July 22: Alexis Ivy Features at Stone Soup Poetry

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via  Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

On Wednesday, July 22, we have the long awaited feature of Alexis Ivy.

Alexis Ivy is a 2018 recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Poetry. Her first poetry collection, Romance with Small-Time Crooks was published in 2013 by BlazeVOX [books]. Her second collection, Taking the Homeless Census won the Editors Prize at Saturnalia Books and was published in 2019. A Boston native, her poems have been displayed in City Hall and featured by Mass Poetry aboard the red line subway. Her work has appeared in Sugar house Review, Borderlands, Worcester Review, Lake Effect, Poet Lore, Saranac Review, among other magazines and anthologies. She works as an advocate for the homeless in Cambridge and teaches in the PoemWorks community.

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July 15: Erik Tate Featues at Stone Soup Poetry

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via  Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

On Wednesday, July 15, Stone Soup welcomes back Erik Tate.


Erik Tate "When I'm not writing poetry I enjoy oil painting, photography, gardening, and cooking. My favorite poet is Allen Ginsberg, and I am a huge fan of the Beat Generation poets and writers (which is why I was immediately endeared to Stone Soup when I discovered the group in the late 90s - at the time, it seemed there were so many members of the group who were either fans of the Beat Generation writers or knew some of the key voices personally). I'm honored to again be featuring for Stone Soup after a nearly decades long hiatus. I hope you'll enjoy what I have in store."

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July 8: Deta Galloway Features at Stone Soup Poetry

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via  Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

On Wednesday, July 8, Stone Soup keeps it going in July with the return of Deta Galloway, who celebrates here birthday this month.

Deta Galloway was born in Kingston in the Jamaica West Indies.  She emigrated to America eighteen rs of age to live with American husband and study medicine.  She is educated in professional nursing, human services and  management, and currently specializes in behavioral nursing.

Her art life has been a central focus of her emotional and spiritual development.  It has been a driving force in the way she has practiced Nursing and cared for families from all walks of life, It is healing, compassion, and empowerment throughout the life stages.  She has lived and traveled deeply into the Southern States and lived for the last eighteen years in Georgia.

Deta began writing poetry at thirteen and has been published in several anthologies and journals.  She has performed with poets such as Etheridge Knight, Josephine Miles, Galway Kinnell, M. S. Merwin, Hayden Carruth, Gwendolyn Brooks, Yusef K, Brother Blue, Tom Oleary, and Elizabeth Mckim.and others.  She has read her work for numerous radio station including Radio Jamaica, (Subsidiary of the BBC). Her artwork has been exhibited and collected in museums both in the United States and Africa.

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July 1: Liza Zayas Features at Stone Soup Poetry's Online Open Mic

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via  Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

On Wednesday, July 1, Stone Soup kicks off a new month with poet, musician and columnist Liza Zayas.

Liza Zayas, also known as Luna del Flor, works with the power of poetry as a mirror and healer. She intersects her lifelong passion for justice, equality, and the healing of humanity with her artistic goal of dialogue through individual and shared experiences in rhyme. Raised in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Liza’s Puerto Rican roots have pulsated her rhythmic poetry into performance art. As Luna del Flor, she performs at poetry, VDay One Billion Rising, International Women's Day, and Women’s History Month events. When not on stage, she curates events with other talents for these movements and more as a stage manager, talent coordinator, hostess or DJ.

She is currently a weekly contributor to Oddball Magazine with her poetry column, Underground Garden. In 2019, she was chosen by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to join its Neighborhood Salon Luminary Cohort for 2019-2020. She is a featured artist as writer and performer on the independent House Music label, Playroom Boston. Its debut release, All Nite, was released on June 26th.

Her poetry seeks to initiate dialogue by intentionally expressing consequences of love, lust, ego and self-respect.

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June 24: Jamilla VanDyke-Bailey Features at Stone Soup Poetry's Online Open Mic

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via  Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

On Wednesday, June 24, Stone Soup features Jamilla VanDyke-Bailey, who celebrates the release of a new poetry collection.

Jamilla VanDyke-Bailey is an educated black feminist millennial from Boston, Massachusetts. As a writer, she uses trauma and humor to carve out space for the ignored and amplify the voice of the silence. She has had work published in The Southhampton Review, K'in Literary Journal, Oddball Magazine, amongst others. Recently, she has self-published a chapbook Than We Have Been; a poetic reckoning with her mental illness and pregnancy. It can be ordered upon request on Instagram at jamilladanae.

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June 17: Stone Soup's Open Mic Wednesday

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via  Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

On Wednesday, June 17, Stone Soup meets again for another all-open mic night.

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June 10: Another Stone Soup Open Mic Wednesday

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via  Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

On Wednesday, June 10, Stone Soup meets again for another all-open mic night.

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June 3: Stone Soup Poetry Back Again!

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via  Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

On Wednesday, June 3, Stone Soup closes out our 49th anniversary month with another all-open mic.

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May 27: Stone Soup Poetry's Open Mic Closer for May

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via  Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

On Wednesday, May 27, Stone Soup closes out our 49th anniversary month with another all-open mic.

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May 20: Stone Soup Open Mic is Back Again!

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via  Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

On Wednesday, May 20, Stone Soup continues to celebrate its 49th anniversary throughout the month of May. Please stop by for another open mic.

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May 13: Stone Soup Poetry's Open Mic Zoom Fest

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via  Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

On Wednesday, May 6, Stone Soup continues to celebrate its 49th anniversary throughout the month of May. Please stop by for another open mic.

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May 6: Stone Soup Poetry Open Mic Back on Wednesday

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via  Zoom for anyone interested. This continues to receive an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

On Wednesday May 6, Stone Soup continues to celebrate its 49th anniversary throughout the month of May. Please stop by for another open mic.

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May 1: Stone Soup Poetry's 49th Anniversary Open Mic!

Amidst the global pandemic, Stone Soup Poetry has been offering an online open mic via  Zoom for anyone interested. This has gotten an amazing response, and we appreciate everyone's participation.

On Friday May 1, Stone Soup celebrates its 49th anniversary on the very date Stone Soup began its series back in 1971. Please stop by for an extra-extended open mic. There will be old friends, new readers, and definitely more than a few surprises.

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April 22: Stone Soup Open Mic on Zoom! Fill in the Blank Space With Your Voice!

Stone Soup will be offering an online open mic via  Zoom for anyone interested. The open mic will take place from 7:00 to 9:00 on Wednesday, April 22, and you can join us from the comfort of your own home.

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April 15: Stone Soup Open Mic on Zoom! Fill in the Blank Space With Your Voice!

Stone Soup will be offering an online open mic via  Zoom for anyone interested. The open mic will take place from 7:00 to 9:00 on Wednesday, April 15, and you can join us from the comfort of your own home.

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April 8: Stone Soup Open Mic on Zoom as National Poetry Month Continues!

Stone Soup will be offering an online open mic via  Zoom for anyone interested. The open mic will take place from 7:00 to 9:00 on Wednesday, April 8, and you can join us from the comfort of your own home.

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April 1: Stone Soup Open Mic on Zoom! Celebrate National Poetry Month with Us

Stone Soup will be offering an online open mic via  Zoom for anyone interested. The open mic will take place from 7:00 to 9:00 on Wednesday, April 1, and you can join us from the comfort of your own home.

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March 25: Stone Soup Open Mic on Zoom! Fill Our Virtual Seats!

Stone Soup will be offering an online open mic via  Zoom for anyone interested. The open mic will take place from 7:00 to 9:00 on Wednesday, March 24, and you can join us from the comfort of your own home.

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The meeting ID is 121-400-176

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March 11: No Stone Soup Tonight or the Rest of March

Due to the recent State of Emergency, Stone Soup is cancelling tonight's open mic. Stay tuned for more detailed information on when Stone Soup will meet again.

May 27: James Van Looy Features at Stone Soup Poetry

Edit: This has been rescheduled to a later date when we can gather live.

Stone Soup Poetry meets every Wednesday from 6:30 to 8:30 at our new location, the Fort Point Arts Community's Assemblage Gallery, located on 70(a) Sleeper Street, just across from the Barking Crab restaurant (free admission but donations for features are appreciated). On May 27, we conclude our 49th anniversary month with James Van Looy, who will perform Edgar Allen Poe's "A Descent Into The Maelstrom" using his trademark combination of poetry, mime, dance and song.

James Van Looy has been a fixture in Boston’s poetry venues since the 1970s. He performed with the Mirage Mime Theater from 1980 to 1987 during which time he also taught classes offered by Mirage. From 1987 to 1988 he was a member of the Collective Mime.  In the early 2000's, he was one-third to the performance troupe Cosmic Spelunker Theater alongside Ian Thal and Bill Barnum.

His poetry has been anthologized in Stone's Throw, Spoonful, Fresh Broth and Out of the Blue Writers Unite. He has run poetry workshops for Boston area homeless people at Pine Street Inn and St. Francis House since 1992 and regularly reads at Bay State Prison as part of their poetry program. Currently, Van Looy leads the Labyrinth Creative Movement Workshop and is the author of It's All One Thing, a weekly poem column for Oddball Magazine.