May 27: Cheryl Perreault, Carol Weston and Sanghi 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 27th, Carol Weston helps to close out Stone Soup's 42nd anniversary month with her handpicked co-features, Cheryl Perreault and Sanghi


Cheryl Perreault is a spoken word artist of poetry and story, often performing to the guitar music of visionary singer-songwriter/composer Steve Rapson. They have two cd recordings of guitar and spoken word, the most recent titled Roar.
 
With a background in psychology, Cheryl honors the art of sharing our life-stories with one another... in life review work with hospice patients, in providing programming for local storytelling and in her work as host and coproducer of the Meet Your Neighbor show at HCAM-TV. She is also founder/host and co-producer of a monthly Saturday morning program known as "Wake up and Smell the Poetry" at HCAM-TV Studios in Hopkinton which offers monthly programs of “awakening” to the art of poetry, story and song for community.


Carol Weston has featured many times with Stone Soup. She read alongside Jack Powers and Allen Ginsberg in 1973 in the former Charles Street Universalist Church. In the Winter of 1983, she was asked by Powers to feature in Boston's City Hall along with John Wieners. Her poetry has been published in The Farleigh Literary Review, Bomb, Stone Soup Anthology 2003, Spoonful and The Blind See Only This World.


Sanghi is an artist at heart, student of life, MIndFu - evaluating life through making sense of life experience and connecting the dots in life between art science and religion.
Sanghi is a walker wanderer poet painter gardener of words and flowers and she was so poor, grew up without tasting soda or coffee but now she sips coffee and catches thought. She is interested in all arts that influence and shape life.
She believes all humans are life artists whether we are aware or not. She says artists and poets, we are the scientists in nature. We discover and distill our living wisdom by living it, feeling it and practicing it.

Born and raised in South Korea, she came to America as an young adult without English or money but with a big dream and loving freedom. 12 years ago, she got lost in fear and tumbled down to the shadow of fear and almost lost her abilities to even walk, taking the prescription drug she did not believe but to make doctors and others happy. Under the influence of prescription drug she lived almost two years as a human guinea pig life and she dropped the prescription drug as Cold Turkey way against her doctor’s advice ten years ago. Since then she started to walk to reclaim and regain health and still on foot. When tender age, she walked across Seoul Korea, heard unspoken heart shattering words from thin air. Now she walks to wash off the dented outdated heart shattering words and to clean mind and heart. Through walking she finds her voice, the life and freedom loving voice. She walked in two marathons ten years and she still walks to Boston from her home in West Natick on Marathon day to celebrate life.  She is a naturalized U.S. citizen and currently lives in West Natick, MA.




 

Tonight

Michael F. Gill hosts The Light Brigade.

May 20th: Elizabeth Gordon McKim 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 20th, we welcome the return of Elizabeth Gordon McKim.

Elizabeth Gordon McKim is an artist who celebrates in her poetry and in her daily life the oral tradition of sound,movement,story and chant; she practices her poetry locally in Lynn Massachusetts where she lives and is known as the Jazz Poet of Lynn, in parts of the United States and abroad, in such places as Canada, Sweden , Italy, France, Israel, Germany, Switzerland, India, and Bali Indonesia. In her innovative and sustaining teaching over decades, McKim has worked with teachers and students throughout Massachusetts and across the United States, guiding her students to exercise their imaginations in the spirit of serious play and through the many dimensions of language.

McKim has published five books of original poetry, and is included in many anthologies and reviews and journals. Her latest collection is Red Thread from Leapfrog Press.  She is the Poetry Editor of POIESIS (Toronto) and is included in a forthcoming book by Ring of Bone Press called The Wild Women of Lynn.

She is honored to be doing this Reading for Stone Soup and Out of the Blue Gallery, hosted by Chad Parenteau and she remembers with delight the decades of participating in Stone Soup Poetry when Jack Powers was with us. McKim is considered to be a master teacher, poet, and performer; and she demonstrates in all aspects of her life how poetry can be interwoven with community, culture and the arts; and how the spoken poem is an essential bridge toward reading, writing, and articulating one's life and time.

May 6th: Pre-Stone Soup Poetry Writing Workshop

I will be leading a workshop today on May 6th, 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.

Today, May 3rd: Stone Soup Poetry: A Retrospective, 3:45 PM

Stone Soup Poetry: A Retrospective

Speakers
CHAD PARENTEAU
CAROL WESTON
DAN SHANAHAN
JAMES VAN LOOY

 

3:45 - 4:45pm on Friday, May 3 in Hawthorne Hotel, Pickman Room

Join us for a retrospective on Stone Soup Poetry, a venue started in the Boston area over 40 years ago by the late Jack Powers which featured local and nationally known poets such as John Wieners, Allen Ginsburg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Highlights include speakers from Stone Soup's past and,early scenes from Stone Soup's existence.

 

 Directions:

 

Take Exit 45, left toward 128 North toward Gloucester.

Take Exit 26, Lowell Street East/Peabody Square, Salem.

Follow Lowell Street one mile to the center of Peabody.

Peabody Square is denoted by a tall monument in the Square; go straight through the Square for one additional mile staying in the left lane through several traffic lights while passing from Salem into Peabody.

At the end of a mile you will take a left at the lights onto Route 107 North/ Bridge Street.

Follow Bridge Street 3/4 of a mile to the traffic lights on the overpass and stay in the right lane.

Stay straight through the lights, staying on Bridge Street and take the first right onto St. Peter Street.

At the end of St. Peter Street, take a left on Brown Street.

At the end of Brown Street, you will be facing the Salem Common.

Take a right and the hotel is on your left.

Pass the hotel and make a left at the lights and the parking lot will be directly behind the hotel.

May 13th: Stone Soup Presents The Light Brigade

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 13th, co-host Michael F. Gill presents the return of the performance grou pthe Light Brigade, featuring Barb Crane, A.M. Juster, Joan Kimball, and Amy Woods.

Barbara Lydecker Crane, who founded the Light Brigade in 2007, enjoys writing both serious and comic work. Her poems have been included in Light Quarterly, Measure, and 14 by 14, and many others. In 2011 she won the Helen Schaible International Sonnet Award. In 2012 White Violet Press published her first book, Zero Gravitas, and this year Daffydowndilly Books will publish her children’s collection, Alphabetricks.

Mike Juster, poetically known as A.M. Juster, is the author of four books of translation and poetry; his translation of Tibullus’ Elegies was published last year by Oxford University Press. He is a winner of the Richard Wilbur Award and the only three-time winner of the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award sponsored by The Formalist. He has published in The Paris Review, The New Criterion, Southwest Review and many other journals, and he has been a featured poet in Light and The Barefoot Muse.

Joan Alice Wood Kimball joined a poetry workshop group in Wayland in 2002 and started sending pieces out. Since then she's published over forty poems in journals and has put them in a blog on the internet. Six of her poems have been finalists in contests. She has one book, This River Hill, published in 2009, and two manuscripts in the works. She belongs to three poetry study groups, and continues to try new techniques.

In retirement Amy Woods devotes her considerable energy to writing poetry. Her subject matter is human foibles, which include her own. In 2011 she published her “epic” poem, “The Discovery of Mummy,” a fictitious account of the upheaval caused in “The American Museum of Natural History” by the mysterious appearance of an Egyptian mummy partially unwrapped, then haphazardly stuffed into a Zabar’s bag which the Assistant Director trips over upon entering the Museum’s incinerator closet. It was performed as a play in Cambridge.

May 6th: Lee Litif and Mark Hänser 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 6th, rescheduled in the wake of April 15th, we welcome back Stone Soup's most controversial feature ever Lee Litif with his new opening feature, Mark Hänser.

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.

Mark Hänser may have come from Neptune. Or more likely, he was a changeling left by celluloid fairies in a basket filled with orange blooms beneath a starry Southern California sky. Then later to be reared beneath barren maple trees underneath a Berkshire sky of Maxfield Parrish blue. The bastard love child of judy Garland and Dr. Seuss, Mark Hänser – as a painter and poet and a performer — draws his inspiration from pop culture, the tragically romantic, the romantically tragic, and the absurd. In his performing guise as the Whore of Babylon, Mark was a well-known presence in the Boston poetry scene. But the Babylonian had to be slain as the millenium came, and Mark fled to Neptune. But now he's back, with tales from the ether!

April 29th: Scott Jacobs 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 April 29th, we close out Stone Soup's celebration of National Poetry Month with a feature by Scott Jacobs, one of the organizers of the popular Zig Zag open mic in Salem.

Scott Jacobs lives in Salem MA. He has been published in Word Riot & ZigZagFolios. He is a bricklayer.

April 22nd: The Pentimenti Women's Writing Group 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 April 22d, we welcome an extended storytelling session with the Pentimenti women's Writing Group.

Four years ago a group of women in Dorchester began meeting on Saturday mornings at 450 Washington to write their stories. Some were working on poetry, others memoirs, novels, essays, or short fiction, but they all committed to finding their voices and telling their stories – and to helping one another to do that as well. That’s why they called our first collection of writing, “Can You Hear Our Voices?”

Over the years, the members of the group have changed, some women have moved on and new people have joined us, but the core commitment to honesty and self-expression – and to a caring, nurturing community – has remained steadfast.

Several years ago we took the name “Pentimenti,” which refers to “an underlying image in a painting, as an earlier painting, part of a painting, or original draft, that shows through, usually when the top layer of paint has become transparent with age.” The name reflects the process we are exploring, uncovering our histories, our stories, and our selves.


JENNIE P. BARNETT: Jennie lives in Dorchester and works full time as an Administrative Assistant. An avid gardener, she is without a garden right now but is making up for it by focusing on growing her writing and learning to "hear" her voice.

CAROL D. CARTER: Carol was born in Boston and lives in Dorchester. She received her BFA from Mass College of Art with a degree in Painting and Art Education. She also studied music at the University of Mass, Boston, and worked as a professional singer and musician. She has won awards in painting and wrote an art program, “Splashes of Color,” for children and adults. She is now writing her memoirs and a novel about a sailor/fishermen. She started writing when she was a young child but always hid her writings because she was afraid of being called a “storyteller.” In her young mind, that meant she was a terrible liar.

CAROL DOWD-DICKERSON: Carol has been a word-weaver and storyteller since she was very young. An educator with Boston Public Schools she has introduced new people, places, and things to her students by teaching them to read, as well as, how to perform the written word. Her current group of fourth and fifth graders, “The Joseph Lee Poet Posse,” have performed their own poetry. Carol’s poetry is as varied as her taste in great writers that range from Dorothy West, Langston Hughes, Pablo Neruda, and William Butler Yeats. Her poems are being published in the WriteOnTheDot Vol II collection. She is currently writing a novel and has the beginnings of a play taking form.

HEIDI LEWIS IVEY: Heidi is a revivalist, teacher and writer. Her writing has been influenced by Nikki Giovanni, Zora Neal-Hurston and Gwendolyn Brooks. Heidi's autobiography in poetic expression is scheduled to be released later this year. She hosts the In My Fathers House radio broadcast on Boston Praise Radio and lives in Dorchester.

4/15/13 Stone Soup Cancelled!

Friends:

In the wake of the Boston Marathon tragedy, I am cancelling tonight's Stone Soup feature with Lee Litif and Mark Hanser.  This is the best move to guarantee everyone's safety in this stressful time.

April 15th: Lee Litif and Mark Hänser 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 April 15th, we welcome back Stone Soup's most controversial feature ever Lee Litif with his new opening feature, Mark Hänser.

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.

Mark Hänser may have come from Neptune. Or more likely, he was a changeling left by celluloid fairies in a basket filled with orange blooms beneath a starry Southern California sky. Then later to be reared beneath barren maple trees underneath a Berkshire sky of Maxfield Parrish blue. The bastard love child of judy Garland and Dr. Seuss, Mark Hänser – as a painter and poet and a performer — draws his inspiration from pop culture, the tragically romantic, the romantically tragic, and the absurd. In his performing guise as the Whore of Babylon, Mark was a well-known presence in the Boston poetry scene. But the Babylonian had to be slain as the millenium came, and Mark fled to Neptune. But now he's back, with tales from the ether!

13th annual Boston National Poetry Month Festival-April 5-7 at BPL

The 13th annual Boston National Poetry Month Festival welcomes you to a three day regional event Friday, April 5 through Sunday, April 7, 2013. This on-growing tradition is a partnership with Tapestry of Voices, the Boston Public Library, and the Kaji Aso Studio.

This major literary program includes over 60 poets,five highly talented high school students- Boston Latin and Boston Arts Academy, and one Harvard student- two open mics and a workshop  facilitated by noted poet Tom Daley.

Festival Hours: Friday, Noon-4:00 P.M.; Sat. 10:00-4:40P.M., Sunday: 1:00P.M.-4:40 P.M. The go to address  for full description and schedule is bostonnationalpoetry.wix.com/poetry. Hope to see YOU there !!

Friday's program will be Noon-4:00P.M. in the Commonwealth Salon Room at the BPL

Ten keynote poets will start this year's poetry festival: David Ferry, winner of the 100,000 Ruth Lilly Prize (2011) and more recently, The National Book Award for poetry, Afaa M. Weaver, one of the foremost African-American Poets writing today- 12 collections and two plays published and produced; Dan Tobin, recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an NEA Award with six collections published, X.J. Kennedy, eight collections and twenty childrens' books; George Kalogerisn noted poet and nationally  recognized translator, Rhina P. Espaillat national prize-winning poet with thirteen collections and translations and two short story collections, Richard Hoffman, four collections, plus a memoir  and a collection of short stories; Kathleen Spivack, thirteen collections,plus one short story collection and her current memoir,"With Robert Lowell and his Circle";Judith Steinbergh, Brookline Poet Laureate, three collections,  and Christine Casson whos newest collection was published last year.

Saturday and Sunday's program moves to the Library's Rabb Auditorium There will be five highly talented Boston High School Students plus one Harvard Student; Sam Cornish, Boston's Poet Laureate will begin the popular "Poetry Marathon" followed by 55  major and emerging poets, two Open Mikes, and one workshop.

April 8th: Stone Soup Presents The Head-to-Head Haiku

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.  Please consider this a call for participation as Stone Soup plans its second annual Head-to-Head Haiku in celebration of National Poetry Month on April 8th.

Stone Soup is looking for a minimum of 8 poets to participate in his friendly competition. Interested persons should email Stone Soup at stonesouppoetry@yahoo.com or post on this Facebook event page.

Hosted by Michael F. Gill and Chad Parenteau, with possible surprise guest hosts. $3-$5 donation to help pay our rent/support the Out of the Blue Art Gallery.

Haiku is a traditional Japanese poetry form consisting of 17 syllables, commonly with syllable line counts 5-7-5 and normally includes a reference to nature. These pithy poems can be witty, whimsical, and wise. Head to Head Haiku is a performance poetry competition featuring standard and "modern American" haiku. The form was originated by Daniel Ferri (heard often as a commentator on NPR) at the National Poetry Slam in the 1990s as a demonstration event. The tradition has been continued by devotees of the Haiku form. Winning Poets must get the best 3 of 5, 5 of 9 and 9 of 17 in the series of rounds.

Sudden death matches are commonly used as tie breakers or if more than 8 want to compete. The whole show can be quite humorous at times and there is no strict rule other than the poems must be 17 syllables. Purists should rest assured that traditional Haiku often outscore the sarcastic slapstick, but like any slam it depends on the judges and it's more about entertainment and providing a unique environment for the work be heard.

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