1/25/13

NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR SPOONFUL #7

Current Spoonful Deadline

We are accepting submissions for issue #7 between January 25th and February 25th (with an eye on going online for March).

Submission Guidelines

Spoonful currently accepts by email submission only. Please send 3-5 poems of various forms and length as Word attachments with the word "Submission: Poetry" in the subject heading to stonesouppoetry@yahoo.com before February 25th.

Short works of fiction and non-fiction will also be considered. We are particularly looking for essays that touch on Stone Soup's history or the history of the Boston Poetry scene. Please send an inquiry email describing your prose piece and its length before sending it with the word "Proposed Longer Piece" in the subject heading.

Artwork is also being accepted, though moving forward, there will be fewer pieces accepted.  If your artwork or photography is meant to accompany a submitted poem or prose piece, please let us know in the body of the email.

Illustrators, photographers, and artists of any kind are encouraged to send up to 10 JPEG submissions to the same address with the words "Submission: Artwork" in the subject heading to stonesouppoetry_at_yahoo.com. The artwork's title and medium (if any) should be part of the JPEG file name (example, "Summer, Windphotograph.jpg").

Important

With your submissions, please also include as an attachment document a 2-5 sentence bio (longer bios will be edited at the editors' discretion and without notice).  Please include notice of submissions sent simultaneously to other journals.


A Note On Prior Publication

Our editorial eye will be toward unpublished work but we will considered previously published poems on the basis of merit and/or the previous source (a defunct web journal, a prelude to a larger, new project, etc).

We encourage that you be forthright with a poem's publication history, if any. Spoonful retains the right to reject and remove from our site, without notice, works with previous publication credits intentionally omitted by the author.

Holding Work

Due to our small staff and resources, Spoonful generally does not carry over unaccepted work from one reading period to another. In other words, if the work is rejected for the Winter issue, it will normally not be carried over to be considered for the Spring issue. On the rare occasion that a poem is carried over to be considered for the next reading period, the poet will always be notified. Otherwise, unaccepted submissions will be deleted before the next reading period begins. A poet is always welcome to resubmit any previously rejected work to be considered for a new reading period.

1/23/13

January 28th: Pre-Stone Soup Poetry Writing Workshop


I will be leading a workshop today on January 28th, to take place before Stone Soup Poetry from 6:00 PM to just before 8:00 PM.  NEW LOCATION: Au Bon Pain in Central Square, 684 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge.

Please bring a poem of any form and style no more than 1-2 pages. Bring up to 10 copies of your poem to share with the group, and be prepared to share your thoughts on each others work. If you have trouble printing your work, you can email it to me before 5:00 today at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com

Those unable to attend that are interested in future dates please email me at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com

--Chad Parenteau


1/11/13

January 28th: M.P. Carver 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.  Join us on January 28th for the first ever full-length feature of north shore poet M.P. Carver.

M.P. Carver is a 26 year old poet from Salem, MA. She graduated from Brown University where she concentrated in East Asian Studies with a focus on Japan. She works a day job with an energy consulting company, but in her real life she's a poet. Her work has been featured in the inaugural volume of Zig Zag Folios, in an art exhibit at the Mass State Poetry Festival, and in Hospital Drive, the University of Virginia's online medical literary journal. Her upcoming first book, Angry Little Poems, is being published by YesNO Press.


January 21st: Toni Bee Features

Photo by Phillip Brooks

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 January 21st, we welcome poet populist Toni Bee for her first Stone Soup feature.

Toni Bee is the 2011-2013 Poet Populist of Cambridge, MA. She is a student and photographer who Mothers her daughter and writes poetry whenever possible. Lately, Song and Music show their pretty faces at her performances and Toni will soon publish a book…very soon. Bee currently holds the honorable position of Artist Fellow at Citi Perfoming Arts Center in Boston. Bee feels she, “must be theatrical…” since she works within the walls of ‘The Wang’ and ‘The Shubert’ theatres. Toni is very excited that her Other American Cousins – the Slam Poets – will be back in town by spring for National Poetry Slam 2013. When Toni grows up she wants to keep bees and, “sell some of the honey.”

1/8/13

January 14th: Emily Duggan & Shira Rubenstein 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.  Michael F. Gill returns on January 14th to host Stone Soup with two new  young poets Emily Duggan and Shira Rubenstein.

Emily Duggan is a member of Brandeis University's 2013 slam team who also performs in her school's improv and sketch comedy circuits. Her hobbies include (and are limited to) sleeping. Emily wants to get better. 
 
Shira Rubenstein is an upstate New York native and the youngest of a large clan of artists, bakers, globetrotters, and polyglots. She is currently a senior at Brandeis University pursuing a degree in Creative Writing. She can be reached at shira.rubenstein@gmail.com.

1/7/13

January 7th: Pre-Stone Soup Poetry Writing Workshop


I will be leading a workshop today on January 7th, to take place before Stone Soup Poetry from 6:00 PM to just before 8:00 PM.  NEW LOCATION: Au Bon Pain in Central Square, 684 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge.

Please bring a poem of any form and style no more than 1-2 pages. Bring up to 10 copies of your poem to share with the group, and be prepared to share your thoughts on each others work. If you have trouble printing your work, you can email it to me before 5:00 today at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com

Those unable to attend that are interested in future dates please email me at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com

1/6/13

January 7th: Sam Cha 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 January 7th, we kick off our first feature of 2013 with the return of Sam Cha.

Sam Cha is an MFA candidate at UMass Boston, in his third year. His poems, translations, and essays can be found in apt, ASIA, Amethyst Arsenic, Anderbo, Banipal, Opium Online, Printer's Devil Review, and Radius, among other places. He was a finalist for the 2007 Anderbo poetry prize and the 2012 Memorious Art Song Contest, and he was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize at UMass Boston in 2011 and 2012. He lives in Cambridge with his family.