November 18: Gloria Mindock Features at Stone Soup Poetry

 Photo by James Fraser

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 November 18, Somerville poet Gloria Mindock will return to feature for us.  

Gloria Mindock is editor of Červená Barva Press and the award-winning author of six poetry collections, two book translations in Romanian and Serbian, and three chapbooks. Her poems have been published and translated into twelve languages. Gloria’s most recent book, Grief Touched the Sky at Night, was published by Glass Lyre Press. Her work has appeared in Ibbetson, Gargoyle, The James Dickey Review, Growth: Journal of Literature, Culture, & Art (Macedonia), Nixes Mate, Lily Poetry Review and Books, Rye Whiskey Review, Unlikely Books, and Cholla Needles. She served as Poet Laureate of Somerville, Massachusetts, in 2017 and 2018. In 2024, Gloria received the Sam Cornish Award from the NEPC.

Join us on Wednesday, November 18, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is  865 7581 3392

Password: stonesoup

 

November 11: Julie Marie Hoey 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 November 11, Stone Soup friend Julie Marie Hoey returns to our virtual podium.

Julie Marie Hoey is an award-winning artist and poet. Her artwork along with her poetry has been exhibited internationally and lives in collections worldwide. She has been published in numerous magazines, journals and anthologies. Julie Marie moved to Mexico last year and has recently had a poem and two paintings published in Puente MID, a literary and arts magazine. She has started monthly and quarterly open mics in her new home in Merida. Julie Marie loves belly laughs, storytelling, vibrant colors, gardening, her cat Jasper Johns, good grammar, interesting words, reading, fixing things, and exercising. She is certain her greatest gift is amusing others—unintentionally.

Julie Marie was the VP and publicly chair of Poetry Society of NH, co-organizer of NAV Arts monthly open mics in Manchester, NH and has been a featured poet in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine.

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

The meeting ID is  889 3455 6668 

Password: stonesoup

 

November 4: Tzynya Pinchback 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 November 4, we kick off the month and the aftermath of midterms with the poetry of Tzynya Pinchback.

Tzynya Pinchback writes the Black woman body in illness, in nature, and joy as a deliberate act. She was awarded a 2024 PEN America Emerging Voices fellowship for her in-progress cancer memoir, and has current work in Foodstories Project: Intersections Between Food, Memory, Identity, and Our Stories, and Folsom State Prison library project. She is the 2025-2026 Writing the Land poet in residence at D.W. Field Park—an initiative to increase community access to conserved lands—and lives in an impossibly small house on a pond in Massachusetts where she paints fairy houses and dreams of one day writing a villanelle.

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

The meeting ID is 862 1993 8734

Password: stonesoup

October 28: David Fulcher 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 28, Stone Soup ends October with a proper horror themed reading from David Fulcher.

David Fulcher is a publisher, editor, and writer of fiction and poetry who lives in Ashburn, Virginia with his wife Lisa, and their rambunctious cats. He is a founding member/contributing editor of Old Scratch Press, including a curator for the digital magazine Instant Noodles. He also is a publisher/editor of the magazine Samsara. His books are The Pumpkin King and Other Tales of Terror, Asteroid 6: And Other Tales of Cosmic Horror, and Howling Into the Void. His shorter works are in Lovecraft’s Mystery Magazine, Black Satellite, The Martian Wave, Burning Sky, Shadowlands, Twilight Showcase, Heliocentric Net, Gateways, Weird Times, Freaky Frights and the anthologies Dimensions and Silken Ropes. 

Join us on Wednesday, October 28, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 844 7222 1531

Password: stonesoup

October 21: 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 October 21, we have an all-open mic interlude before our big finisher feature at the end of the month.

 

Join us on Wednesday, October 21, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 899 8556 7915

Password: stonesoup 

October 14: Timothy Gager 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 14, another Stone Soup friend stops by as Timothy Gager returns to promote his latest publication. 

Timothy Gager is the author of 20 books of fiction and poetry, which includes his fourth novel, Shadows of the Seen, and his most recent collection of poetry, Almost Bluing for X-Tra Whiteness. He plays music as a solo singer-songwriter and co-hosts the popular podcast, Dean & Deans: Dating, Dread and Disasters.

Join us on Wednesday, October 14, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 837 8721 9966

Password: stonesoup

October 7: Mignon Ariel King 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 7, Stone Soup friend Mignon Ariel King returns to read from her latest collection.

Mignon Ariel King is a third-generation New England woman who holds a Master’s in English from Simmons University. She is the publisher of Tell-Tale Chapbooks and Hidden Charm Press. King has been a featured poet in Greater Boston venues 25 times and has been published in various journals since 2007. Her latest chapbook is Under the Arbored Moon.

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

The meeting ID is 819 7095 3818

Password: stonesoup

September 30: 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 September 30, we end the month with an all-open mic before a feature-filled October.

 

Join us on Wednesday, September 30, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 824 0101 7078

Password: stonesoup 

 

September 23: Lee Desrosiers 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 23, features return just as fall is starting with Lee Desrosiers reading from her new collection.

Lee Desrosiers (they/she) graduated in 2008 from the New England College MFA program in Poetry. Their fourth and latest full-length book of poems is Pocketing the Light (Kelsay Books 2026). Other books include: The Philosopher’s Daughter (2013), Sometimes I Hear the Clock Speak (2016), and Keeping Planes in the Air (2020). Two chapbooks, Inner Sky and Typing with e.e. cummings, are from Glass Lyre Press. They edit and publish an international journal of narrative poetry, Naugatuck River Review and Wordpeace.co, a multi-genre online literary journal dedicated to peace and social justice. Lee lives, teaches and writes in Westfield, Massachusetts.

Octavio Quintanilla writes: “In Pocketing the Light, Lee Desrosiers’s poems ask what it means to inhabit a life that is always changing, a life that keeps asking us to name the things we lose in time: a mother’s voice, a father’s laughter, “grass / bowing” to its wildness.” These poems move through meditations on illness and aging and move through beautiful observations of nature: “Nature is a balm to me even though / I don’t know the names of all the flowers,” Desrosiers writes, and this quiet confession becomes the emotional center of a book attentive to a living world we are part of and that holds us until we are ready to let go.”

Join us on Wednesday, September 23, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 883 3941 5240

Password: stonesoup