January 27: Blackbyrd Features at Stone Soup

 

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, January 27, we close out January with the return of BlackByrd, who is joining us online to prepare for a special live performance to save the Dudley Cafe. Lend her your ears and your dollars as we help one of Stone Soup's friends.

My name is Blackbyrd. I have been doing spoken word here in Boston for almost 10 years. Happy to be back to Stone Soup Poetry as your featured poet. Currently working on an album and videos that are to be released July 2021. I love entertaining and expressing myself through my art. I am living my truth. See you soon

Join us on Wednesday, January 27 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 829 5121 2218

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January 20: Art Collins Features at Stone Soup

 

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, January 20, Stone Soup celebrates what will hypothetically be our first night in post-Trump America with Art Collins. 

Art Collins 

A Boston poet who believes that there is extraordinary power in words

and considers his poetry to be socially conscious as well as entertaining.

He hopes that his brand of poetry will motivate action, provoke thought and stimulate the mind of the listener. Art is Co-host of the Lizard Lounge Poetry Slam venue and was a member of the 2008, 2010, 2016 - 2019 Lizard Lounge National Poetry Slam Team.

He is an educator in the Boston Public School system and continues to perform his unique style of poetry with the aspirations of reaching a global audience.

Join us on Wednesday, January 20 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 882 8489 15059

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January 13: Jon Wesick Featurs at Stone Soup

 

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, January 13,Stone Soup moves closer to its fiftieth year of existence with poet and novelist Jon Wesick. 

Jon Wesick is a regional editor of the San Diego Poetry Annual. He’s published hundreds of poems and stories in journals such as the Atlanta Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, Metal Scratches, Pearl, Slipstream, Space and Time, Tales of the Talisman, and Zahir. The editors of Knot Magazine nominated his stories “The Visitor” and “A Story for the Rest of Us” for Pushcart Prizes. His poem “Meditation Instruction” won the Editor’s Choice Award in the 2016 Spirit First Contest. Another poem “Bread and Circuses” won second place in the 2007 African American Writers and Artists Contest. “Richard Feynman’s Commute” shared third place in the 2017 Rhysling Award’s short poem category. Jon is the author of the poetry collections Words of Power, Dances of Freedom and A Foreigner Wherever I Go as well as several novels and short story collections. His most recent novel is The Enigma Brokers. 

Join us on Wednesday, January 13 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 814 2054 3489

Password: stonesoup