March 22: Diane Sahms 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 April 22, Diane Sahms visits our virtual podium for National Poetry Month. 

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

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April 8: Jason Wright 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 April 8 we welcome back Jason Wright as our first National Poetry Month feature.

Jason Wright is the publisher and founder of Oddball Magazine. He is author of three books, A Letter to the World, Train of Thought: Poems from the Red Line, and Train of Thought 2: Almost Home. He is also the host of The Oddball Show, a podcast advocating for mental wellness.

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The meeting ID is 814 1997 6616

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March 25: 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 March 25, Stone Soup ends the month with an all-open mic as we prep for National Poetry Month. 

 

Join us on Wednesday, March 25 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 843 2705 2547

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March 18: Rick Christiansen 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 March 18, Rick Christiansen comes to us via Kansas City to feature at our virtual podium.

Rick Christiansen is the author of Bone Fragments (2024) and Not a Hero (2025). Spartan Press. His work has received two 2025 Pushcart Prize nominations and he was a finalist for the RHINO Poetry 2025 Founders Prize. He has also been longlisted for a 2025 Rhysling Award (outcome pending). His poems explore survival, memory, class, and the residue of violence. He lives in Kansas City with his wife Kim and his dog B.

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The meeting ID is 835 5371 1505

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March 11: 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 March 11, Stone Soup keeps March moving along with an all-open mic. 

 

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The meeting ID is 833 8831 9323

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March 4: Arthur "Stratusfier" Williams 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 March 4, we welcome the return of author and activist Arthur "Stratusfier" Williams to our virtual podium.

Arthur "Stratusfier" Williams is a neurodivergent poet who aims to provide meaningful representation and amplify the neurodivergent voice within his communities. He believes that a mental health diagnosis or comorbidity does not have to be a source of shame, fear, or a life without determinism. An artist does not have to be one who pulls works from inspiration born of manic heights, crippling lows, or the tumultuous and often traumatic experiences that result from their effect. Those of us who are “too much” are more than enough in the right setting with the right support. That all genius exists in those people who are willing to find the holes in their world, and their thinking, and fill them with something they created if it does not exist. And that having the willingness and ability to affect, and be affected, by someone else through expression, in any facet of life, is the definition of poetry in motion. Stratusfier is a proud facilitator with Writers Without Margins and recently a Peer Mentor with The NAN Project. He has been published in the WWM journal Volume IX Urban Elegy, WWM journal Volume X The Artifact, the journal F(r)iction: Arcana, and was a recipient of The Mayor’s Poetry Program Selection in Boston in 2021.

Join us on Wednesday March 4 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 898 1226 2346

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February 25: Jules Nyquist 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 February 25, we welcome poet and organizer Jules Nyquist for their debut Stone Soup feature.

Jules Nyquist, Ph.D., is the founder of Jules’ Poetry Playhouse in Placitas, NM. Her recent award-winning books are Atomic Paradise, Homesick, then, and The Sestina Playbook (Poetry Playhouse Publications). She took her PhD in Post-Secondary Adult Education from Capella University and her MFA in Writing and Literature from Bennington College. Jules poems have been featured in print, online, audio, radio or in-person at various readings and events including the NM History Conference, in Las Cruces, NM, the American Psychological Association Conference in Denver, CO, the Jonquil Motel in Bisbee, AZ, the Rattlesnake Museum in Albuquerque, NM, a kind of a small array gallery in Magdalena, NM, the Briar in Minneapolis, MN, the Black Dog Café in St. Paul, MN, a Masonic Lodge in Bemidji, MN, the New Mexico Humanities Council, in Albuquerque, NM, Unquarked in Los Alamos, NM, and featured at the International Women’s Day at the Santa Fe Capitol Rotunda, and many other bookstores, bars, galleries, and elsewhere. Her poems have appeared in Salamander, 5AM, Malpais Review, Adobe Walls, A View from the Loft, St. Paul Almanac, Long Islander News, Gray Sparrow, House Organ, Duke City Fix, Café Review IKON Magazine, Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, and elsewhere. More at www.poetryplayhouse.com

Join us on Wednesday February 25 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 834 1031 0407

Password: stonesoup 

February 18: Stone Soup Takes a Break

Stone Soup will not be taking place on February 18. 

Stone Soup will return on February 25 with feature Jules Nyquist.

February 11: 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. On February 11, Richard Spisak returns to take up the podium as a featured reader.

Richard W. Spisak Jr. began life as a professional light artist with Mel Tanner of Lumonics. Then worked with master Lumist Kenven Lyman of Dazzleland Studios. Richard has been a Writer/Producer/Director in Live Theatre, TV, and radio, for 30 years. He has contributed editorial essays and cartoons to a wide array on newspapers and periodicals and e-zines. He continues to publish his editorial cartoons on the Web. He has published two short story collections Two Small Windows, in a Pair of Mirror Doors, and "Between the Silences". In 2022 Richard published his collected poetry, 7370 Allen Drive. In 2024 he published Stone Poetry and in 2025 his latest poetry collection, No Noise has been released into the wild. Richard produces, Poets of the East, a webcast which features poets from Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

Join us on Wednesday February 11 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 851 3035 3958

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February 4: 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 February 4, Stone Soup kicks off February with an all-open mic. 

 

Join us on Wednesday, February 4 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 824 3226 2906

Password: stonesoup