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Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via
Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. On July 31, we close out the month with the return of Charles Coe as he celebrates his latest collection.
Charles Coe is the author of five books of poetry: Picnic on the
Moon, All Sins Forgiven: Poems for my Parents, Memento Mori, Purgatory Road, and most recently Charles Coe: New and Selected
Works, all published by Leapfrog Press. His novella Spin Cycles, about a homeless man living on the street in Boston, was published by
Gemma Media. Peach Pie, a short film by filmmaker Roberto Mighty based
on his poem "Fortress," has been shown in film festivals nationwide.
He is the recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the St. Botolph Club of Boston, and has been selected by the Associates of the Boston Public Library as a “Boston Literary Light.” He has served as an Artist-in-Residence for the city of Boston where he created an oral history project that featured people who live and work on Mission Hill.
Charles teaches poetry and prose in a variety of
settings, including grade schools, high schools, colleges, writing
conferences and private workshops. He has served as poet-in-residence at
Wheaton College and at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York,
and is adjunct professor of English at Salve Regina University in
Newport, Rhode Island, teaching poetry and nonfiction.
He serves on the
Board of Directors for The Brattleboro Literary Festival and New England
Poetry Club, and on the planning committee for Convergence Ensemble. He
is a member the Steering Committee for the Boston Chapter of The
National Writers Union, a labor union for freelance writers.
Join us on July 31 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 874 7970 5323
Password: stonesoup
