May 27: Susan Deer Cloud 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 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

May 20: Meg Smith 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 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

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May 13: Steve Glines 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 13, Stone Soup Poetry continues its fifty-fifth anniversary month with past Stone Soup organizer Steve Glines. 

Stephen. Glines, in addition to being the editor of Wilderness House Literary Review, is an essayist, journalist, storyteller, occasional poet and bon vivant. His motto is, “The best is barely good enough.” Steve has published seven books, only two of which might be considered even remotely “literary,” a travelogue about Fiji and a novel, Poplar Hill. He has been published in Ibbetson Street, the Belmont Citizen, the Littleton Independent, Unix Review, Technology Review and the Boston Globe among others. He has never been published in the Paris Review, the Antioch Review, Crazyhorse, The Atlantic Monthly or the Kenyon Review. To these awesome credentials it should be added that he has never received a McArthur Award nor been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Still, for some reason, people like what he writes and, on occasion, even pay him for it.

Join us on Wednesday, May 13, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 856 1078 4868

Password: stonesoup