Stone Soup Poetry

2/24/22

March 2: Dexter Garcia Features at Stone Soup

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 March 2, we welcome past feature Dexter Garcia to our virtual podium as she celebrates the release of her new poetry collection, Love Poems to my Not Lover.

Dexter Garcia is an Afro-Latinx Boston based poet who has been writing since she was 11 but began writing seriously at 19. Dexter was pushed to writing by the need to express herself and realized that it was a way to create change. She is inspired by everyday life but especially by the ways in which it affects marginalized peoples. Dexter loves to write about love and all of the different ways we experience it. She has worked with organizations such as Raw Art Works, The Institute of Contemporary Art, MassLEAP and many more.

Join us on March 2, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 843 8173 0194

Password: stonesoup

2/23/22

February 23: Stone Soup All Open Mic Tonight

On Wednesday February 23, we continue with an all open mic night.

Join us on February 23, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 893 4815 2640

Password: stonesoup

2/14/22

February 16: Stone Soup All Open Mic Tonight

On Wednesday February 16, we continue with an all open mic night.

Join us on February 16, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 828 5506 7223

Password: stonesoup

2/7/22

February 9: A Reading of Chalk Song by Gale Batchelder

Join us on February 9 as we celebrate the release of Chalk Song--a collection inspired by Werner Herzog's extraordinary documentary film, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, about the discovery of a cave full of Paleolithic art.--and the three authors behind it.

Gale Batchelder lives in Cambridge, MA. Her poems have appeared in in print and online at Colorado Review, Lily Poetry Review, What Rough Beast (Indolent Books), SpoKe4, Amethyst Arsenic, and White Whale Review, and in two anthologies of ekphrastic poems, New Smoke and Triumph of Poverty from Off the Park Press. Recently she has collaborated with a local dance company, teXtmoVes, in a performance of her poem, The Body Apologies.

Susan Berger-Jones is an architect and poet. She has had a hand in building homes, museums, sheds, pools, auditoriums, birdhouses, sand castles and skyscrapers. Her written and visual work has appeared in Drunken Boat, No Exit, and two anthologies of ekphrastic poems edited by Off the Park Press.

Judson Evans is a poet whose work has focused on crossing genres and collaboration. He regularly publishes haiku, and the related form of haibun, as well as contemporary lyric poems. He was recently named Haibun Editor of Frogpond, the journal of the Haiku Society of America. In 2007, he was chosen as an "Emerging Poet" by John Yau for The Academy of American Poets and won the Philip Booth Poetry Prize from Salt Hill Review in 2013. His poems have appeared most recently in Folio, Volt, 1913: a journal of forms, Cutbank, and The Sugar House Review. His poems have been set to music by composers such as Mohammed Farouz and Marti Epstein, and most recently he has collaborated with videographer Ray Klimek to produce an essay film Remote Viewing and with the Boston-based dance group teXtmoVes to develop his poem The Way Things Go into a dance piece.

Join us on February 9 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 881 8023 3058

Password: stonesoup

2/2/22

February 2: No Stone Soup Tonight

Stone Soup is off tonight due to illness. Find out who features on February 9 soon.

1/18/22

January 26: Mary Jennings Features at Stone Soup Poetry

Join us on January 26 as we welcome Mary Jennings all the way from Western, Mass.

Mary Jennings has read regularly with the Stone Soup Poets during the early years at T.T. the Bear’s. A job relocation to Western Massachusetts kept her from returning to Stone Soup, except for occasional visits to her home turf. Nonetheless, she established herself in the open mic scene in Western Mass, including hosting an open mic poetry venue in Amherst for two years. She has gone from writing free-form narrative poetry to writing cinquains, an antiquated short poetic form she has found appropriate in succinctly expressing the human condition. Her poetry can be found on the Facebook page, The Poetry of Mary Jennings, and her illustrated cinquains can be found on Instagram @mkjennings121. Mary lives in Chicopee, Massachusetts with her cat Violet.

Join us on January 26 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 821 8160 8935

Password: stonesoup

1/17/22

No Stone Soup on January 19

Due to pandemic issues, Stone Soup will be off this week. Stone Soup will resume on Janauary 26 with Mary Jennings.

1/4/22

January 12: Megha Sood Features at Stone Soup Poetry

Join us on January 12 as we welcome Megha Sood, an author we've come to know well since the start of the pandemic.

Megha Sood is an Award-winning Asian American Poet, Editor, Author, Literary Activist from New Jersey, USA. Recipient of 2021 Poet Fellowship from MVICW ( Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creating Writing) and a 2020 National Level Winner for Poetry Matters Project. Recipient of “Certificate of Excellence” from Mayor, Jersey City, New Jersey. Associate Poetry Editor Literary Journals Mookychick(UK), Life and Legends (USA), and Literary Partner with “Life in Quarantine”, Stanford University. Member of National League of American Pen Women (NLAPW), Women’s National Book Association, and United Nation Association-US Chapter. Works widely featured in journals, Poetry Society of New York, PBS American Portrait, NPR, Rising Phoenix Review, Kissing Dynamite, and many more. Author of Chapbook (My Body is Not an Apology, Finishing Line Press, 2021) and Full Length (My Body Lives Like a Threat, FlowerSongPress,2022).

Join us on January 12 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 895 6209 8472

Password: stonesoup

January 5: Open Mics (Hopefully Not) Forever!

Join us on Wednesday, January 5,, as we have our first open mic of the year--right before our first feature of the year next week!

Join us on January 5 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 827 4978 2367

Password: stonesoup

12/29/21

December 29: Final Revenge of the Last Minute Stone Soup All Open Mic

Join us on Wednesday, December 29, as we have one more last minute open mic before we say goodbye to 2021.

Join us on December 29 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 815 4602 4695

Password: stonesoup

12/22/21

December 22: No Stone Soup Tonight

Stay tuned to see if Stone Soup will be held tomorrow on December 23 or next Wednesday.

12/15/21

December 15: Son of the Last Minute Stone Soup All Open Mic

Join us on Wednesday, December 15, as we have another last minute open mic while we continue to figure out the end of the year and 2022 at Stone Soup Poetry.

Join us on December 15 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 865 5586 0824

Password: stonesoup