August 27th: Tony Brown 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 August 27th, we close out the hot summer reading months by welcoming back Tony Brown.

Tony Brown has been writing for over 40 years, and publishing and performing his work for over 30.  A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, his work has appeared in many journals and anthologies.  He has traveled all over the country, slammed for the Worcester Poets’ Asylum, organized and hosted readings and reading series, and written on poetry for the website http://www.gotpoetry.com. 

Tony most commonly performs with The Duende Project in collaboration with Steven Lanning-Cafaro on electric and acoustic bass and classical guitar; they’ve spent 6 years performing up and down the East Coast and have released three collections of their work.  The most recent collection, “One Thing That Scares You,”  is available on Bandcamp (http://theduendeproject.bandcamp.com .  Their website at http://www.reverbnation.com/theduendeproject offers links to videos and music, show schedules, and more. 

Tony’s personal blog of constantly updated new poems, “Dark Matter,”  is at

http://radioactiveart.wordpress.com. 

August 20h: The Highway Poets 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 August 20th, Stone Soup celebrates Biker Poetry Month with the return of The Highway Poets.



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. His newest works include Essays On Major Mental Illness with a Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorder or What Came First: The Chicken or The White Horse.

August 13th: Peter Fulton 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 13th, we welcome the poem and music of Peter Fulton.

Peter Fulton was born and raised in Massachusetts.  He performed his first verse drama, Death of a Worn Man, accompanied by guitar and harmonica, at Mount Hermon, Massachusetts in the mid-sixties.  He made the rounds as a singer-songwriter in Boston coffee houses in the late 60’s.  He has written a collection of poems, Boulders in Ice; a novella with a CD of songs, Silicon in Sand; a book of poems and photographs in collaboration with sculptor McAlister Coleman, Figures.  

In January, 2010, The Seventh Quarry Press published Peter’s lengthy poem How to Carve an Angel with a forward by Peter Thabit Jones, in English and Russian translation, with a CD of original accompaniments by four master musicians.  How to Carve an Angel was presented in world premier in June of 2010 at the International Poetry Festival in Swansea, Wales.  In September 2010, Peter hosted An Evening in Dylan Thomas’ Wales, a presentation of The Seventh Quarry Drama Group, on tour in New England, featuring Peter Thabbit Jones’ The Boy and the Lion’s Head and John Dotson’s Thumps or Waking up Dreaming in the 21^st Century, with Lisa Miroski, as well as readings at the Robert Frost Farm in Derry, New Hampshire, The Farmer’s Market in Lawrence Massachusetts, the Rockport Public Library in Rockport, Massachusetts and The Grolier Poetry Book Store at Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, including American poets Ifeanyi Mankiti, Tino Villanueva and Mark Schorr.     

The Seventh Quarry Poetry Press has recently published Peter’s interactive ebook of poems, flying stones.  Peter has also written a yet-to-be performed verse drama, The Ordination.

August 6th: Tyler Smith & Lindsey Yuriko Warriner Feature 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 August 6th, Michael Gill hosts another Stone Soup night, featuring two young poets, Tyler Smith and Lindsey Yuriko Warriner.

Tyler Smith was born and raised in Rochester, NY. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Interrupture, Jellyfish Magazine, and Yes, Poetry. Tyler has just completed his MFA in Boston and is know for his quirky imagery and surreal, deadpan sense of humor. He will feature during one of his last weeks in Boston before returning to New York

Lindsey Yuriko Warriner is a shepherd of short poetry. She draws inspiration from her international upbringing, and dreams of one day writing an epic poem. She has been published by Alehouse Press, and was awarded the 2010 Evvy for Outstanding Poetry by Emerson College, where she earned her BFA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing. This is her first feature.

July 30th: David Allen Sullivan 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 July 30th, we welcome David Allen Sullivan, a touring poet from the west coast, as he reasds from his latest collection.

David Allen Sullivan's Every Seed of the Pomegranate is a series of poems about the war in Iraq which gives voice not only to the US and Iraqi soldiers caught up in the conflict, but the children, mothers, booksellers, and various civilians who are also affected in both countries. The author teaches English and Film at Cabrillo Community College in Santa Cruz, California, where he edits the Porter Gulch Literary with his students, and serves on the Veterans Task Force Committee. Two poems from his first book, Strong-Armed Angels, were read on The Writer’s Almanac by Garrison Keillor. Another two recent poems were selected by Alberto Rios and recorded as part of the permanent public art and poetry project Passage, in Phoenix, Arizona. 

July 23rd: Judson Evans 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 July 23rd, we welcome Judson Evans, who will be reading from his long poem, "Monologue."

Judson Evans is the Director of Liberal Arts at The Boston Conservatory. He teaches courses on utopian societies, ancient Greek culture, and haiku and related Japanese poetic forms. He has been involved in a wide range of collaborative experiments with composers, choreographers, dancers, and other poets. He has published poems most recently in Volt, 1913:a journal of forms, Amethyst Arsenic, and Epoch. He is a member of Off the Park Press Writers' Collective and has poems in three of the press's recent anthologies of poetry responding to contemporary painters ( New Smoke: An Anthology of Poetry Inspired by Neo Rauch [2009], Viva La Difference: Poems in Response to Peter Saul [2010] , The Triumph of Poverty: Poems Inspired by Nicole Eisenman [due out in winter 2012] and was chosen as an emerging poet for The Association of American Poets in 2007 by John Yau.

July 16th: Blaine Hebbel 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 July 16th, we welcome poet and activist Blaine Hebbel for his first Stone Soup feature.

Poet, activist and Ipswich native, Blaine Hebbel he has been fascinated by the “American Voice” for over thirty five years and has been fighting social injustice since the 60s. He has read as a member of the Poets’ Mimeo Cooperative in Burlington, VT and on the Poemair show on KUOR FM, the University of Redlands, CA station. He is a member of the OccuPoets and performs his poetry at the Walnut Street Coffee Café, Stone Soup in Cambridge and every other venue he can find. He has published two chapbooks, Poems From the Shore and The Occupy Poems.

July 9th: Diane Sahms-Guarnieri and g emil reutter 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 9th, we welcome back Philadelphia based poets Diane Sahms-Guarnieri and g. emil reutter.


Diane Sahms-Guarnieri is a native Philadelphia poet and currently the poetry editor of The Fox Chase Review. She has served on the editorial board of Philadelphia Stories magazine and founded The Center City Poets Workshop and The Tenth Muse Workshop. Her poetry has been published in The Southern Ocean Review, Wilderness House Literary Review, Autumn Sky Poetry, Many Mountains Moving, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Fox Chase Review, Folio, Philadelphia Stories, Mid-West Cultural Council, Mad Poets Review, and Limited Editions among others. Her latest release is Images of Being. Nicolette Milholin of the Montgomery County News said of Images of Being, “Like a well-written memoir, Sahms-Guarnieri’s work shoots straight to the center of human experience instead of hiding pain under a false fabric of pretension.” Barbara Bialick of the Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene said, “To Diane Sahms-Guarnieri, images are an all-important way she remembers people from her childhood and on into motherhood. You can visit her on the web at: http://dianesahmsguarnieri.wordpress.com/

g emil reutter writes fiction and poetry in the Fox Chase neighborhood of Philadelphia where he founded the Fox Chase Reading Series and The Fox Chase Review. His work has been published widely in the small and electronic presses. Eight collections of his work have been published. You can visit him on the web at www.gemilreutter-author.com

 

July 2nd: Krysten Hill and Karen Locascio Feature 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 2nd, we welcome another double header hosted by Michael F. Gill, featuring Krysten Hill and Karen Locascio.

Krysten Hill is a third year MFA student at UMass-Boston from Kansas City, Missouri. She received her BFA in Creative Writing from Stephens College where she became involved in Women’s Studies and activism. Her mother poets include: Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, and Patricia Smith. She believes that a poem should live in whatever skin it feels good in. Her greatest desire is to form a collective of women poets who travel around teaching the power of voice to the girls on front porches who wonder what that aching in their chests is all about.

Karen Locascio is an MFA candidate in poetry at UMass Boston where she interned with Hanging Loose Press. She's had work in Amethyst Arsenic, has workshopped at Bread Loaf and Tin House, and occasionally reads at various Boston area venues. For her summer vacation, she's attempting to put together a chapbook and to find employment that's more consistent than temping, all while reading like there's no tomorrow. Karen proudly hails from the Jersey Shore and currently resides in Dorchester. She always thought putting together a bio would be a lot more fun than it actually is

June 25th: Nancy Morgan-Boucher 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 June 25th, we welcome poetry host Nancy Morgan-Boucher and her friends from the Poetry in the Village reading series to close off June.

Nancy Morgan-Boucher lives in bucolic Rehoboth, MA where, in 2008 at the local library, she founded Poetry in the Village poetry reading series. Morgan-Boucher's poems have appeared in Siren: a Contemporary Literary Journal, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, The Unitarian Universalist Poets: a Contemporary American Survey, Pudding House Publications, Jamestown, Ohio, and the Wilderness House Literary Review, an online literary magazine based in Littleton, MA. Her chapbook, Climbing the Family Tree, was released in November 2008. Morgan-Boucher has featured at numerous venues, including Poetry Main Street Cafe, Easton, MA, Coffee Milano, Middleboro, MA, Blue State Coffee, Providence, RI, and Dreamspeak, Plymouth, MA. She has recently read her poetry on the sidewalk of The Drunken Poet, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, thus, with wily semi-hauteur flair, adds to her credits “International Poet.” (WooHoo!)

June 18th: The Third Annual "Chad F***ed Up" Open Mic Extravaganza

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 June 18th...

Due to more than one scheduling error and one too many events planned in a row (i.e. Chad f***ed up AGAIN), Stone Soup was unable to secure a feature for June 18th. As a result, the night belongs to the open micers with an ultra-extended open mike segment. People always afraid of showing up late for the open mike, coming with a poem that's too long (note: this almost never happens) or not knowing whether a particular night is a good night to debut a different kind of poem, Stone Soup says "Come on down!" People who have been away are welcome. People who have never been are welcome. We want to hear from you.

June 11th: April Penn 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 June 11th, we welcome the return of the popular and prolific local poet April Penn.

April Penn is a Boston-area poet who frequents Stone Soup, the Brighton Word Factory, and the Cantab Poetry Lounge. She has been involved in Occupy Boston protests and has been published in Amethyst Arsenic and Snake Oil Cure. She is a poetry blogging fiend who plans to write 365 poems a year for the rest of her life. Her favorite topics to write about are puberty, imaginary friends, and thunder storms. She originally hails from Hammond, Louisiana and Baltimore, Maryland but loves Boston best of all!

June 4th: Charlie R and Nora Meiners 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 June 4th, we welcome Charlie Rose and Nora Meiners to our venue.  Hosted By Michael F. Gill. $3 suggested donation to help cover our rent at the Out of the Blue Art Gallery. Open Mic sign up starts at 7:30 PM. The open mic will be backed with jazz piano by Michael Monroe.

Charlie Rose studied creative writing at Bennington College and completed a BA in Classical Studies at UC Santa Cruz, which makes him a Banana Slug at heart. He returned to the East Coast to go to grad school, and now has a day job writing software at a local university, which lets him indulge his creative writing habit as well as enjoy a lot of great local music. He has been known to frequent local poetry open mikes such as Stone Soup, the Cantab (where he reads as Charlie R,) and the Lizard Lounge.

In 1997, Nora Meiners graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in Creative Writing. Like so many who fall in love in college, Nora and writing found that they were not meant to spend “forever” together. After one memorable knock-down brawl of a shouting match, Writing quit her. They have recently mended ways and you can see/hear Nora out at poetry slams. Nora’s renewed interest in writing has her telling everyone, “Give me three minutes, and I will spoken word your ear off.” The way to her heart is through corny plays on words and she hopes you feel the same. If you want to know more, check out her website, poetsthatdontknowit.com. She lives in Cambridge, MA where she is raising a 4-year-old son as a single mum, and spends her days working as the “missing pieces person for a jigsaw puzzle company”. Yes, that is the real job title.

May 28th: Da Butcha 'shoppe Returns

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 28, we end the 41st anniversary month-long celebration with music and poetry from Da Butcha 'shoppe.

Da Butcha ‘shoppe rose phoenix like from the ashes of Poetry Performance Troupe, the Collective in 2006, and features guitarist, Ethan “Black Wednesday” Mackler, and Poet, D. A. “Da Butcha” Boucher, vocals.

Da Butcha ‘shoppe mixes all forms of entertainment to bring Poetry to life, from burlesque to comedy to dance to everything in between.

Da Butcha ‘shoppe has appeared on stages in New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts, amazing and astounding all.

Some of their performances have included Butcha’s birth of a rubber chicken, the Alien, and interpretive dance.

Due to the fact that they blow minds every time they appear, they have been called the most interesting group on stage today and reviews of their sets have ranged from “I’ve never seen anything like that before.” to “I don’t know what I just saw, but I liked it!” to “WOW, that was incredible!”

Generally, as a rule, Da Butcha ‘shoppe challenges what the public thinks of as Poetry, their tag line, “this is not your father’s Poetry.”

Da Butcha ‘shoppe, the best thing since sliced bread.

May 21st: Doug Holder, Harris Gardner and Susie Davidson

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 21st, Stone Soup welcomes the return of three old mainstays of the open mike: poet/activist Susie Davidson, Tapestry of Voices founder Harris Gardner, and former Stone Soup President Doug Holder. 

Doug Holder is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press. He teaches writing at Bunker Hill Community College and Endicott College. Holder is the Arts Editor for The Somerville News, the Director of the Newton Free Library Poetry Series, and former President of Stone Soup Poets. Holder's work has appeared widely in the small press including Rattle, Iodine, Toronto Quarterly, The Scrambler, The Oak Bend Review, the new renaissance, Word Riot, and many others. He holds an MA Literature from Harvard University.

Boston-area poet and freelance journalist Susie Davidson writes regularly for The Jewish Daily Forward, the Jewish Advocate, The Jewish Journal, the weekly Tabs and other media, and has contributed to the Boston Sunday Globe and the Boston Herald (op-ed), the Jerusalem Post and the Eagle-Tribune. She has been published over 150 times in varied poetry journals across the U.S. and Canada. Susie began and hosted the OccuPoetry series at Occupy Boston with poets Peter Desmond and Robyn Su Miller, which was the subject of a front-page Metro article in the Boston Globe in November, 2011.

Harris Gardner is founder of Tapestry of Voices--a poetry organization that sponsors the Boston National Poetry Festival and other venues. His work has appeared in the Harvard Review, Ibbetson Street Midstream, Aurorean and many other magazines. He is the poetry editor for Ibbetson Street, and co-founder of Somerville 's Bagel Bards. He is the author of three collections: Chalice of Eros (C o-authored with Lainie Senechal), Lest They Become ( Ibbetson Street ) 2003, and Among Us (Cervena Barva Press). In 1999, he founded Breaking Bagels with the Bards, community of Poets and Other Writers. He currently serves as Poetry Editor of Ibbetson Street.\

May 20th: Stone Soup Benefit at Doyle's Cafe With Features Prabakar T. Rajan and Ron Goba 

UPDATE: Due to unforeseen events, Prabakar will neither be in the states nor available at Doyle's Cafe to read his work this coming Sunday. We still implore you to come to the event and hear his poems as read by respected Boston poet and instructor Tom Daley. Ron Goba, of course, will still be in attendance, and the chapbook of poems frim both Ron and Prabakar will still be available. Please come down the night of May 20th and help make this night a success.

Join us on Sunday Night, May 20th, as Stone Soup welcomes your voices and a special focus on two amazing poets on the Boston Scene as Stone Soup holds it's first fundraising benefit in years to help keep the reading series more self sustaining and better benefit it's feature poets. Admission to the event is $3. A special collection of poems both features will be reading that night will be on sale for the suggested donation of $1. The open mike will begin no later than 7:30 PM with the features going on around 9:00 PM.

Prabakar T. Rajan was born at the Cantab sometime in 2003 and even following his departure from the states he continues, with audacity, to inflict his poems regularly on hapless audiences like The Cantab and the Brookline Booksmith. He even released his full length poetry collection, A Slice of Water, through Friends of Poetry. His only saving grace is that he has the good sense to truly enjoy the open mike, 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.

Ron Goba is a retired english teacher (a career he began in 1958), a member of Friends of Poetry, and the author of such collections as The Music Box, The Custom of Quoting Someone, and Collage As Silkscreen. For several years, he was known as the doorman for the weekly Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab. In 2011, he released Swan Song, a small collection of poems, to coincide with his reading at the Cantab on the eve of his birthday.

May 14th: James Leaf and Bobby Crawford Feature 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 14th, we welcome performance poets James Leaf and Bobby Crawford, hosted by Michael F. Gill.

James Leaf is a stage director, actor, acting teacher, and artistic director of the Young Mechanics Theatre Ensemble in New Haven Connecticut. In the last year he has also worked as an instructor for Poetry Out Loud, a country-wide high school recitation contest sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. He'd like to thank Stone Soup for the invitation, and the opportunity to share his poems and banter.

Bobby Crawford is currently co-curator of the Emerson Poetry Project and is a two-time CUPSI slam team member representing Emerson College. He has performed poems on genetics with Donnie Welch at the Boston Museum of Science, and presented a co-written (also with Donnie Welch) chapbook entitled: Shift: Poems about Plate Tectonics at the Cambridge Science Festival.

"Bobby is a one-man-boy-band with a two-row fan club" - Simone Beaubien

Coming Soon... 

This Weekend's Boston National Poetry Month Festival Schedule

Rabb Lecture Hall

  

Saturday, April 28, 2012         
              

10:00  Soubhik Barari: Acton-Boxborough Regional

10:10 Allesandra Davy-Falconi: B.U. Academy

10:20  TBA                                                                          

10:30 Boston Arts Academy, Molly Pope

10:40  Boston Latin High School, Justin Singletary       

10:50 Daniel Schwartz- Milton Academy

11:00 Sam Cornish                                                                          

11:10 Elizabeth McKim                                                                              

11:20 Regie O. Gibson                                                        

11:30 Joanna Nealon                                                           

11:40 Sheila Twyman                                                          
11:50 Chad Parenteau                                                         

12:00  Carol Weston                                                            

12:10 Robert K. Johnson                                                     

12:20 Walter Howard                                                          

12:30 Ryk McIntyre                                                             

12:40 Kaji Aso Studio                                                          

         Kate Finnegan                                                              

12:50  Kim Triedman                                                                                          

1:00   Linda Larson                                                               

1:10   Molly Bennett                                                              

1:20  Irene Koronas                                                                                   

1:30  Philip E. Burnham, Jr.                                                   

1:30-3:00 OPEN MIKE- Room 5-6                                   

1:40  Frank Blessington                                                         

1:50  Valerie Lawson                                                                                            

2:00  Diana Saenz                                                                                      

2:10  Lucy  Holstedt  

2:20  Michael Brown

2:30  Ron Goba                                                                                      

2:40  Elizabeth Doran                                                                                        

2:50 Tomas O’Leary                                                                                                       

3:00 Timothy Gager

3:10 Jack Scully

3:20 Rene Schwiesow

3:30 Carolyn Gregory

3:40 Suzanne E. Berger

3:50 Molly Watt

4:00 Richard Hoffman

4:10 Jan Schreiber

4:20 Mignon Ariel King

4:30 Susan Donnelly

Sunday, April 29, 2012


1:10 Tom Daley      
1:20 Ifeanyi Menkiti     
1:30 Lo Galluccio
1:40 Dan Tobin
1:50 Kathleen Spivack
2:00 Gloria Mindock
2:10 Christine Casson
2:20 Lainie Senechal
2:30 Zvi Sesling
2:40 Rhina P. Espaillat
2:50 Harris Gardner
3:00 Stuart Peterfreund
3:10  Victor Howes
3:20  Alfred Nicol
3:30  Marc Goldfinger
3:40  Charles Coe
3:50  Doug Holder
4:00  Fred Marchant
4:10 Richard Wollman 
4:20 Jennifer Barber
4:30 January  O’Neil     

The National Poetry Month Festival This Weekend

THE  BOSTON NATIONAL 
POETRY MONTH  FESTIVAL

Now In Its Successful TWELFTH!!! Year

CO-SPONSORS:  Tapestry of Voices & Kaji Aso Studio in partnership with the Boston Public Library, SAVE the DATES: 

Saturday, April 28th 10:00 A.M.- 4:40 P.M. OPEN MIKE: 1:30 to 3:00P.M.; 
& Sunday, April 29th^th, 1:10 to 4:30P.M. 

The Festival will be held at the library’s main branch in Copley Square. FREE ADMISSION

56 Major  and Emerging poets will each do a ten minute reading; ALSO

Featuring 5 extraordinarily talented prize winning high school students: from Boston Latin High School, Justin Singletary; Boston Arts Academy, Molly Pope; Milton Academy, Daniel Schwartz; Boston University Academy: Alessandra Davy-Falconi. Winner of the Helen Creeley Poetry Prize; Acton-Boxborough Regional: Soubhik Barari, winner of the Helen Creeley National Poetry High School Prize. These student stars will open  the Festival at 10:00 A.M.  SAM CORNISH, Boston’s current and first Poet Laureate will open the formal part  of the Festival at 11:00 A.M. 55 additional major  and emerging poets will follow with a

                                                           POETRY MARATHON

Some of the many  luminaries include SAM CORNISH, , Rhina P. Espaillat,  , Richard Wollman, Christine Casson, Dan Tobin, Jennifer Barber,  Alfred Nicol, Kathleen Spivack , Doug Holder, Elizabeth Doran, Richard Hoffman, Lucy Holstedt Charles Coe,  Kim Triedman,  Ryk McIntyre, January O’Neil ,  Regie O’Gibson, Kate Finnegan (Kaji Aso Studio), Victor Howes, Lainie Senechal,  Harris Gardner Susan Donnelly, Jack Scully, Rene Schwiesow, Chad Parenteau, Linda Larson, Tomas O’Leary, Molly Bennett,  Marc Goldfinger, Gloria Mindock, Tim Gager, Diana Saenz, Stuart Peterfreund, Elizabeth McKim, Frank Blessington, Valerie Lawson, Michael Brown, Mignon Ariel King, Tom Daley, Molly Lynn Watt, Ifeanyi Menkiti, Joanna Nealon, Walter Howard,Ron Goba, Carolyn Gregory,   Zvi Sesling,  Irene Koronas, Fred Marchant, Sheila Twyman, Robert K. Johnson, Suzanne E. Berger, and a Plethora of other prize winning poets.

This Festival has it all: Professional published  poets, celebrities, numerous prize winners, student  participation, OPEN MIKE.

Even more, it is about community, neighborhoods, diversity, Boston, and Massachusetts. This popular tradition is the largest event in Boston’s Contribution to National Poetry Month.  

FREE ADMISSION !!!

FOR INFORMATION: Tapestry of Voices: 617-306-9484

Library: 617-536-5400