July 22: Marc D. Goldfinger 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 July 22, Stone Soup alum and local poetry legend Marc Goldfinger features for July.

Marc Goldfinger has been published by Ibbetson Street, the Aurorean, Pegasus, The Boston Poet, the Crooked River Press, Earth First! Journal, The New Renaissance, User’s News, Poiesis, The Porter Gulch Review, Rubber-Side-Down and many others. Goldfinger is also a member of the Liberation Poetry Collective and is included in the Liberation Anthology put out by the Trilingual Press. He is currently the poetry editor and a regular columnist for the Spare Change News, a paper put out for the benefit of homeless people. He is a member of The Road Scribes of America, a motorcycle club whose members have been published throughout the world. He also has his own website at http://marcdgoldfinger.outlawpoetry.com/ where he also has books and a down-load of Getting Fixed In South Carolina, a true story of an event in his life, arranged and performed by The Jeff Robinson Trio, for sale. Goldfinger is formerly homeless and has been a Vendor for Spare Change News since 1993.

Join us on Wednesday, July 22, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 832 0056 5037

Password: stonesoup

July 15: Mary Ann Honaker 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 July 15, Stone Soup returns with special feature Mary Ann Honaker as she reads from her new colection.

Mary Ann Honaker is the author of Becoming Persephone (Third Lung Press, 2019), Whichever Way the Moon (Main Street Rag, 2023), and Night is Another Realm Altogether, on pre-release sale now with Sheila-Na-Gig. Her poems have appeared in Bear Review, DIAGRAM, JMWW, Juked, Little Patuxent Review, Rattle.com, River Heron Review, Solstice, Sweet Tree Review, Tuskegee Review, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Beckley, West Virginia. 

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

The meeting ID is 859 5282 8229

Password: stonesoup

July 8: No Stone Soup This Week

 

 

Stone Soup is taking a week off and will return on July 15. 

 

Enjoy your time off. Keep on writing.  

July 1: 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. On July 1, we take the plunge into July with an all-open mic.

 

Join us on Wednesday, July 1, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 874 6930 3823

Password: stonesoup 

June 24: Marjorie Pezzoli 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 June 24, we trudge to the end of June and the early days of summer with special feature Marjorie Pezzoli.

Marjorie Pezzoli is a poet, visual artist, and silk painter. 

Her writings cover all emotions, from grief to joy. Since 2019 her poetry has been curated in printed anthologies and online publications: A Year in Ink, Complete the Haiga, dadakuku, Heterodox Haiku, Mad Swirl, Palabra: Open Mic, San Diego Poetry Annual, Setu Journal, The Pan Haiku Review, and others. In 2025, Marjorie was given the Setu Award of Excellence for Art and Literature, and Program Coordinator for the Haiku of America Virtual Conference.

She works on promotional material for the Southern California Haiku Group.

You may receive her weekly Monday morning offerings via email, or follow The Cosmic Gumball Machine on Substack. You never know what will roll out, poetry, haiku, and various art forms. Her daily ink sketching practice started on January 1st, 2026. Josh Datko of BitPunk.FM said, “Marjorie has some of the best punk-poking artwork around these parts.”

Beau, the dog with Betty Davis eyes, and a visiting peacock are two of her muses. Marjorie looks for words worth a thousand images. www.PezzoliArt.com - IG@marjorie pezzoli

Join us on Wednesday, June 24, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 870 4260 4070

Password: stonesoup

June 17: 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. On June 17, we continue the month of June with an all-open mic.

 

Join us on Wednesday, June 17, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 825 1058 4516

Password: stonesoup 

June 10: Stone Soup's Online Workshop

Tonight will be the return of the Stone Soup Poetry workshop.

A reminder of the rules:

Bring one poem no longer than a single page (no smaller than 11 font)

Leave the title off (share it in chat).

If you can't screen share, you can email the workshop head at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com

 Join us on Wednesday June 10 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.  

The meeting ID is 852 0894 8392

Password: stonesoup 

June 3: 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. On June 3, we continue our fifty-fifth year with an all-open mic to help us slide into summer.

 

Join us on Wednesday, June 3, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 875 5686 2132

Password: stonesoup