August 27th: Tony Brown 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 August 27th, we close out the hot summer reading months by welcoming back Tony Brown.

Tony Brown has been writing for over 40 years, and publishing and performing his work for over 30.  A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, his work has appeared in many journals and anthologies.  He has traveled all over the country, slammed for the Worcester Poets’ Asylum, organized and hosted readings and reading series, and written on poetry for the website http://www.gotpoetry.com. 

Tony most commonly performs with The Duende Project in collaboration with Steven Lanning-Cafaro on electric and acoustic bass and classical guitar; they’ve spent 6 years performing up and down the East Coast and have released three collections of their work.  The most recent collection, “One Thing That Scares You,”  is available on Bandcamp (http://theduendeproject.bandcamp.com .  Their website at http://www.reverbnation.com/theduendeproject offers links to videos and music, show schedules, and more. 

Tony’s personal blog of constantly updated new poems, “Dark Matter,”  is at

http://radioactiveart.wordpress.com. 

August 20h: 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 20th, 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.





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 13th: Peter Fulton 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 13th, we welcome the poem and music of Peter Fulton.

Peter Fulton was born and raised in Massachusetts.  He performed his first verse drama, Death of a Worn Man, accompanied by guitar and harmonica, at Mount Hermon, Massachusetts in the mid-sixties.  He made the rounds as a singer-songwriter in Boston coffee houses in the late 60’s.  He has written a collection of poems, Boulders in Ice; a novella with a CD of songs, Silicon in Sand; a book of poems and photographs in collaboration with sculptor McAlister Coleman, Figures.  

In January, 2010, The Seventh Quarry Press published Peter’s lengthy poem How to Carve an Angel with a forward by Peter Thabit Jones, in English and Russian translation, with a CD of original accompaniments by four master musicians.  How to Carve an Angel was presented in world premier in June of 2010 at the International Poetry Festival in Swansea, Wales.  In September 2010, Peter hosted An Evening in Dylan Thomas’ Wales, a presentation of The Seventh Quarry Drama Group, on tour in New England, featuring Peter Thabbit Jones’ The Boy and the Lion’s Head and John Dotson’s Thumps or Waking up Dreaming in the 21^st Century, with Lisa Miroski, as well as readings at the Robert Frost Farm in Derry, New Hampshire, The Farmer’s Market in Lawrence Massachusetts, the Rockport Public Library in Rockport, Massachusetts and The Grolier Poetry Book Store at Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, including American poets Ifeanyi Mankiti, Tino Villanueva and Mark Schorr.     

The Seventh Quarry Poetry Press has recently published Peter’s interactive ebook of poems, flying stones.  Peter has also written a yet-to-be performed verse drama, The Ordination.

August 6th: Tyler Smith & Lindsey Yuriko Warriner 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 August 6th, Michael Gill hosts another Stone Soup night, featuring two young poets, Tyler Smith and Lindsey Yuriko Warriner.

Tyler Smith was born and raised in Rochester, NY. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Interrupture, Jellyfish Magazine, and Yes, Poetry. Tyler has just completed his MFA in Boston and is know for his quirky imagery and surreal, deadpan sense of humor. He will feature during one of his last weeks in Boston before returning to New York

Lindsey Yuriko Warriner is a shepherd of short poetry. She draws inspiration from her international upbringing, and dreams of one day writing an epic poem. She has been published by Alehouse Press, and was awarded the 2010 Evvy for Outstanding Poetry by Emerson College, where she earned her BFA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing. This is her first feature.