Happy Birthday, Denise Washington

 

Happy Birthday, Denise Washington

 

Happy Birthday, Denise Washington

 

 

Tonight: #Pop-Up Poetry Series

Check out what Denise Washington is doing.

This Friday: #Pop-Up Poetry Series

Information courtesy of Denise Washington.

Please join us next Friday, April 28, 2023! 

#Pop-Up Poetry Series

Spreading L-O-V-E Tonight

Spreading L-O-V-E 365 Days of the year! A gathering of Art, Food, Music, Movement & Poetry! 

Join #PopUpPoetry, Denise Washington and Akili Jamal Haynes #BecomingChibuzo as we raise the L-O-V-E Vibration! 

Also, Veronique-Anne Epiter is moving to France. Come, and enjoy a loving send off for her! 

Hosted by David Barkley 

Where: Gallery G , Black Indian Inn 

38 Bicknell Street Dorchester, MA 02121 

When: Tuesday, February 14, 2023- 7:30pm Open Mic: 8:00pm

Happy Birthday, Denise Washington

 

 

#Pop-Up Poetry, This Sunday Night

This Sunday, #Pop-Up Poetry

A Denise Washington Plays Hard Event & Becoming Chibuzo 

Akili Jamal Haynes meet Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola virtually on Zoom/Sunday, February 27, 2022 at 6pm!!! 

Sign up for Open Mic begins @ 5:45pm!!!

Please join us for an evening of Poetry & Music by clicking here to register.

New from Denise Washington

"Quilts of Greatness."

Happy Birthday, Denise Washington

 

#Pop-Up Poetry This Thursday

Denise Washington informed me that her My next #Pop-Up Poetry Series is this Thursday, October 28 from 4-5:30 PM at the Egleston branch of the Boston Public Library in the Garden. She'll be there with Akili Jamal Haynes of "Becoming Chibuzo" fame. Click here for more information.

Support Denise Washington and #Pop-Up Poetry

Recent Stone Soup Poetry feature Denise Washington asks that you please buy one of her #Pop-Up Poetry T-shirts "to keep poetry popping up in Boston and Beyond at beaches, playgrounds, beaches, parks and gardens!

These t-shirts are $25 each and come in white, pink, yellow, blue, red, green, purple, orange, tan and brown. 

Send all your orders (including details such as size, color, and quantity) to demirich@gmail.com and CashApp her @ $Popuppoetry. 

SAFE DISTANCE EDITION - Stone Soup Croutons, 9-29-21: Before You Leave School

Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions picked from Stone Soup Poetry's open mic readers and features. I figure out a title (and sometimes the rest of the poem) later. You can read the other ones I've done since 2015 here.

 

I also have a book out now collecting the best of my first year of poems. Click here to purchase it.

 

Thank you, Denise Washington, for a wonderful feature. The open mic was teeming. I present this poem that hopefully reflects the positivity of the night. It would be about time for that to happen. 

 

The title was inspired by Denise's opening for her feature, a recitation of "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks. Thanks for reading.

Before You Leave School

Not moving is the most

powerful act you can achieve,

if only. 

 

Mother only wanted you

to stop,

take a moment to eat.

Denise Washington Features at Stone Soup Poetry, 9-29-21

From the weekly online gathering. Denise presents a powerful feature to close out September. 

 

Second Biggest Wave Ever?

Thanks to Denise Washington for a wonderful feature to close out September. Stay tuned for more news on how to support Denise and who will be featuring in October.

Getting Ready

No work to leave. Just keeping busy until it's time for Denise Washington's feature. Hope to see you there.

Tonight

Denise Washington joins us for the last Stone Soup Poetry of September.

This Wednesday

Denise Washington and Stone Soup Poetry say goodbye to September.

SAFE DISTANCE EDITION - Stone Soup Croutons, 9-22-21: Exhibition Fight

Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions picked from Stone Soup Poetry's open mic readers and features. I figure out a title (and sometimes the rest of the poem) later. You can read the other ones I've done since 2015 here.

 

I also have a book out now collecting the best of my first year of poems. Click here to purchase it.

It was a fun open mic this Wednesday. I hope someday I am able to find words to express the gratitude I feel towards those who help keep my open mic going. This poem doesn't have those words.

I've been feeling a little under the weather and over the hill. This poem is hopefully a culmination of those feelings that I can pack up and toss aside as I start my vacation beginning at 5:00 PM today. I'll still be around, and  I'll see you for Denise Washington's feature this coming Wednesday. Thanks for reading. 

Exhibition Fight

You got too high

and tried to box God,

only flowers

in your corner 

to remind you of 

your to-be-hastened

impermanence. 

Never Too Few People to Wave

 

Thanks to everyone who came out to last night's Stone Soup all open mic. Come back next week for our final September feature, Denise Washington.