October 3: 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 October 3, 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!

September 26: M.I.D.N.I.G.H.T. 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 September 26, we offer art and real insights as an alternative to the spectacle of the impending debates.  Come by Monday and hear M.I.D.N.I.G.H.T. have his feature at Stone Soup.

Tarishi M.I.D.N.I.G.H.T. Shuler is an all around artist. Tarishi is native of New Haven, CT. He has performed and won various poetry slams across the country. Places such as the Nuyorican Poets Café, The Inspired Word, Bar 13 in New York City, The Lizard Lounge in Boston, MA, Five Seasons Café in Baltimore, MD, The Bushnell Theater in Hartford, CT, the Nuyorican Cafe in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico and many more.

He recently won 1st place at The Martin Luther King Jr. Family Festival of Environmental and Social Justice / Zannette Lewis Invitational Poetry Slam at the Yale Peabody Museum in 2016. In 2016 he opened for Saul Williams at Wesleyan University. In 2012 he opened for President Bill Clinton at the Madison Ballroom in Time Square for Love146 10th Anniversary. He has won the title of CT Grandslam Champion in 2016, 2012 and 2011, He was the 2015 and 2016 Slammaster of the CT National Poetry Slam Team Verbal Slap. He has been competing on a national level at the National Poetry Slam each year since 2011 - 2016. 

Besides doing art, Tarishi works for the Discovery Center a nonprofit, diversity and antiracism training program serving elementary and middle school's throughout Connecticut. He has won first place at the McDonald's McCafe Poetry Slam in NY for 2010, 2012, 2013 & 2016. He has also appeared on HOT97 radio station in NY. He performed a poem for the 15th anniversary for 9/11. 

You can learn more about Tarishi at his website.

September 19: Gordon Marshall and the Jack Powers Prize!

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 September 19, we welcome back poet, author and founder of the Jack Powers Stone Soup Savor Poetry Prize, Gordon Marshall.


Gordon Marshall has been involved with Stone Soup ever since he was 19, in 1983. He gave his first feature reading at Charlie's Tap, in Central Square, Cambridge, in 1986. Years went by where he wrote no poems, or only a few, and then a spate more; then, in 2006, he reached his mature period, writing poems every day, and he has continued writing regularly since then.

He has published 33 books, with Shires Press, in Manchester Center, Vermont, and he is writing a new one currently, The Stars of the City. Gordon is also a music critic. He has many credits with The New York City Jazz Record, All About Jazz, and The Boston Hassle. He as a music blog, The Flash Boston.
 

September 12: Three Poets from The Boston Poetry Workshop

 

 
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  September 12, we have a special reading from members of the Boston Poetry Workshop

 

Sara Afshar is a children’s attorney based in Boston. Her work has appeared in Sidelines Magazine, Slice Magazine and Claudius Speaks. She is a recipient of UMass Lowell's Jack Kerouac Creative Writing Award and is a Salem Poetry Seminar Alum.

Zachary Bos directs Pen & Anvil Press, which like the Boston Poetry Workshop is an activity of the not-for-profit Boston Poetry Union. His work has appeared this year in Unbroken Journal, Written River, Public Pool, Secular Age, Fallujah Magazine, and the chapbook Splash published by Old Frog Pond Farm as part of their annual plein air poetry program. A few times a year, he puts out some of his writing in chapbook form; his most recent is titled "Ditch-lilies and Loukmades." (Ask him for a copy.)

Robert Morris is a poet, fiction writer, and interface artist who lives in Brookline. He studied literature and creative writing at Ithaca College in new York State. His writing has most recently appeared in Clarion and New England Review of Books.