1/7/26

January 14: Stone Soup's Online Workshop


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 January 14, we return with an online open mic workshop.

Bring one poem no longer than a single page (no smaller than 11 font)

Leave the title off (share it in chat).

If you can't screen share, you can email the workshop head at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com

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

The meeting ID is 834 2588 1108

Password: stonesoup 


1/5/26

January 7: Stone Soup Poetry Online All-Open Mic

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 January 7, Stone Soup returns from the holiday break and back to the weekly grind with an all-open mic.
 
Join us on Wednesday, January 7 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 822 5843 2356

Password: stonesoup 

12/22/25

Stone Soup Holiday Break

Stone Soup is taking time off for the rest of December. Enjoy the holiday break. We return on January 7.

 

12/15/25

December 17: Stone Soup's Online Workshop


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 December 17, on the suggestion of one person, we will have our first online open mic workshop.

Bring one poem no longer than a single page (no smaller than 11 font)

Leave the title off (share it in chat).

If you can't screen share, you can email the workshop head at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com

 Join us on Wednesday December 17 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.  

The meeting ID is 875 4386 8218

Password: stonesoup 



12/7/25

December 10: Anna Geoffroy Features at Stone Soup Poetry

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 December 10, we welcome Garage Poet and Contro-Verse Open Mic co-host Anna Geoffroy to our virtual podium as a special feature.

Anna Geoffroy is a Massachusetts-based poet, propagandist and pope (non-exclusive). She is the co-host of the live-to-tape Contro-Verse open mic in Malden and editor of the Holy Nonsense project. She has performed at festivals, galleries, coffee shops and porch fests from Manchester to Mansfield, and other places not starting with the letter M. Her poetry has been published in Oddball Magazine, The Blood Rag, the Depose Anthology, and the Massachusetts Bards 2025 Poetry Anthology. You can also find her poetry and artwork featured in the 2022 Lines Connecting Lines exhibit at UMA, the Malden Covid Memorial, and a street post near you. 

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

The meeting ID is 818 8268 0800

Password: stonesoup 


11/22/25

December 3: g emil reutter Features at Stone Soup Poetry

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 December 3, we welcome the return of Stone Soup alum g emil reutter. 

A writer of poems and stories and on occasion literary criticism, g emil reutter was born in Bristol, Pa., raised in Levittown, Pa. and has lived most of his life in of Philadelphia, Pa. A highly decorated member of the Railroad Police, he retired from a 26 year career in the patrol, anti-crime and criminal investigation division. Prior he worked as a steelworker, tea blender and a number of other jobs. A graduate of Neshaminy High School, he graduated from the New England Institute of Law Enforcement Management, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. He attended Temple University and Penn State University among others. His poetry and fiction have been widely published in the small and electronic press as well as numerous newspapers and magazines. Twenty-one of his collections have been published. He published The Fox Chase Review (2008 – 2015). He is currently a contributing editor at North of Oxford. 

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

The meeting ID is 841 9993 1479

Password: stonesoup 


November 26: Stone Soup Poetry Online All-Open Mic

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 November 26, Stone Soup has one last open mic for the month before we plunge into Thanksgiving.
 
Join us on Wednesday, November 26 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 873 0435 7178

Password: stonesoup

11/9/25

November 19: john compton features at Stone Soup Poetry

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

The meeting ID is 880 7967 9182

Password: stonesoup 


11/7/25

November 12: Ryk McIntyre Features at Stone Soup Poetry

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 November 12, we welcome back the legendary Ryk McIntyre.

Ryk McIntyre is an actor, content writer, historian, and amateur expert on Lizzie Borden and the famous murders. He is currently the senior tour guide at the Borden House in Fall River, MA, and an amateur paranormal investigator as well. Yes, the Lizzie Borden House is haunted. He is also a published author and performance poet with decades of experience. Tonight, he’s going to be the second thing. 

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

The meeting ID is 872 4044 4404

Password: stonesoup 



11/3/25

November 5: Stone Soup Poetry Online All-Open Mic

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 November 5, Stone Soup kicks off November with an all-open mic before a academical of features. 
 
Join us on Wednesday, November 5 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 846 3754 4307

Password: stonesoup 


10/27/25

October 29: Stone Soup's Trilogy of (not really) Terror

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 October 29, we welcome a Trilogy of (not really) Terror as our favorite California poets led by Don "My Birthday is on Halloween" Kingfisher.

Don Kingfisher Campbell received his MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles and taught Writers Seminar at Occidental College Upward Bound for 36 years. He's been a coach and judge for Poetry Out Loud, a performing poet/teacher for Red Hen Press Youth Writing Workshops, an L.A. Coordinator and Board Member of California Poets In The Schools, poetry editor of the Angel City Review, publisher of Four Feathers Press, and host of the Saturday Afternoon Poetry reading series in Pasadena, California. 

Marvin Louis Dorsey was raised in the San Fernando Valley and now resides in the high desert. He worked for decades as a kennel manager for a boxer rescue facility. Marvin has been writing poetry for over twenty years. He is the inventor of the poetic libretto. He has been published in the book Looking Out Of Alhambra and in these print and online publications: The San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, Spectrum, Poetic Diversity, and Four Feathers Press. He also has produced six books: Desert Prowl, Gathered Pieces of Broken Glass, Masquerades, Casual Conversations, The Poetic Librettos, and Snacky Snacks.

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.

The meeting ID is 821 9367 6301

Password: stonesoup


10/16/25

October 22: Elliot Gray Boodhan Features at Stone Soup Poetry

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 October 22, Elliot Gray Boodhan is our next October feature. 

"A sad philosopher just trying to create something that matters, Elliot Gray Boodhan’s poetry is transformative. His work appears in new words {press}, Poet’s Choice and Queeah. Elliot’s debut chapbook to have survived is now available from Bottlecap Press. Check out his Instagram @apoetgray.

Join us on Wednesday, October 22 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 880 9982 9864

Password: stonesoup 


10/15/25

October 15: Stone Soup Poetry Online All-Open Mic

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 October 15 Stone Soup has one more all-open mic interlude for October.

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

The meeting ID is 814 3166 8471

Password: stonesoup 

 


10/7/25

October 8: Tobias Hofacre Features at Stone Soup Poetry

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 October 8, Stone Soup welcomes the young trailblazer Tobias Hofacre to their virtual podium.
  
Student by day and poet by night, Tobias Hofacre is a 15-year-old poet phenom who's been writing poetry since 2018, inspired by his Aunt. Tobias Hofacre published his first poetry chapbook titled A Poets Dream in 2024. For nearly two years, he has also been taking part in a challenge where he writes a poem everyday called the Stafford Challenge. In addition to poetry, Tobias spends much of his time playing video games, participating in extracurricular activities such as marching band, watching football and NASCAR, and hanging out with family and friends. Most weeks, you can find him at the Walnut Street Cafe in Lynn Massachusetts, where he originally made his poetry debut. He’s grown up and still lives and writes on the Massachusetts North Shore in Essex County, MA. 

Join us on Wednesday, October 8 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 867 4899 0229

Password: stonesoup 


9/29/25

October 1: Stone Soup Poetry Online All-Open Mic

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 October 1, Stone Soup kicks off the new month with an extended open mic.

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

The meeting ID is 858 859 6337 3533

Password: stonesoup 

 


9/22/25

September 24: Donald Fisher Features at Stone Soup Poetry

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 September 24, Stone Soup closes out the month of September with poet Donald Fisher.

Don Fisher has been writing poetry, fiction and non-fiction for 40 plus years. His work has been accepted by dozens of literary magazines. In 2021 his first collection of poems On The Edge Of Grace was published by Human Error Press. He is currently working on a screenplay about a private detective in a small town in Massachusetts. He also hosts open mics with featured readers three times a year at the Chicopee Public Library. He lives, writes and reads in Chicopee with his 91-year-old dad who has always encouraged him. He should take more walks.

Join us on Wednesday, September 24 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 899 3344 4180

Password: stonesoup 

 

9/15/25

September 17: Carol Weston Features at Stone Soup Poetry

 

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 September 17, we welcome back Carol Weston, who will be able to join us by video and not just telephone.  

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. 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.

Join us on Wednesday, September 17 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 816 5390 7685

Password: stonesoup 

 

 

9/8/25

September 10: Mary Jennings Features at Stone Soup Poetry

  
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 September 10, we celebrate the return of Stone Soup alum Mary Jennings. 
 
Mary Jennings has read regularly with the Stone Soup Poets since their days at T.T. the Bear’s. A job relocation to Western Massachusetts kept her from returning to Stone Soup, except for occasional visits to her home turf. She has established herself in the poetry scene out there, and since the beginning of the pandemic became a regular on online open mics. Since her January 2022 Stone Soup feature, her work has been published in Meat for Tea, Oddball Magazine, and Exist Otherwise, an online literary journal. That same year, she was appointed to the Chicopee Cultural Council, for which she serves as secretary. She started up the Poetry and Spoken Word series at the Chicopee Public Library, which is now moderated by Don Fisher. Mary is putting together her first book of poetry and writing her first mystery novel, which she will read from this Wednesday. Mary and her cat Violet live in Chicopee, Massachusetts.
 
Join us on Wednesday, September 10 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 896 8417 6890

Password: stonesoup 


9/3/25

September 3: Stone Soup Poetry Online All-Open Mic

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 September 3, Stone Soup kicks off September with an extended open mic.

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

The meeting ID is 858 8403 9079

Password: stonesoup 


8/27/25

August 28: Stone Soup Poetry Online All-Open Mic


Stone Soup Poetry normally meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. This week, however, we will be meeting on Thursday, August 28 due to scheduling conflicts. 

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

The meeting ID is 871 1353 5392

Password: stonesoup