June 30th: Jade Sylvan Returns



Photo by Caleb Cole

Stone Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery at 106 Prospect Street with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. On June 30th, Stone Soup welcomes back local favorite Jade Sylvan for what is sure to be a well-attended feature (early arrival is recommended).

Jade Sylvan hails from the rugged streets of Indianapolis, Indiana. In her young adulthood, she traveled to many places such as California, the South, Canada, and Europe, where she drank many delicious local beers. She also graduated from college. Somewhere along the line, she sold her soul to become a novelist and poet. Right now there are some big publishers interested in one of her novels. Really, there are. She's also almost done with another novel she's pretty excited about, not to mention she's going to have a new chapbook soon full of her poems. She's had some poems published in places like Spare Change News and Word Riot, so that's pretty cool, too. Gun to her head, her top five favorite movies are: Fight Club, The Graduate, Annie Hall, The Princess Bride, and Henry Fool.

Click here for a poem by Jade Sylvan from an issue of Spoonful.

June 23rd: Lynne Stickor "The Prize Lady," Features

Stone Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery at 106 Prospect Street with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. On June 23, Stone Soup welcomes the return of Stone Soup Staple Lynne Sticklor "The Prize Lady" for her first full-length feature in years.


Photo by Lynne Sticklor

Lynne Sticklor "The Prize Lady" is a performance artist, poet, and creator of Visual art: magazine collage, acrylics & sparkles, clay and Text & Graphics as mediums. She is the sole creator of The Prize Lady Experience, which is a one-on-one performance art piece, as well as a Stage Show with grand poetic theatrics and "fabulous prizes". It has been performed at many venues and at many events--public and private.

She describes The Prize Lady Experience as a way to feel worthy of being creative just because you've expressed yourself. It's about opening your mind to your creative side, to the clown or performer in all of us, and to the thoughts or ideas that can only surface when we are inspired in an indirect way. It's about feeling and being worthy of winning a prize just because you embrace the moment of creativity as your own. It breaks down the barrier between Artist and Non-Creative type and even Performer and Audience.

June 16th: Jane Chakravarthy and Portia Brockway Feature

Stone Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery at 106 Prospect Street with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. On June 16th, Stone Soup will have a double feature with local artists and friends Jane Chakravarthy and Portia Brockway.




Born in York, England 1974, Jane Chakravarthy left England after studying Sociology, counselling and photography, to live in Boston USA. There she focussed more on her artistic direction, finding and creating a more lucid expression with creative writing, painting and finally more importantly on discovering her own sense of being an artist. She has recently published her first book, Love its Wrath and others, a collection of her poetry, prose and artwork.





Portia Brockway is a visionary artist whose skillful devotion to the written word with a knack for ethereal yet grounded poetry. She has been published by Poetry Motel, 57 Inc., The Empty Vessel, Yoga International, and many other publications, as a poet, an essayist and as a short story writer. She was a finalist for “Best Female Love Poem” and “Best Female Erotic Poem” at the Cambridge Poetry Awards. Her photography has been published dozens of times by the hip Boston newspaper The Weekly Dig. She is a respected, beloved and admired yoga instructor of almost 20 years in Cambridge , MA

June 9th: Tam Lin Neville Features



Stone Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery at 106 Prospect Street with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. On June 9th, we welcome Somervile poet and editor, Tam Lin Neville, as our next feature.

Tam Lin Neville was born in New York in 19944. She received her BA from Temple University in Philadelphia and her MFA in poetry from Vermont College in 1989.

her poems has been published in The American Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, Harvard Review and elsewhere. SHer chapbook Dreaming in Chinese won Calypso Press' first chapbook competition in 1995. In 1998, her book-length manuscript, Journey Cake, was published by BkMk Press. She serves as editor of Off The Grid Press, Off the Grid Press, founded in the fall of 2005 to provide a forum for older, previously published poets.

Visit Off The Grid Press.

Click here for a sample poem from The Minnesota Review.