December 2: Pre-Stone Soup Poetry Writing Workshop

I will be leading a workshop on December 2, to take place before Stone Soup Poetry from 6:00 PM to just before 8:00 PM at the Au Bon Pain in Central Square.

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 Monday at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com

December 2: Ben Mazer 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 December 2nd, we welcome Ben Mazer to the podium.

Ben Mazer was born in New York City in 1964. He was raised around Cambridge, where he soaked up the lore of men who had known Robert Lowell, Tate, T.S. Eliot. At Harvard he studied with Seamus and Heaney and William Alfred, then he moved on and did a Ph.D. in textual scholarship under Sir Christopher Ricks and Archie Burnett at the Editorial Institute, Boston University. His doctoral dissertation, a critical edition of the poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman was published by Harvard University Press in 2010. His critical edition of the complete poems John Crowe Ransom is forthcoming from Boston's Un-Gyve Press. Mazer's poems have appeared in many periodicals, here and abroad, including, Verse, Stand, Agenda, Poetry Wales, The Wolf, Fulcrum, Jacket, The Boston Review, Harvard Review, Pequod, and Harvard Magazine. His new collection of poems is NEW POEMS (Pen &Anvil Press, 2013), and his previous collections include POEMS (Pen & Anvil Press, 2010), JANUARY 2008 (Dark Sky Books, 2010), and WHITE CITIES (Barbara Matteau Editions, 1995). Mazer lives in Cambridge, and is the Editor of THE BATTERSEA REVIEW.

November 25th: Pre-Stone Soup Poetry Writing Workshop

I will be leading a workshop on November 25th, to take place before Stone Soup Poetry from 6:00 PM to just before 8:00 PM at the Au Bon Pain in Central Square.

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 Monday at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com

November 25th: Timothy Gager 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 November 25th, we welcome back Tim Gager, who is currently riding a wave of accolades for his newest poetry collection.

Timothy Gager is the author of ten books of short fiction and poetry. His latest, The Shutting Door (Ibbetson Street Press) is his first full-length book of poetry in nine years and is nominated for The Massachusetts Book Award. He has hosted the successful Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts every month for the past twelve years and is the co-founder of Somerville News Writers Festival.

He has had over 250 works of fiction and poetry published since 2007: nine have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His work has been read on National Public Radio. He lives on www.timothygager.com
 

November 18: Carolyn Gregory 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 November 18th,we welcome back poet Carolyn Gregory.

Carolyn Gregory’s poems and music essays have been published in AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW, MAIN STREET RAG, BELLOWING ARK, SEATTLE REVIEW, WILDERNESS HOUSE LITERARY REVIEW and STYLUS. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and is a past recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Award. Her first book, OPEN LETTERS, was published in 2009 and a second book, FACING THE MUSIC, will appear in January, 2014. Carolyn worked for twenty five years in the Harvard medical hospital system doing research and administrative work. She is now a community activist, working against all use of the Death Penalty, for stricter enforcement of automatic weapons and handguns and for the rights of animals. Though she tends to be pretty serious, she also has a well honed sense of humor! 

November 11th: Pre-Stone Soup Poetry Writing Workshop

I will be leading a workshop on November 11th, to take place before Stone Soup Poetry from 6:00 PM to just before 8:00 PM at the Au Bon Pain in Central Square.

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 Monday at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com

November 11: Gordon Marshall 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 November 11th, Gordon Marshall Returns with the latest in his substantial library of poetry collections.

Gordon Marshall has been publishing poetry books for five years, and he has been writing poetry for 34. He just finished his 27 volume, which may be his last, so he can focus on his music blog, theflashboston.com.

November 4th: Pre-Stone Soup Poetry Writing Workshop

I will be leading a workshop today on November 4th, to take place before Stone Soup Poetry from 6:00 PM to just before 8:00 PM at the Au Bon Pain in Central Square.

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 Monday at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com

Those unable to attend that are interested in future dates please email me or call me at 617-217-8038.

November 4: Kris Weinrich 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 November fourth, we welcome Kris Weinrich to his first Stone Soup feature.

Kris Weinrich graduated form Emerson College in December of 2002 with a BA in Audio Engineering and a Minor in Literature.  He is a poetry workshop facilitator for the Brockton Poetry Series at Fuller Craft Museum.  He is one of the hosts of Night Slam, a poetry open mic and slam at Massasoit Community College.  Kris has featured at poetry venues in Easton, Brockton, Plymouth and Providence.  He is also on the Brockton Arts board of directors as their Social Media Director promoting their events and programming.  His new chapbook of poems is titled Between Streetlights And Stars.