July 30th: David Allen Sullivan Features at 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 30th, we welcome David Allen Sullivan, a touring poet from the west coast, as he reasds from his latest collection.

David Allen Sullivan's Every Seed of the Pomegranate is a series of poems about the war in Iraq which gives voice not only to the US and Iraqi soldiers caught up in the conflict, but the children, mothers, booksellers, and various civilians who are also affected in both countries. The author teaches English and Film at Cabrillo Community College in Santa Cruz, California, where he edits the Porter Gulch Literary with his students, and serves on the Veterans Task Force Committee. Two poems from his first book, Strong-Armed Angels, were read on The Writer’s Almanac by Garrison Keillor. Another two recent poems were selected by Alberto Rios and recorded as part of the permanent public art and poetry project Passage, in Phoenix, Arizona. 

July 23rd: Judson Evans Features at 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 23rd, we welcome Judson Evans, who will be reading from his long poem, "Monologue."

Judson Evans is the Director of Liberal Arts at The Boston Conservatory. He teaches courses on utopian societies, ancient Greek culture, and haiku and related Japanese poetic forms. He has been involved in a wide range of collaborative experiments with composers, choreographers, dancers, and other poets. He has published poems most recently in Volt, 1913:a journal of forms, Amethyst Arsenic, and Epoch. He is a member of Off the Park Press Writers' Collective and has poems in three of the press's recent anthologies of poetry responding to contemporary painters ( New Smoke: An Anthology of Poetry Inspired by Neo Rauch [2009], Viva La Difference: Poems in Response to Peter Saul [2010] , The Triumph of Poverty: Poems Inspired by Nicole Eisenman [due out in winter 2012] and was chosen as an emerging poet for The Association of American Poets in 2007 by John Yau.

July 16th: Blaine Hebbel Features at 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 16th, we welcome poet and activist Blaine Hebbel for his first Stone Soup feature.

Poet, activist and Ipswich native, Blaine Hebbel he has been fascinated by the “American Voice” for over thirty five years and has been fighting social injustice since the 60s. He has read as a member of the Poets’ Mimeo Cooperative in Burlington, VT and on the Poemair show on KUOR FM, the University of Redlands, CA station. He is a member of the OccuPoets and performs his poetry at the Walnut Street Coffee Café, Stone Soup in Cambridge and every other venue he can find. He has published two chapbooks, Poems From the Shore and The Occupy Poems.

July 9th: Diane Sahms-Guarnieri and g emil reutter at 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 9th, we welcome back Philadelphia based poets Diane Sahms-Guarnieri and g. emil reutter.


Diane Sahms-Guarnieri is a native Philadelphia poet and currently the poetry editor of The Fox Chase Review. She has served on the editorial board of Philadelphia Stories magazine and founded The Center City Poets Workshop and The Tenth Muse Workshop. Her poetry has been published in The Southern Ocean Review, Wilderness House Literary Review, Autumn Sky Poetry, Many Mountains Moving, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Fox Chase Review, Folio, Philadelphia Stories, Mid-West Cultural Council, Mad Poets Review, and Limited Editions among others. Her latest release is Images of Being. Nicolette Milholin of the Montgomery County News said of Images of Being, “Like a well-written memoir, Sahms-Guarnieri’s work shoots straight to the center of human experience instead of hiding pain under a false fabric of pretension.” Barbara Bialick of the Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene said, “To Diane Sahms-Guarnieri, images are an all-important way she remembers people from her childhood and on into motherhood. You can visit her on the web at: http://dianesahmsguarnieri.wordpress.com/

g emil reutter writes fiction and poetry in the Fox Chase neighborhood of Philadelphia where he founded the Fox Chase Reading Series and The Fox Chase Review. His work has been published widely in the small and electronic presses. Eight collections of his work have been published. You can visit him on the web at www.gemilreutter-author.com

 

July 2nd: Krysten Hill and Karen Locascio Feature at 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 2nd, we welcome another double header hosted by Michael F. Gill, featuring Krysten Hill and Karen Locascio.

Krysten Hill is a third year MFA student at UMass-Boston from Kansas City, Missouri. She received her BFA in Creative Writing from Stephens College where she became involved in Women’s Studies and activism. Her mother poets include: Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, and Patricia Smith. She believes that a poem should live in whatever skin it feels good in. Her greatest desire is to form a collective of women poets who travel around teaching the power of voice to the girls on front porches who wonder what that aching in their chests is all about.

Karen Locascio is an MFA candidate in poetry at UMass Boston where she interned with Hanging Loose Press. She's had work in Amethyst Arsenic, has workshopped at Bread Loaf and Tin House, and occasionally reads at various Boston area venues. For her summer vacation, she's attempting to put together a chapbook and to find employment that's more consistent than temping, all while reading like there's no tomorrow. Karen proudly hails from the Jersey Shore and currently resides in Dorchester. She always thought putting together a bio would be a lot more fun than it actually is

June 25th: Nancy Morgan-Boucher Features at 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 June 25th, we welcome poetry host Nancy Morgan-Boucher and her friends from the Poetry in the Village reading series to close off June.

Nancy Morgan-Boucher lives in bucolic Rehoboth, MA where, in 2008 at the local library, she founded Poetry in the Village poetry reading series. Morgan-Boucher's poems have appeared in Siren: a Contemporary Literary Journal, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, The Unitarian Universalist Poets: a Contemporary American Survey, Pudding House Publications, Jamestown, Ohio, and the Wilderness House Literary Review, an online literary magazine based in Littleton, MA. Her chapbook, Climbing the Family Tree, was released in November 2008. Morgan-Boucher has featured at numerous venues, including Poetry Main Street Cafe, Easton, MA, Coffee Milano, Middleboro, MA, Blue State Coffee, Providence, RI, and Dreamspeak, Plymouth, MA. She has recently read her poetry on the sidewalk of The Drunken Poet, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, thus, with wily semi-hauteur flair, adds to her credits “International Poet.” (WooHoo!)

June 18th: The Third Annual "Chad F***ed Up" Open Mic Extravaganza

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 18th...

Due to more than one scheduling error and one too many events planned in a row (i.e. Chad f***ed up AGAIN), Stone Soup was unable to secure a feature for June 18th. As a result, the night belongs to the open micers 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.

June 11th: April Penn 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 11th, we welcome the return of the popular and prolific local poet April Penn.

April Penn is a Boston-area poet who frequents Stone Soup, the Brighton Word Factory, and the Cantab Poetry Lounge. She has been involved in Occupy Boston protests and has been published in Amethyst Arsenic and Snake Oil Cure. She is a poetry blogging fiend who plans to write 365 poems a year for the rest of her life. Her favorite topics to write about are puberty, imaginary friends, and thunder storms. She originally hails from Hammond, Louisiana and Baltimore, Maryland but loves Boston best of all!