October 5th: Fire of Prometheus Returns to Stone Soup





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 5th, Stone Soup reunites with the long-running poetry troupe Fire of Prometheus.

Comprised of poet/cartoonist/filmmaker Mick Cusimano, absurdist poet RU Outavit, activist performer Kasara, and local legend Bill Barnum, the Fire of Prometheus group entertained poetry venues and local media for close to two decades at venues like Stone Soup, The Naked City Coffee House, and most recently at the Squawk Coffeehouse, where they recently celebrated their first reunion show.

Click here for a video history of Fire of Prometheus by Mick Cusimano (rare Bill Barnum footage).

Click here for Mick's written history.

Reminder

John Landry and Maggie Cleveland Visit Stone Soup tonight.

September 28: Gordon Marshall 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 September 28th, we finish the month with Gordon Marshall, who will celebrate the release of his new book and announce the winner of the first Jack Powers Stone Soup Savor Poetry Prize.

Jazz artist Joshua Jefferson called Gordon Marshall “the poet laureate of the Boston improvised music scene.” Marshall has published two books, Waterwheel and Black President and other poems, and has one forthcoming, Chord. He has worked at bookstores, financial institutions, and at a hospital. He received his M.A. in English Literature from the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2005, and continues to study literary criticism and theory independently. He lives in Boston.

Visit Gordon's website.

September 21: John Landry and Maggie Cleveland Feature


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 September 14th, the venue welcomes two excellent poets from the South Shore, John Landry and Maggie Cleveland.




John Landry is poet laureate of New Bedford. He has been a member of the Stone Soup community since the mid-1970's. He was recently celebrated in San Francisco, reading with Jack Hirschman, Sarah Menefee, and Neeli Cherkovski, all of whom have read at Stone Soup. Landry has served as a contributing editor for New College Review and the 50th anniversary anthology of Beatitude in San Francisco. He taught for several years at UMass Dartmouth and Bristol Community College. He is published internationally and has read across the US, including at the Library of Congress in 1986 at the request of Gwendolyn Brooks. His books ROAD DOES NOT END and WHALEOPOLIS: Orpheus in Whaletown will be published in 2010.




Maggie Cleveland looks for omens and wears her heartbreak like jewels in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, where she works as a grant writer and lives as a proud mama of two fierce little girls. She is the director of the New Bedford-based Whaling City Review LIVE poetry series, and will be coordinating the southeast regional kickoff event for the 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Maggie was the co-founder of the Baker Books Poetry Series, which she hosted from 1995-2000. She is the author of The Kids Ate My Homework: A New Bedford Area Resource Guide for Adult Students with Children (2008), and was recently published in the Newport Review (http://www.newportreview.org) and the journal …like this. Maggie is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at Goddard College.