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 May 27, our fifty-fifth anniversary month concludes with the return of old friend Susan Deer Cloud.
Susan Deer Cloud, a mixed lineage Catskill Mountain Native, is the recipient of an NEA Literature Fellowship and two New York State Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowships. She has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies, and her most recent book is The Way to Rainbow Mountain. Since being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2017, she has gone roving in South America, Europe, and Alaska (hey, “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose”). She is on a quest, seeking human beings who embody the original name for her Iroquois ancestors, the Shining People. She makes pilgrimages to places whose genius loci is still powerful in a beautiful and sheltering way. During this perilous time she knows freedom can be an easy word to toss around, but she is resolved to keep making a stand for the kind that sparks soaring creativity, tenderness, and love.
Join us on Wednesday, May 27, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 816 7309 2287
Password: stonesoup
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 May 20, Stone Soup's fifty-fifth anniversary celebration continues with returning poet Meg Smith.
Meg Smith is a writer, dancer, journalist and events producer based in Lowell, Mass. She is author of six poetry collections and one fiction collection, The Plague Confessor. She is a member of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac and creator of Poe in Lowell, honoring Edgar Allan Poe's three visits to Lowell. She was nominated in 2025 for the Stanley Kunitz poetry medal.
Join us on Wednesday, May 20, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 817 6566 1275
Password: stonesoup
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 May 6, we kick off our fifty-fifth anniversary month with Stone Soup alum Harris Gardner.
Harris Gardner co-authored Chalice of Eros with Lainie Senechal (Stone Soup Press). His second book, No Time for Death, was published in published February 2022 (Cervena Barva Press); 2 chapbooks: Lest They Become (Ibbetson Street Press) and Among Us (Cervena Barva Press). In addition to Sixty publication credits. he has served as Poetry Editor for Ibbetson Street since 2010 and co-founded both the Tapestry of Voices and Boston National Poetry Month Festival with Lainie Senechal which ran from 2001 to 2021. He is the Founder and curator of eight poetry venues. His current venue, the First and Last Word Poetry Series with Co-Host Gloria Mindock, has been running since 2010.
Harris is the recipient of several awards and citations including the Sam Cornish Award from New England Poetry Club in 2023.
Join us on Wednesday, May 6, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 842 4574 9317
Password: stonesoup
Diane Sahms, a native Philadelphian, is the author of nine poetry collections, latest—of an octopus: an archite|x|tural awareness of words, Carbonation Press, 2026. Awarded first place in Judith Stark’s Poetry Contest and Partisan Press’s Working People’s Poetry Contest, she is the recipient of AEVentures Foundation’s Poetry Grant. Published in North American Review, Northern Virginia Review, Brushfire, Valley Voices, Sequestrum, Chiron Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Ranger Magazine, Amsterdam Review and elsewhere, with poems forthcoming from Abstract Magazine: Contemporary Expressions. Poetry Editor at North of Oxford, she worked as a Contract Specialist and high school English teacher.
Join us on Wednesday, April 22, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 893 5204 1558
Password: stonesoup
