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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 November 20, Silent E returns to Stone Soup to feature at our virtual podium.
Eunice Belacy aka Silent E has been a poet and spoken word artist in the Greater Boston area for over 10years. She grew up in North Cambridge Massachusetts to Haitian immigrant parents and was raised in the church. She started writing poetry at 16 years old and began performing at 24 while attending Bridgewater State University , where she joined the Spoken Word group The Seeds of Poetry.
She has performed at various open mics at churches, colleges, art galleries, bars, restaurants etc.
She has graced stages in Boston , New York , St Louis, Atlanta and Los Angeles, as well as online via Instagram.
Not only has she shared her pieces in multiple locations, she has co-hosted a few open mics as well.
The written and spoken word have always been her safe place.
Silent E wishes to use her poetry to uplift, inspire and share wisdom, as well as be vulnerable with her audience. She believes that anyone can be a poet, as along as they are willing to bare their souls and be honest first with themselves and then with the reader and listeners.
A Quote she lives by is Ephesians 3:20:
Now all Glory to God who is able to through his mighty power at work within us do exceedingly , abundantly , above all we can ask or imagine.
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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 November 13, we welcome Timothy Gager back to our virtual podium.
Timothy Gager is the author of 19 books of fiction and poetry. Of his new one, Almost Bluing for X-tra Whiteness, Charles Coe said, “Tim Gager can take a so-called 'ordinary moment' and peel it like an onion, revealing layers of meaning that seem both surprising and inevitable.” Pulitzer Prize winner writer Robert Olin Butler called Tim, “A genius of the quotidian, keenly observing the details of our lives and rendering them so that we can hear the deep pulse of our identities, of our pure being, within them.”
In a review of the book Cambridge Poet Populus Lo Galluccio noted, ” the poet takes on other themes, objects, even humor. It’s as if 'Blu-ing' were the poet’s ability to compensate for or distract from the underlying grief by looking at the world with some jauntiness and resilience. This is a marvelously composed collection that includes both the sacred and the profane. It’s about love, loss, mortality, addiction, recovery and survival and it’s both a good time read and enlightening literature about the state of our humanity.”
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Richard Spisak began his artistic career as a light artist in the Lumonics Studios of Mel Tanner, a legendary Light Artist. After serving under Jack Horkheimer as a planetarium operator at the Miami Space-Transit Planetarium, he left to begin traveling with Lumist Kenvin Lyman, whose show Dazzleland Studios traveled across America. Richard later worked as a Laserist with LASERIUM and Laser Productions, served as a technical producer for the festival company PACE Concerts, and later as operations Manager and Senior Producer at WWHP and WTCN-TV in Stuart Florida.
Richard writes for Theatre, TV, radio, and the web. He published two short story collections, Two Small Windows, in a Pair of Mirror Doors, and Between the Silences. Followed by his poetry collection 7370 Allen Drive and the soon-to-be-released STONE POETRY. Richard also produces "POETS of the East", a televised webcast featuring poets from across the globe.
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BeYouT (pronounced Beauty) is a poet who was born and raised in the suburbs of Boston. She had been writing since she was given her first journal at the age of 9 years old. In 2012 she was introduced to spoken word and has been writing and performing off and on ever since. She is a survivor of domestic violence and sexual abuse and has also experienced great loss. She is a passionate poet who writes from a place of personal healing. She, is a Survivor.
Join us on Wednesday October 23 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
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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 October 9, Noah Berlatsky visits our virtual podium for the first time freshg off a new poetry collection.
Noah Berlatsky (he/him) is a freelance writer in Chicago. His first full length collection is Not Akhmatova (Ben Yehuda Press, 2024). He has chapbooks published and/or forthcoming with the Origami Poems Project, above/ground, and LJMcD Communications.
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Edward Gault is a poet and fine art photographer. In his photography, he follows in the footsteps of Joseph Sudek, "The Poet of Prague". He strives to make his photos the poems that they are. In poetry, his teachers are Fyodor Dostoevsky, Khalil Gibran, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Russell Edson, Billy Barnum, Nicholas Kolumban, Jack Powers and Richard Cambridge.
He can't make up his bloody mind!
He has published in Oddball Magazine, the Brownstone Poetry Anthology - for which he received a Pushcart Prize nomination, Spectrum, Spare Change, Wilderness House Literary Review, Stone's Throw, and Encore.
His new book Airhead and Other Poems is published by Read and Green Books, 2024 with artwork by Marianne Franco.
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Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. On August21, the Bukowski school returns to our online form with poet, publisher and online raconteur R.M. Engelhard.
R.M. Engelhardt is a poet, writer & author who’s work over the last 30 years has been published in such journals as Thunder Sandwich, Full of Crow, Rusty Truck, Writers’ Resist, Dry Land Lit, Rye Whiskey Review, Hobo Camp Review, Black Noise & many others. He currently lives & writes in Upstate NY and has been the editor of Dead Man's Press Ink, a small indie poetry press publishing poets since 1998. Look For his new book, And Here We Are (2024) on Amazon.com coming out soon from DEAD MAN'S PRESS INK . Also keep your eyes open for the upcoming nationwide poetry live streaming event " Poets Against The Extinction of America" featuring poets from everywhere taking social media over on Facebook, Tiktok & Instagram. An event and gathering of small press Indie Poets
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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 August 7, we welcome Chris Vannoy, beat from the west coast.
Chris
has read up and down both the east and west coast. He was the Beat Poet
Laureate of California 2018 and the United States Beat Poet Laureate in
2019.
During those years he completed 2 tours of Europe. His
first reading in London was at the church where William Blake was
baptized and his last reading was in Dylan Thomas’s childhood birth
place in Swansea, Wales. In 2021 he was invited to attend the TANTA
Poetry Festival in Tanta, Egypt.
This year he is doing
what he likes most, writing and reading his poems at open readings
around town in San Diego. Publication of a collection of love
poems is planned for 2025.
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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.
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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 May 29, Valerie Loveland closes out Stone Soup's anniversary month reading from her new collection.
Valerie Loveland’s book [unsolved mysteries theme song], poems about the 1980s TV show Unsolved Mysteries, was published this year. She likes audio poetry, silent movies and knitting. After being gone for a long time, she moved back to where she grew up in New Jersey.
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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 May 22, we celebrate the return of poet and poetry advocate Elizabeth Doran.
Elizabeth Doran is a painter and poet. From 2011-2020 She was the manager of the Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Cambridge, MA. Elizabeth lives in The Back Bay of Boston. She has read at many venues in Cambridge and Boston.
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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 May 15,
Stone Soup's anniversary month continues with artistic entrepreneur C.C. Arshagra.
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Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via
Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. On May 8, Stone Soup's anniversary month continues with special feature Mark Lipman.
Mark Lipman, founder of the press Vagabond, the Culver City Book Festival, the Elba Poetry Festival; winner of the 2015 Joe Hill Labor Poetry Award; the 2016 International Latino Book Award and the 2023 L’Alloro di Dante (Dante’s Laurel - Italy), a writer, poet, multi-media artist, activist and author of fourteen books, began his career as the writer-in residence at the world famous Shakespeare and Company in Paris, France (2002-2003). Since then he has worked closely with such legendary poets as Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Jack Hirschman on many projects and for the last twenty years has established a strong international following as a leading voice of his generation. He’s the host and foreign correspondent for the radio program, Poetry from Around the World for Poets Café on KPFK 90.7FM Los Angeles. As Mark continues to travel the world, he uses poetry to connect communities to the greater social justice issues, while building consciousness through the spoken word.
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Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via
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Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via
Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. On April 10, Mary Ann Honaker visits our virtual podium this National Poetry Month from her latest collection.
Mary Ann Honaker is the author of Becoming Persephone (Third Lung Press, 2019), and Whichever Way the Moon (Main Street Rag, 2023). Her poems have appeared in Bear Review, JMWW, Juked, Little Patuxent Review, Rattle.com, Solstice, Sweet Tree Review, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Beaver, West Virginia.
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Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via
Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. On April 3, Rich Boucher kicks off National Poetry Month.
Rich Boucher resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Rich has been a member of five poetry slam teams representing cities all across the U.S (Worcester, Mass. (1995 and 1996), Washington, D.C (2001)., Wilmington, Delaware (2007) and twice representing Albuquerque, New Mexico (2008 and 2014). In 2012 Rich was named to the first inaugural Albuquerque Poet Laureate Selection Committee for a two-year term, and his participation helped to select Hakim Bellamy, the City of Albuquerque’s first official Poet Laureate. In the same year, partially owing to his connections with the Delaware and Philadelphia art, music and poetry scenes, Rich appeared on the album, Dylan – Philadelphia pays tribute to a Legend, an album featuring various Philadelphia artists performing covers of Dylan songs to benefit Amnesty Inrnational and the End Hunger Network; Rich’s contribution to the album was a spoken-word rendition of Bob Dylan’s “My Back Pages.”
Rich’s poems have appeared in The Nervous Breakdown, Neon, Malpais Review, Gargoyle, Menacing Hedge, Neon, Shot Glass Review, Bending Genres and Stink Eye, among others, and most recently has had work published in Unknotting the Line: The Poetry in Prose from Dos Gatos Press. He has erotic work forthcoming in Issue #3 of Pink Disco Magazine. Rich served for a year as the Associate Editor at the Albuquerque-based Elbow Room Magazine and is currently (since August of 2020) the Associate Editor of the online literary magazine BOMBFIRE, and he is the author of All Of This Candy Belongs To Me, published by Jules’ Poetry Playhouse Publications. Visit richboucher.bandcamp.com for exclusive, unpublished works.
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Linda Carney-Goodrich is a writer and teacher from Boston. Her work has appeared in spoKe 10, Lily Poetry Review, The MacGuffin, Nixes Mate Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, Literary Mama, Muddy River Poetry Review, Wordgathering Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature, Gyroscope Review, and others. Her work has been translated in Spanish and published in Columbia and Mexico. Several of her poems have been displayed at Boston City Hall as part of the Boston Mayor’s Poetry Program. Linda is the Poetry Coordinator for the Menino Art Center in Hyde Park and founder of Home Scholars of Boston. Her first book of poetry, Dot Girl, was released in March from Nixes Mate Books.
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Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via
Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. On March 20, we have an all-open mic before kicking off March with a
double feature.
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Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via
Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. On March 13, we welcome west coast poet Don Kingfisher Campbell, who is celebrating the release of his new collection, A Poem Is.
Don Kingfisher Campbell received his MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles and taught Writers Seminar at Occidental College Upward Bound for 36 years. He's been a coach and judge for Poetry Out Loud, a performing poet/teacher for Red Hen Press Youth Writing Workshops, an L.A. Coordinator and Board Member of California Poets In The Schools, poetry editor of the Angel City Review, publisher of Four Feathers Press, and host of the Saturday Afternoon Poetry reading series in Pasadena, California.
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Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via
Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. On March 6, we kick off the new month with a double feature by poetic partners Philip J. Curtis and John Chance Acevedo.
John "Chance" Acevedo has been reciting and hosting for over 2 decades. As the eldest of three, he receives inspiration from everyday life situations and most commonly uses a blend of comedy and drama to reflect his real- life experience. Chance has become a recognized feature performer in many poetry venues and universities. He has been known for hosting some of NYC’s most popular Open mics. Chance hosted The First Annual New York Hip-Hop Dance Convention at Sony Studios. He currently co-curates and hosts virtual Poetry Open Mics with The Dumping Grounds and Put it In Da Chat. Chance has been published in Raul Maldonado`s The Company We Keep, The BX FIles Contemporary Poetry from the Bronx and Me No Habla With Acento just to name a few. Since moving to Homestead Florida, Chance has mentored youth poets for The Dranoff International 2 Piano Foundation, PIano Slam where his mentees have one 1st place two consecutive years. As an educator he is an employability coach for young adults living with Autism. Chance is a founding member of the all Latino poetry troupe El Grito de Poetas a collective of diverse Latino and Latina poets dedicated to the craft and performance of modern poetry. Chance is also a board member for Latinos NYC. Chance`s confident stage presence makes him a performer to watch. Ladies and gentlemen the Author of his New collection of poetry Sketched of my Writes, your favorite Troll and self proclaimed A-Hole, John Chance Acevedo
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Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via
Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. On February 28, we end February with an all-open mic before kicking off March with a double feature.
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Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. On February 21, we kick off the new year with an all-open mic.
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Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. On February 14, we gather for a Valentine's Day open mic of a different time.
Lonely bastards unite! Bring your anti-Valentines. Bring your anti-erotica. Bring your love poems and defy your own loneliness. Or wax nostalgic about the poems you wrote when you were lonely. Basically it's an hour to goof off before you either go out on a date or hide in your bed.
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Margaret Young is the author of Willow From the Willow, Almond Town, and Blight Summer. She has translated two collections of haiku from the Spanish by Sergio Inestrosa. Two collections are forthcoming: a chapbook titled How Else Can We Know What’s Beautiful? and The Water Bear. She lives in Beverly.
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Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via
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24, we continue our break between features with an all-open mic.
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Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via
Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. On January 17, we take a break between features with an all-open mic.
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Robert Fleming (b. 1963), the Doodleman, is a visual poet born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada who emigrated to Lewes, Delaware, United States. Robert follows his mother as a visual artist and his grandfather as a poet. He explores masculinity, sexual orientation, sin, virtue, and dystopia.
He is influenced by the writers Robert Frost, Dr. Seuss, and the Beats and his digital graphics by the artists Salvador Dali and Andy Warhol. Since 2017, more than 600 of his works were published internationally in more than 200 print and online publications, art galleries and open mic features. His books are White Noir, an Amazon best seller, and Con-Way in 4 in 1, #4 by Four Feathers Press. A founding and contributing editor of Old Scratch Press, he is a Member of the Rehoboth Beach Writers Association. He is the winner of the 2022 San Gabriel Valley California-broadside and the 2021 Best of Mad Swirl poetry.
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Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. On January 1, we kick off the new year with an all-open mic.
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