Reminder
Brian S. Ellis closes out National Poetry Month.
4/18/10
May 10: Doug Holder and Zvi A. Sesling Feature
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 May 10, Stone Soup's celebration of its 39th anniversary continues with the return of poet/publishers Doug Holder and Zvi A. Sesling.
Doug Holder is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press. He is the co-founder of The Somerville News Writers Festival, arts editor of The Somerville news, Director of the Newton Free Library Poetry Series, and Book review editor of The Wilderness House Literary Review. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Toronto Quarterly, Poetry Motel, the new renaissance, The Endicott Review, and many others. He currently teaches writing at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston, Mass and Endicott College in Beverly, Mass. He holds an M.A. in Literature from Harvard University.
Zvi A. Sesling has published poetry in over 100 magazines among them: Midstream, Poetica, Voices Israel, Saranac Review, New Delta Review, Plainsong, Asphodel, Ibbetson St., Haz Mat Review, Istanbul Literary Review, The Chaffin Journal, Ship of Fools and Chiron Review. He has more poems forthcoming in 2009 in Main Street Rag, Endicott Review and others. He was awarded Third Place (2004) and First Prize (2007) in the Reuben Rose International Poetry Competition and was a finalist in the 2009 Cervena Barva Press Chapbook Contest. In 2008 he was selected to read his poetry at New England/Pen “Discovery” by Boston Poet Laureate Sam Cornish. He recently participated in a Jewish Poetry Festival at Temple Sinai, Brookline, MA. He edits the Muddy River Poetry Review. His book King of the Jungle (Ibbetson St.) was published in March and his chapbook Across Stones of Bad Dream (Cervana Barva) is due out this year.
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 May 10, Stone Soup's celebration of its 39th anniversary continues with the return of poet/publishers Doug Holder and Zvi A. Sesling.
Doug Holder is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press. He is the co-founder of The Somerville News Writers Festival, arts editor of The Somerville news, Director of the Newton Free Library Poetry Series, and Book review editor of The Wilderness House Literary Review. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Toronto Quarterly, Poetry Motel, the new renaissance, The Endicott Review, and many others. He currently teaches writing at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston, Mass and Endicott College in Beverly, Mass. He holds an M.A. in Literature from Harvard University.
Zvi A. Sesling has published poetry in over 100 magazines among them: Midstream, Poetica, Voices Israel, Saranac Review, New Delta Review, Plainsong, Asphodel, Ibbetson St., Haz Mat Review, Istanbul Literary Review, The Chaffin Journal, Ship of Fools and Chiron Review. He has more poems forthcoming in 2009 in Main Street Rag, Endicott Review and others. He was awarded Third Place (2004) and First Prize (2007) in the Reuben Rose International Poetry Competition and was a finalist in the 2009 Cervena Barva Press Chapbook Contest. In 2008 he was selected to read his poetry at New England/Pen “Discovery” by Boston Poet Laureate Sam Cornish. He recently participated in a Jewish Poetry Festival at Temple Sinai, Brookline, MA. He edits the Muddy River Poetry Review. His book King of the Jungle (Ibbetson St.) was published in March and his chapbook Across Stones of Bad Dream (Cervana Barva) is due out this year.
May 3: C.C. Arshagra Features 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 May 3, to celebrate Stone Soup's 39th anniversary month, we welcome back C.C. Arshagra, a figure from Stone Soup's past that makes a long-awaited return, promising new work and musical accompaniment.
C.C. Arshagra is a Boston based poet and songwriter. He was active in Stone Soup as the videographer for the Stone Soup Poetry TV show. He also toured with the Barnum and Buddah Poetry Circus. He is the author of The Open Mike Poems, a series of chapbooks. He has been called "The hardest working man in poetry" by Jeff Robinson.
Visit the poet's web site.
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 May 3, to celebrate Stone Soup's 39th anniversary month, we welcome back C.C. Arshagra, a figure from Stone Soup's past that makes a long-awaited return, promising new work and musical accompaniment.
C.C. Arshagra is a Boston based poet and songwriter. He was active in Stone Soup as the videographer for the Stone Soup Poetry TV show. He also toured with the Barnum and Buddah Poetry Circus. He is the author of The Open Mike Poems, a series of chapbooks. He has been called "The hardest working man in poetry" by Jeff Robinson.
Visit the poet's web site.
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April 26: Brian S. Ellis 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 April 26th, we finish National Poetry Month with performance poet Brian S. Ellis, who will be returning to Boston after an extended tour across the nation.
Brian S. Ellis is a writer and performer based out of Jamaica Plain. He’s represented the Boston Poetry Slam at the National Poetry Slam and the Individual World Poetry Slam; co-founded the Whitehaus Family Record, a venue and arts collective in Jamaica Plain; and published Uncontrolled Experiments in Freedom, a collection of his poems with Write Bloody Books, in 2008. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice.
Purchase Brian S. Ellis' book from Write Bloody Press.
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 April 26th, we finish National Poetry Month with performance poet Brian S. Ellis, who will be returning to Boston after an extended tour across the nation.
Brian S. Ellis is a writer and performer based out of Jamaica Plain. He’s represented the Boston Poetry Slam at the National Poetry Slam and the Individual World Poetry Slam; co-founded the Whitehaus Family Record, a venue and arts collective in Jamaica Plain; and published Uncontrolled Experiments in Freedom, a collection of his poems with Write Bloody Books, in 2008. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice.
Purchase Brian S. Ellis' book from Write Bloody Press.
April 19th: Lee Litif and Chris Robbins Return
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 April 19th, Stone Soup will feature the return of Lee Litif and Chris Robbins, the Fifth and Sixth Horsemen of The Apocalypse. Due to the extreme subject matter of both poets, this show will not be aired on Cambridge or Lowell public access, and large portions of the show will not be able to be uploaded on YouTube. Therefore, the show is best viewed live.
Photo by Bill Perrault
The most infamous open miker at the venue. Lee Litif has been a regular contribution to the Stone Soup open mike since 1991. He's the author of several chapbooks, including Unpatriotic Flags and Abominating White Houses, Reckless Paella and Defecating Republicans, and Ultrasonic Amplifiers and Marshall Amps/Genital Wart Puking Rednecks. He's been described as "The love child of Gallagher and Larry Fischer with G.G. Allin as midwife" by Chad Parenteau and "the orgasm that never quite made it," by Walter Howard.
Photo by Bill Perrault
If you can imagine Alice Walker dating Jim Morrison and their kid having George Carlin and John Valby for teachers, you’d have a fair picture of Chris Robbins. His darker side is a cross between “Animal Farm” and “Animal House”. Ever since he discovered that he has Asperger’s Syndrome, he quit writing feminist poems in favor of writing autistic ones because he believes that he’ll become more relevant that way. In other words, just like former Boston Red Sox player Manny Ramirez joining the Los Angeles Dodgers, Chris is playing on a different team now, but he’s still playing the same game.
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 April 19th, Stone Soup will feature the return of Lee Litif and Chris Robbins, the Fifth and Sixth Horsemen of The Apocalypse. Due to the extreme subject matter of both poets, this show will not be aired on Cambridge or Lowell public access, and large portions of the show will not be able to be uploaded on YouTube. Therefore, the show is best viewed live.
Photo by Bill Perrault
The most infamous open miker at the venue. Lee Litif has been a regular contribution to the Stone Soup open mike since 1991. He's the author of several chapbooks, including Unpatriotic Flags and Abominating White Houses, Reckless Paella and Defecating Republicans, and Ultrasonic Amplifiers and Marshall Amps/Genital Wart Puking Rednecks. He's been described as "The love child of Gallagher and Larry Fischer with G.G. Allin as midwife" by Chad Parenteau and "the orgasm that never quite made it," by Walter Howard.
Photo by Bill Perrault
If you can imagine Alice Walker dating Jim Morrison and their kid having George Carlin and John Valby for teachers, you’d have a fair picture of Chris Robbins. His darker side is a cross between “Animal Farm” and “Animal House”. Ever since he discovered that he has Asperger’s Syndrome, he quit writing feminist poems in favor of writing autistic ones because he believes that he’ll become more relevant that way. In other words, just like former Boston Red Sox player Manny Ramirez joining the Los Angeles Dodgers, Chris is playing on a different team now, but he’s still playing the same game.
April 12: April Ranger 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 April 12, we welcome longtime local performer April Ranger for her first Stone Soup feature.
April Ranger is a Boston-based poet and playwright. She represented the Cantab Lounge at the 2009 Individual World Poetry Slam in Berkeley, California. As part of the Cantab's 2008 Team she performed on Final Stage in Madison, Wisconsin. April has featured her work on stages across New England, and holds a degree in theater from Emerson College. She currently resides in Jamaica Plain.
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 April 12, we welcome longtime local performer April Ranger for her first Stone Soup feature.
April Ranger is a Boston-based poet and playwright. She represented the Cantab Lounge at the 2009 Individual World Poetry Slam in Berkeley, California. As part of the Cantab's 2008 Team she performed on Final Stage in Madison, Wisconsin. April has featured her work on stages across New England, and holds a degree in theater from Emerson College. She currently resides in Jamaica Plain.
April 5: Janaka Stucky 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. April 5 marks the beginning of Stone Soup's celebration National Poetry Month. We start off by also celebrating Janaka Stucky's long-awaited return to Stone Soup.
Janaka Stucky is practicing the perfection of effort while working on silent relationships with knives, hairpins, & a history of tentacles. Other passions include whiskey and pugilism. He is also the Publisher of Black Ocean and its literary magazine, Handsome. His latest chapbook, Your Name Is The Only Freedom, is now available from Brave Men Press. Some of his other poems have appeared in Cannibal, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Free Verse, No Tell Motel, North American Review, Redivider and VOLT. He will also be teaching a 6-week workshop at Grub Street beginning April 18th.
Visit the Black Ocean web site.
Janaka Stucky as featured in The Boston Phoenix.
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. April 5 marks the beginning of Stone Soup's celebration National Poetry Month. We start off by also celebrating Janaka Stucky's long-awaited return to Stone Soup.
Janaka Stucky is practicing the perfection of effort while working on silent relationships with knives, hairpins, & a history of tentacles. Other passions include whiskey and pugilism. He is also the Publisher of Black Ocean and its literary magazine, Handsome. His latest chapbook, Your Name Is The Only Freedom, is now available from Brave Men Press. Some of his other poems have appeared in Cannibal, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Free Verse, No Tell Motel, North American Review, Redivider and VOLT. He will also be teaching a 6-week workshop at Grub Street beginning April 18th.
Visit the Black Ocean web site.
Janaka Stucky as featured in The Boston Phoenix.
March 29: David Leo Sirois 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 March 29, poet David Leo Sirois has his farewell feature to Stone Soup and Boston as he returns to his home state of Maine.
David Sirois was born in Edmundston, New Brunswick, and grew up across the border in Madawaska, Maine, the northernmost town on the East Coast. He attended Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont, majoring in Literature and Languages. He has served as a staff writer for The Better Drink: A Sparkling Wine and Living Magazine, contributing poetry, essays, fiction and film reviews. His poems have also appeared in journals including Silo, Poesy, Ibbetson Street, I Left This Here For You To Read, and Echoes, and his work was anthologized in Becoming Fire: Spiritual W riting from Rising Generations. David sees writing as a spiritual practice, and has just finished his first full-length book of poems, Silver Shiver.
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 March 29, poet David Leo Sirois has his farewell feature to Stone Soup and Boston as he returns to his home state of Maine.
David Sirois was born in Edmundston, New Brunswick, and grew up across the border in Madawaska, Maine, the northernmost town on the East Coast. He attended Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont, majoring in Literature and Languages. He has served as a staff writer for The Better Drink: A Sparkling Wine and Living Magazine, contributing poetry, essays, fiction and film reviews. His poems have also appeared in journals including Silo, Poesy, Ibbetson Street, I Left This Here For You To Read, and Echoes, and his work was anthologized in Becoming Fire: Spiritual W riting from Rising Generations. David sees writing as a spiritual practice, and has just finished his first full-length book of poems, Silver Shiver.
3/17/10
March 22: The Return of Dave Brinks to 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 March 22, we welcome back poet, author, editor and publisher Dave Brinks all the back from New Orleans.
Brinks is the editor of YAWP: A Journal of Poetry & Art, publisher of Trembling Pillow Press, director of the 17 Poets! Series and founder of The New Orleans School for the Imagination. His poems have been published in Exquisite Corpse, Fell Swoop, La Reata, Meena, New Laurel Review, Slavery and Xavier Review. His collections of poems include The Caveat Onus, The Light on Earth Street, The Secret Brain, How Birds Fly, The Snow Poems, Trail and Eros and A Pot of Lips.
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 March 22, we welcome back poet, author, editor and publisher Dave Brinks all the back from New Orleans.
Brinks is the editor of YAWP: A Journal of Poetry & Art, publisher of Trembling Pillow Press, director of the 17 Poets! Series and founder of The New Orleans School for the Imagination. His poems have been published in Exquisite Corpse, Fell Swoop, La Reata, Meena, New Laurel Review, Slavery and Xavier Review. His collections of poems include The Caveat Onus, The Light on Earth Street, The Secret Brain, How Birds Fly, The Snow Poems, Trail and Eros and A Pot of Lips.
3/10/10
March 15: Gale Batchelder Features 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 March 15th, we continue our reputation of presenting new voices by featuring past Goba Salon feature, Gale Batchelder.
Gale Batchelder lives in Cambridge. She recently resumed writing poetry after a hiatus of many years. She has studied poetry in Provincetown, New York, and Cambridge, with Elizabeth Alexander, Gail Mazur, John Yau, and Tom Daley. Gale has read her poetry at a number of venues in and around Cambridge and is a member of the Concord Poetry Center and Grub Street Writers. Gale is a co-founder of the cooperative poetry press “Off the Park Press” (New York City). Her poems are included in the anthology New Smoke, a collection inspired by the paintings of Neo Rauch, a contemporary neo-realist German artist. Gale received her BA in philosophy from Beloit College, holds Master's degrees from Boston University and Harvard, and is the founder of New Leadership Group, a consulting firm serving non-profit organizations internationally.
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 March 15th, we continue our reputation of presenting new voices by featuring past Goba Salon feature, Gale Batchelder.
Gale Batchelder lives in Cambridge. She recently resumed writing poetry after a hiatus of many years. She has studied poetry in Provincetown, New York, and Cambridge, with Elizabeth Alexander, Gail Mazur, John Yau, and Tom Daley. Gale has read her poetry at a number of venues in and around Cambridge and is a member of the Concord Poetry Center and Grub Street Writers. Gale is a co-founder of the cooperative poetry press “Off the Park Press” (New York City). Her poems are included in the anthology New Smoke, a collection inspired by the paintings of Neo Rauch, a contemporary neo-realist German artist. Gale received her BA in philosophy from Beloit College, holds Master's degrees from Boston University and Harvard, and is the founder of New Leadership Group, a consulting firm serving non-profit organizations internationally.
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March 8th: Bill Perrault and Lynne Sticklor Feature
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 March 8th, Stone Soup welcomes back friend Bill Perrault, who will be celebrating his birthday featuring alongside friend and Stone Soup co-host Lynne Sticklor.
Lynne Sticklor has been a contributer in the local (and not so local) poetry scene since Stone Soup was at TT's, Middle East downstairs & the Zeitgeist, Out of the Blue was way down on Brookline ave and Joe Cook was thrilling upstairs at the Cantab with the electrifying third rail downstairs...
In 2003, with Doug Holder's guidance and encouragement, she went from the stage as The Prize Lady to the page editing & designing many local poets' chapbooks and is listed in the Harvard Archives for her efforts. Editing, designing & creating, helping host Stone Soup, reading her favorite poets' pieces while encouraging other creative voices to be heard during open mikes and as a feature has been a wonderful and prolific journey.
And yet~ it is a fantastic and exciting treat to have a first time feature as herself reading her own poetry.
Thank You & Happy Birthday Bill.
Photos by Chad Parenteau
Bill Perrault was born and lived in Biddeford ME until he finished college for which he had paid by working as a weaver in the textilemills. From 1958 to 1960, the U S Army sent him to Germany as a medic andEducational Counselor. He took the opportunity to tour Europe at that time. When his tour of duty was over, he came home and six weeks later,he married his wife, Lorraine. In 1964, the first of their four children was born and, to date, they are now the proud grandparents of seven. After he and Lorraine married, he began his career teaching high school French and Latin in Maine and upper New York State. He did graduate studies at University of Maine and wrote his masters thesis on Guillaume Apollinaire. In 1973, he moved to Massachusetts to work for Polaroid. Bill now lives in Lowell. Throughout his life, he has enjoyed poetry andphotography. Bill was always the one with a notebook with him to write and a camera to take a picture. He never knew when he might be inspired or find a picture that just needed to be taken. In his retirement, the free time allows him to take these passions to a new level. If it’s joining the Poets in Boston for the Stone Soup Poets or producing local TV programs in Cambridge and Lowell, he is enjoying his creative life. Bill Has been published in the Stone Soup Anthology 2003, Out of the Blue Writers Unite Anthology, and various web pages, and if you are lucky enoughto be on his e-mail list, the poetry is Hot Off The Presses! Bill has featured, performed and sometimes hosted at open mikes all over NewEngland--including: COOL COFFEE in Biddeford, ME, Bestseller’s Cafe inMedford, MA his Walden Pond Series and, of course, Out Of the BlueGallery. Bill is a staple figure at the Gallery in Cambridge, MA and has faithfully supported the events they hold there every day/night of the week-- Stone Soup Poets, WordBeat, Open Bark and all.
See the Spoonful website for samples of Bill's writing and photography.
Lynne Sticklor has been a contributer in the local (and not so local) poetry scene since Stone Soup was at TT's, Middle East downstairs & the Zeitgeist, Out of the Blue was way down on Brookline ave and Joe Cook was thrilling upstairs at the Cantab with the electrifying third rail downstairs...
In 2003, with Doug Holder's guidance and encouragement, she went from the stage as The Prize Lady to the page editing & designing many local poets' chapbooks and is listed in the Harvard Archives for her efforts. Editing, designing & creating, helping host Stone Soup, reading her favorite poets' pieces while encouraging other creative voices to be heard during open mikes and as a feature has been a wonderful and prolific journey.
And yet~ it is a fantastic and exciting treat to have a first time feature as herself reading her own poetry.
Thank You & Happy Birthday Bill.
Photos by Chad Parenteau
Bill Perrault was born and lived in Biddeford ME until he finished college for which he had paid by working as a weaver in the textilemills. From 1958 to 1960, the U S Army sent him to Germany as a medic andEducational Counselor. He took the opportunity to tour Europe at that time. When his tour of duty was over, he came home and six weeks later,he married his wife, Lorraine. In 1964, the first of their four children was born and, to date, they are now the proud grandparents of seven. After he and Lorraine married, he began his career teaching high school French and Latin in Maine and upper New York State. He did graduate studies at University of Maine and wrote his masters thesis on Guillaume Apollinaire. In 1973, he moved to Massachusetts to work for Polaroid. Bill now lives in Lowell. Throughout his life, he has enjoyed poetry andphotography. Bill was always the one with a notebook with him to write and a camera to take a picture. He never knew when he might be inspired or find a picture that just needed to be taken. In his retirement, the free time allows him to take these passions to a new level. If it’s joining the Poets in Boston for the Stone Soup Poets or producing local TV programs in Cambridge and Lowell, he is enjoying his creative life. Bill Has been published in the Stone Soup Anthology 2003, Out of the Blue Writers Unite Anthology, and various web pages, and if you are lucky enoughto be on his e-mail list, the poetry is Hot Off The Presses! Bill has featured, performed and sometimes hosted at open mikes all over NewEngland--including: COOL COFFEE in Biddeford, ME, Bestseller’s Cafe inMedford, MA his Walden Pond Series and, of course, Out Of the BlueGallery. Bill is a staple figure at the Gallery in Cambridge, MA and has faithfully supported the events they hold there every day/night of the week-- Stone Soup Poets, WordBeat, Open Bark and all.
See the Spoonful website for samples of Bill's writing and photography.
March 1: Simone Beaubien Returns
Photo by Marshall Goff
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 March 1st, we welcome back the long-awaited return of renowned local poet and venue host Simone Beaubien.
Simone Beaubien, decade-plus-veteran of the New England poetry scene, makes her home in suburban Massachusetts, working as an EMT and hosting the Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab Lounge. She has competed at a national level in pinball (1999), Ultimate Frisbee (2001, 2004 - 2005) and poetry slam (2001, 2004 - 2008).
Simone has performed her work in colleges, bookstores, theaters, and bars on both coasts and all over New England. A lifetime nerd and part-time athlete, Simone is a natural product of the sound of Boston performance poetry, bringing the arts of slam and storytelling simultaneously to the poetry stage.
As a promoter and producer, Simone produced the Boston Poetry Slam's World Qualifier at the Middle East Rock Club in 2006, and, with the Poetry Jam Collective, brought Marc Smith to the Cambridge Family YMCA in 2007. She founded and produced the NorthBEAST Regional Poetry Slam in 2007, then expanded it to a two-day festival and competition in 2008, showcasing competing slam teams from all over the northeastern U.S. In addition, she's been a return performer and booking agent for demo slams at high schools, colleges, and literary festivals statewide; she's performed in Boston's First Night since 1999 and coordinated the poetry event since 2004, produced the annual Attleboro Arts Museum Poetry Slam since 2006, and operated as MC for the annual Newburyport Literary Festival Youth Poetry Slam since 2006.
Visit Simone Beaubien's web site.
1/28/10
February 22: The MoJo! Poets Celebrate Black History Month
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 February 22, Mignon Ariel King returns to celebrate Black History Month, bringing with her a selection of poets that have been published in her online journal MoJo!
Black Women Writers with MoJo! are five writers from greater Boston (Bridgit Brown, Coleen T. Houlihan, Joyce Jellison, Mignon Ariel King, and Lolita Paiewonsky) who have published in the online journal MoJo! These five women work with individual styles and different messages in a variety of writing genres, but their work reflects a collective sisterhood
that the journal celebrates.
Mignon Ariel King was born in Boston City Hospital in1964, a third-generation New Englander. She has had a public library card since age 5 and has been writing poetry since the age of 11. Ms. King holds a Master of Arts in English degree from Simmons College and was adjunct professor of English in various Boston-area colleges for more than a decade. An active writer who has been reading poetry at open-mic venues since 1998, King is also a book reviewer and memoirist. Her first book of poems The Woods Have Words (2009) is available from Ibbetson Street Press.
Bridgit Brown has been writing since the age of 12. She became a serious poet at 17 when she entered college to study writing, literature, and publishing. Since then, Bridgit has acquired a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, and has participated in the Ploughshares Fiction Writers Conference in Well, Holland, received the Nadya Aisenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Writers Room of Boston, and has had her poetry published in Ibbetson Street journal. She is currently a contributing writer for the Bay State Banner, Color Magazine, Exhale Magazine, and WGBH’s Basic Black Perspectives.
Coleen T. Houlihan studied writing at Wellesley College. She has featured at several poetry venues in Massachusetts such as: Stone Soup, Best Sellers, Borders, the Sherman Cafe and Walden Poetry Series. Her poetry has been published in Poesy, The Alewife, The Wilderness House Literary Review, Ibbetson Street, Spoonful: A Gathering of Stone Soup Poets, and Spare Change, as well as abroad.
Joyce Angela Jellison is the author of two books, Where Everything Fits Beautifully and Black Apple. She describes her poetic style as “[sometimes] a bit provocative. I often use anatomy as metaphor in the tradition of Hattie Gossett.” She is also the director of "Write Out Loud: Transforming Our Lives Through Writing Our Truths."
Lolita Paiewonsky writes librettos, drama, fiction and, especially, poetry (since the second grade). She has presented her poetry with classical and jazz music and original choreography and exhibited it as “poetage” (visual poetry); she has been featured poet at many venues. Her poetry has appeared in a number of publications, including The Harvard Dudley Review, Harvard ALANA journals, Wilderness House Literary Review, Bagelbard anthologies, and Bradley University Journal.
Visit the MoJo! web site.
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 February 22, Mignon Ariel King returns to celebrate Black History Month, bringing with her a selection of poets that have been published in her online journal MoJo!
Black Women Writers with MoJo! are five writers from greater Boston (Bridgit Brown, Coleen T. Houlihan, Joyce Jellison, Mignon Ariel King, and Lolita Paiewonsky) who have published in the online journal MoJo! These five women work with individual styles and different messages in a variety of writing genres, but their work reflects a collective sisterhood
that the journal celebrates.
Mignon Ariel King was born in Boston City Hospital in1964, a third-generation New Englander. She has had a public library card since age 5 and has been writing poetry since the age of 11. Ms. King holds a Master of Arts in English degree from Simmons College and was adjunct professor of English in various Boston-area colleges for more than a decade. An active writer who has been reading poetry at open-mic venues since 1998, King is also a book reviewer and memoirist. Her first book of poems The Woods Have Words (2009) is available from Ibbetson Street Press.
Bridgit Brown has been writing since the age of 12. She became a serious poet at 17 when she entered college to study writing, literature, and publishing. Since then, Bridgit has acquired a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, and has participated in the Ploughshares Fiction Writers Conference in Well, Holland, received the Nadya Aisenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Writers Room of Boston, and has had her poetry published in Ibbetson Street journal. She is currently a contributing writer for the Bay State Banner, Color Magazine, Exhale Magazine, and WGBH’s Basic Black Perspectives.
Coleen T. Houlihan studied writing at Wellesley College. She has featured at several poetry venues in Massachusetts such as: Stone Soup, Best Sellers, Borders, the Sherman Cafe and Walden Poetry Series. Her poetry has been published in Poesy, The Alewife, The Wilderness House Literary Review, Ibbetson Street, Spoonful: A Gathering of Stone Soup Poets, and Spare Change, as well as abroad.
Joyce Angela Jellison is the author of two books, Where Everything Fits Beautifully and Black Apple. She describes her poetic style as “[sometimes] a bit provocative. I often use anatomy as metaphor in the tradition of Hattie Gossett.” She is also the director of "Write Out Loud: Transforming Our Lives Through Writing Our Truths."
Lolita Paiewonsky writes librettos, drama, fiction and, especially, poetry (since the second grade). She has presented her poetry with classical and jazz music and original choreography and exhibited it as “poetage” (visual poetry); she has been featured poet at many venues. Her poetry has appeared in a number of publications, including The Harvard Dudley Review, Harvard ALANA journals, Wilderness House Literary Review, Bagelbard anthologies, and Bradley University Journal.
Visit the MoJo! web site.
1/27/10
February 15: Sam Cha and Dawn Gabriel Feature
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 February 15, we welcome Sam Cha and Dawn Gabriel.
Sam Cha likes poems that fail spectacularly or interestingly. He may or may not fail at the writing of poems that fail spectacularly or interestingly, and may or may not fail spectacularly or interestingly at the writing or failing. This may or may not add an element of suspense to his poems, which may or may not be an added inducement for you to come.
Dawn Gabriel is a veteran slammer who has competed nationally for Boston, Providence, and Worcester, and is an occasional co-host for the Boston Poetry Slam. Dawn and Sam live together in Cambridge with 8 year-old Henry, and baby twins Alice and Ada.
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 February 15, we welcome Sam Cha and Dawn Gabriel.
Sam Cha likes poems that fail spectacularly or interestingly. He may or may not fail at the writing of poems that fail spectacularly or interestingly, and may or may not fail spectacularly or interestingly at the writing or failing. This may or may not add an element of suspense to his poems, which may or may not be an added inducement for you to come.
Dawn Gabriel is a veteran slammer who has competed nationally for Boston, Providence, and Worcester, and is an occasional co-host for the Boston Poetry Slam. Dawn and Sam live together in Cambridge with 8 year-old Henry, and baby twins Alice and Ada.
1/25/10
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