October 4: David R. Surette 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 4, Stone Soup Poetry features multiple time feature David R. Surrette, who celebrates the release of his newest collection.

David R. Surette’s new book of poetry is Tonic. He is the author of six other collections including Stable and Easy to Keep, Hard to Keep In, both honored by the Massachusetts Book Awards. His poems have recently featured in the anthology From the Farther Shore: Discovering Cape Cod and the Islands Through Poetry, and 3 Nations Anthology: Native, Canadian & New England Writers, winner of a Maine Book Award. He lives on Cape Cod.

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September 27: 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 September 27, Stone Soup Poetry features Richard Spisak, who is celebrating the release of his new poetry collection.

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.

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September 20: Randy Barish 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 September 20, Stone Soup Poetry welcomes Randy Barish back to the venue for a full-length feature.

Randy Barish grew up in Sharon, MA and was raised by parents who were musicians. He graduated UMass, Amherst with a BA in Journalism/English in 1978. He discovered Nichiren Buddhism in 1989, and this new awareness rekindled his interest in poetry. A regular at Stone Soup in the early 2000's, his poem “My River Lethe” was adapted into Beyond The Lake, an award winning short film by Simon Constantine in 2019. His first collection of poetry, Garden of the Mind, was published this summer by Wilderness House Press.

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The meeting ID is 882 2357 8725

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September 13: Dexter Roberts 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 September 13, Stone Soup Poetry welcomes back Dexter Roberts.

Dexter Roberts' interest in art began with comic books, which, spurred him to sketch draw and eventually paint. His art work consists of abstract, text, symbolic and symptomatic depictions, primarily dealing with perception, representation and language. Poems surfaced in Dexter's art upon recognizing that words also have the power of "splattering the mind with images." The painter-poet is from Guyana, South America and has lived in Boston most of his life.

Dexter Roberts has appeared in or has curated numerous art shows and poetry reading around Boston and Cambridge. He is working on his first book of poems, freestyle slave style, due out next year.

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The meeting ID is 881 6407 7712

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September 6: Jeff Taylor 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 September 6, Stone Soup returns from our hiatus with our first September feature. Jeff Taylor.

Jeff Taylor lives with his wife and kids in Massachusetts where he is a union worker when he isn’t writing poems. Jeff has performed at universities, theaters, festivals, bars, coffee houses, and sidewalks across the east coast and is a member of the 2023 Lizard Lounge Slam Team. You can find his work in recent issues of The Bloodshed Review, Unlikely Stories, BOMBFIRE, Oddball Magazine, Cajun Mutt, The Alien Buddha Get’s A Real Job vol.2, American Graveyard (Read or Green Books), and The New Generation Beats 2023 Anthology (National Beat Poetry Foundation).

 

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Stone Soup on Break Until September 6

Due to unforeseen issues, Stone Soup is taking the rest of August off and will resume on September 6. Stay tuned for future announcements. 

August 9: Stone Soup Online All-Open Mic

Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. Stay tuned for more announcements. For now, we welcome you to participate in a another online open mic tonight on August 9. More summer features and guest hosts will be announced soon.

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The meeting ID is 854 4426 1547

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