10/16/24

October 16: 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, we will be gathering for an all-open mic before next week's special feature.

Join us on Wednesday October 16 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link. 

The meeting ID is 870 6695 2522

 Password: stonesoup 

 

10/6/24

October 9: Noah Berlatsky 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 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.

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

The meeting ID is 863 0467 5096

 Password: stonesoup 

 

10/2/24

October 2: No Stone Soup Tonight

 
 
Stone Soup is taking a week off and will return on October 9 Stay tuned for upcoming online shows and hopefully the return of some kind of live event.

9/23/24

September 25: 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, we will be gathering for an all-open mic to close the month out.

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

The meeting ID is 832 6626 0401

 Password: stonesoup

9/9/24

September 18: Edward S. Gault 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 18, we have Edward S. Gault featuring the same week as Jack Powers' birthday.

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.

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

The meeting ID is 871 5296 8875

Password: stonesoup 


September 12: Stone Soup Poetry Online All-Open Mic - SPECIAL THURSDAY GATHERING!

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 week we will be gathering for an all-open mic on Thursday, September 12. We will resume the regular Wednesday schedule the following week.

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

The meeting ID is 842 3182 0148

Password: stonesoup 


9/4/24

September 4: 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. On September 4 we ease back in to the grind post Labor Day with an all-open mic.

Join us on September 4 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 853 0359 5793

Password: stonesoup 



8/28/24

August 28: 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. On August 28, we close out August with an open mic to rest and recuperate from recent news. The planned August feature should feature in September.

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

The meeting ID is 886 1937 7443

Password: stonesoup 


8/20/24

August 21: R.M. Engelhardt 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 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 

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

The meeting ID is 812 5314 3891

Password: stonesoup 


8/14/24

August 14: 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. On August 14, we offer an all-open mic before continuing with our August features.

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

The meeting ID is 844 8624 0120

Password: stonesoup 


8/4/24

August 7: Chris Vannoy 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 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.  

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

The meeting ID is 874 7970 5323

Password: stonesoup 


7/25/24

July 31: Charles Coe 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 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.

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

The meeting ID is 874 7970 5323

Password: stonesoup  

 

7/22/24

July 24: 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. On July 24, we offer an all-open mic before July's final feature.

Join us on July 24 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 863 7517 5571

Password: stonesoup 


7/3/24

July 17: Gabby Gilliam 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 July 17, Stone Soup welcomes Gabby Gilliam, another member of Old Scratch Press (OSP) with a new collection.

Gabby Gilliam is a writer, teacher, and a mom. She lives in the District of Columbia area with her husband and son. She is a founder of Old Scratch Press (OSP). Her first chapbook, No Ocean Spit Me Out, was released in June 2024 from OSP and is nominated for the National Book Award in Poetry. Her poetry and fiction is online and anthologies.

Join us on July 17 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 860 0220 0889

Password: stonesoup


July 10: No Stone Soup Gathering

 
 
Stone Soup is taking a week off and will return on July 17. Stay tuned for upcoming online shows and hopefully the return of some kind of live event.

6/28/24

July 3: Linda Wlodyka 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 July 3, we welcome past Stone Soup attendee Linda Wlodyka, who will be reading from her first full-length collection.

Linda Bratcher Wlodyka is the Massachusetts, Beat Poet Laureate, 2023-2025. She resides in Berkshire County. She has held the position of a docent at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s summer home in Lenox, MA from 2002-2006. She retired as an educator from Mt. Greylock Regional School District in Williamstown in 2020. Linda’s poem, "Secret Cottage," was voted Best in the Berkshires in 2012. Linda has 3 chapbooks previously self-published, Her Spirited Cameo, Voices from the Blue Room and Tick Tock. Linda’s first full length poetry collection released September 2023, If Brambles Were Bookends: Collected Poems was published by Human Error Publishing. Her poems have been published in several journals and anthologies both in print and online. Linda is a member of the Florence Poet’s Society and has been involved in the reading of submissions of their yearly publication, Silkworm.

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

The meeting ID is 860 0220 0889

Password: stonesoup


6/21/24

June 26: Dan Flore III 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. We close off June and kick off summer on June 26 with a feature by Dan Flore III.
 
Dan Flore III’s writings have appeared in many publications. His 8 books are Lapping Water, Humbled Wise Men Christmas Haikus, Home and other places I’ve yet to see, Pink Marigold Rays (Gen Z Publishing), Written in the dust on the ceiling fan, (Dead Man’s Press Ink), Hospital Issued Writing Notebook (Querencia Press) Apartmentalized (Impspired) and the forthcoming Everything Must Go (Cajun Mutt Press)
 
Join us on June 26 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 880 2521 6875

Password: stonesoup 


6/19/24

June 19: 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. We offer a simple open mic for the Juneteenth holiday.

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

The meeting ID is 815 1160 8162

Password: stonesoup 



6/12/24

June 13: 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. HOWEVER, this week, due to a scheduling conflict, we are having an all-open mic this Thursday on June 13 with features hopefully returning next week.

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

The meeting ID is 892 7984 3023

Password: stonesoup 


6/4/24

June 5: 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. On June 5, we continue our march towards summer with another all-open mic. 

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

The meeting ID is 880 5999 1515

Password: stonesoup