Due to inclement weather, we are unable to have tonight's Zoom call. We'll see you next week.
10/27/21
10/20/21
October 20: Stone Soup All Open Mic Tonight
Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.
On Wednesday October 20, we continue with an all open mic night.
Join us on October 20 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 893 8019 2125
Password: stonesoup
10/13/21
October 13: Stone Soup All Open Mic Tonight
Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.
On Wednesday October 13, we continue with an all open mic night.
Join us on October 13 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 863 1871 6415
Password: stonesoup
10/4/21
October 6: Kevin Gallagher Features at Stone Soup Poetry
Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an
online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to
receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.
On Wednesday October 6, we kick off the new month with poet, author and past Stone Souper Kevin Gallagher.
Kevin Gallagher is a Boston area poet, publisher, and political economist. His newest book of poems, And Yet it Moves is out this fall from MadHat Press. Gallagher edits spoKe, a Boston-based annual of poetry and poetics. He works as a professor of global development policy at Boston University.
Join us on October 6 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 870 0814 6493
Password: stonesoup
9/10/21
September 29: Denise Washington Features at Stone Soup Poetry
On Wednesday September 29, we close out September with poet and organizer Denise Washington.
Denise Washington, was born and raised in Roxbury, Massachusetts. She was a METCO student who graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Television Production / Creative Writing from Emerson College and her Master of Science degree in Early Childhood Education from Wheelock College.
For quite some time she lived in North Hollywood and worked as the assistant to the producer for the WB sitcom "The Wayan Brothers Show" and as a production coordinator and worked her way up to a team writer for the HBO sitcom "Arli$$.
She is an Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts alumni, a voice student of the late John Andrew Ross and Ed Bullins is her playwright mentor.
Currently, she is an educator in the Boston Public School System nurturing souls on a daily basis. She also enjoys teaching meditation, Yoga & Zumba to the children, their families and school staff!
Denise is the Founder, CEO and Producer of #Pop-Up Poetry series, A Denise Plays Hard Event, coming to a neighborhood near you!” This concept was birth with her second grade class students at the Mather Elementary School.
On April 22, 2018, to commensurate National Poetry Month, her first #Pop-Up Poetry series was in a garden. Her students, their families and people from the community came. Haywood Fannell was the Guest Poet, a host of students, their family members, friends and poets from the community dropped a verse and a rhyme.
Since April 22nd 2018, Poetry has been popping up across the City of Boston and beyond! Denise has met so many talented people along the way, of different ages, and walks of life that have a love for poetry, and enjoy using this platform to share their poems!
This is also a health & wellness venture! Did you know there are some health benefit to listening and writing poetry? It improves cognitive mood, well being and stress, just to name a few.
Join us on September 29 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 844 6603 4534
Password: stonesoup
The meeting ID is 844 6603 4534
Password: stonesoup
9/9/21
September 22: Stone Soup All Open Mic Tonight
Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.
On Wednesday September 22, we we continue with an all open mic night.
Join us on September 22 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 890 5176 0630
Password: stonesoup
8/24/21
September 15: Sam Cha Features at Stone Soup Poetry
Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.
On Wednesday September 15, we invite you to a special feature with Sam Cha.
Sam Cha is from Korea. He earned an MFA at UMass Boston. A 2017 recipient of the St. Boltoph’s Club Emerging Artists Prize, his work has appeared in apt, Assay, Best New Poets 2016, Boston Review, DIAGRAM, Memorious, and Missouri Review. His chapbook, American Carnage, was published by Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs in 2018. His full-length collection of cross-genre work, The Yellow Book, was published by [PANK] Books in 2020. Sam lives and writes in Cambridge, MA.Join us on September 15 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 829 9463 6404
Password: stonesoup
The meeting ID is 829 9463 6404
Password: stonesoup
8/23/21
Septemer 8: Meg Smith Features at Stone Soup Poetry
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| Photo by Derek Savoia |
Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.
On Wednesday September 8, we welcome back Meg Smith.
Meg Smith is a writer, journalist, dancer and events producer living in Lowell, Mass.
Her poetry has appeared recently in Muddy River Poetry Review, The Cafe Review, Poetry Bay, Polarity and many others.
She served on the board of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! for fifteen years, and is author of five poetry books and a short fiction collection, The Plague Confessor.
She welcomes visits to megsmithwriter. com.
Join us on September 8 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 860 4000 6321
Password: stonesoup
September 1: Stone Soup All Open Mic Tonight
Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.
On Wednesday September 1, we continue with an all open mic night.
Join us on September 1 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 892 6816 1630
Password: stonesoup
August 25: Stone Soup All Open Mic Tonight
Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.
On Wednesday August 25, we close out the month with an all open mic while prepping for September.
Join us on August 25 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 853 9060 6929
Password: stonesoup
8/5/21
August 18: Stephanie Kaylor Features at Stone Soup Poetry
Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.
On
Wednesday August 18 we welcome Stephanie Kaylor.
Stephanie Kaylor is a PhD student in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Barbara and Reviews Editor at Glass: A Journal of Poetry. They completed their MA in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany and were a participant of the Tin House Summer Workshop. Her most recent and forthcoming work can be found in publications including Protean Magazine, Flypaper Lit, and beestung.
Join us on August 18 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 842 7231 0173
Password: stonesoup
7/24/21
August 11: John Stickney features at Stone Soup Poetry
Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an
online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to
receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.
On
Wednesday August 11, John Stickney takes time from being on the road to have his first feature since becoming our online friend.
John Stickney has been a poet and writer for 40 plus years, first in Cleveland, Ohio, now in Wilmington, NC. The recipient of an Individual Artist Grant Award for Poetry from the Ohio Arts Council, his poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines (including Oddball Magazine, Pocket Lint, Exquisite Corpse, Medusa’s Kitchen, Alien Buddha Zine, and North of Oxford). John has performed his work on the radio and television, and his work has been performed by others both on stage and set to music. His work has published in two collections: Works of art are like questions or problems put by their inventor to the public at large (PA Press) and These Americans Moments (Burning Press). He has published book reviews, interviews and featured articles, as well as Art reviews and criticism.
His short fiction has appeared in Mississippi Review, ThugLit, Needles, Beat to a Pulp among others. His authored short monologue, “ Pandemic Travels” and authored short film, Hungry were released in two separate programs via Eventbrite in 2021. John is currently a member of The Writers of the Forest, Port City Playwrights’s Project, the North Carolina Poetry Society, The Ohio Poetry Association and the North Carolina Writers Network.
Join us on August 11 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 853 6559 8832
Password: stonesoup
7/19/21
August 4: Gloria Mindock Features at Stone Soup Poetry
Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an
online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to
receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.
On Wednesday August 4, we welcome poet, editor and publisher Gloria Mindock, who is celebrating the release of her latest collection.
Gloria Mindock is the author of Ash (Glass Lyre Press), I Wish Francisco Franco Would Love Me (Nixes Mate Books), Whiteness of Bone (Glass Lyre Press), La Portile Raiului, translated into Romanian by Flavia Cosma (Ars Longa Press, Romania), Nothing Divine Here (U Šoku Štampa, Montenegro), and Blood Soaked Dresses (Ibbetson St. Press). Widely published in the USA and abroad, her poetry has been translated and published into eleven languages. Gloria is editor of Červená Barva Press and was the Poet Laureate in Somerville, MA in 2017 & 2018. Her book Ash was awarded the Speak Up Talk Radio Firebird Book Award in July, 2021. Ash is also translated into Serbian by Milutin Durickovic and will be out shortly by ALMA Press in Belgrade.
Join us on August 4 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 821 2631 3558
Password: stonesoup
7/7/21
July 28: Laura Kiesel Features at Stone Soup Poetry
Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.
On Wednesday July 28, we welcome Laura Kiesel and celebrate her new collection, Swallowing the Stem of Adam’s Apple.
Laura Kiesel is a longtime poet, essayist and journalist. Her articles and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, the Washington Post, Vice, Vox, Ozy, Narratively, Salon, The Manifest-Station and many others. Her poems have been featured in upstreet, Medulla Review. Fox Chase Review, Blue Lake Review, Stone Highway Review, Noctua Review, Naugatuck River Review, and Wilderness House Literary Review. Originally from Brooklyn, New York she now lives in the Boston area where she teaches creative nonfiction, literary journalism and poetry at Grub Street and Arlington Center for the Arts. She is the servant of two adorable but demanding cats and has a habit of staying up way too late at night, usually reading.
Join us on July 28 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 883 4640 5086
Password: stonesoup
7/6/21
July 21: Stone Soup All Open Mic Tonight
Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.
On Wednesday July 21, we begin July with an all open mic while getting ready for July's final feature.
Join us this Wednesday night from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 891 2099 0638
Password: stonesoup
7/5/21
July 14: Andrew K. Peterson Features at Stone Soup Poetry
Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.
On Wednesday July 14, poet Andrew K. Peterson closes out June for Stone Soup.
Andrew K. Peterson is the author of five poetry books, most recently A Blue Nocturne Notebook (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2021). His 2017 chapbook The Big Game Is Every Night was mailed to the White House as part of a collective protest alongside publications from the Locofo Chaps series. A previous chap bonjour meriwether and the rabid maps (Fact-Simile Press) was featured in an exhibition on poets’ maps at the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center. His poetry was also included in The Earth Archive exhibit at RISD Museum. In 2017 he helped co-wrangle at the Boston Poetry Marathon. A co-founding editor of the literary journal summer stock, he lives in Boston.
Join us on July 14 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 836 9310 6149
Password: stonesoup
July 7: Stone Soup All Open Mic Tonight
Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.
On Wednesday July 7, we continue with an all open mic night.
Join us this Wednesday night from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 858 4327 6225
Password: stonesoup
6/14/21
June 30: Patricia Carragon Features at Stone Soup Poetry
Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.
On Wednesday June 30, poet, novelist, editor and publisher Patricia Carragon closes out June for Stone Soup.
Patricia Carragon’s fiction piece "What Has to Happen Next" has been nominated for Sundress Publications Annual Best of the Net Anthology. Her poem "Paris the Beautiful" won Poem of the Week from great weather for MEDIA. She was nominated by Bear Creek Haiku for a Pushcart Prize. Her latest books from Poets Wear Prada are Meowku and The Cupcake Chronicles and her debut novel, Angel Fire, is from Alien Buddha Press. Patricia hosts Brownstone Poets and is the editor-in-chief of its annual anthology. She is an executive editor for Home Planet News Online. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Join us this Wednesday night from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 859 8647 7048
Password: stonesoup
June 23: Russell DuPont Features at Stone Soup Poetry
Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.
On Wednesday June 23, Russell DuPont features as Stone Soup officially marches into summer.
Russell DuPont is the author of two novels (King & Train and Waiting for The Turk). He is also the author of several chapbooks (Up in Wisconsin, Travels with Kinsley, There is No Dam Now at Richford) as well as two books of poetry (Winter, 1948 and Establishing Home Plate). His poetry has been published in various literary magazines, including The Albatross, The Anthology of South Shore Poets, Re-Side, Oddball, JerryJazzMusician, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Rye Whiskey Review; and his story, “The Corner,” appears in the anthology Streets of Echoes. His journalism has appeared in The Dorchester Community News, The Melrose Free Press and The Patriot Ledger. His novel, Waiting for the Turk was nominated for a Goodreads Choice Books 2019 Award. He is also a photographer, painter and printmaker whose works have been widely exhibited and are in public and private collections, including The Boston Public Library; Brigham and Women’s Hospital; and The Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Join us this Wednesday night from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 841 5663 0107
Password: stonesoup
The meeting ID is 841 5663 0107
Password: stonesoup
June 16: Stone Soup All Open Mic Tonight
Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.
On Wednesday June 16, we begin June with an all open mic while getting ready for June's final features.
Join us this Wednesday night from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 898 7606 0255
Password: stonesoup
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