July 12: Len Germinara and Sarah Oktay Feature at Stone Soup Poetry

Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. Stay tuned for future announcements. On July 12, we feature poetry power couple Sarah Oktay and Len Germinara.

Sarah Oktay, Ph.D. is a scientist by nature and a poet by nurture. She co-founded Spoken Word Nantucket with her husband Len Germinara. For twelve years, they hosted an open mic that featured performances by some of the best poets in the country. She recently published the first of four volumes of essays on the natural history of Nantucket entitled Naturally Nantucket, the Sea: Volume One. She has edited and produced nine books of poetry for other authors and writing collaboratives. Sifting Light through the Darkness is her first book of poetry, her second one will be out in December of 2023. She also contributed two chapters to Women of the Wild Challenging Gender Disparities in Field Stations and Marine Laboratories. For the past two years she has given many performances around the country via Zoom.

Len Germinara has been writing, publishing, and performing his poetry for over four decades. For 17 years he ran spoken word venues in Massachusetts from south of Boston to Nantucket featuring some of the best poets in the country. Len has been a feature on WCAI-NPR in Massachusetts and Writers on the Air in Sacramento CA. Len has been published in numerous national journals and publications. His latest collection of poetry Back Story can be found on Amazon and his new collection Decamerooned is due out at the end of July. For bookings contact him at lensir@hotmail.com

Join us on July 12 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 883 3615 6340

Password: stonesoup 

 

July 5: Paul Skiff Features at Stone Soup Poetry

Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. Stay tuned for future announcements. On July 5, we begin our summer features with Paul Skiff with special host C.C. Arshagra

Paul Skiff creates beautifully complex multimedia forms of art that startle our expectations. Based on use of the live voice, incorporating exaggerations and distortions of technology, Paul’s unique combinations of writing, music, poetry and visuals invite human sensuality to flourish. Full of stark moods, loaded with intelligent laughter, led by the force of spoken words, his visions lull or exhilarate by turns packed with aesthetic surprise. Pervasive technology we take for granted, the microphone, the image projector, often barely keep up with the highly innovative forms Paul composes and sets off. His work puts forth a challenge for the dull everyday world to validate its claims on our notion of what is acceptable as the human condition. Through his highly pleasurable, aggressively innovative, charismatic work, Paul shows us respect for our own being can shatter the misdirections and mistaken priorities imposed upon the world we live in.

From 1980 when Paul first stood up in public to speak his writing as live art, through his 1992 sound design for the ground-breaking landmark recording of spoken poetry Nuyorican Symphony, in 20 years of wide ranging production work directing, managing and assisting events for organizations in the United States, Africa, Asia, and Europe, to his recent audio recordings, Paul’s cultural initiative reflects a unique commitment and leadership that translates into a formidable talent for touching audiences across social and cultural boundaries. Paul’s unique vision of a practical art advocates the re-humanization of all culture whether we are ready or not..

Join us on July 5  from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 865 0854 9186

Password: stonesoup

 

June 28: Stone Soup Online All-Open Mic

Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. Stay tuned for more announcements. For now, we welcome you to participate in a another online open mic tonight on June 28. Features for the next two weeks will be announced soon.

Join us on June 28  from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 856 3250 9002

Password: stonesoup

June 21: Stone Soup Online All-Open Mic

Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. Stay tuned for more announcements. For now, we welcome you to participate in a another online open mic tonight on June 21.

Join us on June 21 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 886 7158 8232

Password: stonesoup

 

June 14: Stone Soup Online All-Open Mic

Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. Stay tuned for more announcements. For now, we welcome you to participate in a another online open mic tonight on June 14.

Join us on June 14 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 815 2621 5009

Password: stonesoup

 

June 7: Stone Soup Online All-Open Mic

Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. Stay tuned for more announcements. For now, we welcome you to participate in a another online open mic tonight on June 7.

Join us on June 7 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 864 0880 4512

Password: stonesoup

 

May 31: Carol Weston and Margaret Wesel Feature at Stone Soup Poetry

Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. We will be meeting online for the foreseeable future. To celebrate the last day of Stone Soup's anniversary month, join us tonight on May 31 as longtime Stone Soup friends Carol Weston and Margaret Wesel give us a double feature online.

 

Carol Weston's history as a poet is linked to such figures as Jack Powers, John Wieners, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsburg, and Carl Solomon (to whom Allen Ginsburg's "Howl" was dedicated). Her credentials include being poetry editor of the Impressions Workshop. She was published in the Farleigh Dickinson Journal, alongside Donald Justice, Phillip Levine, and Anne Sexton. She is also the author of “What the Poet Expects of Himself,” an essay published in the Tufts Review. Married to John Galloway, science teacher at Endicott College, she taught for ten years at the Chestnut Hill School.

She read alongside Jack Powers and Allen Ginsberg in 1973 in the former Charles Street Universalist Church. In the Winter of 1983, she was asked by Powers to feature in Boston's City Hall along with John Wieners. On May 1, 2011, Carol performed her poem "Peace Fire" alongside musician Jon Voight for Stone Soup Poetry's 40th anniversary celebration and tribute to Jack Powers, Stone Soup's late founder. In 2013, she was one of the panelists for "Stone Soup Poetry: A Retrospective," presented at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival in Salem, Massachusetts.

Her poetry credits include The Farleigh Literary Review, BOMB, Stone Soup Anthology 2003, Spoonful, Stone Soup Presents: Fresh Broth and the anthology dedicated to John Wieners, The Blind See Only This World. Her chapbook, Spirals, Whorls Sutures, Septa, was published by Stone Soup Poetry in 1978.

Margaret Wesel was born in Pennsylvania and raised on the Island of Guernsey in the British Channel Islands. Having lived in the Boston area for decades, she is now involved in furthering the cause of general health. 

Join us tonight on May 31 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 861 4295 9441

Password: stonesoup

 

May 24: No Stone Soup This Week

  

Stone Soup is taking one more week off and should resume it's regular Zoom sessions next Wednesday on May 31 . Thanks for your patience with these unexpected delays.

May 17: No Stone Soup This Week

  

Stone Soup is taking time off this week and should resume it's regular Zoom sessions next Wednesday on May 24. Thanks for your patience. 

May 10: Stone Soup Online All-Open Mic

Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. Stay tuned for more announcements. For now, we welcome you to participate in a another online open mic tonight on May 10.

Join us on May 10 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 895 6478 5832

Password: stonesoup

May 3: Stone Soup Fifty-Second Anniversary All-Open Mic

As of May 1, Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. Stay tuned for more announcements. For now, we welcome you to participate in a celebratory online open mic tonight on May 3.

Join us on May 3 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 844 5894 2505

Password: stonesoup

 

April 26: Stone Soup Says Goodbye to the Assemblage Gallery and to Bil Lewis

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After this April Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery, located on 70(a) Sleeper Street, just across from the Barking Crab restaurant.  Appropriately, tonight on Wednesday, April 26 from 7:00 to 9:00, we will also be saying goodbye to Bil Lewis, who is departing the Boston/Cambridge area for a farm in Idaho.

Bil Lewis is a Computer Scientist and has worked in research and taught most of his life, most recently doing Genetics Research at MIT. He has taught at Stanford and Tufts Universities and worked for FMC, Sun Microsystems, and Nokia Data. Bil is a Past District 31 Governor (Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island), an Eagle Scout, a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, and a Patriotic Citizen of the United States. Bil is currently performing and teaching High School over Zoom as James Madison, 4th President of the United States. He is using his skills to talk about what is important in life.

 

Bil is the very epitome of sober, serious, introspective poetry.

(Last sentence is subject to a fact check.)

April 19: Stone Soup Online All-Open Mic

After this April Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. Stay tuned for more announcements. For now, we welcome you to participate in an online open mic on April 19. The final in-person gathering at the Assemblage will be on April 26.

Join us on April 19 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 890 5238 0824

Password: stonesoup

 

April 12: Stone Soup In-Person All-Open Mic

Stone Soup Poetry returns for an-inperson show on Wednesday, April 12 from 7:00 to 9:00 at the Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery, located in Boston on 70(a) Sleeper Street, just across from the Barking Crab restaurant. It will be an all-open mic night, and everyone is welcome.

Free admission but donations for features are appreciated.

April 5: Karen Friedland Features at Stone Soup Poetry

In addition to online gatherings, Stone Soup Poetry is now meeting in person every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. More gallery shows will soon be announced. On March 29, we will be joined online by feature Frances Donovan, who is celebrating the release of her new poetry collection. The next in-person gathering will be on April 12.

Karen Friedland’s poems have been published in the Lily Poetry Review, Nixes Mate Review, One Art, and others. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, received the 59th Moon Prize from Writing in a Women’s Voice, and had a poem hanging on the walls of Boston’s City Hall. Her books of poems are Places That Are Gone and Tales from the Teacup Palace. She lives in the West Roxbury neighborhood of Boston with her husband and three pets. Karen is living with incurable, inoperable ovarian cancer.

Join us on April 5 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link. 

The meeting ID is 814 4713 1214

Password: stonesoup

March 29: Frances Donovan Features at Stone Soup Poetry

Photo by Michelle Schapiro

In addition to online gatherings, Stone Soup Poetry is now meeting in person every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. More gallery shows will soon be announced. On March 29, we will be joined online by feature Frances Donovan, who is celebrating the release of her new poetry collection. The next in-person gathering will be on April 12.

Frances Donovan is the author of Arboretum in a Jar (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2023). Her chapbook Mad Quick Hand of the Seashore was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. Donovan’s poems have appeared in Lily Poetry Review, Solstice, Heavy Feather Review, SWWIM, and elsewhere. Her interviews of other poets can be found at The Rumpus and on her website. Donovan holds an MFA in poetry from Lesley University and is a certified Poet Educator with Mass Poetry. In 2019, Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola selected one of her poems to be displayed at Boston City Hall. Donovan’s work deals with themes of home, family, intergenerational trauma, and sexual and gender identity. She remembers fondly the summer of 1998, when she drove a bulldozer in a Pride parade while wearing a bustier.

Join us on March 29 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link. 

The meeting ID is 885 8926 0791

Password: stonesoup

March 22: Stone Soup In-Person All-Open Mic

Stone Soup Poetry returns for a live show on Wednesday, March 2 from 7:00 to 9:00 at the Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery, located in Boston on 70(a) Sleeper Street, just across from the Barking Crab restaurant. It will be an all-open mic night, and everyone is welcome.

Free admission but donations for features are appreciated.

March 15: Margaret R. Sáraco Features Online at Stone Soup Poetry

In addition to online gatherings, Stone Soup Poetry is now meeting in person every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. More gallery shows will soon be announced. On March 15, we welcome you to kick back and join us for multiple online and in-person feature Margaret R. Sáraco joining us on Zoom
 

The next in-person gathering will be on  March 22.

 

Margaret R. Sáraco, author of the poetry collection, If There Is No Wind (Human Error Publishing, 2022), explores themes of family, beauty, love, and activism. Video and audio recordings include the DMQ Review, Poetry of Protest and Struggle, and Quintessential Listening. Recent publications include Meat for Tea (The Valley Review), 26th Annual Ink Anthology (Moonstone Arts), Royal Beauty (Arts by the People), and Windblown II (NatureCulture). She leads writing workshops and enjoys reading and reviewing poetry books. She has written articles and columns on contemporary life, music, health, and feminism. Her Pushcart Prize nominated work is in Lips Poetry Magazine.

Join us on March 15 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 868 2651 5036

Password: stonesoup

March 8: Stone Soup Poetry IN-PERSON with Kaleigh O’Keefe

Stone Soup Poetry returns for a live show on Wednesday, March 8 from 7:00 to 9:00 at the Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery, located on 70(a) Sleeper Street, just across from the Barking Crab restaurant. Our special feature will be poet an Kaleigh O’Keefe .

Free admission but donations for features are appreciated.

Kaleigh O’Keefe (they/them) is a gender outlaw and proud union member living in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Their poetry has appeared in Breaking the Chains: a Socialist Perspective on Women’s Liberation, Kissing Dynamite, Button Poetry, In Between Spaces: an Anthology of Disabled Writers (Stillhouse Press), won the PRIDE Poetry Prize in Passengers Journal, and is featured on indie music legend Ceschi’s album Sans Soleil. Kaleigh is a contributor and editor for Liberation News, co-founder of Game Over Books, and co-organizer of the Liberation Open Mic at the Boston Liberation Center in Roxbury. 

Let Us Know You're Coming Through the Eventbrite page.

March 1: Arthur Stratusfier Williams Features at Stone Soup

In addition to online gatherings, Stone Soup Poetry is now meeting in person every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. More gallery shows will soon be announced. On March 1, we hope you help us kick off the new month and welcome back past feature Arthur Stratusfier Williams on Zoom. The next in-person gathering will be on  March 8.

 

Stratusfier is a soul-traveling artist that uses rap and poetry to condense light after exploring his own darkness. His work embraces his Bipolar Disorder and ADHD as a lens to capture the world and acknowledge his experience in it from a neurodivergent perspective. His work, “Country Summer”, is featured in Boston’s Mayor’s Poetry Program Selections for 2021. He has been the featured poet at Stone Soup Poetry and Untitled Open Mic. His work has been published in Oddball Magazine, the Journal Writers Without Margins Volume VI: The Unlocked Edition, and the Journal F(r)iction #19: Arcana. His collection of self-published work can be found on the platform Vocal. Follow him on Instagram or on Facebook.

Join us on March 1 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link. 

 

The meeting ID is 878 2203 1814

Password: stonesoup

 

Rescheduled: February 22: Stone Soup Poetry IN-PERSON with Black Byrd

Stone Soup Poetry returns for a live show on Wednesday, February 22 from 7:00 to 9:00 at the Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery, located on 70(a) Sleeper Street in Boston, just across from the Barking Crab restaurant. Please come to our rescheduled feature with poet and author Black Byrd.

Free admission but donations for features are appreciated.

"My name is Isabel Alexandre also known as Black Byrd, The Poet. My first collection of poems that I've written over the years from when I was 15 years old. Poetry/Spoken Word was an escape from a hard life as a teenager living with an alcoholic mother. I have since found freedom and confidence in myself to be able to share my thoughts and words to you all who may have a copy of this book. I truly appreciate your support in taking the time to relax and listen some beautiful and some sad poems all written by me. I want to thank my husband for motivating me to continue to write and to show the world how talented I am with words. I want to thank my Heavenly Father for giving me this gift and I never want to take that for granted. Thank you again for your support. Now sit back and relax and let my words take you through a journey, rather relatable or unique. Welcome 2 My Journey."

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February 15: Skoot Mosby Features Online at Stone Soup Poetry

In addition to online gatherings, Stone Soup Poetry is now meeting in person every second Wednesday of the month at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. More gallery shows will soon be announced. On February 15, we welcome you to kick back and join us for multiple online and in-person feature Skoot Mosby, returning to us this time by way of Zoom.

The next in-person gathering will be on  March 8.

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 has also served as a member of the Compassionate Poets and an assistant facilitator for Writers Without Margins. 

Join us on February 15 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 895 4787 5792

Password: stonesoup

CANCELLED--February 8: Stone Soup Poetry IN-PERSON with Black Byrd

 We apologize that Black Byrd won't be able to make it tonight. We will reschedule as soon as we can.

Stone Soup Poetry returns for a live show on Wednesday, February 8 from 7:00 to 9:00 at the Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery, located on 70(a) Sleeper Street, just across from the Barking Crab restaurant. Our special feature will be poet and author Black Byrd.

Free admission but donations for features are appreciated.

"My name is Isabel Alexandre also known as Black Byrd, The Poet. My first collection of poems that I've written over the years from when I was 15 years old. Poetry/Spoken Word was an escape from a hard life as a teenager living with an alcoholic mother. I have since found freedom and confidence in myself to be able to share my thoughts and words to you all who may have a copy of this book. I truly appreciate your support in taking the time to relax and listen some beautiful and some sad poems all written by me. I want to thank my husband for motivating me to continue to write and to show the world how talented I am with words. I want to thank my Heavenly Father for giving me this gift and I never want to take that for granted. Thank you again for your support. Now sit back and relax and let my words take you through a journey, rather relatable or unique. Welcome 2 My Journey."

Let Us Know You're Coming Through the Eventbrite page.

February 1: Dr. Tara Betts Features Online at Stone Soup Poetry

 

 

In addition to online gatherings, Stone Soup Poetry is now meeting in person every second Wednesday of the month at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. More gallery shows will soon be announced. Until then, we welcome you to kick back and hear online feature Dr. Tara Betts on February 1 and purchase her latest poetry collection, Refuse to Disappear. The next in-person gathering will be on February 8.

Dr. Tara Betts is the author of Refuse to Disappear, Break the Habit, and Arc & Hue. In addition to her work as a teaching artist and mentor for young poets, she has taught at Rutgers University, University of Illinois-Chicago, Northwestern University and at Stateville Prison via the Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project. She is the Inaugural Poet for the People Practitioner Fellow at University of Chicago. Betts currently teaches at DePaul University and serves as Poetry Editor at The Langston Hughes Review. She is also founder of the nonprofit organization The Whirlwind Learning Center on Chicago's South Side.

Join us on February 1 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 816 9397 0650

Password: stonesoup

January 25: Stone Soup All-Open Mic

Stone Soup Poetry is now meeting in person every second Wednesday of the month at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. More gallery shows will soon be announced. We welcome you to participate in an online open mic on January 25, the first open mic of 2023! The next in-person gathering will be on February 8.

Join us on January 25 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 840 7213 1225

Password: stonesoup

 

No Stone Soup Tonight

We are unable to gather tonight. Stay tuned for new Stone Soup features to be announced.

January 11: Stone Soup Poetry IN-PERSON with David P. Miller

Stone Soup Poetry returns for a live show on Wednesday, January 11 from 7:00 to 9:00 at the Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery, located on 70(a) Sleeper Street, just across from the Barking Crab restaurant. Our special feature will be poet and author David P. Miller.

Free admission but donations for features are appreciated.

David P. Miller’s collection, Bend in the Stair, was published by Lily Poetry Review Books in 2021. Sprawled Asleep was published by Nixes Mate Books in 2019. His poems have appeared in Meat for Tea, Denver Quarterly, The Poetry Porch, subTerrain, Muddy River Poetry Review, Constellations, Lily Poetry Review, Caustic Frolic, Clementine Unbound, and Nixes Mate Review, among others. He lives with his wife, the visual artist Jane Wiley, in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.  

 

January 4: Stone Soup All-Open Mic

Stone Soup Poetry is now meeting in person every second Wednesday of the month at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. More gallery shows will soon be announced. We welcome you to participate in an online open mic on January 4, the first open mic of 2023! The next in-person gathering will be on January 11.

Join us on January 4 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 856 6483 7996

Password: stonesoup

 

December 28: Stone Soup All-Open Mic

Stone Soup Poetry is now meeting live every second Wednesday of the month at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. More gallery shows will soon be announced. We welcome you to participate in an online open mic on December 28, the last open mic of the year! The next in-person gathering will be on January 11.

Join us on December 28 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 880 7118 4596

Password: stonesoup

 

December 21: Stone Soup All-Open Mic

 

 

Stone Soup Poetry is now meeting live every second Wednesday of the month at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. More gallery shows will soon be announced. We welcome you to participate in an online open mic on December 21. The next in person gathering will be on January 11.

Join us on December 21 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 839 7906 8110

Password: stonesoup

 

December 14: Stone Soup Poetry LIVE with Deborah M. Priestly

Stone Soup Poetry returns for a live show on Wednesday, December 14 from 7:00 to 9:00 at the Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery, located on 70(a) Sleeper Street, just across from the Barking Crab restaurant. Our special feature will be Deborah Priestly, who returns to Stone Soup after being away for almost five years.

Free admission but donations for features are appreciated.

Deborah M. Priestly is co-founder of the Out of the Blue Art Gallery along with Tom Tipton. For years, she ran the gallery's Saturday Night reading series called Open Bark. Her publication credits include Ibbetson Street, Spare Change, Poesy, Fresh!, Boston Poet, The Boston Herald, The Boston Girl Guide and Out of the Blue Writers Unite (which she also co-edited). She is the author of The Woman Has A Voice from Ibbetson Street Press, an eclectic combination of healing poetry and images of women in transition.

Eventbrite Page forthcoming.

 

December 7: Stone Soup All-Open Mic

Stone Soup Poetry is now meeting live every second Wednesday of the month at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. More live shows will soon be announced. We welcome you to participate in an online open mic on December 7. The next live gathering will be on December 14.

Join us on December 7 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 828 0081 8566

Password: stonesoup