April 4: Miles Hodges at Stone Soup Poetry - One Night Only

 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 April 4, we are hosting a special three hour session featuring the talents of Miles Hodges, coming to Boston to a single show. The show is hosted by: DiDi Delgado and The Society Of Urban Poetry. Brought to you By Dexter Garcia Castro & Stone Soup Poetry. We are asking for a $10 contribution due to the special nature of this event. Tickets can be paid in advance here.

Miles Hodges is a 25 year old artist from New York City by way of Teaneck, NJ. His performance history includes appearances at The Apollo Theater, Kennedy Center Washington DC, The Smithsonian Museum, Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Nuyorican Poets Cafe. A former Youth Slam Poet Champion, Miles was profiled in the 2008 Russell Simmons HBO Documentary “Brave New Voices”.

Most recently, he was featured on the second and third seasons of the television series “Verses and Flow” . He has grown to grace the stage with the likes of Amiri Baraka, Saul Williams, and Sonia Sanchez. His work has been added to writing curriculums throughout academia and accessed by more than a million viewers online. He has also been named one of The Root.com’s Young Futurists.

Miles continues to share his art at colleges and universities across the globe and has performed in Delhi, India as a poet in residence for the American Embassy School and assisted with the relief effort on the ground in Haiti.

He plans to keep creating best he can, and that for whatever his future might hold he just hopes it includes a good cup of coffee and some James Baldwin.

 

March 28: Gloria Monaghan Features at Stone Soup

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 March 28, we welcome the return of local poet and teacher Gloria Monaghan.

Gloria Monaghan is a poet, professor and yoga teacher located in the Boston Area. She has been writing poetry since the age of seventeen. She attended Loyola University in Chicago and attended graduated school at Boston College in Boston. She has taught extensively in Chicago at University of Illinois in Chicago, Saint Augustine, and Columbia College. She is currently an Associate Professor of Humanities at Wentworth Institute where she teaches poetry, Art and Technology and English.

Her first chapbook of poetry, Flawed, appeared in 2012 and was published by Finishing Line Press. Flutter Press published her second book, The Garden, in December in 2015. Her poems have appeared in Blue Max Review, Fox Chase Review, 2River, Aries, Slope, and Spoonful. Her fiction has been published in Tracks, Ezine, and The Biscuit. Her research interests include cyberspace and masculinity. She is currently working on a collection of poems, a series of short stories and a collection of essays about the spectrum of masculinity. She teaches and practices yoga Open Doors Yoga Studio. She has also performed, reading her work with New York and LA based musicians Geso vs. Tifo (2dollar Guitar and Supreme Beings of Leisure).

March 21: Surat Lozowick Features at Stone Soup

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 March 21, Surat Lozowick, an open micer at Stone Soup over the last year, will finally get his well-deserved feature spot.

Surat Lozowick is somebody, or nobody, or God, and definitely arrogant enough for all three of them. He was raised in Arizona by a pack of wild desert dogs led by a heretic prophet, and after a two-year party in San Francisco and some summer trysts with France, he moved to Boston to try to support his wandering poetry habit. After over a year here, he still hasn’t bought a pillow to sleep on, although he’s bought plenty of paper.

March 14: STONE SOUP OPEN MIC! ALL NIGHT

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 March 14, as the title above says, it's all open mic all night!

Stone Soup presents "Stand on your soap box" and speak your truth. This will be an open mic all night and each poet will have 7 minutes on the mic. Come early to sign up! Come one Come all!

March 7: Stone Soup Open Mic

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. Tonight on March 7 is an earlier open mic, ending early due to tomorrow's Stone Soup Poetry Slam taking place at the Dudley Cafe.

Tuesday March 8: Stone Soup Poetry Slam! New Day! New Location!

Stone Soup Poetry NORMALLY 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. HOWEVER, on Tuesday, March 8, we have our slam return to a new day and new place for this week only. We will return to our regular Monday schedule the following week.

We've been doing this for a while and the only thing that's changed is the weather... and maybe the location! Join us as we try out our new location at the Dudley Cafe!

The Deal: 12 poets, 3 rounds, 5 judges, and amazing poetry.
The booty (I meant bounty): There will be three cash prizes:
1st place gets you $75, 2nd place gets you $35 and 3rd place gets you $15 smackaroos!

If you think you got what it takes, then step to the Stone Soup Mic and just, just: Just Slam!!!
We will also have an open mic sign up list with 10 spots - PLEASE come early to ensure your spot on the list.