November 20: Silent E Features at Stone Soup Poetry

Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. On November 20, Silent E returns to Stone Soup to feature at our virtual podium.

 Eunice Belacy aka Silent E has been a poet and spoken word artist in the Greater Boston area for over 10years. She grew up in North Cambridge Massachusetts to Haitian immigrant parents and was raised in the church. She started writing poetry at 16 years old and began performing at 24 while attending Bridgewater State University , where she joined the Spoken Word group The Seeds of Poetry.

She has performed at various open mics at churches,colleges, art galleries, bars, restaurants etc.

She has graced stages in Boston , New York , St Louis , Atlanta and Los Angeles, as well as online via Instagram.

Not only has she shared her pieces in multiple locations, she has also co-hosted a few open mics as well.

The written and spoken word have always been her safe place.

Silent E wishes to use her poetry to uplift, inspire and share wisdom , as well as be vulnerable with her audience. She believes that anyone can be a poet , as along as they are willing to bare their souls and be honest first with themselves and then with the reader and listers.

A Quote she lives by is Ephesians 3:20:

Now all Glory to God who is able to through his mighty power at work within us do exceedingly , abundantly , above all we can ask or imagine. 

 

Join us on Wednesday November 20 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link. 

The meeting ID is 885 2322 8085

Password: stonesoup 

November 13: Timothy Gager Features at Stone Soup Poetry

Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. On November 13, we welcome Timothy Gager back to our virtual podium.

Timothy Gager is the author of 19 books of fiction and poetry. Of his new one, Almost Bluing for X-tra Whiteness, Charles Coe said, “Tim Gager can take a so-called 'ordinary moment' and peel it like an onion, revealing layers of meaning that seem both surprising and inevitable.” Pulitzer Prize winner writer Robert Olin Butler called Tim, “A genius of the quotidian, keenly observing the details of our lives and rendering them so that we can hear the deep pulse of our identities, of our pure being, within them.”

In a review of the book Cambridge Poet Populus Lo Galluccio noted, ” the poet takes on other themes, objects, even humor. It’s as if 'Blu-ing' were the poet’s ability to compensate for or distract from the underlying grief by looking at the world with some jauntiness and resilience. This is a marvelously composed collection that includes both the sacred and the profane. It’s about love, loss, mortality, addiction, recovery and survival and it’s both a good time read and enlightening literature about the state of our humanity.”

Join us on Wednesday November 13 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link. 

The meeting ID is 838 2052 0681

Password: stonesoup 

 

November 6: Richard Spisak Features at Stone Soup Poetry

Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. Join us the Wednesday after election day for a response to the 2024 election.

Richard Spisak began his artistic career as a light artist in the Lumonics Studios of Mel Tanner, a legendary Light Artist. After serving under Jack Horkheimer as a planetarium operator at the Miami Space-Transit Planetarium, he left to begin traveling with Lumist Kenvin Lyman, whose show Dazzleland Studios traveled across America. Richard later worked as a Laserist with LASERIUM and Laser Productions, served as a technical producer for the festival company PACE Concerts, and later as operations Manager and Senior Producer at WWHP and WTCN-TV in Stuart Florida.

Richard writes for Theatre, TV, radio, and the web. He published two short story collections, Two Small Windows, in a Pair of Mirror Doors, and Between the Silences. Followed by his poetry collection 7370 Allen Drive and the soon-to-be-released STONE POETRY. Richard also produces "POETS of the East", a televised webcast featuring poets from across the globe.

Join us on November 6 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 823 5360 6576

Password: stonesoup

 

October 30: Stone Soup Poetry Online All-Open Mic

Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. This Wednesday, we will be gathering for an all-open mic before next week's special feature.

Join us on Wednesday October 30 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link. 

The meeting ID is 812 2618 7626

 Password: stonesoup 

October 23: BeYouT Features at Stone Soup Poetry

Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. On October 23, the poet BeYouT is our next feature.

BeYouT (pronounced Beauty) is a poet who was born and raised in the suburbs of Boston. She had been writing since she was given her first journal at the age of 9 years old. In 2012 she was introduced to spoken word and has been writing and performing off and on ever since. She is a survivor of domestic violence and sexual abuse and has also experienced great loss. She is a passionate poet who writes from a place of personal healing. She, is a Survivor.

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

The meeting ID is 886 8722 5803

 Password: stonesoup

October 16: Stone Soup Poetry Online All-Open Mic

Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. This Wednesday, we will be gathering for an all-open mic before next week's special feature.

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

The meeting ID is 870 6695 2522

 Password: stonesoup 

 

October 9: Noah Berlatsky Features at Stone Soup Poetry

Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. On October 9, Noah Berlatsky visits our virtual podium for the first time freshg off a new poetry collection.

Noah Berlatsky (he/him) is a freelance writer in Chicago. His first full length collection is Not Akhmatova (Ben Yehuda Press, 2024). He has chapbooks published and/or forthcoming with the Origami Poems Project, above/ground, and LJMcD Communications.

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

The meeting ID is 863 0467 5096

 Password: stonesoup 

 

October 2: No Stone Soup Tonight

 

 

Stone Soup is taking a week off and will return on October 9 Stay tuned for upcoming online shows and hopefully the return of some kind of live event.