Due to a series of events, Stone Soup will be on hiatus until September.
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 July 29, we conclude the month of July with former Boston poet Diana Saenz.
Diana Saenz has been writing since 1964, at the age of 16, when she attained her first typewriter by saving Green Stamps. This instinct for the advantage of technology has never waned. Neither has her commitment to the written word. Her life in the arts, surrounded by actors, playwrights, poets, dancers, artists, and writers, is the gift that writing gave her, and for this she is ever humble and grateful.Join us on Wednesday, July 29, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 870 1187 2142
Password: stonesoup
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 July 22, Stone Soup alum and local poetry legend Marc Goldfinger features for July.
Marc Goldfinger has been published by Ibbetson Street, the Aurorean, Pegasus, The Boston Poet, the Crooked River Press, Earth First! Journal, The New Renaissance, User’s News, Poiesis, The Porter Gulch Review, Rubber-Side-Down and many others. Goldfinger is also a member of the Liberation Poetry Collective and is included in the Liberation Anthology put out by the Trilingual Press. He is currently the poetry editor and a regular columnist for the Spare Change News, a paper put out for the benefit of homeless people. He is a member of The Road Scribes of America, a motorcycle club whose members have been published throughout the world. He also has his own website at http://marcdgoldfinger.outlawpoetry.com/ where he also has books and a down-load of Getting Fixed In South Carolina, a true story of an event in his life, arranged and performed by The Jeff Robinson Trio, for sale. Goldfinger is formerly homeless and has been a Vendor for Spare Change News since 1993.
Join us on Wednesday, July 22, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 832 0056 5037
Password: stonesoup
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 July 15, Stone Soup returns with special feature Mary Ann Honaker as she reads from her new colection.
Mary
Ann Honaker is the author of Becoming Persephone (Third Lung Press,
2019), Whichever Way the Moon (Main Street Rag, 2023), and Night is
Another Realm Altogether, on pre-release sale now with Sheila-Na-Gig.
Her poems have appeared in Bear Review, DIAGRAM, JMWW, Juked, Little
Patuxent Review, Rattle.com, River Heron Review, Solstice, Sweet Tree
Review, Tuskegee Review, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Beckley,
West Virginia.
Join us on Wednesday, July 15, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 859 5282 8229
Password: stonesoup
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 June 24, we trudge to the end of June and the early days of summer with special feature Marjorie Pezzoli.
Marjorie Pezzoli is a poet, visual artist, and silk painter.
Her
writings cover all emotions, from grief to joy. Since 2019 her poetry
has been curated in printed anthologies and online publications: A Year
in Ink, Complete the Haiga, dadakuku, Heterodox Haiku, Mad Swirl,
Palabra: Open Mic, San Diego Poetry Annual, Setu Journal, The Pan Haiku
Review, and others. In 2025, Marjorie was given the Setu Award of
Excellence for Art and Literature, and Program Coordinator for the Haiku
of America Virtual Conference.
She works on promotional material for the Southern California Haiku Group.
You may receive her weekly Monday morning offerings via email, or follow The Cosmic Gumball Machine
on Substack. You never know what will roll out, poetry, haiku, and
various art forms. Her daily ink sketching practice started on January
1st, 2026. Josh Datko of BitPunk.FM said, “Marjorie has some of the best punk-poking artwork around these parts.”
Beau,
the dog with Betty Davis eyes, and a visiting peacock are two of her
muses. Marjorie looks for words worth a thousand images. www.PezzoliArt.com - IG@marjorie pezzoli
Join us on Wednesday, June 24, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 870 4260 4070
Password: stonesoup
Tonight will be the return of the Stone Soup Poetry workshop.
A reminder of the rules:
Bring one poem no longer than a single page (no smaller than 11 font)
Leave the title off (share it in chat).
If you can't screen share, you can email the workshop head at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com
Join us on Wednesday June 10 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 852 0894 8392
Password: stonesoup
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 27, our fifty-fifth anniversary month concludes with the return of old friend Susan Deer Cloud.
Susan Deer Cloud, a mixed lineage Catskill Mountain Native, is the recipient of an NEA Literature Fellowship and two New York State Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowships. She has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies, and her most recent book is The Way to Rainbow Mountain. Since being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2017, she has gone roving in South America, Europe, and Alaska (hey, “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose”). She is on a quest, seeking human beings who embody the original name for her Iroquois ancestors, the Shining People. She makes pilgrimages to places whose genius loci is still powerful in a beautiful and sheltering way. During this perilous time she knows freedom can be an easy word to toss around, but she is resolved to keep making a stand for the kind that sparks soaring creativity, tenderness, and love.
Join us on Wednesday, May 27, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 816 7309 2287
Password: stonesoup
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 20, Stone Soup's fifty-fifth anniversary celebration continues with returning poet Meg Smith.
Meg Smith is a writer, dancer, journalist and events producer based in Lowell, Mass. She is author of six poetry collections and one fiction collection, The Plague Confessor. She is a member of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac and creator of Poe in Lowell, honoring Edgar Allan Poe's three visits to Lowell. She was nominated in 2025 for the Stanley Kunitz poetry medal.
Join us on Wednesday, May 20, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 817 6566 1275
Password: stonesoup
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 6, we kick off our fifty-fifth anniversary month with Stone Soup alum Harris Gardner.
Harris Gardner co-authored Chalice of Eros with Lainie Senechal (Stone Soup Press). His second book, No Time for Death, was published in published February 2022 (Cervena Barva Press); 2 chapbooks: Lest They Become (Ibbetson Street Press) and Among Us (Cervena Barva Press). In addition to Sixty publication credits. he has served as Poetry Editor for Ibbetson Street since 2010 and co-founded both the Tapestry of Voices and Boston National Poetry Month Festival with Lainie Senechal which ran from 2001 to 2021. He is the Founder and curator of eight poetry venues. His current venue, the First and Last Word Poetry Series with Co-Host Gloria Mindock, has been running since 2010.
Harris is the recipient of several awards and citations including the Sam Cornish Award from New England Poetry Club in 2023.
Join us on Wednesday, May 6, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 842 4574 9317
Password: stonesoup
Diane Sahms, a native Philadelphian, is the author of nine poetry collections, latest—of an octopus: an archite|x|tural awareness of words, Carbonation Press, 2026. Awarded first place in Judith Stark’s Poetry Contest and Partisan Press’s Working People’s Poetry Contest, she is the recipient of AEVentures Foundation’s Poetry Grant. Published in North American Review, Northern Virginia Review, Brushfire, Valley Voices, Sequestrum, Chiron Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, Ranger Magazine, Amsterdam Review and elsewhere, with poems forthcoming from Abstract Magazine: Contemporary Expressions. Poetry Editor at North of Oxford, she worked as a Contract Specialist and high school English teacher.
Join us on Wednesday, April 22, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 893 5204 1558
Password: stonesoup
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 8 we welcome back Jason Wright as our first National Poetry Month feature.
Jason Wright is the publisher and founder of Oddball Magazine. He is author of three books, A Letter to the World, Train of Thought: Poems from the Red Line, and Train of Thought 2: Almost Home. He is also the host of The Oddball Show, a podcast advocating for mental wellness.
Rick Christiansen is the author of Bone Fragments (2024) and Not a Hero (2025). Spartan Press. His work has received two 2025 Pushcart Prize nominations and he was a finalist for the RHINO Poetry 2025 Founders Prize. He has also been longlisted for a 2025 Rhysling Award (outcome pending). His poems explore survival, memory, class, and the residue of violence. He lives in Kansas City with his wife Kim and his dog B.
Join us on Wednesday, March 18 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 835 5371 1505
Password: stonesoup
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 4, we welcome the return of author and activist Arthur "Stratusfier" Williams to our virtual podium.
Arthur "Stratusfier" Williams is a neurodivergent poet who aims to provide meaningful representation and amplify the neurodivergent voice within his communities. He believes that a mental health diagnosis or comorbidity does not have to be a source of shame, fear, or a life without determinism. An artist does not have to be one who pulls works from inspiration born of manic heights, crippling lows, or the tumultuous and often traumatic experiences that result from their effect. Those of us who are “too much” are more than enough in the right setting with the right support. That all genius exists in those people who are willing to find the holes in their world, and their thinking, and fill them with something they created if it does not exist. And that having the willingness and ability to affect, and be affected, by someone else through expression, in any facet of life, is the definition of poetry in motion. Stratusfier is a proud facilitator with Writers Without Margins and recently a Peer Mentor with The NAN Project. He has been published in the WWM journal Volume IX Urban Elegy, WWM journal Volume X The Artifact, the journal F(r)iction: Arcana, and was a recipient of The Mayor’s Poetry Program Selection in Boston in 2021.Join us on Wednesday March 4 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 898 1226 2346
Password: stonesoup
Join us on Wednesday February 25 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 834 1031 0407
Password: stonesoup
Stone Soup will not be taking place on February 18.
Stone Soup will return on February 25 with feature Jules Nyquist.
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 11, Richard Spisak returns to take up the podium as a featured reader.
Richard W. Spisak Jr. began life as a professional light artist with Mel Tanner of Lumonics. Then worked with master Lumist Kenven Lyman of Dazzleland Studios. Richard has been a Writer/Producer/Director in Live Theatre, TV, and radio, for 30 years. He has contributed editorial essays and cartoons to a wide array on newspapers and periodicals and e-zines. He continues to publish his editorial cartoons on the Web. He has published two short story collections Two Small Windows, in a Pair of Mirror Doors, and "Between the Silences". In 2022 Richard published his collected poetry, 7370 Allen Drive. In 2024 he published Stone Poetry and in 2025 his latest poetry collection, No Noise has been released into the wild. Richard produces, Poets of the East, a webcast which features poets from Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
Join us on Wednesday February 11 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 851 3035 3958
Password: stonesoup
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 28, we have Brian Mosher close out the month of January.
Brian Mosher writes poetry and fiction from his home in Mansfield, MA. His work has appeared in Blood and Bourbon, Lily Poetry Review, Literary Underground, Nixes Mate, Anomaly Poetry, eMerge, Esoterica, and others. His unpublished short story collection was shortlisted for the Unleash Press 2025 Book Prize, and his short story “Fragments” was a winner of the Nikki Hanna Literary Challenge. He has self-published three books, all available through Amazon. Mosher’s most recent collection, A Muster of Melodious Musings (2025) is published by Metaphysical Fox Press. His poetry chapbook Relict is published by Finishing Line Press.
Join us on Wednesday January 28 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 852 5846 7560
Password: stonesoup
RICHARD SPISAK'S FEATURE FOR STONE SOUP POETRY IS POSTPONED. JOIN US FOR AN ALL OPEN MIC ON THE SAME ZOOM LINK.
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 21, Richard Spisak returns to take up the podium as a featured reader.
Richard W. Spisak Jr. began life as a professional light artist with Mel Tanner of Lumonics. Then worked with master Lumist Kenven Lyman of Dazzleland Studios. Richard has been a Writer/Producer/Director in Live Theatre, TV, and radio, for 30 years. He has contributed editorial essays and cartoons to a wide array on newspapers and periodicals and e-zines S, he continues to publish his editorial cartoons on the Web. He has published two short story collections Two Small Windows, in a Pair of Mirror Doors, and "Between the Silences". In 2022 Richard published his collected poetry, 7370 Allen Drive. In 2024 he published Stone Poetry and in 2025 his latest poetry collection, “No Noise” has been released into the wild. Richard produces, Poets of the East, a webcast which features poets from Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
Join us on Wednesday January 21 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 833 8640 7356
Password: stonesoup
Bring one poem no longer than a single page (no smaller than 11 font)
Leave the title off (share it in chat).
If you can't screen share, you can email the workshop head at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com
Join us on Wednesday January 14 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 834 2588 1108
Password: stonesoup