Tonight
Prabakar T. Rajan Features.
7/25/06
Simon Schattner Passes Away
Photo by Bill Perrault
Tom Tipton and Deb Priestly of the Out of the Blue Art Gallery report that Simon Schattner, musician, poet, Stone Soup regular and featured participant in the recent 35th Anniversary celebration of Stone Soup Poetry, has died from a heart attack.
Stone Soup will attempt to report more information as it becomes available. For many examples of his life's work, visit his website at http://www.simonschattner.net/
Photo by Bill Perrault
Tom Tipton and Deb Priestly of the Out of the Blue Art Gallery report that Simon Schattner, musician, poet, Stone Soup regular and featured participant in the recent 35th Anniversary celebration of Stone Soup Poetry, has died from a heart attack.
Stone Soup will attempt to report more information as it becomes available. For many examples of his life's work, visit his website at http://www.simonschattner.net/
7/24/06
7/17/06
7/15/06
Coming Up at Stone Soup
Don't miss out on these upcoming features:
July 17th: Ryan "Rat" Travis presents his Halloween in July show.
July 24th: Sue Savoy, one of the Cantab's favorite open mikers, visits Stone Soup.
July 31st: Prabakar T. Rajan, open miker and member of the beloved Friends of Poety, features at Stone Soup for the first time.
August 7th: The Highway Poets make their annual visit.
August 14th: Nate Connors reads from his new book, Why Air Winks at Me.
Don't miss out on these upcoming features:
July 17th: Ryan "Rat" Travis presents his Halloween in July show.
July 24th: Sue Savoy, one of the Cantab's favorite open mikers, visits Stone Soup.
July 31st: Prabakar T. Rajan, open miker and member of the beloved Friends of Poety, features at Stone Soup for the first time.
August 7th: The Highway Poets make their annual visit.
August 14th: Nate Connors reads from his new book, Why Air Winks at Me.
August 14th: Nate Connors 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 August 14th, Stone Soup welcomes another member of the Friends of Poetry, Nate Connors.
Nate Connors is an actor/writer who recently published Why Air Winks at Me through Friends of Poetry. He is a graduate of the Emerson M.F.A. program and currently lives in Somerville. He thanks Sunny, Keith, Ron and Sue for their continual support and poetic guidance.
Rebecca
This is a love poem to
the girl I have not met
yet. She has a pair of dark
and wild eyes and a wreath
of flowers in her hair. No,
I think I saw her
today bright sunshine
in my eyes and song
in my head
as I drove to work. When the song was over
the sun dipped behind
a cloud and she
was gone. Even now
I could not tell
her name but it must be
rhythmic and round
on the lips. Rebecca. Yes,
her name must be Rebecca.
This is a poem to
Rebecca who I have not met
yet. And if today she raps on my door
to ask where everyone meets for lunch
to gossip like overgrown school children
and says “I’m Tina.” I will tell her
the truth and lie
myself.
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 August 14th, Stone Soup welcomes another member of the Friends of Poetry, Nate Connors.
Nate Connors is an actor/writer who recently published Why Air Winks at Me through Friends of Poetry. He is a graduate of the Emerson M.F.A. program and currently lives in Somerville. He thanks Sunny, Keith, Ron and Sue for their continual support and poetic guidance.
Rebecca
This is a love poem to
the girl I have not met
yet. She has a pair of dark
and wild eyes and a wreath
of flowers in her hair. No,
I think I saw her
today bright sunshine
in my eyes and song
in my head
as I drove to work. When the song was over
the sun dipped behind
a cloud and she
was gone. Even now
I could not tell
her name but it must be
rhythmic and round
on the lips. Rebecca. Yes,
her name must be Rebecca.
This is a poem to
Rebecca who I have not met
yet. And if today she raps on my door
to ask where everyone meets for lunch
to gossip like overgrown school children
and says “I’m Tina.” I will tell her
the truth and lie
myself.
August 7th: Highway Poets Feature
K.Peddlar Bridges is the co-founder of the Biker Poets & Writers Association and founder of the ROADPOET online magazine. He also serves as a columnist for CT Cruise News and motorcyclegoodies.com. An occasional writing workshop teacher, his work has appeared in numerous publications and has made many radio and television appearances.
Marc D. Goldfinger has been published by Ibbetson Street Press, The Aurorean, Pegasus, The Boston Poet, Clamor magazine, Earth First! and the Crooked River Press among others. He is currently the poetry editor of Spare Change News, a paper put out for the benefit of homeless people. He is a counselor for people with Substance Use Disorders and some of his work has been used to augment courses at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.
Gypsypashn publishes in print and on the web regularly, she is well-known for her monthly column in New England's Motorcyclist Post. She and Colorado's Gypsyrose produce 'Biker Bits,' a daily Biker Rights e-zine. In 2004, Gypsypashn published A Samplng of Soul, a collection of poetry. She currently hosts a monthly reading at BestSeller's Cafe in Medford MA, Gypsypashn's Poetry Caravan.
Colorado T. Sky is the main co-founder of the Highway Poets MC and a lecturer at Franklin Pierce College in Rindge, New Hampshire. Sky has published several chap books as well as a perfect bound book of poetry and prose. He has been published in numerous magazines and journals and has won several literary awards. He has also recorded and produced numerous poetry CD's and cassettes. He is a house writer, poet and columnist for the Harley Rendezvous Motorcycle Rally in New York.
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 August 7th, The Highway poets visit Stone Soup, just one of their many stops in celebration of the Second Annual Biker Poetry Month.
Photos by Bill Perrault
K.Peddlar Bridges is the co-founder of the Biker Poets & Writers Association and founder of the ROADPOET online magazine. He also serves as a columnist for CT Cruise News and motorcyclegoodies.com. An occasional writing workshop teacher, his work has appeared in numerous publications and has made many radio and television appearances.
Marc D. Goldfinger has been published by Ibbetson Street Press, The Aurorean, Pegasus, The Boston Poet, Clamor magazine, Earth First! and the Crooked River Press among others. He is currently the poetry editor of Spare Change News, a paper put out for the benefit of homeless people. He is a counselor for people with Substance Use Disorders and some of his work has been used to augment courses at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.
Gypsypashn publishes in print and on the web regularly, she is well-known for her monthly column in New England's Motorcyclist Post. She and Colorado's Gypsyrose produce 'Biker Bits,' a daily Biker Rights e-zine. In 2004, Gypsypashn published A Samplng of Soul, a collection of poetry. She currently hosts a monthly reading at BestSeller's Cafe in Medford MA, Gypsypashn's Poetry Caravan.
Colorado T. Sky is the main co-founder of the Highway Poets MC and a lecturer at Franklin Pierce College in Rindge, New Hampshire. Sky has published several chap books as well as a perfect bound book of poetry and prose. He has been published in numerous magazines and journals and has won several literary awards. He has also recorded and produced numerous poetry CD's and cassettes. He is a house writer, poet and columnist for the Harley Rendezvous Motorcycle Rally in New York.
7/10/06
Remember
Tonight, David R. Surette, co-host of Bridgewater's Poetribe, reads.
The Poetribe anthology will also be available, as well as Surette's own book.
Tonight, David R. Surette, co-host of Bridgewater's Poetribe, reads.
The Poetribe anthology will also be available, as well as Surette's own book.
January 31: Prabakar T. Rajan Features
Photo by Chad Parenteau
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 July 31st, Stone Soup welcomes habitual open miker, occasonal feature, and longtime Friends of Poetry member Prabakar T. Rajan to read.
Prabakar T. Rajan was born at the Cantab sometime in 2003 and has since then continued, with audacity, to inflict his poems regularly on hapless audiences at the Cantab and the Brookline Booksmith. Neither Brockton nor East BridgeWater are safe from him. His only saving grace is that he has the good sense to truly enjoy the open mike at these and other venues, where he savors and steals from poets better than he. No true poet is safe from him. That could well be the most generous epitaph he merits.
Photo by Chad Parenteau
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 July 31st, Stone Soup welcomes habitual open miker, occasonal feature, and longtime Friends of Poetry member Prabakar T. Rajan to read.
Prabakar T. Rajan was born at the Cantab sometime in 2003 and has since then continued, with audacity, to inflict his poems regularly on hapless audiences at the Cantab and the Brookline Booksmith. Neither Brockton nor East BridgeWater are safe from him. His only saving grace is that he has the good sense to truly enjoy the open mike at these and other venues, where he savors and steals from poets better than he. No true poet is safe from him. That could well be the most generous epitaph he merits.
7/3/06
6/30/06
Stone Soup Features for July
Below is a list of features for July. More information will be added next week.
July 3rd: Celebrated local poet Richard Cambridge celebrates the Fourth of July in a less common fashion.
July 10th: Welcome poet and teacher David R. Surette.
July 17h: Ryan “Rat” Travis returns to Stone Soup.
July 24th: Sue Savoy has her first Stone Soup feature.
July 31st: Friends of Poetry member Prabakar T. Rajan also features at Stone Soup Poetry for the first time.
Below is a list of features for July. More information will be added next week.
July 3rd: Celebrated local poet Richard Cambridge celebrates the Fourth of July in a less common fashion.
July 10th: Welcome poet and teacher David R. Surette.
July 17h: Ryan “Rat” Travis returns to Stone Soup.
July 24th: Sue Savoy has her first Stone Soup feature.
July 31st: Friends of Poetry member Prabakar T. Rajan also features at Stone Soup Poetry for the first time.
July 24th: Sue Savoy 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 July 24th, Stone Soup invites Sue Savoy to feature.
Sue Savoy always hated poetry and is not sure what she writes actually is poetry. She can't bring herself to refer to herself as a poet, but she's been a regular at the Cantab venue for years and has read and featured at numerous venues including the Cantab and Tapestry of Voices. She most recently featured as a competitor in the Head to Head Haiku Slam at Poetribe hosted by Samantha Jane Scolamiero.
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 July 24th, Stone Soup invites Sue Savoy to feature.
Sue Savoy always hated poetry and is not sure what she writes actually is poetry. She can't bring herself to refer to herself as a poet, but she's been a regular at the Cantab venue for years and has read and featured at numerous venues including the Cantab and Tapestry of Voices. She most recently featured as a competitor in the Head to Head Haiku Slam at Poetribe hosted by Samantha Jane Scolamiero.
July 17th: Ryan "Rat" Travis 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 the 17th, Ryan "Rat" Travis returns to Stone Soup with a "Haloween in July" show, where he will release the sequel to his Haiku of Horror chapbook.
Ryan Travis has been performing for about 9 years as a poet, actor, singer, performance artist and clown. He’s toured with 2 infamous poetry groups, The Collective and The Barnum and Buddah Circus, all over New England as well as, NYC, NJ, PA and KY. Known for his upfront and revealing style, his work ranges from children’s poetry to the outright offensive, so much so that he was once asked to leave the stage by a long distance phone call by the venue owner.
Nominated for an Irene Ryan Award for Acting Excellence and a Cambridge Poetry Award for best love poem, he’s also been published in many online and print magazines, most recently in England.
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 the 17th, Ryan "Rat" Travis returns to Stone Soup with a "Haloween in July" show, where he will release the sequel to his Haiku of Horror chapbook.
Ryan Travis has been performing for about 9 years as a poet, actor, singer, performance artist and clown. He’s toured with 2 infamous poetry groups, The Collective and The Barnum and Buddah Circus, all over New England as well as, NYC, NJ, PA and KY. Known for his upfront and revealing style, his work ranges from children’s poetry to the outright offensive, so much so that he was once asked to leave the stage by a long distance phone call by the venue owner.
Nominated for an Irene Ryan Award for Acting Excellence and a Cambridge Poetry Award for best love poem, he’s also been published in many online and print magazines, most recently in England.
Not a love poem
This is not a love poem
by any stretch of the imagination
Even though I feel like my chest is going to explode
and an incredible sense of joy radiates from within me
This is not a love poem
Even though I think that you're the most beautiful
and phenomenal woman I've ever met
and I can't get you out of my head
This is not a love poem
and when I think about the way you look at me sometimes
and how I feel when I stare into your captivating eyes,
I feel higher than I've ever been
and my muse forces me to put pen to paper to express these feelings
compelling me to write
So just don't think of this as a love poem
cause if it was, I might just scare you away
cause love is a terrifying word
and I haven't even begun to truly know you yet
but I feel so very lucky to know who you are right now.
So lets just say this is a poem
to let you know how incredible you are
and leave it at that
cause this is not a love poem
even though it sure seems like it.
This is not a love poem
by any stretch of the imagination
Even though I feel like my chest is going to explode
and an incredible sense of joy radiates from within me
This is not a love poem
Even though I think that you're the most beautiful
and phenomenal woman I've ever met
and I can't get you out of my head
This is not a love poem
and when I think about the way you look at me sometimes
and how I feel when I stare into your captivating eyes,
I feel higher than I've ever been
and my muse forces me to put pen to paper to express these feelings
compelling me to write
So just don't think of this as a love poem
cause if it was, I might just scare you away
cause love is a terrifying word
and I haven't even begun to truly know you yet
but I feel so very lucky to know who you are right now.
So lets just say this is a poem
to let you know how incredible you are
and leave it at that
cause this is not a love poem
even though it sure seems like it.
July 10th: David R. Surette 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 July 10th, Stone Soup welcomes Poetribe co-host David R. Surette, whose body of work covers a great range of topics, from family to personal heritage to the beauty of the American landscape and its various inhabitants.
David R. Surette's first book of poetry is Young Gentlemen's School (Koenisha, 2004). He co-hosts Poetribe, a poetry series in southeastern Massachusetts.
Click here for a sample poem by Surette.
The author's website.
Poetribe.
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 July 10th, Stone Soup welcomes Poetribe co-host David R. Surette, whose body of work covers a great range of topics, from family to personal heritage to the beauty of the American landscape and its various inhabitants.
David R. Surette's first book of poetry is Young Gentlemen's School (Koenisha, 2004). He co-hosts Poetribe, a poetry series in southeastern Massachusetts.
Click here for a sample poem by Surette.
The author's website.
Poetribe.
6/26/06
6/24/06
July 3rd: Richard Cambridge Reads at Stone Soup
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 July 3rd, Stone Soup welcomes back poet Richard Cambridge for a special performance that recognizes the Fourth of July holiday in a less common fashion, as is indicative in the sample poem below.
Richard Cambridge's poetry and theater productions address controversial themes on the American political landscape. His poetry has appeared in The Paterson Literary Review, Heartland Journal, Asheville Poetry Review and others. His awards include The Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize and he was a finalist for a residency at the Fine Arts Work Shop in Provincetown, MA. He is a long-time resident of Cambridge, MA where he curates the Poets’ Theater at Club Passim, and helps run Squawk! a weekly open mic coffeehouse in Harvard Square. He was a member of the Boston Slam team that won the championship in 1992, and in 1997 won the individual Master’s Slam at the National Poetry Slam. In 2003 he received the Cambridge Peace and Justice Award for the contributions of his art and activism.
After the London bombings, an NPR commentator asked the question:
Is this what the future holds? Will we have to endure this like bad weather?
Bad Weather
Our language comes from Arabic
There’s a bin-Laden
For every letter of the alphabet
The forecast today
Is Bad Weather
A cluster bomb
in Copley Square
A suicide bomber
At Downtown Crossing
What doesn’t rain from above
Can’t be protected from with an umbrella
It’s going to be a Nuclear Day
Mushrooms exploding in the corners of Everywhere
Lunch appointments completely ruined
A whole life’s work blown to bits
My parents no longer exist
In Rochester
There’s a fingernail left
Of a friend from Montana
What we need is
HOMELAND SECURITY
A T-Shirt says
Fighting Terrorism since 1492
Depicting four Native American warriors
Rifles cocked
What goes around
Becomes a tornado
Two-fifty for a coffee and donut
Two-fifty for a gallon of gas
The president grins
With a moustache of oil
Got Democracy
Wasn’t it Sadaam who took down the towers
The forecast today is Bad Weather
It’s always easier to believe a lie
--Richard Cambridge
Click here for the Squawk! website.
Click here for Club Passim's website.
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 July 3rd, Stone Soup welcomes back poet Richard Cambridge for a special performance that recognizes the Fourth of July holiday in a less common fashion, as is indicative in the sample poem below.
Richard Cambridge's poetry and theater productions address controversial themes on the American political landscape. His poetry has appeared in The Paterson Literary Review, Heartland Journal, Asheville Poetry Review and others. His awards include The Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize and he was a finalist for a residency at the Fine Arts Work Shop in Provincetown, MA. He is a long-time resident of Cambridge, MA where he curates the Poets’ Theater at Club Passim, and helps run Squawk! a weekly open mic coffeehouse in Harvard Square. He was a member of the Boston Slam team that won the championship in 1992, and in 1997 won the individual Master’s Slam at the National Poetry Slam. In 2003 he received the Cambridge Peace and Justice Award for the contributions of his art and activism.
After the London bombings, an NPR commentator asked the question:
Is this what the future holds? Will we have to endure this like bad weather?
Bad Weather
Our language comes from Arabic
There’s a bin-Laden
For every letter of the alphabet
The forecast today
Is Bad Weather
A cluster bomb
in Copley Square
A suicide bomber
At Downtown Crossing
What doesn’t rain from above
Can’t be protected from with an umbrella
It’s going to be a Nuclear Day
Mushrooms exploding in the corners of Everywhere
Lunch appointments completely ruined
A whole life’s work blown to bits
My parents no longer exist
In Rochester
There’s a fingernail left
Of a friend from Montana
What we need is
HOMELAND SECURITY
A T-Shirt says
Fighting Terrorism since 1492
Depicting four Native American warriors
Rifles cocked
What goes around
Becomes a tornado
Two-fifty for a coffee and donut
Two-fifty for a gallon of gas
The president grins
With a moustache of oil
Got Democracy
Wasn’t it Sadaam who took down the towers
The forecast today is Bad Weather
It’s always easier to believe a lie
--Richard Cambridge
Click here for the Squawk! website.
Click here for Club Passim's website.
6/19/06
June 26th: Edward J. Carvallho 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. Unable to make his scheduled feature in May due to personal obligations, Edward J. Carvalho has been rescheduled to close off June.
Edward J. Carvalho is a twice-nominated Pushcart Prize writer (2004-2005) who has been writing poetry for over 20 years. He is the author of several self-published chapbooks and unpublished full-length collections of poetry, including the latest manuscript, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short, scheduled to be published later this year. His poetry - lauded by Nobel laureate, Elie Wiesel and poet, Martin Espada - has appeared in various national journals around the country. Mr. Carvalho holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from Goddard College with future academic plans that include the pursuit of a doctorate in literature and criticism focusing on Walt Whitman.
Click here for Edward J. Carvalho's webite.
Click here for a preview of Carvalho's recent contribution for The Heat City Review.
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. Unable to make his scheduled feature in May due to personal obligations, Edward J. Carvalho has been rescheduled to close off June.
Edward J. Carvalho is a twice-nominated Pushcart Prize writer (2004-2005) who has been writing poetry for over 20 years. He is the author of several self-published chapbooks and unpublished full-length collections of poetry, including the latest manuscript, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short, scheduled to be published later this year. His poetry - lauded by Nobel laureate, Elie Wiesel and poet, Martin Espada - has appeared in various national journals around the country. Mr. Carvalho holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from Goddard College with future academic plans that include the pursuit of a doctorate in literature and criticism focusing on Walt Whitman.
Click here for Edward J. Carvalho's webite.
Click here for a preview of Carvalho's recent contribution for The Heat City Review.
June 19th: David "Doc" Cote 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. Featuring tonight will be venue host and longtime friend of Jack Powers and Stone Soup, David "Doc" Cote.
Cote has been hosting multiple venues in various locations, from book stores, to his current reading located at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Downtown Nashua, which meets ever second Friday every month and includes a feature and an open mike. He also taught English for 33 years in both college in high school. For the last fifty years, he has worked on one book, A Primer for Souls, which will be released by the end of this year.
(photo not obtainable)
Click here for information on the Unitarian Universalist Church in Nashua, New Hampshire.
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. Featuring tonight will be venue host and longtime friend of Jack Powers and Stone Soup, David "Doc" Cote.
Cote has been hosting multiple venues in various locations, from book stores, to his current reading located at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Downtown Nashua, which meets ever second Friday every month and includes a feature and an open mike. He also taught English for 33 years in both college in high school. For the last fifty years, he has worked on one book, A Primer for Souls, which will be released by the end of this year.
(photo not obtainable)
Click here for information on the Unitarian Universalist Church in Nashua, New Hampshire.
5/31/06
June 12th: Andy Levesque 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.
Since entering the open mic poetry scene in Cambridge in 1995, Andy Levesque has developed a reputation as a unique and insightful nature poet. He has featured at many poetry venues throughout the area. An update of his 1995 chapbook of poems, "Walden Vision Quest" is in the works, and a new cd of poems, "Wings of Wonder" has just been released.
For six years Andy was host of a live poetry series at Walden Pond in Concord, MA, which he founded in 1997, A graphic designer by trade, he created an online portal for poetry and the visual arts in 2000, now titled MothwingArts.com, where samples of his poetry, photography and digital art can be found, as well as the work of dozens of guest artists and poets. He has designed and published, under the Mothwing Press imprint, a number of books of poetry by outstanding local poets. He is also a composer and musician, performing classic and original material and working on a new music cd.
three robins
running through grass
each bright eye
reaching for sign
of worm or seed
bugsluggish
in the chilly dew
race forward
stop
utterly erect
exquisitely alert
senses extending
to grasp
the quiver of threat
cold menace
of hungry
intenta shifting
in the shadows
focused vigilance
fills the lungs
in each feathered breast
the heartthe wings
ever beating
with fierce courage
ready flight
instantaneous instinct
to escape
--Andy Levesque
Click here for the Mothwing Arts website.
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.
Since entering the open mic poetry scene in Cambridge in 1995, Andy Levesque has developed a reputation as a unique and insightful nature poet. He has featured at many poetry venues throughout the area. An update of his 1995 chapbook of poems, "Walden Vision Quest" is in the works, and a new cd of poems, "Wings of Wonder" has just been released.
For six years Andy was host of a live poetry series at Walden Pond in Concord, MA, which he founded in 1997, A graphic designer by trade, he created an online portal for poetry and the visual arts in 2000, now titled MothwingArts.com, where samples of his poetry, photography and digital art can be found, as well as the work of dozens of guest artists and poets. He has designed and published, under the Mothwing Press imprint, a number of books of poetry by outstanding local poets. He is also a composer and musician, performing classic and original material and working on a new music cd.
three robins
running through grass
each bright eye
reaching for sign
of worm or seed
bugsluggish
in the chilly dew
race forward
stop
utterly erect
exquisitely alert
senses extending
to grasp
the quiver of threat
cold menace
of hungry
intenta shifting
in the shadows
focused vigilance
fills the lungs
in each feathered breast
the heartthe wings
ever beating
with fierce courage
ready flight
instantaneous instinct
to escape
--Andy Levesque
Click here for the Mothwing Arts website.
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