December 29th: Carolyn Gregory Returns



Stone Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery at 106 Prospect Street with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. On December 29th, Stone Soup ends 2008 on a high note by welcoming back Carolyn Gregory, who will be featuring her newest poetry collection.

Carolyn Gregory has published poems and music reviews in American Poetry Review, Seattle Review, Bellowing Ark, Yankee, Wilderness House Literary Review, Art Times, Slant, Main Street Rag, and Stylus. Winner of a Massachusetts Cultural Council award, she has published two chapbooks and was featured in the award-winning anthology, For Lovers and Other Losses. Her full length book, Open Letters, will be published by Windmill Editions in December, 2008. She has worked in medical research and currently is a community organizer. Affiliations include Jamaica Pond Poets and the New England Poetry Club.

Click here for a poem by Carolyn Gregory.

December 22nd, Gordon Marshall Features



Stone Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery at 106 Prospect Street with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. On December 22nd, Gordon Marshall returns to Stone Soup to celebrate the publication of his newest poetry collection.

Gordon Marshall was born in New Haven, CT, in 1963. He received his B.A. and M.A. in English Literature from University of Massachusetts Boston. He has been published in Boston and in Toronto, Canada. His new book, Waterwheel, is available at the Grolier Bookstore in Harvard Square. He lives in Boston’s North End.

Visit Gordon Marshall's blog.

December 15th: Tim Gager Features



Stone Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery at 106 Prospect Street with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. On December 15th, Tim Gager features and reads from his new chapbooks.

Timothy Gager is the author of seven books of short fiction and poetry. The poetry chapbooks, These Poems are not Pink Fluffy Clouds (Propaganda Press) and this is where you go when you are gone, (Cerena Barva Press) were released in 2008. He hosts the Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts every month and is the co-founder of Somerville News Writers Festival.

His Short Stories have appeared in Twelve Stories, Word Riot, 55 Word, The Binnacle, Scene Boston, Thieve's Jargon, Long Short Story, The Smoking Poet, Zygote in My Coffee, Slurve, Poor Mojo's Almanac, Tuesday Shorts, VerbSap, Long Short Story, The Smoking Poet, Write This Magazine and Further Fenway Fiction. Timothy's poetry has been published in The Blood Orange Review, Night Train, Poems for All, Right Hand Pointing, GUD, Boston Poetry Journal (Bad Ass Edition), Edifice Wrecked, Blue Print Review, Barnstorm, Lit Up Magazine, Hobart, The Long Islander, Spare Change, Delmarva Review, High Horse, Third Lung Review, Poesy XXIV and the Ibbetson Street. He has had over 150 works of fiction and poetry published since 2007 and of which four have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Timothy is the current Fiction Editor of The Wilderness House Literary Review, the founding co-editor of The Heat City Literary Review and has edited the book, Out of the Blue Writers Unite: A Book of Poetry and Prose from the Out of the Blue Art Gallery.

A graduate of the University of Delaware, Timothy lives in Dedham, Massachusetts and is employed as a social worker.

Click here for a sample of Tim Gager's work.

December 8th: Stone Soup Celebrates Appleseeds

Stone Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery (located on 106 Prospect Street in Cambridge) with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. On December 8th, Stone Soup will celebrate the publication of the Appleseeds anthology, its contributors and its editor, Melissa Guillet.

Melissa Guillet’s work has appeared in The Cherry Blossom Review, Lalitamba, Nth Position, Scrivener’s Pen, Women. Period., six Worcester, MA anthologies, and other collections. She was a member of Dr. Brown’s Traveling Poetry Troupe and teaches Interdisciplinary Arts in Riverside, RI.

Gretchen Fletcher grew up when patriotism was part of the zeitgeist. Her father made sure she traveled the USA and felt pride in our country.

Sarah Getty’s second book of poems, Bring Me Her Heart, was published last year and received Pulitzer and NBA nominations.

Jade Sylvan has been published in the Ibbetson Journal and Word Riot.

Sheila Mullen Twyman’s poetry and short fiction have been published in literary journals and anthologies and two poetry collections. She hosts “Poetry Under the Trees,” an annual open mic gathering during the Marshfield Arts Festival, and produces and hosts “Egads, It’s Poetry,” for the MA Radio Network for the Blind which features local poets reading their work.

David Wolf is the author of three poetry collections (Open Season, The Moment Forever and Sablier) and teaches at Simpson College.

December 1st: Patricia Fillingham Tribute


Photo by Debra Cash

Stone Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery (located on 106 Prospect Street in Cambridge) with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. On December 1st, Stone Soup gives tribute to Patricia Fillingham, a past Stone Soup feature and regular who passed away last year.

Patricia Fillingham (May 4, 1924 to December 3, 2007) ran two poetry series in West Orange, New Jersey and New York City for 35 years. She also published poetry for 28 years with her Wart Hog Press imprint, first publishing the work of Cornelius Eady. Recieving degrees in electrical engineering and sociology, she and her husband were active members of the ACLU and early members of Amnesty International. A posthumous collection of her poetry is in the works.

Click here for a poem by Patricia published in Spoonful.

Reminder

Tonight Leo Racicot Features.

Upcoming Features

November 10th: Kaeper Funkhauser Esq. visits.

November 17th: TBA.

November 24th: Stone Soup’s YouTube sensation James McCoy.

December 1st: Stone Soup Celebrates The Life of Patricia Fillingham.

December 8th: Melissa Guillet features to celebrate the publication of the Appleseeds anthology.

December 15th: The return of Tim Gager.

December 22nd: Gordon Marshall debuts his new book, Waterwheel.

November 24th: James McCoy Features



Stone Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery (located on 106 Prospect Street in Cambridge) with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. On November 24th, Stone Soup welcomes open mike regular and YouTube mini-sensation James McCoy.

James McCoy tells stories with a heart as poems with a heartbeat.

His work, including "Don't Quit Your Day Job" -- the most viewed video on Chad Parenteau's FreakMachinePress YouTube website --has been described as "fascinating work, restoring poetry to its proper place as an aural pleasure ... He's fearless too, moving from the workaday to the mythical ..."

A regular at the open mikes in Cambridge, McCoy has been called "simply mesmerizing," "very moving!" and a "BUCL" (Brilliant Unemployable Catholic Loser).

Following the feature, McCoy will be selling his new chapbook, How to Punch Your Way Out Of a Paper Bag ($5.00 for crickets, $50.00 for ants).

November 17th, Leo Racicot Features

Stone Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery (located on 106 Prospect Street in Cambridge) with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. On November 17th, Stone Soup is visited by Leo Racicot.

Leo Racicot's work has been featured in "Co-Evolution Quarterly","Utne Reader", "Spiritual Life", "Gay Sunshine Journal", "First Hand","The Poet", "Ibbetson Street Press", "Poetry", "Shakespeare's Monkey"and "Yankee". Two of his award-winning essay-memoirs appear in "Best of..."anthologies, and he is the recipient of the Antonio Machado PoetryForum Award (1992). His holiday story, "The Little Man" is beingpublished by Snug Harbor and will be available in audio and animatedform on fablevision.comHe has been a schoolteacher/librarian/cook/counselor/poet/actor/clown.

November 10th: Kaeper Funkhauser Esq. Features



Stone Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery (located on 106 Prospect Street in Cambridge) with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. On November 10th, we can thrill to another poet featuring at Stone Soup for the first time as we welcome regular to the open mike circuit Kaeper Funkhauser Esq.

Kaeper Funkhauser Esq. is a wordsmith with a special interest in cadence, literary device, nonsense and magic. He is not licensed to practice law, which is fine because he's a molecular and cell biologist, anyway. His work is influenced by a great diversity of sources including the beat poets, the magical realists, some of the more verbose/academic hip hop artists, his scientific vocabulary and a love for the surreal and absurd. Originally from Worcester, Kaeper currently lives and writes in Somerville. He is a regular at the Cantab Lounge Open Mic and has featured at the Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam. Kaeper has also performed at Emerson College, Bullfinch Yacht Club, Lillypad, Skybar, Middle East, All Asia Cafe, Java Hut and a number of house parties. He has yet to be published, but that's probably because he's never submitted anything to a journal.

November 3rd: Victor D. Infante and Lea C. Deschenes



Stone Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery (located on 106 Prospect Street in Cambridge) with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. November 3rd sees the celebration of The November 3rd Club with poets Victor D. Infante and Lea C. Deschenes, who welcome contributors to the journal to come and read.

Victor D. Infante is the Editor-in-Chief of The November 3rd Club, an online literary journal of political writing, and a writer whose poems and prose have appeared in dozens of periodicals internationally, including literary journals such as The Los Angeles Review, Pearl, Ballard Street AntiMuse, and anthologies such as Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry, Spoken Word Revolution Redux and The Last American Valentine: Poems to Seduce and Destroy. He's recently released his first full-length poetry collection, City of Insomnia, on Write Bloody Publishing. He currently resides with his wife and pet ferret in a three-decker apartment in Worcester, Massachusetts, and is a devoted fan of The Family Circus.

Lea C. Deschenes resides in Worcester, MA and holds an MFA in Poetry from New England College. Her poetry has appeared online, on stage and in print (Spillway, Snakeskin, So Luminous the Wildflowers, Ballard Street Poetry Journal, et al.) A former member of four National Poetry Slam teams and a coach to two more, she also dusts off her BA in Theater to perform. She has received a Jacob Knight Award, been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and represented Worcester in the 2005 Individual World Poetry Slam. She is the author of thirteen chapbooks. Her first full-length collection The Constant Velocity of Trains, is available through Write Bloody Publishing.

Visit The November 3rd Club.

October 27th Ryk McIntyre Returns



Stone Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery (located on 106 Prospect Street in Cambridge) with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. On October 27th, Stone Soup welcomes back Ryk McIntyre, featuring his new chapbook, Touch Creatures.

Ryk McIntyre is a three-time National Poetry Slam Team member, as well as Co-host at The Cantab Poetry Reading. He has toured nationally and in Canada, opening for acts as varied as Andrei Codrescu Leon Redbone and Jim Carroll, as well as appearing as part of Lollapalooza 1994. He performed in "The Legends Of Slam" Showcase at NPS2006. He has been published in Short-Fuse- An Anthology Of New Fusion Poets, 100 Poets Against The New World Order, Nth Position Magazine and The Worcester Review. With Melissa Guillet, he has edited two anthologies, Look! Up In in the Sky! and the upcoming Legendary-Stories We Tell Today; Stories Our Children Will Tell Tomorrow. He is a known biped, and he has pretty blue eyes.

Click here to see Ryk McIntyre perfrom his poem "In God's Image."

October 20th: Sara Littlecrow-Russell Features



Stone Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery (located on 106 Prospect Street in Cambridge) with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. On October 20, we welcome a first-time visit from Sara Littlecrow-Russell.

Sara Littlecrow-Russell is a single mother of two, occasional public interest lawyer, ethnobotanist, and mediator specializing in cross-cultural conflict resolution. Her political poetry has appeared in dozens of journals including: The Indigenous Journal of Law, Culture and Resistance, American Indian Quarterly, US Latino Review, Meridians, The Massachusetts Review, Hip Mama, Race Traitor Journal, and in a variety of anthologies, including Sister Nations: Native American Women Writing on Community.

Her first book, The Secret Powers of Naming, was published by the University of Arizona Press. It won an Independent Publishers Bronze Medal and was a finalist for the Pen Beyond the Margins Award. It also received the Myers Outstanding Book from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America. When she is not writing poetry, she can be found scavenging for shiny objects and odd facts, digging in the garden, playing mah jong, and experimenting with cooking spices and perfumery.

Click here for a sample poem by Sara Littlecrow-Russell.

Tonight

Phil Hasouris and Frank Miller Feature tonight.

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Reminder: Lo Gallucio Features, September 29

Lo Gallucio reads this Monday on the 22nd. As a teaser, we offer a clip from the Stone Soup Poetry open mike on September 1, 2008. Lo Galluccio reads a selection from her first chapbook.

October 13th: Philip Hasouris and Frank Miller Feature

Stone Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery (located on 106 Prospect Street in Cambridge) with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. On October 13th, Stone Soup will present the anticipated return of Philip Hasouris and Frank Miller, hosts of the well-regarded Brockton Library Poetry Series.

Philip Hasouris has been writing for many years. Like most poets, he began unsure of his words. kept them hidden in notebooks, draws, closets, always in the back of his mind. started reading publicly and eventually people started listening. since then, he has taken every opportunity to share the words.

Born in Scotland and educated both there and in the U.S., Frank Miller now works in sales. "I started writing almost seven years ago and, despite the pleas of the public, continue to do so. If there is anything to interest you it will be found in the poetry. My life certainly would not be entertaining enough to warrant a second glance."

Visit the Brockton Poetry Series web site.

Reminder

Simone Beaubien features tonight.

Reminder, September 8th

Elizabeth K. Doran helps say Happy Birthday to Jack.

YouTube Clips of Jasen Sousa: "Boys With Bats"

From the poet's feature on August 25, 2008.