August 9th: January Gill O'Neil 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 August 9th, we welcome poet on the rise January Gill O'Neil.

January Gill O’Neil is the author of Underlife (CavanKerry Press, December 2009). Her poems and articles have appeared in The MOM Egg, Crab Creek Review, Ouroboros Review, Drunken Boat, Crab Orchard Review, Callaloo, Literary Mama, Field, Seattle Review, and Cave Canem anthologies II and IV, among others. Underlife, is a finalist for ForWard Review Book of the Year Award, and the 2010 Paterson Poetry Prize. In 2009, January was awarded a Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grant. She was featured in Poets & Writers magazine’s January/February 2010 Inspiration issue as one of their 12 debut poets. A Cave Canem fellow, she is a senior writer/editor at Babson College, runs a popular blog called Poet Mom, and lives with her two children in Beverly, MA.

Visit January Gill O'Neil's blog.

August 2nd: Frank and Erin Reardon

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 August 2nd, we celebrate a poetry reunion with blood relatives and literary comrades Frank and Erin Reardon.



Frank Reardon was born in 1974 in Boston, Ma. He's lived all over the United States and currently lives in North Dakota. Frank has published poetry collections such as Cancer Face, Exorcism Of The Con-Artist, Rival Tongues and his new entitled Interstate Chokehold. Frank also has published in such magazines and webzines as New York Quarterly, Quillbillies, Black Listed, Epic Rites, Denver Syntax, Up The Staircase, New Mexico Review and Kill Poet. Frank is currently locked away in the Badlands working on his first novel.



Erin Reardon is a poet. She has been published at Silenced Press, Hecale, the Neo-Lampshadian Outpost, Spoonful, Parasitic, Zygote in My Coffee, Words Dance, Beat the Dust, Heroin Love Songs, Epic Rites and Gutter Eloquence Magazine. She has featured three times at Stone Soup and has performed several open mics there and at The Cantab and The Lizard Lounge.

July 26th: The "Chad F***ed Up" Open Mike Extravaganza

Due to more than one scheduling error (i.e. Chad f***ed up), Stone Soup was unable to secure a feature for July 26th. As a result, the night belongs to the open mikers with an ultra-extended open mike segment. People always afraid of showing up late for the open mike, coming with a poem that's too long (note: this almost never happens) or not knowing whether a particular night is a good night to debut a different kind of poem, Stone Soup says "Come on down!" People who have been away are welcome. People who have never been are welcome. We want to hear from you.

July 19th: Michael Mack 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 July 19th, we feature poet and playwright Michael Mack, fresh from a performance in Washington, DC.

Poet, playwright, and performer Michael Mack served in the US Air Force before graduating from the Writing Program at MIT.

His poems have appeared in America, the Beloit Poetry Journal, Cumberland Poetry Review, Journal of the American Medical Association, and Southern Poetry Review. They have aired on National Public Radio and were anthologized in Best Catholic Writing.

Awards include an Artist's Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, First Prize in the National Writers Circle Poetry Competition, and an Eloranta Fellowship, which funded a residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre for the Arts in Ireland.

Mack has performed in venues as diverse as the US Library of Congress, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Columbia Festival of the Arts, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, the Austin International Poetry Festival, and Off-Off-Broadway at the Times Square Arts Center.

His solo play Hearing Voices (Speaking in Tongues) explores his mother's life with schizophrenia, and he has performed it nationwide both in theatrical settings and for consumers and providers of mental health services. These have included McLean Hospital, the national conference of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), and for faculty and students of the Harvard Medical School.

Visit Michael Mack's website.