Tonight
John Landry and Jake St. John Feature.
7/4/11
August 15th: The Highway Poets Return
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 15th, Stone Soup celebrates Biker Poetry Month with the return of The Highway Poets.
K.Peddlar Bridges is the co-founder of the Biker Poets & Writers Association and founder of the ROADPOET online magazine. He also serves as a columnist for CT Cruise News and motorcyclegoodies.com. An occasional writing workshop teacher, his work has appeared in numerous publications and has made many radio and television appearances.
Gypsypashn publishes in print and on the web regularly, she is well-known for her monthly column... in New England's Motorcyclist Post. She and Colorado's Gypsyrose produce 'Biker Bits,' a daily Biker Rights e-zine. In 2004, Gypsypashn published A Samplng of Soul, a collection of poetry.
Marc D. Goldfinger has been published by Ibbetson Street Press, The Aurorean, Pegasus, The Boston Poet, Clamor magazine, Earth First! and the Crooked River Press among others. He is currently the poetry editor of Spare Change News, a paper put out for the benefit of homeless people. He is a counselor for people with Substance Use Disorders and some of his work has been used to augment courses at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. His newest works include Essays On Major Mental Illness with a Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorder or What Came First: The Chicken or The White Horse.
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 15th, Stone Soup celebrates Biker Poetry Month with the return of The Highway Poets.
K.Peddlar Bridges is the co-founder of the Biker Poets & Writers Association and founder of the ROADPOET online magazine. He also serves as a columnist for CT Cruise News and motorcyclegoodies.com. An occasional writing workshop teacher, his work has appeared in numerous publications and has made many radio and television appearances.
Gypsypashn publishes in print and on the web regularly, she is well-known for her monthly column... in New England's Motorcyclist Post. She and Colorado's Gypsyrose produce 'Biker Bits,' a daily Biker Rights e-zine. In 2004, Gypsypashn published A Samplng of Soul, a collection of poetry.
Marc D. Goldfinger has been published by Ibbetson Street Press, The Aurorean, Pegasus, The Boston Poet, Clamor magazine, Earth First! and the Crooked River Press among others. He is currently the poetry editor of Spare Change News, a paper put out for the benefit of homeless people. He is a counselor for people with Substance Use Disorders and some of his work has been used to augment courses at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. His newest works include Essays On Major Mental Illness with a Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorder or What Came First: The Chicken or The White Horse.
August 8th: Paul Boutchia 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 8th, Stone Soup introduces fiction and poet Paul Boutchia to a new audience.
Paul Boutchia began writing eleven years ago, starting first with short stories and moving to poetry soon after. As a short story writer, Paul sought to explore themes such as redemption and forgiveness, religiousness and relationships. His poetry expands upon those themes and seeks to expose and elevate the strangeness and seemingly odd intersections that occur in everyday life.
Paul has studied with Cambridge poet Tom Daley in both his Boston Center and advanced poetry workshop for the past several years. Paul has participated in readings and open mic’s in Cambridge and recently featured at the Goba Salon.
Paul lives with his wife and two daughters in Melrose, MA
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 8th, Stone Soup introduces fiction and poet Paul Boutchia to a new audience.
Paul Boutchia began writing eleven years ago, starting first with short stories and moving to poetry soon after. As a short story writer, Paul sought to explore themes such as redemption and forgiveness, religiousness and relationships. His poetry expands upon those themes and seeks to expose and elevate the strangeness and seemingly odd intersections that occur in everyday life.
Paul has studied with Cambridge poet Tom Daley in both his Boston Center and advanced poetry workshop for the past several years. Paul has participated in readings and open mic’s in Cambridge and recently featured at the Goba Salon.
Paul lives with his wife and two daughters in Melrose, MA
7/3/11
August 1st: Laura Kiesel 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 1st, welcome local poet, journalist and activist Laura Kiesel to her first Stone Soup feature.
Laura Kiesel was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She received her B.A. in English (with a double minor in creative writing and journalism) from SUNY New Paltz in 2001, and a Master's in Natural Resources from the University of Vermont in 2009.
Laura started writing poetry at the age of 10, when her much older teenage cousin egged her into a poetry contest between the two of them and the adults in the family declared her the winner. Though she has gone on to write and publish in many other forms and genres, she still considers poetry her first and truest love, as well as her initial instinctual reaction to the world. Laura's articles have appeared in numerous outlets, including Vermont Woman, E Magazine, Earth Island Journal, MotherJones.com, Z Magazine, and SolveClimateNews.com. Her poems have been featured, or are forthcoming, in 12th Planet, Gin Bender, upstreet, Naugatuck River Review, and Amethyst Arsenic.
She presently resides in Somerville and works part-time as a freelance writer and editor and the other half of the time coordinating and instructing writing workshops and environmental programs for kids, teens and adults at various venues in the greater Boston area. She also has a popular blog called "Writing for Survival," which is about "sustainability, social justice, and scraping by as a scribe" at survivalwriter.blogspot.com.
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 1st, welcome local poet, journalist and activist Laura Kiesel to her first Stone Soup feature.
Laura Kiesel was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She received her B.A. in English (with a double minor in creative writing and journalism) from SUNY New Paltz in 2001, and a Master's in Natural Resources from the University of Vermont in 2009.
Laura started writing poetry at the age of 10, when her much older teenage cousin egged her into a poetry contest between the two of them and the adults in the family declared her the winner. Though she has gone on to write and publish in many other forms and genres, she still considers poetry her first and truest love, as well as her initial instinctual reaction to the world. Laura's articles have appeared in numerous outlets, including Vermont Woman, E Magazine, Earth Island Journal, MotherJones.com, Z Magazine, and SolveClimateNews.com. Her poems have been featured, or are forthcoming, in 12th Planet, Gin Bender, upstreet, Naugatuck River Review, and Amethyst Arsenic.
She presently resides in Somerville and works part-time as a freelance writer and editor and the other half of the time coordinating and instructing writing workshops and environmental programs for kids, teens and adults at various venues in the greater Boston area. She also has a popular blog called "Writing for Survival," which is about "sustainability, social justice, and scraping by as a scribe" at survivalwriter.blogspot.com.
July 25th: The Bagel Bards Invade Stone Soup
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 25th, we welcome the local writers group The Bagel Bards as they celebrate the 6th volume of their annual anthology.
Infamous Somerville Bagel Bards to invade Stone Soup! A host of well-known, well-published Boston area writers will be reading from the recently published Bagel Bards #6. The Bagel Bards, who meet every Saturday morning at the Au Bon Pain in Davis Square, are an avante-garde group of writers who may or may not be considered “camp.” Award-winning poet, Lawrence Kessenich was this year’s editor. The introduction to the phenomenal work was written by Kathleen Spivack, also an award winning poet! The Bagel Bards are a group of wonderful, eclectic poets that you will not want to miss!
Kitty Beer
Molly Bennett
Barbara Bialick
Heather Campbell
Louisa Clerici
Adrienne Drobnes
Timothy Gager
Harris Gardner
Elizabeth Hanson
Doug Holder
Abbott Ikeler
Anne Ipsen
Irene Koronas
Linda Larson
Limin Mo
Luke Salisbury
Jack Scully
Zvi Sesling
Manson Solomon
Bert Stern
Paul Stone
Barbara Thomas
Amy Tighe
Chris Warner
Dan Lynn Watt
Molly Lynn Watt
Purchase a copy before the reading.
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 25th, we welcome the local writers group The Bagel Bards as they celebrate the 6th volume of their annual anthology.
Infamous Somerville Bagel Bards to invade Stone Soup! A host of well-known, well-published Boston area writers will be reading from the recently published Bagel Bards #6. The Bagel Bards, who meet every Saturday morning at the Au Bon Pain in Davis Square, are an avante-garde group of writers who may or may not be considered “camp.” Award-winning poet, Lawrence Kessenich was this year’s editor. The introduction to the phenomenal work was written by Kathleen Spivack, also an award winning poet! The Bagel Bards are a group of wonderful, eclectic poets that you will not want to miss!
Kitty Beer
Molly Bennett
Barbara Bialick
Heather Campbell
Louisa Clerici
Adrienne Drobnes
Timothy Gager
Harris Gardner
Elizabeth Hanson
Doug Holder
Abbott Ikeler
Anne Ipsen
Irene Koronas
Linda Larson
Limin Mo
Luke Salisbury
Jack Scully
Zvi Sesling
Manson Solomon
Bert Stern
Paul Stone
Barbara Thomas
Amy Tighe
Chris Warner
Dan Lynn Watt
Molly Lynn Watt
Purchase a copy before the reading.
July 18th: John Landry and Jake St. John 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 July 18th, the venue welcomes the return of poets John Landry and Jake St. John.
John Landry has been reading for Stone Soup since 1973. He hails from New Bedford, where he ran a reading series and served as poet laureate. Bob Creeley named John his "memory guide" during his last teaching gig at Brown University. He served as contributing editor for the 50th anniversary anthology of Beatitude, and is a poetry editor for Newport Review. His book who will prune the plum tree when i'm gone/quién va a podar los ciruelos cuando me vaya was published in Chile in February 2010. He will read at the Gloucester Writers Center August 3. He resides in California.
Jake St. John currently writes out of New London, CT, where he also coordinates poetry readings in and around the New England area. He is the co-editor of Flying Fish and the editor of Elephant, two small press poetry magazines. His work has appeared in several print publications including Chronogram, Unarmed Journal and Fell Swoop. He has published five collections of poetry. His latest chapbook, Subterranean Skyline (Blasted Press), is set to be released in summer 2011.
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 July 18th, the venue welcomes the return of poets John Landry and Jake St. John.
John Landry has been reading for Stone Soup since 1973. He hails from New Bedford, where he ran a reading series and served as poet laureate. Bob Creeley named John his "memory guide" during his last teaching gig at Brown University. He served as contributing editor for the 50th anniversary anthology of Beatitude, and is a poetry editor for Newport Review. His book who will prune the plum tree when i'm gone/quién va a podar los ciruelos cuando me vaya was published in Chile in February 2010. He will read at the Gloucester Writers Center August 3. He resides in California.
Jake St. John currently writes out of New London, CT, where he also coordinates poetry readings in and around the New England area. He is the co-editor of Flying Fish and the editor of Elephant, two small press poetry magazines. His work has appeared in several print publications including Chronogram, Unarmed Journal and Fell Swoop. He has published five collections of poetry. His latest chapbook, Subterranean Skyline (Blasted Press), is set to be released in summer 2011.
July 11th: Brandon Amico and Derek Avila
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 July 11th, we have the pleasure of featuring young writers from northern New England on tour, Brandon Amico and Derek Avila.
Brandon Amico is a writer from Manchester, NH who hates writing bios but strangely enjoys talking about himself in the third person. His first chapbook, Sleepwalking, was published by Sargent Press in May 2011. He is frequently referred to by his friends as "that guy who won't shut up about poetry" or for short, "that guy who won't shut up." His poetry has been published or is forthcoming in a handful of literary magazines, including Northern New England Review, Borderline, and Midwest Literary Magazine. Brandon is a business student at the University of New Hampshire, where he is an editor of the school's literary magazine, Aegis, and has spent a semester abroad in Japan.
Derek Avila has been performing his writing for a little over two years now. In that time he has been a selected regional champion for the Poetry Out Loud competition, a finalist for the NH nationals team, Slam Free or Die, and will have a chapbook released through Sargent Press when money isn't so rare.
7/1/11
July 4th: Stone Soup Welcomes Back James McCoy
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 July 4th, Stone Soup welcomes back one of the more elaborate participants on the open mike, James McCoy.
His work, including "Don't Quit Your Day Job" – the most viewed video on Chad Parenteau's FreakMachinePress YouTube website – has been described as "fearless ... moving from the workaday to the mythical."McCoy will tell other original rhyming narratives, including "Thompson Was My Only Failure", the story of Francis Thompson, a 19th-century poet, Catholic and failed boot-maker. "Poignant and sweet, as only James can be." By incorporating meter, McCoy gives his poems a heartbeat. "Let's talk about your performance and your poem! BOTH really amazing."
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 July 4th, Stone Soup welcomes back one of the more elaborate participants on the open mike, James McCoy.His work, including "Don't Quit Your Day Job" – the most viewed video on Chad Parenteau's FreakMachinePress YouTube website – has been described as "fearless ... moving from the workaday to the mythical."McCoy will tell other original rhyming narratives, including "Thompson Was My Only Failure", the story of Francis Thompson, a 19th-century poet, Catholic and failed boot-maker. "Poignant and sweet, as only James can be." By incorporating meter, McCoy gives his poems a heartbeat. "Let's talk about your performance and your poem! BOTH really amazing."
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