July 26: Stone Soup Online All-Open Mic Hosted by Jason Wright

Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. Stay tuned for more announcements. For now, we welcome you to participate in a another online open mic tonight on 26 hosted by Jason Wright of Oddball Magazine and Oddball Foundation. Jason is hosting the first Oddball Festival in August and promises promo codes for all attendees tonight.

Join us on July 26 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 853 5869 2224

Password: stonesoup

July 19: Stone Soup Online All-Open Mic

Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. Stay tuned for more announcements. For now, we welcome you to participate in a another online open mic tonight on July 19. More summer features and guest hosts will be announced soon.

Join us on July 19 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 886 4688 4793

Password: stonesoup 

July 12: Len Germinara and Sarah Oktay Feature at Stone Soup Poetry

Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. Stay tuned for future announcements. On July 12, we feature poetry power couple Sarah Oktay and Len Germinara.

Sarah Oktay, Ph.D. is a scientist by nature and a poet by nurture. She co-founded Spoken Word Nantucket with her husband Len Germinara. For twelve years, they hosted an open mic that featured performances by some of the best poets in the country. She recently published the first of four volumes of essays on the natural history of Nantucket entitled Naturally Nantucket, the Sea: Volume One. She has edited and produced nine books of poetry for other authors and writing collaboratives. Sifting Light through the Darkness is her first book of poetry, her second one will be out in December of 2023. She also contributed two chapters to Women of the Wild Challenging Gender Disparities in Field Stations and Marine Laboratories. For the past two years she has given many performances around the country via Zoom.

Len Germinara has been writing, publishing, and performing his poetry for over four decades. For 17 years he ran spoken word venues in Massachusetts from south of Boston to Nantucket featuring some of the best poets in the country. Len has been a feature on WCAI-NPR in Massachusetts and Writers on the Air in Sacramento CA. Len has been published in numerous national journals and publications. His latest collection of poetry Back Story can be found on Amazon and his new collection Decamerooned is due out at the end of July. For bookings contact him at lensir@hotmail.com

Join us on July 12 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 883 3615 6340

Password: stonesoup 

 

July 5: Paul Skiff Features at Stone Soup Poetry

Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. Stay tuned for future announcements. On July 5, we begin our summer features with Paul Skiff with special host C.C. Arshagra

Paul Skiff creates beautifully complex multimedia forms of art that startle our expectations. Based on use of the live voice, incorporating exaggerations and distortions of technology, Paul’s unique combinations of writing, music, poetry and visuals invite human sensuality to flourish. Full of stark moods, loaded with intelligent laughter, led by the force of spoken words, his visions lull or exhilarate by turns packed with aesthetic surprise. Pervasive technology we take for granted, the microphone, the image projector, often barely keep up with the highly innovative forms Paul composes and sets off. His work puts forth a challenge for the dull everyday world to validate its claims on our notion of what is acceptable as the human condition. Through his highly pleasurable, aggressively innovative, charismatic work, Paul shows us respect for our own being can shatter the misdirections and mistaken priorities imposed upon the world we live in.

From 1980 when Paul first stood up in public to speak his writing as live art, through his 1992 sound design for the ground-breaking landmark recording of spoken poetry Nuyorican Symphony, in 20 years of wide ranging production work directing, managing and assisting events for organizations in the United States, Africa, Asia, and Europe, to his recent audio recordings, Paul’s cultural initiative reflects a unique commitment and leadership that translates into a formidable talent for touching audiences across social and cultural boundaries. Paul’s unique vision of a practical art advocates the re-humanization of all culture whether we are ready or not..

Join us on July 5  from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 865 0854 9186

Password: stonesoup