May 28: Black Byrd Features at Stone Soup Poetry

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 28, we conclude our fifty-fourth anniversary month with the return of Stone Soup friend Black Byrd.

 

Black Byrd gives us her bio below:

"Stone Soup Poetry was the first place to ever have me as a featured Artist and because of people like Chad Parenteau I have had many opportunities to perform and be featured in various places like Poe-Therapy 2 and Dudley Cafe as well as open mics at Cantab Lounge, The Jungle, Haley House and If You Can Feel It You Can Speak It."

"I am truly happy to come back and I am coming with A POETRY ALBUM called Welcome 2 My Journey Volume I." 

"I am also an actress involved in The Oscar Mischeaux Family Theatre (www.Theomtc.com) under the ownership of Haywood Fennell and A Common Thread Teatre Company (info@commonthreadtheatre.org) from Framingham under the direction of Jill Butler Mack. I’ve been involved in several plays with both of them including The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Nighttime as Mrs Alexander and with the Oscar Mischeaux Family Theatre's Harlem Renaissance Revisited With a Gospel Flavor. Because of these two theaters I am praying they can sponsor me on my upcoming play called I Am Me.  Just building my brand as Black Byrd and Isabel Alexandre the actress and Assistant Stage Manager."

Join us on Wednesday, May 28 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 849 6331 2195

Password: stonesoup

May 21: Stone Soup Poetry Online All-Open Mic

Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday online from 7:00-9:00 PM via Zoom. Stay tuned for updates on any future live gatherings. This Wednesday, Stone Soup continues its fifty-fourth anniversary celebration with an all-open mic.

Join us on Wednesday, May 21 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 830 5384 2115

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May 14: Doug Holder Features for Stone Soup Poetry's Fifty-Fourth Anniversary

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 14, past Stone Soup president Doug Holder returns to feature during this special anniversary month.

Doug Holder is the founder of the Ibbetson Street Press, arts editor for The Somerville Times, and on the Board of Directors for the New England Poetry Club, as well as the Friends of the Longfellow House. Holder teaches creative writing at Endicott College, and taught college writing at Bunker Hill Community College for many years. For over 30 years he ran poetry groups for psychiatric patients at McLean Hospital and was the president of Stone Soup for one year. ( late 1990s). His poetry and prose have appeared in the Lowell Review, Worcester Review, Rattle, Cafe Review, and many other places. The "Doug Holder Paper Collection" is housed at the University at Buffalo. His latest book is the Essential Doug Holder(Big Table Books).

Join us on May 14 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 891 0950 3067

Password: stonesoup

 

May 7: Melissa Castillo-Garsow Features for Stone Soup Poetry's Fifty-Fourth Anniversary

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 7, poet, author, doctor and Stone Soup friend Melissa Castillo-Garsow features at the top of Stone Soup Poetry's fifty-fourth anniversary month.

Dr. Melissa Castillo-Garsow is an Associate Professor of English at Lehman College and the CUNY graduate center PhD program in English specializing in Latinx Literature and Culture. She is the author/ editor of 7 books including editor of ¡Manteca!: An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets, and author of A Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture which examines the creative worlds and cultural productions of Mexican migrants in New York City. Her second book of poetry, Chingona Rules was a Gold Medal Winner of the Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award, International Latino Book Awards (2022).

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

The meeting ID is 894 8978 6353

Password: stonesoup