November 15: Toni Rose 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 November 15, we feature poet and activist Toni Rose.

Who is Toni Rose? Well, that depends on who you ask. Trouble to some, Faithful friend to others, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Victim, Survivor, Lover, Fighter, Champion, Confidant, Artist, and Poet. Toni’s poetry has a strong emphasis on the struggles of life. She paints a picture with words that can be heart wrenching truths. Toni Rose is the founder of The Blue Rose, a movement that empowers others to find their voice, speak up and be heard. Toni ‘Blue’ Rose is a spoken word artist who became a maters level clinician who believes in Healing Through Art Therapies. Toni pushes through the dark times, sometimes stumbling, sometimes doubting, but never gives up hope and never gives up the fight. Those that are willing can listen and feel that glimpse into her soul with a gritty, real, heart wrenching and perfect in its imperfection and purpose.

Join us on November 15 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 816 1885 3093

Password: stonesoup

November 8: Stone Soup 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. On November 8, we will have our first all-open mic since the summer.

Join us on November 8 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 856 4589 2649

Password: stonesoup 

 

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November 1: Jackie Oldham 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 November 1, we kick off the new month with 

Jackie Oldham (she/her) is an essayist, poet, blogger, musician, and photographer from Baltimore, MD. Her music videos (guitar, keyboard, and vocals) are on YouTube and Facebook. Her photos (skyscapes, trees, and other subjects) can be seen on Instagram @jacquelyn.oldham.

Join us on November 1 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 828 6405 9946

Password: stonesoup

October 25: Ryk McIntyre 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 October 25, Ryk McIntyre returns for a special Halloween feature. Bring you own horror themed work to the open mic!

 

Ryk McIntyre has been a presence on the New England poetry scene for decades. He has toured extensively around the continental United States and Canada, appearing on stages as varied as NYC’s New School, Boston’s ICA, Portsmouth NH’s Music Hall, Lollapalooza and the very first “Legends of The Slam” Showcase, at the National Poetry Slam in 2006 in Austin, TX. He has also appeared at countless poetry venues, festivals and house parties. He has been published widely, most notably, in The Worcester Review, Off the Coast, Short Fuse- An Anthology of New Fusion Poets, and Aim for the Head - An Anthology of Zombie Poetry. He has two collections of poetry After Everything Burns (2013 Sargent Press) and The Man at the Door (2018 Broken Head Press). He is currently pursuing a degree, and a second life, in Theater. He currently works at a haunted house and occasionally talks to ghosts.

 
Join us on October 25 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 856 2093 6869

Password: stonesoup

 

October 18: Lo Galluccio 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 October 18, Cambridge artist Lo Galluccio comes back to Stone Soup to feature newly published work.

 

Lo Galluccio is a writer and a vocalist whose most recent work was just released on Červená Barva Press called Not for Amnesia. Other published work includes Hot Rain, on Ibbeston Street Press, a prose-poem memoir on Červená Barva Press,called, Sarasota VII, and a chapbook called Terrible Baubles on Propaganda Press. She served as Poet Populist of Cambridge between 2013 and 2015 and got her MFA in creative writing from Stonecoast in 2019. She lives in Cambridge with her aloof tabby Lucy. Her writings and reviews can be found at www.logalluccio.weebly.com. Her three CDs are on Spotify and Amazon Prime.

Join us on October 18 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 859 3974 6283

Password: stonesoup

October 11: Navah the Buddaphliii 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 October 11, poet, performer and organizer Navah the Buddaphliii returns to our venue.

Navah the Buddaphliii is a phenomenal spoken word artist, published author and coach of the Lizard Lounge slam team. She is a living legend, a slayer of stanzas, master of metaphors, and duchess of double entendres. Her stage presence has captivated audiences from state to state. She has been a part of the poetry community for over 25 years and counting. Her latest poetry collection is Black Cocaine and Colorless Butterflies.

Join us on October 11 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 847 3708 9581

Password: stonesoup

 

October 4: David R. Surette 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 October 4, Stone Soup Poetry features multiple time feature David R. Surrette, who celebrates the release of his newest collection.

David R. Surette’s new book of poetry is Tonic. He is the author of six other collections including Stable and Easy to Keep, Hard to Keep In, both honored by the Massachusetts Book Awards. His poems have recently featured in the anthology From the Farther Shore: Discovering Cape Cod and the Islands Through Poetry, and 3 Nations Anthology: Native, Canadian & New England Writers, winner of a Maine Book Award. He lives on Cape Cod.

Join us on September 27 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 835 5703 8430

Password: stonesoup

 

September 27: Richard Spisak 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 September 27, Stone Soup Poetry features Richard Spisak, who is celebrating the release of his new poetry collection.

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.

Join us on September 27 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 847 7712 6938

Password: stonesoup

 

September 20: Randy Barish 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 September 20, Stone Soup Poetry welcomes Randy Barish back to the venue for a full-length feature.

Randy Barish grew up in Sharon, MA and was raised by parents who were musicians. He graduated UMass, Amherst with a BA in Journalism/English in 1978. He discovered Nichiren Buddhism in 1989, and this new awareness rekindled his interest in poetry. A regular at Stone Soup in the early 2000's, his poem “My River Lethe” was adapted into Beyond The Lake, an award winning short film by Simon Constantine in 2019. His first collection of poetry, Garden of the Mind, was published this summer by Wilderness House Press.

Join us on September 20 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 882 2357 8725

Password: stonesoup

 

September 13: Dexter Roberts 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 September 13, Stone Soup Poetry welcomes back Dexter Roberts.

Dexter Roberts' interest in art began with comic books, which, spurred him to sketch draw and eventually paint. His art work consists of abstract, text, symbolic and symptomatic depictions, primarily dealing with perception, representation and language. Poems surfaced in Dexter's art upon recognizing that words also have the power of "splattering the mind with images." The painter-poet is from Guyana, South America and has lived in Boston most of his life.

Dexter Roberts has appeared in or has curated numerous art shows and poetry reading around Boston and Cambridge. He is working on his first book of poems, freestyle slave style, due out next year.

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

The meeting ID is 881 6407 7712

Password: stonesoup

September 6: Jeff Taylor 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 September 6, Stone Soup returns from our hiatus with our first September feature. Jeff Taylor.

Jeff Taylor lives with his wife and kids in Massachusetts where he is a union worker when he isn’t writing poems. Jeff has performed at universities, theaters, festivals, bars, coffee houses, and sidewalks across the east coast and is a member of the 2023 Lizard Lounge Slam Team. You can find his work in recent issues of The Bloodshed Review, Unlikely Stories, BOMBFIRE, Oddball Magazine, Cajun Mutt, The Alien Buddha Get’s A Real Job vol.2, American Graveyard (Read or Green Books), and The New Generation Beats 2023 Anthology (National Beat Poetry Foundation).

 

Join us on September 6 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 882 2357 8725

Password: stonesoup

Stone Soup on Break Until September 6

Due to unforeseen issues, Stone Soup is taking the rest of August off and will resume on September 6. Stay tuned for future announcements. 

August 9: Stone Soup Online All-Open Mic

Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. Stay tuned for more announcements. For now, we welcome you to participate in a another online open mic tonight on August 9. More summer features and guest hosts will be announced soon.

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

The meeting ID is 854 4426 1547

Password: stonesoup 

August 2: Ellis Elliott Features at Stone Soup Poetry

 

 

Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. Stay tuned for future announcements. On August 2, we feature writer, teacher and newly published author Ellis Elliott.

Ellis Elliott is the creator of Bewilderness Writing, and she received her MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University. She has also been a high-school English teacher, was a ballet teacher for over 30 years, and a yoga teacher. She lives in Juno Beach with her husband and they have six sons in their blended family. Ellis was on the editorial staff of QU literary magazine at Queens University, and is currently a contributing writer for The Southern Review of Books and on the editorial staff of The Dewdrop online digest. Her latest literary adventure is writing her first cozy mystery novel. Ellis’ collection Break in the Field is the first collection to be published by the Old Scratch Press collective.

 

Join us on August 2 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 841 0963 1298

Password: stonesoup

 

July 26: Stone Soup Online All-Open Mic Hosted by Jason Wright

Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. Stay tuned for more announcements. For now, we welcome you to participate in a another online open mic tonight on 26 hosted by Jason Wright of Oddball Magazine and Oddball Foundation. Jason is hosting the first Oddball Festival in August and promises promo codes for all attendees tonight.

Join us on July 26 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 853 5869 2224

Password: stonesoup

July 19: Stone Soup Online All-Open Mic

Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. Stay tuned for more announcements. For now, we welcome you to participate in a another online open mic tonight on July 19. More summer features and guest hosts will be announced soon.

Join us on July 19 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 886 4688 4793

Password: stonesoup 

July 12: Len Germinara and Sarah Oktay Feature at Stone Soup Poetry

Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. Stay tuned for future announcements. On July 12, we feature poetry power couple Sarah Oktay and Len Germinara.

Sarah Oktay, Ph.D. is a scientist by nature and a poet by nurture. She co-founded Spoken Word Nantucket with her husband Len Germinara. For twelve years, they hosted an open mic that featured performances by some of the best poets in the country. She recently published the first of four volumes of essays on the natural history of Nantucket entitled Naturally Nantucket, the Sea: Volume One. She has edited and produced nine books of poetry for other authors and writing collaboratives. Sifting Light through the Darkness is her first book of poetry, her second one will be out in December of 2023. She also contributed two chapters to Women of the Wild Challenging Gender Disparities in Field Stations and Marine Laboratories. For the past two years she has given many performances around the country via Zoom.

Len Germinara has been writing, publishing, and performing his poetry for over four decades. For 17 years he ran spoken word venues in Massachusetts from south of Boston to Nantucket featuring some of the best poets in the country. Len has been a feature on WCAI-NPR in Massachusetts and Writers on the Air in Sacramento CA. Len has been published in numerous national journals and publications. His latest collection of poetry Back Story can be found on Amazon and his new collection Decamerooned is due out at the end of July. For bookings contact him at lensir@hotmail.com

Join us on July 12 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 883 3615 6340

Password: stonesoup 

 

July 5: Paul Skiff Features at Stone Soup Poetry

Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. Stay tuned for future announcements. On July 5, we begin our summer features with Paul Skiff with special host C.C. Arshagra

Paul Skiff creates beautifully complex multimedia forms of art that startle our expectations. Based on use of the live voice, incorporating exaggerations and distortions of technology, Paul’s unique combinations of writing, music, poetry and visuals invite human sensuality to flourish. Full of stark moods, loaded with intelligent laughter, led by the force of spoken words, his visions lull or exhilarate by turns packed with aesthetic surprise. Pervasive technology we take for granted, the microphone, the image projector, often barely keep up with the highly innovative forms Paul composes and sets off. His work puts forth a challenge for the dull everyday world to validate its claims on our notion of what is acceptable as the human condition. Through his highly pleasurable, aggressively innovative, charismatic work, Paul shows us respect for our own being can shatter the misdirections and mistaken priorities imposed upon the world we live in.

From 1980 when Paul first stood up in public to speak his writing as live art, through his 1992 sound design for the ground-breaking landmark recording of spoken poetry Nuyorican Symphony, in 20 years of wide ranging production work directing, managing and assisting events for organizations in the United States, Africa, Asia, and Europe, to his recent audio recordings, Paul’s cultural initiative reflects a unique commitment and leadership that translates into a formidable talent for touching audiences across social and cultural boundaries. Paul’s unique vision of a practical art advocates the re-humanization of all culture whether we are ready or not..

Join us on July 5  from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 865 0854 9186

Password: stonesoup

 

June 28: Stone Soup Online All-Open Mic

Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. Stay tuned for more announcements. For now, we welcome you to participate in a another online open mic tonight on June 28. Features for the next two weeks will be announced soon.

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

The meeting ID is 856 3250 9002

Password: stonesoup

June 21: Stone Soup Online All-Open Mic

Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. Stay tuned for more announcements. For now, we welcome you to participate in a another online open mic tonight on June 21.

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

The meeting ID is 886 7158 8232

Password: stonesoup

 

June 14: Stone Soup Online All-Open Mic

Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. Stay tuned for more announcements. For now, we welcome you to participate in a another online open mic tonight on June 14.

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

The meeting ID is 815 2621 5009

Password: stonesoup

 

June 7: Stone Soup Online All-Open Mic

Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. Stay tuned for more announcements. For now, we welcome you to participate in a another online open mic tonight on June 7.

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

The meeting ID is 864 0880 4512

Password: stonesoup

 

May 31: Carol Weston and Margaret Wesel Feature at Stone Soup Poetry

Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. We will be meeting online for the foreseeable future. To celebrate the last day of Stone Soup's anniversary month, join us tonight on May 31 as longtime Stone Soup friends Carol Weston and Margaret Wesel give us a double feature online.

 

Carol Weston's history as a poet is linked to such figures as Jack Powers, John Wieners, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsburg, and Carl Solomon (to whom Allen Ginsburg's "Howl" was dedicated). Her credentials include being poetry editor of the Impressions Workshop. She was published in the Farleigh Dickinson Journal, alongside Donald Justice, Phillip Levine, and Anne Sexton. She is also the author of “What the Poet Expects of Himself,” an essay published in the Tufts Review. Married to John Galloway, science teacher at Endicott College, she taught for ten years at the Chestnut Hill School.

She read alongside Jack Powers and Allen Ginsberg in 1973 in the former Charles Street Universalist Church. In the Winter of 1983, she was asked by Powers to feature in Boston's City Hall along with John Wieners. On May 1, 2011, Carol performed her poem "Peace Fire" alongside musician Jon Voight for Stone Soup Poetry's 40th anniversary celebration and tribute to Jack Powers, Stone Soup's late founder. In 2013, she was one of the panelists for "Stone Soup Poetry: A Retrospective," presented at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival in Salem, Massachusetts.

Her poetry credits include The Farleigh Literary Review, BOMB, Stone Soup Anthology 2003, Spoonful, Stone Soup Presents: Fresh Broth and the anthology dedicated to John Wieners, The Blind See Only This World. Her chapbook, Spirals, Whorls Sutures, Septa, was published by Stone Soup Poetry in 1978.

Margaret Wesel was born in Pennsylvania and raised on the Island of Guernsey in the British Channel Islands. Having lived in the Boston area for decades, she is now involved in furthering the cause of general health. 

Join us tonight on May 31 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 861 4295 9441

Password: stonesoup

 

May 24: No Stone Soup This Week

  

Stone Soup is taking one more week off and should resume it's regular Zoom sessions next Wednesday on May 31 . Thanks for your patience with these unexpected delays.

May 17: No Stone Soup This Week

  

Stone Soup is taking time off this week and should resume it's regular Zoom sessions next Wednesday on May 24. Thanks for your patience. 

May 10: Stone Soup Online All-Open Mic

Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. Stay tuned for more announcements. For now, we welcome you to participate in a another online open mic tonight on May 10.

Join us on May 10 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 895 6478 5832

Password: stonesoup

May 3: Stone Soup Fifty-Second Anniversary All-Open Mic

As of May 1, Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. Stay tuned for more announcements. For now, we welcome you to participate in a celebratory online open mic tonight on May 3.

Join us on May 3 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 844 5894 2505

Password: stonesoup

 

April 26: Stone Soup Says Goodbye to the Assemblage Gallery and to Bil Lewis

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After this April Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery, located on 70(a) Sleeper Street, just across from the Barking Crab restaurant.  Appropriately, tonight on Wednesday, April 26 from 7:00 to 9:00, we will also be saying goodbye to Bil Lewis, who is departing the Boston/Cambridge area for a farm in Idaho.

Bil Lewis is a Computer Scientist and has worked in research and taught most of his life, most recently doing Genetics Research at MIT. He has taught at Stanford and Tufts Universities and worked for FMC, Sun Microsystems, and Nokia Data. Bil is a Past District 31 Governor (Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island), an Eagle Scout, a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, and a Patriotic Citizen of the United States. Bil is currently performing and teaching High School over Zoom as James Madison, 4th President of the United States. He is using his skills to talk about what is important in life.

 

Bil is the very epitome of sober, serious, introspective poetry.

(Last sentence is subject to a fact check.)

April 19: Stone Soup Online All-Open Mic

After this April Stone Soup Poetry will no longer be meeting in person at Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery. Stay tuned for more announcements. For now, we welcome you to participate in an online open mic on April 19. The final in-person gathering at the Assemblage will be on April 26.

Join us on April 19 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 890 5238 0824

Password: stonesoup

 

April 12: Stone Soup In-Person All-Open Mic

Stone Soup Poetry returns for an-inperson show on Wednesday, April 12 from 7:00 to 9:00 at the Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery, located in Boston on 70(a) Sleeper Street, just across from the Barking Crab restaurant. It will be an all-open mic night, and everyone is welcome.

Free admission but donations for features are appreciated.