September 7: Stone Soup Poetry Slam!

Our 1st and 2nd slam was a bit o' a success! So come and join us for Stone Soup's 3rd Poetry Slam @ Out of The Blue Gallery located at 541 Mass Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 right at the Central Square Red Line Train Station.

Advanced Tickets: 7
Tickets at the Door: 10

Order your tickets early!



The Deal: 12 poets, 3 rounds, 5 judges, and amazing poetry.

The booty (I meant bounty): There will be three cash prizes:

1st place gets you $75, 2nd place gets you $30 and 3rd place gets you $15 smackaroos!

If you think you got what it takes, then step to the Stone Soup Mic and just, just: Just Slam!!

We will also have an open mic sign up list with 10 spots - PLEASE come early to ensure your spot on the list.

August 31: Petrina Skyy Features at Stone Soup

Moving forward, Stone Soup Poetry meets every Monday from 7-9 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery, now at its new location at 541 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts. On August 31, we say goodbye to the spirit of summer and prepare for the changes that come next month with one more summer celebration by giving a debut feature to poet Petrina Skyy.

Petrina Skyy is a poet and dancer born in Boston currently hanging in the south shore. Her favorite authors include Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Zora kneel Hurston, and Edwidge Danticat. "I pretty much enjoy books that bring me closer to understanding my history and identity."  She has performed her work on open mics at the Milky Way, the Cantab Lounge, Haley House, Stone Soup, the Salem State open mic, the Umass Boston open mic, and the Lizard Lounge. As a dancer she performed African and Haitian dance with the group Arc-en-cie at the Hyde Park Community Center.

August 24: David R. Surette Features at Stone Soup

Moving forward, Stone Soup Poetry meets every Monday from 7-9 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery, now at its new location at 541 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts. On August 24, we conclude our summer session with the welcome return of David R. Surette, who is celebrating the release of his fourth full-length poetry collection.

David R. Surette’s new book of poetry is Stable, selected and new poems that feature the animals who have blessed his life. He is the author of four other collections: Wicked Hard, The Immaculate Conception Mothers‘ Club, Young Gentlemen’s School and Easy to Keep, Hard to Keep In which earned Highly Recommended status at the 8th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards. . He teaches English and coaches varsity hockey at East Bridgewater High School. He lives in South Easton, Massachusetts.

August 17: Alfred A. Zuñiga Features at Stone Soup

Moving forward, Stone Soup Poetry meets every Monday from 7-9 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery, now at its new location at 541 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts. On August 17, we head closer to the end of our summer series with a feature by a poet who deserves wider recognition, Alfred A. Zuñiga.

Several years ago, Alfred participated in Somerville Open Studios to debut a collection of works titled Modest Machinations of An Intrepid Insomniac. From that point on he discovered a new world in poetry: Wednesday nights at the Cantab Lounge in Cambridge, advanced workshops with poet Tom Daley,the  Poetry Salon with Ron Goba (a serendipitous reunion, as Ron had been a teacher at his high school). This led to the recent publication of his first pieces, “The Sea, Parts 1, 2 and 3” in Crow Point Living Magazine by N2 Publishing earlier this year.

His early work was raw and a bit naïve (at the time obsessed with rhyming), but his poetry has since flourished under Tom’s tutelage, and through sharing with a diverse community of poets and friends. There is a constant reminder posted over his desk, written in beautiful calligraphy: “A poem is an event, not the record of an event.”

Alfred is a Fine Art Handler for an art transportation company based in Boston, Massachusetts. He has a BA in Animation and Film Theory from University of Massachusetts at Boston. He lives in Dedham with his wife, Beth, and their two French bulldogs and cat.

August 10: Mary Ann Honaker Features at Stone Soup

Moving forward, Stone Soup Poetry meets every Monday from 7-9 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery, now at its new location at 541 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts. On July 20,  On August 10,we welcome North Shore poet Mary Ann Honaker, who will be reading from her long awaited chapbook collection.

Mary Ann Honaker holds a B.A. in philosophy from West Virginia University, a Masters of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, and is currently a student in the Creative Writing MFA program at Lesley University. She has previously published poetry in many online and print magazines, including Euphony, Caveat Lector, Off the Coast, Zig Zag Folios, Van Gogh's Ear, The Lake, and Oddball Magazine. Her first chapbook, It Will Happen Like This, is available now from YesNo Press of Salem. She lives in Salem, Massachusetts.

August 3: Emilio Phoenicio Features at Stone Soup

Moving forward, Stone Soup Poetry meets every Monday from 7-9 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery, now at its new location at 541 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts. On August 3, we welcome Emilio Phoenicio, who will be reading from his latest collection Living Breathing Poem.

Emilio Phoenicio, recently completed his Master's of Divinity at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology this May. A deeply spiritual person, he loves laughing and making others laugh.
"However," he says, "my humor does not come out in my poetry, which is more intense. I have a deep care for others and wishe to have an authentic impact on others."  A man who discovered his penchant with words over two years ago and is grateful for it, he believes inward reflection  "is a necessity for my existence. Art has helped me with the longest journey in life which is from head to heart."

July 27: ROADPOET K. Peddlar Bridges Features at Stone Soup

Moving forward, Stone Soup Poetry meets every Monday from 7-9 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery, now at its new location at 541 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts. On July 20, On July 27, biker poetry is once again added to our summer schedule with the return of motorcycle poet K. Peddlar Bridges as part of the Roadpoet Fortnight event this July. 


K. Peddlar Bridges is a prolific and persistent talent, one of the founders of the Biker Poetry movement. Peddlar is a well recognized, unique voice currently living on the North Shore of Boston. The Roadpoet Fortnight is his brain child, and debuted in July, 2013. In addition to being a regular at many poetry venues, he also hosts RoadPoet Café, on ICAM, (the Ipswich Cable access station) and is working on a new collection of works about the poetic heritage of Gloucester.

July 20: A night of song lyrics and poetry With Lo Galluccio at Stone Soup

Moving forward, Stone Soup Poetry meets every Monday from 7-9 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery, now at its new location at 541 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts. On July 20, Stone Soup welcomes recent (and  hopefully not the final) Cambridge Poet Populist Lo Galluccio, who promises song, spoken word, and her own innovation of an open mic grab bag.

Lo Galluccio is a poet/prose-writer and vocal artist whose work has appeared in Literary Kicks,  Heat City Literary Review, Abramalin magazine, Night, the Home Anthology of Eden Waters Press, Lungfull Magazine!, Wilderness House Literary Review and The Audience Review, among others. In 2008, Cervena Barva Press released her prose-poem memoir, Sarasota VII and she appeared in Heide Hatry’s collection, Heads and Tales on Charta Books. In the summer of 2009, Propaganda Press published another chapbook called, Terrible Baubles. She has two albums on CD Baby: Being Visited  and Spell on You. She’s been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes in Poetry and read at The Somerville Arts Festival and St. Mark's Marathon Day Reading in NYC, among many other venues. Her first poetry chapbook Hot Rain, along with Sarasota VII and Terrible Baubles are all available at The Grolier Bookstore in Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA. Lo just finished serving as the 4th Poet Populist of Cambridge.

July 13: Stone Soup Poetry Slam!

Our first slam was a bit o' a success! So come and join us for Stone Soup's 2nd Poetry Slam @ Out of The Blue Gallery located at 541 Mass Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 right at the Central Square Red Line Train Station.

*This JUST in! Someone actually threw a stone in the soup! (Thanks Chad -_- ) We will be having a Micro Feature PROMPTLY at 7PM. Chad will host as Yuri Hospodar returns to Stone Soup in all the hot noodle glory that one can muster up after a 20 year absence. Yuri Hospodar, in a previous incarnation, had poems included in New York Quarterly, Stone Soup Poetry Quarterly, Boog City, and most likely a few other magazines, as well as appearing in An Anthology of New (American) Poets and online journals such as Shampoo. He moved to Australia and became antipodean in 2007; he is slowly reawakening and becoming reacquainted with words and such.

The Deal: 12 poets, 3 rounds, 5 judges, and amazing poetry.

The booty (I meant bounty): There will be three cash prizes:

1st place gets you $75, 2nd place gets you $30 and 3rd place gets you $15 smackaroos!

If you think you got what it takes, then step to the Stone Soup Mic and just, just: Just Slam!!

July 6: Colin Killick Features at Stone Soup

Photo by Marshall Goff

Moving forward, Stone Soup Poetry meets every Monday from 7-9 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery, now at its new location at 541 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts. On July 6,Colin Killick features at Stone Soup for the first time.

Colin Killick is a poet and community organizer based in Somerville, MA. His work has been published in FreezeRay and Oddball Magazine, and he's featured at venues across MA and RI including The Lizard Lounge, If You Can Feel It,You Can Speak It, and theMassArt Poetry Alliance. When not performing poetry, he advocates for the civil rights of people with disabilities, and obsesses needlessly over the wording and tone of his bio.

June 29: Ron Goba Features at Stone Soup

Moving forward, Stone Soup Poetry meets every Monday from 7-9 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery, now at its new location at 541 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts. On June 29, we are thrilled to host the return of poet, teacher and former doorman to The Cantab open mic, Ron Goba.

Ron Goba is the author of such collections as The Music Box, The Custom of Quoting Someone, and Collage As Silkscreen. For several years, he was known as the doorman for the weekly Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab. In 2011, he released Swan Song, a small collection of poems, to coincide with his reading at the Cantab on the eve of his birthday. In 2012, his work was included in Songs of Innocence and Sam Adams, a collection of poems co-authored by Prabakar T. Rajan. This year, Ron has featured at Arts at The Armory and The Cantab Lounge reading poems created specifically for each event. This June, he will be performing poems specifically created for Stone Soup Poetry.

June 22: PunQrose Features

Moving forward, Stone Soup Poetry meets every Monday from 7-9 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery, now at its new location at 541 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts. On June 22, be in the audience for PunQrose, who will be having her debut feature at Stone Soup.

PunQrose was seeded and watered in Boston, MA. She has always had an unquenched thirst for social justice and peace for all living beings. As a young, black womyn, she has been granted with both a gift and a curse as she sees the world from the bottom and to left of the spectrum. She lives for all of the other afro-punks, misfits, outcasts, the awkward and for those who stay woke. She is a hopeless romantic who believes in everlasting love. She is a certified crazy cat lady who would rather be a cat mom than a human mom. She loves good herb, hot beverages, cute socks that don’t match, and the colors purple and turquoise are her favorite. She practices Nichiren Bhuddism as she believes all humans have the innate capacity to reach their greatest potential. Stalk her on instagram @punqros3.

June 15: Ralph Pennel Features at Stone Soup

Moving forward, Stone Soup Poetry meets every Monday from 7-9 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery, now at its new location at 541 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts. On June 15, we will be visited by Ralph Pennel.
 
Ralph Pennel is the author of A World Less Perfect for Dying In, published by Cervena Barva Press. His writing has appeared in The Cape Rock, Ropes, Open to Interpretation, Ibbetson Street, The Smoking Poet, Unbound Press, Monologues From the Road, Right Hand Pointing, and various other journals in the U.S. and abroad. He has also published reviews with Rain Taxi Review of Books.  Ralph teaches literature for Bunker Hill Community College and poetry at Bentley University. He has been a guest lecturer at Emerson College and served as the judge for the 2013, WLP Dean’s Prize for Emerson. He is a founding editor and the fiction editor for the online literary magazine, Midway Journal (www.midwayjournal.com), published out of St. Paul, Minnesota. Ralph Pennel lives and writes in Somerville, Massachusetts, and was a finalist for the Poet Laureate of Somerville in 2014.

REMEMBER NEW TIME: June 8: Extended Open Mic at Stone Soup

In the past, Stone Soup Poetry has met from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery, now at its new location at 541 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. 

As of June 1st, Stone Soup now meets at the gallery at the new time of 7-9 PM. 

Tonight, on June 8, we will have an extended open mic, with our first June feature scheduled for June 15.  More information to come soon.

Visit the Stone Soup web site: http://stonesouppoetry.blogspot.com/

June 1: Stone Soup Poetry Slam

 NEW TIME!

Stone Soup Poetry meets tonight from 7-9 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery, now at its new location at 541 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts. On June 1, we welcome the first slam Stone Soup has sponsored in almost two decades.

Come and join us Stone Soup's first Poetry Slam @ Out of The Blue Gallery located at 541 Mass Ave. Cambridge, MA right at the Central Square Red Line Train Station.

The Deal: 12 poets, 3 rounds, 5 judges, and amazing poetry. There will be a $50.00 cash prize.

If you think you got what it takes, then step to the Stone Soup Mic and just, just: Just Slam!!

May 25: A Tribute to Lawrence Carradini by Meg Smith

Stone Soup Poetry meets tonight from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery, now at its new location at 541 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts On May 25, Meg Smith celebrates the life of fellow poet and husband, the late Lawrence Carradini.

Lawrence Carradini was a scientist, poet, and longtime resident of Lowell, Massachusetts. The author of Burning Heads, he joined the board of directors of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!, which plans a festival each year in honor of Lowell-born writer Jack Kerouac. For six years, he served as the organization’s board president. He passed away in May 2014. As we celebrate Stone Soup's anniversary this May, we mark his passing as May comes to a close.

Meg Smith writes and publishes poetry, fiction, articles, essays, and arts and entertainment reviews. She is the editor of Red Eft, a publication of speculative literature and art and for four years was editor and publisher of The Banshee, a zine based in Lowell, Mass. honored by grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

She frequently appears at poetry readings throughout the area and have hosted numerous open mics and have produced several literary events -- including events combining my passion for literature and Middle Eastern dance.

She served for 14 years on the planning committee and board of directors of the annual Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! festival honoring Lowell, Mass. author and native son Jack Kerouac.

Visit the Poet's web site.

May 18: Extended Open Mic at stone Soup

 

In the past, Stone Soup Poetry has met from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery, now at its new location at 541 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. Beginning June 1st, Stone Soup will be meeting at the gallery at the new time of 7-9 PM. Because there was some question of Stone Soup attending the gallery, a feature was not scheduled tonight.

On June 1, Stone Soup will be hosting a well-attended slam night. We urge those who have not attended Stone Soup before to come tonight to get acquainted with the gallery tonight on May 18. More shows will be added in the coming days.

May 11: Chad Parenteau Features

Stone Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery, now at its new location at 541 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. On May 11, long-time Stone Soup host Chad Parenteau will read from a selection of his "Jesus Poems" manuscript, many of which have not be seen or heard.

Chad Parenteau is a poet living in Boston.  He hosts the weekly Stone Soup Poetry series in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  His book, Patron Emeritus, was released from FootHills Publishing in June of 2013. He has had work recently published in Amethyst Arsenic and the anthology Uncommon Core: Contemporary Poems for Learning and Living. He serves as Associate editor to the online journal Oddball Magazine, recently taking a part co-hosting the Oddball Show podcast.

May 4: Toni Bee Features

Photo by Selena Brooks-Yard

Stone Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery, now at its new location at 541 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. On May 4, Stone Soup celebrates its forty-fourth anniversary beginning with a much anticipated feature by former Cambridge Poet Populist Toni Bee.

Toni Bee is a poet, photographer, and one of the founders of Black Lives Matter in Cambridge. The community advocate and mother was the first elected female Poet Populist for the City of Cambridge (2011-2013) She received the 2011 YWCA Cambridge Outstanding Woman Award.

Bee led the Black Lives Matter in Cambridge march along with co-founders and teen leaders in January 2015. She served on the board of directors from 2013-2015 at Cambridge Community Television - after years of being a Neighbor Media journalist at the television station.
https://www.cctvcambridge.org/user/tonibee

Since 2012, Toni has been a story teller and poetry facilitator involved with (CPAC) Citi Performing Arts Center; for one year as the Community Artist Fellow and every summer since as a City Spotlights Spoken Word Teaching Artist.

April 27: Jonathan J. Joseph Features

 
Stone Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery, now at its new location at 541 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. On April 27, Stone Soup brings a close to National Poetry Month by featuring open mic regular Jonathan J. Joseph.


Jonathan J. Joseph: human poet, vessel of truth, an artist who naturally discovered Out of The Blue, while walking past it on what seemed to be a random moment during an ordinary Monday last year, but fortunately as life would have it, this crossed path opened him into the cradle from which his experience on the open mic sprang up and grew with the energy that circulates through us all. Each words represents a morsel of love brought together to form the bold pieces which are given a place in existence to thrive through oral recitation and individual reading across the world. This featured performance shall be no different, as Jonathan who casually goes by Johnny, is prepared to deliver simple words with exceptional emotion that is going to make April 27th, 2015 quite a nite to remember.