November 3rd: Victor D. Infante and Lea C. Deschenes



Stone Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery (located on 106 Prospect Street in Cambridge) with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. November 3rd sees the celebration of The November 3rd Club with poets Victor D. Infante and Lea C. Deschenes, who welcome contributors to the journal to come and read.

Victor D. Infante is the Editor-in-Chief of The November 3rd Club, an online literary journal of political writing, and a writer whose poems and prose have appeared in dozens of periodicals internationally, including literary journals such as The Los Angeles Review, Pearl, Ballard Street AntiMuse, and anthologies such as Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry, Spoken Word Revolution Redux and The Last American Valentine: Poems to Seduce and Destroy. He's recently released his first full-length poetry collection, City of Insomnia, on Write Bloody Publishing. He currently resides with his wife and pet ferret in a three-decker apartment in Worcester, Massachusetts, and is a devoted fan of The Family Circus.

Lea C. Deschenes resides in Worcester, MA and holds an MFA in Poetry from New England College. Her poetry has appeared online, on stage and in print (Spillway, Snakeskin, So Luminous the Wildflowers, Ballard Street Poetry Journal, et al.) A former member of four National Poetry Slam teams and a coach to two more, she also dusts off her BA in Theater to perform. She has received a Jacob Knight Award, been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and represented Worcester in the 2005 Individual World Poetry Slam. She is the author of thirteen chapbooks. Her first full-length collection The Constant Velocity of Trains, is available through Write Bloody Publishing.

Visit The November 3rd Club.

October 27th Ryk McIntyre Returns



Stone Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery (located on 106 Prospect Street in Cambridge) with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. On October 27th, Stone Soup welcomes back Ryk McIntyre, featuring his new chapbook, Touch Creatures.

Ryk McIntyre is a three-time National Poetry Slam Team member, as well as Co-host at The Cantab Poetry Reading. He has toured nationally and in Canada, opening for acts as varied as Andrei Codrescu Leon Redbone and Jim Carroll, as well as appearing as part of Lollapalooza 1994. He performed in "The Legends Of Slam" Showcase at NPS2006. He has been published in Short-Fuse- An Anthology Of New Fusion Poets, 100 Poets Against The New World Order, Nth Position Magazine and The Worcester Review. With Melissa Guillet, he has edited two anthologies, Look! Up In in the Sky! and the upcoming Legendary-Stories We Tell Today; Stories Our Children Will Tell Tomorrow. He is a known biped, and he has pretty blue eyes.

Click here to see Ryk McIntyre perfrom his poem "In God's Image."

October 20th: Sara Littlecrow-Russell Features



Stone Soup Poetry meets from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery (located on 106 Prospect Street in Cambridge) with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. On October 20, we welcome a first-time visit from Sara Littlecrow-Russell.

Sara Littlecrow-Russell is a single mother of two, occasional public interest lawyer, ethnobotanist, and mediator specializing in cross-cultural conflict resolution. Her political poetry has appeared in dozens of journals including: The Indigenous Journal of Law, Culture and Resistance, American Indian Quarterly, US Latino Review, Meridians, The Massachusetts Review, Hip Mama, Race Traitor Journal, and in a variety of anthologies, including Sister Nations: Native American Women Writing on Community.

Her first book, The Secret Powers of Naming, was published by the University of Arizona Press. It won an Independent Publishers Bronze Medal and was a finalist for the Pen Beyond the Margins Award. It also received the Myers Outstanding Book from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America. When she is not writing poetry, she can be found scavenging for shiny objects and odd facts, digging in the garden, playing mah jong, and experimenting with cooking spices and perfumery.

Click here for a sample poem by Sara Littlecrow-Russell.

Tonight

Phil Hasouris and Frank Miller Feature tonight.