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.
Join
us on Wednesday, December 29, as we have one more last minute open mic before we say goodbye to 2021.
Join us on December 29 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 815 4602 4695
Password: stonesoup
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.
Join us on Wednesday, December 15, as we have another last minute open mic while we continue to figure out the end of the year and 2022 at Stone Soup Poetry.
Join us on December 15 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 865 5586 0824
Password: stonesoup
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.
Join us on Wednesday, December 8, as we have a last minute open mic while we figure out the end of the year and 2022 at Stone Soup Poetry.
Join us on December 8 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 868 4279 3279
Password: stonesoup
Join us on Tuesday, November 23, as we have a last minute open mic before the start of the Thanksgiving rush.
Join us on November 23 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 839 7589 9867
Password: stonesoup
On Wednesday November 17, we continue with an all open mic night.
Join us on November 17 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 898 4893 7810
Password: stonesoup
On Wednesday November 10, we continue with an all open mic night.
Join us on November 10 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 844 7860 5491
Password: stonesoup
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 November 3, we continue with an all open mic night.
Join us on November 3 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 894 6096 5625
Password: stonesoup
Due to inclement weather, we are unable to have tonight's Zoom call. We'll see you next week.
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 October 20, we continue with an all open mic night.
Join us on October 20 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 893 8019 2125
Password: stonesoup
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 October 13, we continue with an all open mic night.
Join us on October 13 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 863 1871 6415
Password: stonesoup
On Wednesday October 6, we kick off the new month with poet, author and past Stone Souper Kevin Gallagher.
Kevin Gallagher is a Boston area poet, publisher, and political economist. His newest book of poems, And Yet it Moves is out this fall from MadHat Press. Gallagher edits spoKe, a Boston-based annual of poetry and poetics. He works as a professor of global development policy at Boston University.
Join us on October 6 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 870 0814 6493
Password: stonesoup
On Wednesday September 29, we close out September with poet and organizer Denise Washington.
Denise Washington, was born and raised in Roxbury, Massachusetts. She was a METCO student who graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Television Production / Creative Writing from Emerson College and her Master of Science degree in Early Childhood Education from Wheelock College.
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 September 22, we we continue with an all open mic night.
Join us on September 22 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 890 5176 0630
Password: stonesoup
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 September 15, we invite you to a special feature with Sam Cha.
Sam Cha is from Korea. He earned an MFA at UMass Boston. A 2017 recipient of the St. Boltoph’s Club Emerging Artists Prize, his work has appeared in apt, Assay, Best New Poets 2016, Boston Review, DIAGRAM, Memorious, and Missouri Review. His chapbook, American Carnage, was published by Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs in 2018. His full-length collection of cross-genre work, The Yellow Book, was published by [PANK] Books in 2020. Sam lives and writes in Cambridge, MA.
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| Photo by Derek Savoia |
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 September 1, we continue with an all open mic night.
Join us on September 1 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 892 6816 1630
Password: stonesoup
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 August 25, we close out the month with an all open mic while prepping for September.
Join us on August 25 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 853 9060 6929
Password: stonesoup
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 August 18 we welcome Stephanie Kaylor.
Stephanie Kaylor is a PhD student in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Barbara and Reviews Editor at Glass: A Journal of Poetry. They completed their MA in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany and were a participant of the Tin House Summer Workshop. Her most recent and forthcoming work can be found in publications including Protean Magazine, Flypaper Lit, and beestung.
Join us on August 18 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 842 7231 0173
Password: stonesoup
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 August 11, John Stickney takes time from being on the road to have his first feature since becoming our online friend.
John Stickney has been a poet and writer for 40 plus years, first in Cleveland, Ohio, now in Wilmington, NC. The recipient of an Individual Artist Grant Award for Poetry from the Ohio Arts Council, his poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines (including Oddball Magazine, Pocket Lint, Exquisite Corpse, Medusa’s Kitchen, Alien Buddha Zine, and North of Oxford). John has performed his work on the radio and television, and his work has been performed by others both on stage and set to music. His work has published in two collections: Works of art are like questions or problems put by their inventor to the public at large (PA Press) and These Americans Moments (Burning Press). He has published book reviews, interviews and featured articles, as well as Art reviews and criticism.
His short fiction has appeared in Mississippi Review, ThugLit, Needles, Beat to a Pulp among others. His authored short monologue, “ Pandemic Travels” and authored short film, Hungry were released in two separate programs via Eventbrite in 2021. John is currently a member of The Writers of the Forest, Port City Playwrights’s Project, the North Carolina Poetry Society, The Ohio Poetry Association and the North Carolina Writers Network.
Join us on August 11 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 853 6559 8832
Password: stonesoup
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 August 4, we welcome poet, editor and publisher Gloria Mindock, who is celebrating the release of her latest collection.
Gloria Mindock is the author of Ash (Glass Lyre Press), I Wish Francisco Franco Would Love Me (Nixes Mate Books), Whiteness of Bone (Glass Lyre Press), La Portile Raiului, translated into Romanian by Flavia Cosma (Ars Longa Press, Romania), Nothing Divine Here (U Šoku Štampa, Montenegro), and Blood Soaked Dresses (Ibbetson St. Press). Widely published in the USA and abroad, her poetry has been translated and published into eleven languages. Gloria is editor of Červená Barva Press and was the Poet Laureate in Somerville, MA in 2017 & 2018. Her book Ash was awarded the Speak Up Talk Radio Firebird Book Award in July, 2021. Ash is also translated into Serbian by Milutin Durickovic and will be out shortly by ALMA Press in Belgrade.
Join us on August 4 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 821 2631 3558
Password: stonesoup
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 21, we begin July with an all open mic while getting ready for July's final feature.
Join us this Wednesday night from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 891 2099 0638
Password: stonesoup
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 14, poet Andrew K. Peterson closes out June for Stone Soup.
Andrew K. Peterson is the author of five poetry books, most recently A Blue Nocturne Notebook (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2021). His 2017 chapbook The Big Game Is Every Night was mailed to the White House as part of a collective protest alongside publications from the Locofo Chaps series. A previous chap bonjour meriwether and the rabid maps (Fact-Simile Press) was featured in an exhibition on poets’ maps at the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center. His poetry was also included in The Earth Archive exhibit at RISD Museum. In 2017 he helped co-wrangle at the Boston Poetry Marathon. A co-founding editor of the literary journal summer stock, he lives in Boston.
Join us on July 14 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 836 9310 6149
Password: stonesoup
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 7, we continue with an all open mic night.
Join us this Wednesday night from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 858 4327 6225
Password: stonesoup
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 30, poet, novelist, editor and publisher Patricia Carragon closes out June for Stone Soup.
Patricia Carragon’s fiction piece "What Has to Happen Next" has been nominated for Sundress Publications Annual Best of the Net Anthology. Her poem "Paris the Beautiful" won Poem of the Week from great weather for MEDIA. She was nominated by Bear Creek Haiku for a Pushcart Prize. Her latest books from Poets Wear Prada are Meowku and The Cupcake Chronicles and her debut novel, Angel Fire, is from Alien Buddha Press. Patricia hosts Brownstone Poets and is the editor-in-chief of its annual anthology. She is an executive editor for Home Planet News Online. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Join us this Wednesday night from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 859 8647 7048
Password: stonesoup
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 23, Russell DuPont features as Stone Soup officially marches into summer.
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 16, we begin June with an all open mic while getting ready for June's final features.
Join us this Wednesday night from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 898 7606 0255
Password: stonesoup
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 9, J. Barrett Wolf visits our online forum for the first itme.
J. Barrett Wolf lives in Binghamton, New York, where he is the Poet in Residence at the Bundy Museum of History and Art and Director at WordPlace – The Southern Tier Literary Center. He's been published in Black Bear Review, Portland Review of the Arts, Long Island Sounds, Rubber Side Down, Writing Outside the Lines, and was on the Connecticut Touring Poetry Roster. He also holds the Bronze Medal of Valor from the San Francisco Police Department.Join us this Wednesday night from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 838 0230 8637
Password: stonesoup
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 2, we begin June with an all open mic while getting ready for future features.
Join us this Wednesday night from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
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 May 26, we end our celebration of Stone Soup's 50th anniversary (for now) with the return of Gary Hicks.
Gary Hicks has been active in the politics of the left since the 1960s. He has been at various times, an educator, a community organizer, and a cultural worker. In the early 2000s Hicks worked as a substitute teacher in Boston before retiring to the west coast in 2009. He has been writing poetry since 1983 and is the author of A Pen Is Like a Piece. You Pick It Up. You Use It.
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| John Landry with Arlene Stone |
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 May 12, we continue our celebration of Stone Soup's 50th anniversary with John Landry, one of Stone Soup's many surviving dignitaries form the days of its founder, the late Jack Powers.
John Landry was born in New Bedford and served as its poet laureate (2007-2010). He ran several poetry reading series there over the decades. He has survived as a quahogger, scallop shucker, factory worker, warehouseman, librarian, health educator, and teacher. He was a regular participant in Stone Soup readings organized by founder Jack Powers from the 1970's through the 1990's. At the invitation of Gwendolyn Brooks, he read at the Library of Congress.
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 May 5th, following Deta Galloway's amazing feature, Stone Soup continues with an extended all-open mic and invite anyone who missed our May 1st celebration to join in.
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.
Join us for a special three hour Stone Soup open mic this Saturday, May 1st, with Deta Galloway returning for an extended feature.
Deta Galloway was born in Kingston in the Jamaica West Indies. She emigrated to America at eighteen years 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.
The first Cambridge Poetry MashUP is now going virtual. Stone Soup is proud to help sponsor the event as well as help facilitate the Zoom call for MashUP's opening day. Creator and founder Toni Bee has promised an amazing show that will go on, pandemic or not.
Please join us on Saturday April 10, starting at 3 PM ET, for an amazing ensemble of readers including main features include Reggie Gibson and Jade Sylvan.
Join the Zoom link by clicking here.
Meeting ID: 821 7205 0887
Passcode: MashUP
Visit the Cambridge Poetry MashUP website for more information as it comes.
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.
David Leo Sirois is a Canadian-American poet who has had 100 publications in 7 countries (the US, France, England, India, the Czech Republic, Luxembourg & Zimbabwe). His work has been translated into French, & is now being translated into Spanish, German, & Czech, & possibly Serbian as well. He lived & performed in Paris for 7 years, & now hosts from his native New Brunswick, Canada, the global open mic Spoken World Online (SpokenWord Paris after the quarantine). His first poetry collection, Humbledoves (poems to Pigeons & plants) is available on Amazon for 7 humble dollars.
Join us on April 28 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
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, April 21, Gloria Monaghan returns to Stone Soup via virtual podium.
Gloria Monaghan is a Professor of Humanities at Wentworth University. She has published five books of poetry: Flawed (Finishing Line Press),Torero (Nixes Mate), The Garden (Flutter Press), False Spring (Adelaide), and Hydrangea (Kelsay Books). Her poems have appeared in Alexandria Quarterly, 2River, Adelaide, Aurorean, Chiron, Nixes-Mate, First Literary Review East, among others. In 2018 her poem, “Into Grace” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her book False Spring was nominated for the Griffin Prize.
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 April 14, due to rescheduling, we take a break with an all-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.
John Roche lives in Placitas, New Mexico, helping his wife Jules Nyquist run Jules’ Poetry Playhouse, edit Poetry Playhouse Publications, and hosts the monthly Kaktus Poetry open mic. He taught Literature and Creative Writing for decades at various colleges, retiring from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2019.
Roche was formerly President of Just Poets in Rochester, NY, member of the board of BOA Editions, chief organizer of the Black Mountain North Symposium, and an instigator of the annual Cloudburst Council poets' retreat in the Finger Lakes. Along with editing the five-volume Poets Speak series and other anthologies (including Mo' Joe), his own poetry collections include On Conesus, Topicalities, Road Ghosts, and The Joe Poems: The Continuing Saga of Joe the Poet. His newest book is Joe Rides Again: Further Adventures of Joe the Poet (FootHills Publishing 2020).
Join us on April 7 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
