America, a motorcycle club whose members have been published throughout the world. He also has his own website at http://marcdgoldfinger.outlawpoetry.com/ where he also has books and a down-load of Getting Fixed In South Carolina, a true story of an event in his life, arranged and performed by The Jeff Robinson Trio, for sale. Goldfinger is formerly homeless and has been a Vendor for Spare Change News since 1993.
Join us on Wednesday, July 22, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 832 0056 5037
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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 July 15, Stone Soup returns with special feature Mary Ann Honaker as she reads from her new colection.
Mary
Ann Honaker is the author of Becoming Persephone (Third Lung Press,
2019), Whichever Way the Moon (Main Street Rag, 2023), and Night is
Another Realm Altogether, on pre-release sale now with Sheila-Na-Gig.
Her poems have appeared in Bear Review, DIAGRAM, JMWW, Juked, Little
Patuxent Review, Rattle.com, River Heron Review, Solstice, Sweet Tree
Review, Tuskegee Review, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Beckley,
West Virginia.
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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 June 24, we trudge to the end of June and the early days of summer with special feature Marjorie Pezzoli.
Marjorie Pezzoli is a poet, visual artist, and silk painter.
Her
writings cover all emotions, from grief to joy. Since 2019 her poetry
has been curated in printed anthologies and online publications: A Year
in Ink, Complete the Haiga, dadakuku, Heterodox Haiku, Mad Swirl,
Palabra: Open Mic, San Diego Poetry Annual, Setu Journal, The Pan Haiku
Review, and others. In 2025, Marjorie was given the Setu Award of
Excellence for Art and Literature, and Program Coordinator for the Haiku
of America Virtual Conference.
She works on promotional material for the Southern California Haiku Group.
You may receive her weekly Monday morning offerings via email, or follow The Cosmic Gumball Machine
on Substack. You never know what will roll out, poetry, haiku, and
various art forms. Her daily ink sketching practice started on January
1st, 2026. Josh Datko of BitPunk.FM said, “Marjorie has some of the best punk-poking artwork around these parts.”
Beau,
the dog with Betty Davis eyes, and a visiting peacock are two of her
muses. Marjorie looks for words worth a thousand images. www.PezzoliArt.com - IG@marjorie pezzoli
Join us on Wednesday, June 24, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
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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 May 27, our fifty-fifth anniversary month concludes with the return of old friend Susan Deer Cloud.
Susan Deer Cloud, a mixed lineage Catskill Mountain Native, is the recipient of an NEA Literature Fellowship and two New York State Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowships. She has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies, and her most recent book is The Way to Rainbow Mountain. Since being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2017, she has gone roving in South America, Europe, and Alaska (hey, “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose”). She is on a quest, seeking human beings who embody the original name for her Iroquois ancestors, the Shining People. She makes pilgrimages to places whose genius loci is still powerful in a beautiful and sheltering way. During this perilous time she knows freedom can be an easy word to toss around, but she is resolved to keep making a stand for the kind that sparks soaring creativity, tenderness, and love.
Join us on Wednesday, May 27, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
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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 May 20, Stone Soup's fifty-fifth anniversary celebration continues with returning poet Meg Smith.
Meg Smith is a writer, dancer, journalist and events producer based in Lowell, Mass. She is author of six poetry collections and one fiction collection, The Plague Confessor. She is a member of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac and creator of Poe in Lowell, honoring Edgar Allan Poe's three visits to Lowell. She was nominated in 2025 for the Stanley Kunitz poetry medal.
Join us on Wednesday, May 20, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 817 6566 1275
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Doug Holder is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press, arts editor for The Somerville Times, and on the Board of Directors for the New England Poetry Club, as well as the Friends of the Longfellow House. Holder teaches creative writing at Endicott College, and taught college writing at Bunker Hill Community College for many years. For over 30 years he ran poetry groups for psychiatric patients at McLean Hospital and was the president of Stone Soup for one year. ( late 1990s). His poetry and prose have appeared in the Lowell Review, Worcester Review, Rattle, Cafe Review, and many other places. The "Doug Holder Paper Collection" is housed at the University at Buffalo. His latest book is the Essential Doug Holder(Big Table Books).
Join us on May 14 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
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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 30, Stone Soup closes out National Poetry Month with a special feature by returning performer Toni Rose.
Who is Toni Rose? Well, that depends on who you ask. Trouble to some,
Faithful friend to others, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Victim, Survivor,
Lover, Fighter, Champion, Confidant, Artist, and Poet. Toni’s poetry has
a strong emphasis on the struggles of life. She paints a picture with
words that can be heart wrenching truths. Toni Rose is the founder of
The Blue Rose, a movement that empowers others to find their voice,
speak up and be heard. Toni ‘Blue’ Rose is a spoken word artist who
became a maters level clinician who believes in Healing Through Art
Therapies. Toni pushes through the dark times, sometimes stumbling,
sometimes doubting, but never gives up hope and never gives up the
fight. Those that are willing can listen and feel that glimpse into her
soul with a gritty, real, heart wrenching and perfect in its
imperfection and purpose.
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Carl Stilwell (aka CaLokie) is a retired teacher who taught for over 30 years in the Los Angeles Unified school District and participated in UTLA’s teachers’ strikes in 1970 and 1989. He was born during the depression in Oklahoma and came to California in 1959 and has lived here ever since. His pen name was inspired by the Joad's struggle for survival In The Grapes of Wrath and the songs and life of Woody Guthrie. His poems have been published in Altadena Poetry Review, Blue Collar Review, Four Feather’s Press, Lummox, Pearl, Prism, Revolutionary Poets Brigade--Los Angeles, Rise Up, Sequoyah Cherokee River Journal, The Sparring Artists, ZZyZx WriterZ and The New Verse News.
Join us on Wednesday April 16 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
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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 19, our virtual podium welcomes north shore poet Lee Eric Freedman.
Lee Eric Freedman is the 3rd Poet Laureate of Swampscott, Massachusetts, United States (2016-2018). Since 2011 he's been affectionately entitled as the Renegade Poet Laureate of Swampscott (2011- Forever) When Lee isn't busy being any type of Laureate he leads the Tin Box Poets of Swampscott Workshop Group, co-hosts the online video podcast series In Other Words with his friend and SpoFest founder James Bryant, and regularly performs at open-mics and readings all over the place. He’s been published in numerous poetry anthologies and journals including publications from Netherlands, Ireland, India, South Africa, Bangladesh, and Scotland. In March of 2025, Lee’s poetry was published in the Vagabond Lunar Collection Anthology (Vagabond Books) that was included in the Lunar Codex Project and which landed on the moon aboard the Intuitive Machines/NASA Nova-C Lunar Lander Athena. Lee is the former host of First Friday Open Mic at ReachArts, Swampscott, his poetry’s been translated into American Sign Language and he’s a three-time winner of the Naomi Cherkofsky Memorial Poetry Contest.
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