July 6: Colin Killick Features at Stone Soup

Photo by Marshall Goff

Moving forward, Stone Soup Poetry meets every Monday from 7-9 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery, now at its new location at 541 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts. On July 6,Colin Killick features at Stone Soup for the first time.

Colin Killick is a poet and community organizer based in Somerville, MA. His work has been published in FreezeRay and Oddball Magazine, and he's featured at venues across MA and RI including The Lizard Lounge, If You Can Feel It,You Can Speak It, and theMassArt Poetry Alliance. When not performing poetry, he advocates for the civil rights of people with disabilities, and obsesses needlessly over the wording and tone of his bio.

June 29: Ron Goba Features at Stone Soup

Moving forward, Stone Soup Poetry meets every Monday from 7-9 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery, now at its new location at 541 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts. On June 29, we are thrilled to host the return of poet, teacher and former doorman to The Cantab open mic, Ron Goba.

Ron Goba is the author of such collections as The Music Box, The Custom of Quoting Someone, and Collage As Silkscreen. For several years, he was known as the doorman for the weekly Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab. In 2011, he released Swan Song, a small collection of poems, to coincide with his reading at the Cantab on the eve of his birthday. In 2012, his work was included in Songs of Innocence and Sam Adams, a collection of poems co-authored by Prabakar T. Rajan. This year, Ron has featured at Arts at The Armory and The Cantab Lounge reading poems created specifically for each event. This June, he will be performing poems specifically created for Stone Soup Poetry.

June 22: PunQrose Features

Moving forward, Stone Soup Poetry meets every Monday from 7-9 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery, now at its new location at 541 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts. On June 22, be in the audience for PunQrose, who will be having her debut feature at Stone Soup.

PunQrose was seeded and watered in Boston, MA. She has always had an unquenched thirst for social justice and peace for all living beings. As a young, black womyn, she has been granted with both a gift and a curse as she sees the world from the bottom and to left of the spectrum. She lives for all of the other afro-punks, misfits, outcasts, the awkward and for those who stay woke. She is a hopeless romantic who believes in everlasting love. She is a certified crazy cat lady who would rather be a cat mom than a human mom. She loves good herb, hot beverages, cute socks that don’t match, and the colors purple and turquoise are her favorite. She practices Nichiren Bhuddism as she believes all humans have the innate capacity to reach their greatest potential. Stalk her on instagram @punqros3.

June 15: Ralph Pennel Features at Stone Soup

Moving forward, Stone Soup Poetry meets every Monday from 7-9 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery, now at its new location at 541 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts. On June 15, we will be visited by Ralph Pennel.
 
Ralph Pennel is the author of A World Less Perfect for Dying In, published by Cervena Barva Press. His writing has appeared in The Cape Rock, Ropes, Open to Interpretation, Ibbetson Street, The Smoking Poet, Unbound Press, Monologues From the Road, Right Hand Pointing, and various other journals in the U.S. and abroad. He has also published reviews with Rain Taxi Review of Books.  Ralph teaches literature for Bunker Hill Community College and poetry at Bentley University. He has been a guest lecturer at Emerson College and served as the judge for the 2013, WLP Dean’s Prize for Emerson. He is a founding editor and the fiction editor for the online literary magazine, Midway Journal (www.midwayjournal.com), published out of St. Paul, Minnesota. Ralph Pennel lives and writes in Somerville, Massachusetts, and was a finalist for the Poet Laureate of Somerville in 2014.

REMEMBER NEW TIME: June 8: Extended Open Mic at Stone Soup

In the past, Stone Soup Poetry has met from 8-10 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery, now at its new location at 541 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts with an open mike sign-up at 7:30 p.m. 

As of June 1st, Stone Soup now meets at the gallery at the new time of 7-9 PM. 

Tonight, on June 8, we will have an extended open mic, with our first June feature scheduled for June 15.  More information to come soon.

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