Tom Daley's Play, Every Broom and Bridget--Emily Dickinson and Her Irish Servants--Friday, May 3, 2013 in Salem, MA

Registration is now available for the one-man version of my play, Every Broom and Bridget--Emily Dickinson and Her Irish Servants and the rest of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival (May 3-5, 2013). I will be performing the play on Friday, May 3, 2013 at 2:30 pm in the Sophia Room, Hawthorne Hotel, 18 Washington Square W, Salem, MA 01970.

If you're interested in coming, you'll need to register for a spot at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival website (http://masspoetry2013.crowdvine.com/). Here are the steps--

1) You'll need to set up a profile (name and e-mail)
2) Go to the schedule for Friday, May 3 from 2:30-3:30 pm and click on the green square with a white cross in it next to Every Broom and Bridget--Emily Dickinson and Her Irish Servants.
3) Pay for admission ("Buy a Button") to this and all other events at the festival (May 3, 4, and 5)--$15 general admission, $7 seniors and students. Your name will then be on a list at the door of the Sophia Room at the Hawthorne Hotel (see above) on the day of the show. You should plan to get there 10-15 minutes early. The show will start at 2:30 pm prompt.

Go to the logistics page (http://masspoetry2013.crowdvine.com/pages/logistics) for information about public transportation to Salem from Boston, including commuter rail and MBTA bus. There is also information on parking.

I would encourage you to sign up as soon as possible. I intend to fill all the spots in advance, and the Festival events generally fill very quickly.

Hope you can make it!

Check out all the other exciting events at the Festival, including a performance by Doc Brown's Traveling Poetry Troupe on Saturday, May 4 at 11 am at the first floor of the Old Town Hall in Salem. I'll be performing a couple of my poems in that show.

Let me know if you have any questions. I hope to see you there!

Best regards,

Tom Daley

In a letter to the author after the original performance of the play, Judson Evans, director of the Department of Liberal Arts at the Boston Conservatory, wrote, By grounding Dickinson in a dense social context among the Irish servants who surrounded her, you open up the layers and dimensions of social imagination within her work that are denied by the conventional image of Dickinson’s total interiority and reclusion. You allow her poems to unfold new dimensions of social gesture, irony, and exchange. You create an imaginative space in which Dickinson’s poems can be dramatically spoken as complex authentic communication without this seeming stilted or arcane. By presenting a posthumous Dickinson alive in the multiple memories of the servants who surrounded her you avoid reducing her to a poetic cliché and instead preserve the mystery and otherness of her identity.

April 1st: Pre-Stone Soup Poetry Writing Workshop

I will be leading a workshop today on April 1st, to take place before Stone Soup Poetry from 6:00 PM to just before 8:00 PM at the Au Bon Pain in Central Square, 684 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge.

Please bring a poem of any form and style no more than 1-2 pages. Bring up to 10 copies of your poem to share with the group, and be prepared to share your thoughts on each others work. If you have trouble printing your work, you can email it to me before 5:00 Monday at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com

Those unable to attend that are interested in future dates please email me.

April 1st: Dennis Daly 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 1st, we kick off National Poetry Month with a feature by Dennis Daly.

Dennis Daly lives in Salem, Massachusetts. He is included in a chapbook with two other poets published by Northeasten University Press, entitled 10X3. He has been nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize. Ibbetson Street Press published The Custom House, his first full length book of poetry in June, 2012. His second book, a verse translation of Sophocles’ Ajax, was recently published by Wilderness House Press. Daly’s third book is set in Salem Massachusetts, and it will shortly be seeking a publisher. 

March 25th: Pre-Stone Soup Poetry Writing Workshop

I will be leading a workshop today on March 25th, to take place before Stone Soup Poetry from 6:00 PM to just before 8:00 PM at the Au Bon Pain in Central Square, 684 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge.

Please bring a poem of any form and style no more than 1-2 pages. Bring up to 10 copies of your poem to share with the group, and be prepared to share your thoughts on each others work. If you have trouble printing your work, you can email it to me before 5:00 Monday at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com

Those unable to attend that are interested in future dates please email me.

March 25th: Lo Galluccio 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 25th, we welcome a feature by current finalist in the Cambridge Poet Populist race, Lo Galluccio.  

Lo Galluccio is a vocal artist, memoirist and poet whose roots lie in the Lower East Side of NYC, though she is a Cambridge native and a Harvard graduate. Lo has released three books in Boston, since returning in 2001: “Hot Rain,” a chapbook with illustrations put out by Ibbetson St. Press, “Sarasota VII” a prose-poem memoir published by Cervena Barva Press and “Terrible Baubles” a chapbook on Propaganda Press. Some of the poems in “Terrible Baubles” were set to music or made into songs for a CD released on Studio 234 records this past year, with piano by Eric Zinman and cello by Mobius artist Jane Wang. Lo has two other vocal CDs – “Being Visited” on the Knitting Factory label in NYC, and “Spell on You” self-released in Boston, an avante jazz and blues CD. Her CDs are available at www.cdbaby.com, on Itunes and Rhapsody and can be heard on Spotify.

Her written work is available at the Grolier bookstore. She is currently a finalist for the Poet Populist position in Cambridge and has a reading with Tom Yuill, the other finalist, at that delirium inducing dive bar, the Cantab, on April 3rd at 9 pm. Her websites are www.logalluccio.weebly.com and www.logalluccio.alalla.com.

March 18th: Da Butcha Shoppe Returns 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 18th, Stone Soup features the return of Da Butcha 'shoppe.

Da Butcha 'shoppe rose from the ashes of The Collective and became the premier Poetry Performance Troupe of New England with their ongoing production of "The Alien Chronicles," the story of Captain Quawn and his crew stranded on Earth when their spaceship, the Smada Salguod, crashed in the northern Maine woods. The crash was witnessed by an Air Force officer, Major Warren Pease, who now pursues the the extraterrestrial band as they attempt to escape from Earth as well as plot world domination, and human subjugation via a chain of porn stores that sells adult toys that control the mind.

Cpt Quawn speaks in Poetry, while Mj Pease uses the lingo of the military.

Da Butcha 'shoppe features, Mr. Ethan Mackler on Bass Guitar, Alan Wilbar as, Mj. Pease, and, Da Butcha, as, the Alien.

Da Butcha 'shoppe, the best thing to happen to Poetry since the invention of the microphone.

March 11th: Pre-Stone Soup Poetry Writing Workshop

I will be leading a workshop today on March 11th, to take place before Stone Soup Poetry from 6:00 PM to just before 8:00 PM at the Au Bon Pain in Central Square, 684 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge.

Please bring a poem of any form and style no more than 1-2 pages. Bring up to 10 copies of your poem to share with the group, and be prepared to share your thoughts on each others work. If you have trouble printing your work, you can email it to me before 5:00 Monday at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com

Those unable to attend that are interested in future dates please email me at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com

March 11th: Chris Warner & Sue Savoy 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 March 11th, Michael F. Gill hosts another Stone Soup night and welcomes Stone Soup features Sue Savoy and Chris Warner.

Sue Savoy has been a popular regular at Boston’s Cantab Lounge for the last decade and featured all over New England, including Cantab, Tapestry of Voices, Emerson College, Boston University, Worcester, Manchester, New Hampshire and Portland, Maine. This is her third feature at Stone Soup.

Chris Warner is an emerging poet and sometime-regular at the Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab Lounge. She is the author of a micro-chapbook, Strokes (Mostly) in Silence, and her work has appeared in The Muddy River Poetry Review, Bagels with the Bards Anthology, Writer’s Digest Annual Poetry Contest Collection, and Ibbetson Street. She was selected to attend the 2012 Southampton Writer’s Conference as a contributor in poetry, with Mary Karr, and her poem, “Engulfed” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2013).

A graduate of the Harvard University School of Education, Chris teaches yoga, meditation, and mindfulness-based core strength classes in West Boxford, MA, where she lives with her husband, Mike Maguire, her Himalayan, Pumpkin, and with Sake, the beloved Japanese Chin. She has begun to appear as the feature poet at venues throughout the greater Boston area, and writes, every day—‘ass in seat’—and works, every day, on letting go of attachment to outcome.

March 4th: Pre-Stone Soup Poetry Writing Workshop

I will be leading a workshop today on March 4th, to take place before Stone Soup Poetry from 6:00 PM to just before 8:00 PM at the Au Bon Pain in Central Square, 684 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge.

Please bring a poem of any form and style no more than 1-2 pages. Bring up to 10 copies of your poem to share with the group, and be prepared to share your thoughts on each others work. If you have trouble printing your work, you can email it to me before 5:00 Monday at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com

Those unable to attend that are interested in future dates please email me at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com

March 4th: Bill Perrault's Birthday Bash With Walter Howard and R. Wayne Nickerson

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 4th, we celebrate the birthday of Stone Soup's own Bill Perrault as he reads with friends.

Bill Perrault has been published in Spoonful, Out of the Blue Writers Unite, and various web pages, and if you are lucky enough to 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 and all.

Walter Howard is a retired history professor, English teacher, and journalist. He is a member of the Longfellow Society, Natick Writers, and the Wayland Poetry Workshop. His poems have appeared in Motive, Longfellow Journal, Ibbetson Street Press, Journal of Modern Writing, Endicott Review, and others. 

R. Wayne Nickerson writes: "I started writing short stories and poetry at Riverview Hopefield School, A boarding school I attended from 1966-1968. I had a great English Teacher, Mr.s Prat, who encouraged her students to read both classics and new writers, which I still do to this day.

I also like to encourage people to do the same. I also paint and enjoy singing. I've been since age five and still own my first book. I started performing mine and others' work three work three years work three years ago. I pray I'll continue to do this for a long, long time. Viva Stone soup, viva fellow writers, good company, good life." 

MONDAY IS THE LAST DAY TO SEND SUBMISSIONS FOR SPOONFUL #7

Current Spoonful Deadline

We are accepting submissions for issue #7 between January 25th and February 25th (with an eye on going online for March).

Submission Guidelines

Spoonful currently accepts by email submission only. Please send 3-5 poems of various forms and length as Word attachments with the word "Submission: Poetry" in the subject heading to stonesouppoetry@yahoo.com before February 25th.

Short works of fiction and non-fiction will also be considered. We are particularly looking for essays that touch on Stone Soup's history or the history of the Boston Poetry scene. Please send an inquiry email describing your prose piece and its length before sending it with the word "Proposed Longer Piece" in the subject heading.

Artwork is also being accepted, though moving forward, there will be fewer pieces accepted.  If your artwork or photography is meant to accompany a submitted poem or prose piece, please let us know in the body of the email.

Illustrators, photographers, and artists of any kind are encouraged to send up to 10 JPEG submissions to the same address with the words "Submission: Artwork" in the subject heading to stonesouppoetry_at_yahoo.com. The artwork's title and medium (if any) should be part of the JPEG file name (example, "Summer, Windphotograph.jpg").

Important

With your submissions, please also include as an attachment document a 2-5 sentence bio (longer bios will be edited at the editors' discretion and without notice).  Please include notice of submissions sent simultaneously to other journals.

A Note On Prior Publication

Our editorial eye will be toward unpublished work but we will considered previously published poems on the basis of merit and/or the previous source (a defunct web journal, a prelude to a larger, new project, etc).

We encourage that you be forthright with a poem's publication history, if any. Spoonful retains the right to reject and remove from our site, without notice, works with previous publication credits intentionally omitted by the author.

Holding Work

Due to our small staff and resources, Spoonful generally does not carry over unaccepted work from one reading period to another. In other words, if the work is rejected for the Winter issue, it will normally not be carried over to be considered for the Spring issue. On the rare occasion that a poem is carried over to be considered for the next reading period, the poet will always be notified. Otherwise, unaccepted submissions will be deleted before the next reading period begins. A poet is always welcome to resubmit any previously rejected work to be considered for a new reading period.

February 25th: Pre-Stone Soup Poetry Writing Workshop

I will be leading a workshop today on February 25th, to take place before Stone Soup Poetry from 6:00 PM to just before 8:00 PM at the Au Bon Pain in Central Square, 684 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge.

Please bring a poem of any form and style no more than 1-2 pages. Bring up to 10 copies of your poem to share with the group, and be prepared to share your thoughts on each others work. If you have trouble printing your work, you can email it to me before 5:00 Monday at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com

Those unable to attend that are interested in future dates please email me at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com

February 25th: Black Women Writers Celebrate the Extra MoJo! Anthology

 

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 25th, we celebrate the release of Extra Mojo with its contributors, including editor Mignon Ariel King.

Extra MoJo!, the first book of Hidden Charm Press (HCP), is a print collection of poems, memoir, and social commentary essays selected from the first ten issues of the online journal MoJo!

The anthology features 20 writers’ work. The online journal was founded in 2008 to encourage a writing-for-publication focus for the MAPS-ONE workshops run by Boston-born writer Mignon Ariel King (the HCP publisher who also edits MoJo! online).

READERS INCLUDE: Toni Bee, Mignon Ariel King, and Robin G. White

February 18th: Dawn Gabriel 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 February 18th, we welcome Dawn Gabriel back to our podium.

Dawn Gabriel, a sometime co-host at the Cantab poetry slam, has been writing and performing poetry for almost 20 years.  The Worcester Telegram and Gazette has called her an “extraordinarily captivating performer, marrying engaging language and imagery with an outrageous sense of humor and comic timing.” 

Dawn toured with Lollapalooza in 1994, appeared on the finals stage at the 1997 National Poetry Slam as a member of the fourth place Worcester team, and has been on 3 other national slam teams (Providence 98, Boston 05, and Boston 06).  She has performed at the Seattle Poetry Festival, the Boston Globe Book Fair, and First Night in three cities.  Her poetry has been published in numerous anthologies, including the 20 Years at the Cantab Anthology, and Knocking at the Door: Approaching the Other, published by Birch Bench Press. 

February 11th: Nathan & Jonah Comstock 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 February 11th, Michael F. Gill hosts the performance duo of Nathan and Johan Comstock.

Nathan and Jonah Comstock have been writing and performing, together and separately, since age four. In college, both attended the College of Wooster in Ohio and studied English, Theatre, and Philosophy in various combinations. They have been regular performers at the Cantab Lounge for a little over a year, performing sometimes silly, sometimes heartfelt poetry about such topics as Gender, Family, Science, and Star Trek. They are excited to be featuring together at Stone Soup.

February 4th: Pre-Stone Soup Poetry Writing Workshop

I will be leading a workshop today on February 4th, to take place before Stone Soup Poetry from 6:00 PM to just before 8:00 PM. NEW LOCATION: Au Bon Pain in Central Square, 684 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge.

Please bring a poem of any form and style no more than 1-2 pages. Bring up to 10 copies of your poem to share with the group, and be prepared to share your thoughts on each others work. If you have trouble printing your work, you can email it to me before 5:00 Monday at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com

Those unable to attend that are interested in future dates please email me at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com

--Chad Parenteau

February 4th: James Van Looy 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 February 4th, we welcome back Stone Soup fixture, James Van Looy.


James Van Looy has been a fixture in Boston’s poetry venues since the 1970s and performed with the Mirage Mime Theater from 1980 to 1987 during which time he was also taught classes offered by Mirage. From 1987 to 1988 he was a member of the Collective Mime. His poetry has been anthologized in Out of the Blue Writers Unite. He has run poetry workshops for Boston area homeless people at Pine Street Inn and St. Francis House since 1992 and regularly reads at Bay State Prison as part of their poetry program. Currently, Van Looy leads the Labyrinth Creative Movement Workshop. In 2008, Van Looy reunited with the performance troupe Cosmic Spelunker Theatre alongside Ian Thal and William J. Barnum to perform for Stone Soup.

NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR SPOONFUL #7

Current Spoonful Deadline

We are accepting submissions for issue #7 between January 25th and February 25th (with an eye on going online for March).

Submission Guidelines

Spoonful currently accepts by email submission only. Please send 3-5 poems of various forms and length as Word attachments with the word "Submission: Poetry" in the subject heading to stonesouppoetry@yahoo.com before February 25th.

Short works of fiction and non-fiction will also be considered. We are particularly looking for essays that touch on Stone Soup's history or the history of the Boston Poetry scene. Please send an inquiry email describing your prose piece and its length before sending it with the word "Proposed Longer Piece" in the subject heading.

Artwork is also being accepted, though moving forward, there will be fewer pieces accepted.  If your artwork or photography is meant to accompany a submitted poem or prose piece, please let us know in the body of the email.

Illustrators, photographers, and artists of any kind are encouraged to send up to 10 JPEG submissions to the same address with the words "Submission: Artwork" in the subject heading to stonesouppoetry_at_yahoo.com. The artwork's title and medium (if any) should be part of the JPEG file name (example, "Summer, Windphotograph.jpg").

Important

With your submissions, please also include as an attachment document a 2-5 sentence bio (longer bios will be edited at the editors' discretion and without notice).  Please include notice of submissions sent simultaneously to other journals.


A Note On Prior Publication

Our editorial eye will be toward unpublished work but we will considered previously published poems on the basis of merit and/or the previous source (a defunct web journal, a prelude to a larger, new project, etc).

We encourage that you be forthright with a poem's publication history, if any. Spoonful retains the right to reject and remove from our site, without notice, works with previous publication credits intentionally omitted by the author.

Holding Work

Due to our small staff and resources, Spoonful generally does not carry over unaccepted work from one reading period to another. In other words, if the work is rejected for the Winter issue, it will normally not be carried over to be considered for the Spring issue. On the rare occasion that a poem is carried over to be considered for the next reading period, the poet will always be notified. Otherwise, unaccepted submissions will be deleted before the next reading period begins. A poet is always welcome to resubmit any previously rejected work to be considered for a new reading period.

January 28th: Pre-Stone Soup Poetry Writing Workshop

I will be leading a workshop today on January 28th, to take place before Stone Soup Poetry from 6:00 PM to just before 8:00 PM.  NEW LOCATION: Au Bon Pain in Central Square, 684 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge.

Please bring a poem of any form and style no more than 1-2 pages. Bring up to 10 copies of your poem to share with the group, and be prepared to share your thoughts on each others work. If you have trouble printing your work, you can email it to me before 5:00 today at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com

Those unable to attend that are interested in future dates please email me at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com

--Chad Parenteau

January 28th: M.P. Carver 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.  Join us on January 28th for the first ever full-length feature of north shore poet M.P. Carver.

M.P. Carver is a 26 year old poet from Salem, MA. She graduated from Brown University where she concentrated in East Asian Studies with a focus on Japan. She works a day job with an energy consulting company, but in her real life she's a poet. Her work has been featured in the inaugural volume of Zig Zag Folios, in an art exhibit at the Mass State Poetry Festival, and in Hospital Drive, the University of Virginia's online medical literary journal. Her upcoming first book, Angry Little Poems, is being published by YesNO Press.