Read Jason Wright's tribute to his fallen friend, "We Are All One in Verse." It's this week's Jagged Thoughts column at Oddball Magazine.
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
More Morning Verse
Natalie Crick kicks off the poetry with photography by returning contributor Edward S. Gault. Check it out over at Oddball Magazine.
My Poem from BlackYard
Stone Soup Croutons, 9-26-16, Hush Money
Yesterday, we attempted a type of medicine to last night's debate fiasco (which sadly didn't work given the online comments everywhere) by having Tarishi Shuler, the poet known as M.I.D.N.I.G.H.T. It was a fantastic performance and a great night. The debates loomed nontheles. And though I didn't listen until I got home, my imagination about what was happening (and what was going to happen) lingered. It lent to the piece below. Thanks for reading.
Hush Money
Bleeding is always a tender moment
most can't handle, often enjoyed in secret
like our tattoos during work hours.
Later, we will wish to expatriate our ink,
along with all our manifestos written
after we learned racial slurs from relatives
and could say ass in a sentence without being told on.
We move to their Latin equivalents
when we're more educated.
Monday, September 26, 2016
Not Debatable
Skip the spectacle tonight. Come instead to Stone Soup Poetry to hear M.I.D.N.I.G.H.T. I promise to riff on the debates if I can (get streaming video at the gallery) and get anything of interest without throwing up.
People I Want to See Tonight at Stone Soup
Toni Bee
She missed last week, so I'm really hopefull she'll be back for this special night.
Deta Galloway
Really, I'm putting most of my intention wishing towards her coming tonight. Especially after the delicious food she cooked for BlackYard. I need to thank her again.
Big Poppa Ben Comes to Oddball
Big Poppa Ben finally comes to us as a 3TV segment, courtesy of his farewell micro-feature at Stone Soup. Read about Boston's Spectacle Island today in Oddball Magazine.
I found this fortune at the bottom of the donation box at the Out of The Blue last week after last week's Stone Soup festivities. The wisdom is nothing I haven't heard before, but I like the new Chinese phrase to learn.
I like that. I hope that's what the phrase actually means.
Poetry & Music Update, October 2016
Information courtesy of Rich Berg.
Saturday Oct 8th 10am-12pm
'Methods & Madness-Developing the
Successful Poet'
SESSION 2: Intelligent by Design
1st Hour: Professional
Development
Training for the
Masterpiece, Conditioning & Expectations
2nd Hour: Reading
& Writing Skills
Read your poem &
hear your poem read
Writing samples at
any stage of completeness encouraged.
Workshops are free
& intended for adults at any writing level.
Instructors-Easton
Poets: George
Comeaux & Rich Berg
Comments: beachchair@verizon.net
Location:
Ames
Free Library/Queset House,
53 Main St. N.
Easton , MA, 2nd Fl. Conference Rm.
Website: amesfreelibrary.org
POETRY: The Art of
Words
Music Feature: Mike Shea
Poetry Features:
Michael Daley & Carolyn Gregory
Poetry Bookings:
Jack Scully email: jackptaow36@gmail.com
Music Bookings:
Rich Berg email: beachchair@verizon.net
Hosts: Jack Scully,
Rene Schwiesow & Tim Reed
Location:
Plymouth
Center for the Arts
11 North St. Plymouth ,
MA Website: ptaow.com
Thursday October 20th,
7-9pm, Doors open 6:30pm.
For the Love of
Words – Artist Interviews
& Performances
Poetry Artist:
Jason Wright
Music Artist:
Colette O'Connor
Hosts: George Comeaux,
John Holgerson & Rich Berg
Bookings & info: beachchair@verizon.net
Location: ECAT
Studios
50 Oliver St. N.
Easton ,
MA
Website: eastoncat.org
Saturday, October
22, 2016. 7:30-9:30pm,
Your Theatre Inc.
Storytelling & Story Slam
1st
Hour-Featured Storytellers: Edward Maguire,
Gloria Clark,
Cora Peirce, Janine
da Silva & Mark Fuller
2nd
Hour-Story Slam with Story Slam
Master: Rich Berg, Last
1
standing walks off
with 50 Bucks.
Coffee/dessert-7pm. Tickets ($10
adults, $5 students/seniors) or
to Register for
the Story Slam, contact: Your Theatre Inc.
508-993-0772 or yourtheatre.org.
Advanced tickets suggested,
as
the
venue does sell out.
Location: Your Theatre Inc.,
St Martin ’s Church,
146 Rivet St .
(corner of County)
New Bedford .
Handicapped accessible & free
parking lot off
County St .
Saturday,
October 29th 2016, 7-9pm
POE
NIGHT
Friends of
Borderland
State Park
Present:
Rich Berg, as Edgar Allen
Poe
In a 1 Hr Solo
Performance
Poe Night is
Always Standing Room Only
Location:
Ames
Mansion Library,
Borderland
State Park
259 Massapoag
Ave. North
Easton , MA
Website: friendsofborderland.org/events.
Sunday, September 25, 2016
Scenes from Wilderess House Literary Review's 10th Anniversary Bash
Yesterday I was late getting to the Out of The Blue for the celebration of this acclaimed ten year old online web journal, but I got there just in time to get on the open mic and read a revised version of the first poem I ever had published in WHLR ("Charon's Slow Day," retittled "Charon Works Through Lunch") More importantly, I made it in time for cake.
I even got to see Tim Gager too.
Maybe it was the new beard but when others offered to take pictures of Tim, Teisha and me with my camera, Tim wanted to mug in front of the gallery's microphones. He was picturing us doing a rendition of a CSNY song.
Good times.
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| The cake was presented, and there was much rejoicing. |
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| And when we were finished photographing the cake, there was even more rejoicing. |
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| WHLR founder Steve Glines makes the first cut. |
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| Julia Carlson and Teisha Dawn Twomey. |
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| Beatriz Alba Del Rio. |
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| Awwwww! |
Good times.
F.A.L.D. Accepting Submissions for Issue #013
Information courtesy of Jeremiah Walton.
Click here to find out how to submit (and what F.A.L.D. stands for).
Click here to find out how to submit (and what F.A.L.D. stands for).
Weekend Clouds
With the fall comes less sun and more clouds. I been trying to catch more interesting cloud formations with my out of date iPhone camera.
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| First Friday night in Coolidge Corner, Brookline. |
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| Then Saturday in Cambridge. |
M.I.D.N.I.G.H.T. is Featuring this Monday at Stone Soup Poetry
Watch a sample video from the poet in this week's Stone Soup Servings at Oddball Magazine, then be in the audience this Monday. It beats staying at home punching yourself in the head during the presidential debates.
Tony Toledo on Brother Blue, Part Two
From Tony Toledo's Brother Blue tribute feature at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery on November 14, 2011. A sequel to the video post I made on Tony Toledo's birthday.
The Oddball Show with Alyssa Marie
The Oddballs welcome Hip Hop artist Alyssa Marie, whose new album Louder than Words is available now on Bandcamp. Fresh from last weekend’s Freedom Rally on Boston Common, we’ll explore what drives this young talented lyricist and what’s coming next on the rap horizon. Press play above to tune in tonight at 8:30 to the one and only #OddballShow. Follow The Oddball Show on iTunes.
Friday, September 23, 2016
September 26: M.I.D.N.I.G.H.T. Comes Early to Cambridge (and Stone Soup)
M.I.D.N.I.G.H.T. is the stage name of Tarishi Shuler, a poet from Connecticut who blew our minds at the last poetry slam at the Dudley Cafe. I wanted to hear him again as soon as possible, and many people in attendance (including slam organizer Navah The Buddaphliii) agreed. I hope those of you who weren't in the audience take our word for it and join us this Monday for an amazing performance by M.I.D.N.I.G.H.T. Think of it as a proactive tonic to that upcoming spectacle they're calling the Presidential debates. M.I.D.N.I.G.H.T. has his own opinions. It's just as deserving to be heard, if not more. You have opinions too. Let's hear those on the open mic.
Ten years of Wilderness House Literary Review
This is taking place at the Out of The Blue tomorrow at 2:00 PM.
Wilderness House Literary Review is celebrating ten years of publication. Come join us for an open mike and the chance to meet some of our authors. $5.00 at the door to help defray the cost. If you have a book to sell bring it.
Click here for the Facebook invite.
The 2nd Annual Cosmic All White Affair: JP Lime Was There!
You read about the 2nd annual ERATO related event last week in Liza Zayas' Underground Garden column. Well JP Lime's Scholar was there last Saturday, and he shares his thoughts on it in this week's Twist of JP Lime column. Check it out at Oddball Magazine.
No Cormier today
Janet Cormier's a little wiped out after last weekend's Jamaica Plain Open Studios. She'll be back net week. In the mean time, check out her previous Bamboozled No More! columns at Oddball Magazine.
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Congratulations, Ken and Nadine Delano
A new message from Ken and Nadine, aka "Kenadine."
Next Tuesday on Sept. 27th-- A special open mic. Your Host and Hostess, Nadine and Ken Delano will formally be proclaimed the Poets Laureate of North Andover MA. Karen Kline, the present poet Laureate, will receive the thanks of town in the form of a letter presented by members of the Board of Selectmen. Followed by refreshments and open mic-ing. Come and sign up to perform your poem at 6:30 we have till 9:00 PM. Attaching the Poster with more info.
Next Tuesday on Sept. 27th-- A special open mic. Your Host and Hostess, Nadine and Ken Delano will formally be proclaimed the Poets Laureate of North Andover MA. Karen Kline, the present poet Laureate, will receive the thanks of town in the form of a letter presented by members of the Board of Selectmen. Followed by refreshments and open mic-ing. Come and sign up to perform your poem at 6:30 we have till 9:00 PM. Attaching the Poster with more info.
The Poetry Will Rise Again
"The Lost Cause and the Bloody Shirt," the latest poem by James Van Looy. Read It's All One Thing at Oddball Magazine.
Summer's Fnally Over! (isn't It?)
It's going to be in the 80's for the rest of the week, but at least autumn has officially begun. Time for the annual linking to my poem "Bye to Summer" poem.
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Closing Time
Finishing off today with a poem by Don Mager and artwork by Dr. Regina Valluzzi. Thanks for reading Oddball Magazine.
I Love Wednesdays
Let's start off today with poetry by Heidi Hemmer and artwork by Ira Joel Haber. It's double poetry day at Oddball Magazine.
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Happy Birthday, Tony Toledo
For the first time, I'm showing footage from Tony's tribute to the late Brother Blue in 2011.
Best Birthday wishes, sir.
Best Birthday wishes, sir.
Jack by David
Last night David Agee unveiled one of the many photos he has taken over the years as an audience member at Stone Soup.
This picture of Jack Powers was taken some time after his stroke in 2006, which eventually led to his loss of speech. David caught Jack standing at the podium and using his body to emote the poem his companion, Margaret Nairn, was reading.
It would be a perfect picture, if not for the a-hole on the left photobombing it.
Poetry Times Too
"Too Times Too," the latest in Jason Wright's Jagged Thoughts series, is up now at Oddball Magazine.
Tuesday Underway
Allison Goldin returns with artwork for a new prose poem by Sophia Li. Thanks for reading Oddball Magazine.
Stone Soup Croutons, 9-19-16, Debris
Read and comment on them before I go catatonic trying to get to poem one-hundred.
Yesterday, Gordon Marshall presented the Jack Powers Stone Soup Savor Poetry Prize to Jonathan J. Joseph. As if that wasn't enough, Beatriz Alba Del Rio dropped in to show off an original sculpture by the late Jack Powers. It was one of many pieces he constructed from found items in the street, signing the under the moniker "Jack Debris."
Continuing the Tradition with Jonathan J. Joseph
Yesterday Jonathan J. Joseph became the fifth person to win the Jack Powers Stone Soup Savor Poetry Prize, presented by last night's feature Gordon Marshall, the award's founder.
Thanks also to David Agee for providing the photo of Jack Powers we'll continue to use for the ongoing yearly event.
Thanks also to David Agee for providing the photo of Jack Powers we'll continue to use for the ongoing yearly event.
Wakey Wakey
On a morning like this, I want to wake up as much as my honorary nephew does.
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| Go sleepy now. |
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