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
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
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
