June 15: Stone Soup All-Open Mic Tonight

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 for the summer. Until then, welcome an online open mic this Wednesday on June 15 while we figure out our regular meeting schedule moving forward.

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

The meeting ID is 883 7322 2155

Password: stonesoup

 

June 8: Stone Soup Poetry LIVE with Jim Dunn

Stone Soup Poetry returns for a live show on Wednesday, June 8 from 7:00 to 9:00 at our old home, the Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery, located on 70(a) Sleeper Street, just across from the Barking Crab restaurant. 

Free admission but donations for features are appreciated. 

Join us on June 8 as Jim Dunn celebrates the release of his new collection, This Silence is a Junkyard.

Jim Dunn is the author of Soft Launch (Bootstrap Press/Pressed Wafer, 2008), Convenient Hole (Pressed Wafer, 2004), and Insects In Sex (Fallen Angel Press, 1995). His work has appeared in Castle Grayskull, Blazing Stadium, can we have our ball back?, Bright Pink Mosquito, The Process, eoagh, Gerry Mulligan, Cafe Review, Meanie, and the anthology in tribute to John Wieners, The Blind See Only In This World. He edited the John Wieners Journal, A New Book From Rome with Derek Fenner and Ryan Gallagher of Bootstrap Press.

Join via the Eventbrite page.

We are attempting a Zoom link to watch and possibly participate in the event. Join it by clicking here.

The meeting ID is 856 3037 1397

Password: stonesoup 

June1: Stone Soup All-Open Mic Tonight

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

Stone Soup stands on the precipice of more change. Tonight on Wednesday June 1, we gather one more time online before these changes begin to take effect.

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

The meeting ID is 843 0870 2501

Password: stonesoup

May 25: Stone Soup All-Open Mic Tonight

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

Tonight on Wednesday May 25, we gather again online and then count down to our first talks about returning live with the venue owners.

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

The meeting ID is 865 8184 4446

Password: stonesoup

May 18: Stone Soup All-Open Mic Tonight

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

Tonight on Wednesday May 18, we gather again online while our live venue fate hangs like the Sword of Damocles.

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

The meeting ID is 880 6510 8004

Password: stonesoup

May 11: Stone Soup All-Open Mic Tonight

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

Tonight on Wednesday May 11, we gather again online while we wait on word the future of our live venue.

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

The meeting ID is 861 1771 4988

Password: stonesoup

May 4: Stone Soup All-Open Mic Tonight

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

Tonight on Wednesday May 4 as we kick off Stone Soup's fifty-first anniversary month with an all open mic.

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

The meeting ID is 870 2578 2506

Password: stonesoup

April 27: Stone Soup All Open Mic Tonight

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

Tonight on Wednesday April 27, after recent technical difficulties, we are able to meet up tonight for National Poetry Month.

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

The meeting ID is 819 2808 8222

Password: stonesoup

 

April 20: Stone Soup All Open Mic Tonight

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

Tonight on Wednesday April 20, after recent technical difficulties, we are able to meet up tonight for National Poetry Month.

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

The meeting ID is 819 2808 8222

Password: stonesoup

 

April 13: No Stone Soup Poetry

Due to massive computer issues, Stone Soup is cancelled today. We hope to be back in action very soon. 

April 6: ORAL HISTORY INITIATIVE - Carol Weston and the Boston School

 

 

Stone Soup is forgoing it's usual meeting time to attend this online event courtesy of the Woodbine Poetry Room being put together with the help of Christina Davis and John Mulrooney.

Join us on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6th at 7:00pm (Eastern) for the Poetry Room's season finale, a celebration of the life and work of Carol Weston, featuring reminiscences about her involvement in Stephen Jonas' Magic Evenings and her relationships with such poets as Robert Lowell, George Barker, John Wieners and Jack Powers, as well as readings from her forthcoming Bootstrap collection.

Weston will be in conversation with Fanny Howe, Joe Torra, Amanda Cook, Jim Dunn and John Mulrooney (who will moderate the occasion), plus a range of Zoom participants including Chuck Stein and Seth Stewart.

 

Click here to register for the event.

March 28: R Chrisler Fairhurst Features at Stone Soup Poetry

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

Tonight on Wednesday March 30, we close out the month with returning poem R Chrisler Fairhurst. 

R. Chrisler Fairhurst is the author of two collections of poetry, obscurity wounded and synchrony. His latest novel, ISYEKA, is due out later this Spring.

Join us on March 30  from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 889 3298 8751

Password: stonesoup

 

March 23: Stone Soup All Open Mic Tonight

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

Tonight on Wednesday March 23, we continue with an all open mic night.

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

The meeting ID is 811 1043 1636

Password: stonesoup

 

March 16: DeWitt Clinton Features at Stone Soup

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

On March 16, we welcome DeWitt Clinton to our virtual podium.

DeWitt Clinton taught English, Creative Writing, and World of Ideas courses for over 30 years at the University of Wisconsin—Whitewater. His earlier collections of poetry include The Conquistador Dog Texts, The Coyot. Inca Texts, (New Rivers Press), At the End of the War (Kelsay Books, 2018), By A Lake Near A Moon: Fishing with the Chinese Masters (Is A Rose Press, 2020), and Hello There (Word Tech Communications, 2021). He is a student of Iyengar Yoga, and occasionally substitutes as a yoga instructor for seniors in The Village of Shorewood, Wisconsin.

Join us on March 16,  from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 859 7250 0500

Password: stonesoup

 

March 9: No Stone Soup Tonight

Stone Soup is off tonight due to illness. Find out who features next week soon.

 

March 2: Dexter Garcia Features at Stone Soup

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

On Wednesday March 2, we welcome past feature Dexter Garcia to our virtual podium as she celebrates the release of her new poetry collection, Love Poems to my Not Lover.

Dexter Garcia is an Afro-Latinx Boston based poet who has been writing since she was 11 but began writing seriously at 19. Dexter was pushed to writing by the need to express herself and realized that it was a way to create change. She is inspired by everyday life but especially by the ways in which it affects marginalized peoples. Dexter loves to write about love and all of the different ways we experience it. She has worked with organizations such as Raw Art Works, The Institute of Contemporary Art, MassLEAP and many more.

Join us on March 2,  from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 843 8173 0194

Password: stonesoup

February 23: Stone Soup All Open Mic Tonight

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

On Wednesday February 23, we continue with an all open mic night.

Join us on February 23,  from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 893 4815 2640

Password: stonesoup

February 16: Stone Soup All Open Mic Tonight

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

On Wednesday February 16, we continue with an all open mic night.

Join us on February 16,  from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 828 5506 7223

Password: stonesoup

February 9: A Reading of Chalk Song by Gale Batchelder

 Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

Join us on February 9 as we celebrate the release of Chalk Song--a collection inspired by Werner Herzog's extraordinary documentary film, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, about the discovery of a cave full of Paleolithic art.--and the three authors behind it.

Gale Batchelder lives in Cambridge, MA. Her poems have appeared in in print and online at Colorado Review, Lily Poetry Review, What Rough Beast (Indolent Books), SpoKe4, Amethyst Arsenic, and White Whale Review, and in two anthologies of ekphrastic poems, New Smoke and Triumph of Poverty from Off the Park Press. Recently she has collaborated with a local dance company, teXtmoVes, in a performance of her poem, The Body Apologies.

Susan Berger-Jones is an architect and poet. She has had a hand in building homes, museums, sheds, pools, auditoriums, birdhouses, sand castles and skyscrapers. Her written and visual work has appeared in Drunken Boat, No Exit, and two anthologies of ekphrastic poems edited by Off the Park Press.

Judson Evans is a poet whose work has focused on crossing genres and collaboration. He regularly publishes haiku, and the related form of haibun, as well as contemporary lyric poems. He was recently named Haibun Editor of Frogpond, the journal of the Haiku Society of America. In 2007, he was chosen as an "Emerging Poet" by John Yau for The Academy of American Poets and won the Philip Booth Poetry Prize from Salt Hill Review in 2013. His poems have appeared most recently in Folio, Volt, 1913: a journal of forms, Cutbank, and The Sugar House Review. His poems have been set to music by composers such as Mohammed Farouz and Marti Epstein, and most recently he has collaborated with videographer Ray Klimek to produce an essay film Remote Viewing and with the Boston-based dance group teXtmoVes to develop his poem The Way Things Go into a dance piece.

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

The meeting ID is 881 8023 3058

Password: stonesoup 

February 2: No Stone Soup Tonight

Stone Soup is off tonight due to illness. Find out who features on February 9 soon.