July 22: Alexis Ivy Features at Stone Soup Poetry

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via  Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

On Wednesday, July 22, we have the long awaited feature of Alexis Ivy.

Alexis Ivy is a 2018 recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Poetry. Her first poetry collection, Romance with Small-Time Crooks was published in 2013 by BlazeVOX [books]. Her second collection, Taking the Homeless Census won the Editors Prize at Saturnalia Books and was published in 2019. A Boston native, her poems have been displayed in City Hall and featured by Mass Poetry aboard the red line subway. Her work has appeared in Sugar house Review, Borderlands, Worcester Review, Lake Effect, Poet Lore, Saranac Review, among other magazines and anthologies. She works as an advocate for the homeless in Cambridge and teaches in the PoemWorks community.

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July 15: Erik Tate Featues at Stone Soup Poetry

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via  Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

On Wednesday, July 15, Stone Soup welcomes back Erik Tate.


Erik Tate "When I'm not writing poetry I enjoy oil painting, photography, gardening, and cooking. My favorite poet is Allen Ginsberg, and I am a huge fan of the Beat Generation poets and writers (which is why I was immediately endeared to Stone Soup when I discovered the group in the late 90s - at the time, it seemed there were so many members of the group who were either fans of the Beat Generation writers or knew some of the key voices personally). I'm honored to again be featuring for Stone Soup after a nearly decades long hiatus. I hope you'll enjoy what I have in store."

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July 8: Deta Galloway Features at Stone Soup Poetry

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via  Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

On Wednesday, July 8, Stone Soup keeps it going in July with the return of Deta Galloway, who celebrates here birthday this month.

Deta Galloway was born in Kingston in the Jamaica West Indies.  She emigrated to America eighteen rs of age to live with American husband and study medicine.  She is educated in professional nursing, human services and  management, and currently specializes in behavioral nursing.

Her art life has been a central focus of her emotional and spiritual development.  It has been a driving force in the way she has practiced Nursing and cared for families from all walks of life, It is healing, compassion, and empowerment throughout the life stages.  She has lived and traveled deeply into the Southern States and lived for the last eighteen years in Georgia.

Deta began writing poetry at thirteen and has been published in several anthologies and journals.  She has performed with poets such as Etheridge Knight, Josephine Miles, Galway Kinnell, M. S. Merwin, Hayden Carruth, Gwendolyn Brooks, Yusef K, Brother Blue, Tom Oleary, and Elizabeth Mckim.and others.  She has read her work for numerous radio station including Radio Jamaica, (Subsidiary of the BBC). Her artwork has been exhibited and collected in museums both in the United States and Africa.

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July 1: Liza Zayas Features at Stone Soup Poetry's Online Open Mic

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via  Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

On Wednesday, July 1, Stone Soup kicks off a new month with poet, musician and columnist Liza Zayas.

Liza Zayas, also known as Luna del Flor, works with the power of poetry as a mirror and healer. She intersects her lifelong passion for justice, equality, and the healing of humanity with her artistic goal of dialogue through individual and shared experiences in rhyme. Raised in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Liza’s Puerto Rican roots have pulsated her rhythmic poetry into performance art. As Luna del Flor, she performs at poetry, VDay One Billion Rising, International Women's Day, and Women’s History Month events. When not on stage, she curates events with other talents for these movements and more as a stage manager, talent coordinator, hostess or DJ.

She is currently a weekly contributor to Oddball Magazine with her poetry column, Underground Garden. In 2019, she was chosen by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to join its Neighborhood Salon Luminary Cohort for 2019-2020. She is a featured artist as writer and performer on the independent House Music label, Playroom Boston. Its debut release, All Nite, was released on June 26th.

Her poetry seeks to initiate dialogue by intentionally expressing consequences of love, lust, ego and self-respect.

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June 24: Jamilla VanDyke-Bailey Features at Stone Soup Poetry's Online Open Mic

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via  Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

On Wednesday, June 24, Stone Soup features Jamilla VanDyke-Bailey, who celebrates the release of a new poetry collection.

Jamilla VanDyke-Bailey is an educated black feminist millennial from Boston, Massachusetts. As a writer, she uses trauma and humor to carve out space for the ignored and amplify the voice of the silence. She has had work published in The Southhampton Review, K'in Literary Journal, Oddball Magazine, amongst others. Recently, she has self-published a chapbook Than We Have Been; a poetic reckoning with her mental illness and pregnancy. It can be ordered upon request on Instagram at jamilladanae.

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June 17: Stone Soup's Open Mic Wednesday

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via  Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

On Wednesday, June 17, Stone Soup meets again for another all-open mic night.

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June 10: Another Stone Soup Open Mic Wednesday

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via  Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

On Wednesday, June 10, Stone Soup meets again for another all-open mic night.

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June 3: Stone Soup Poetry Back Again!

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via  Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

On Wednesday, June 3, Stone Soup closes out our 49th anniversary month with another all-open mic.

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