Happy Birthday, Elizabeth Gordon McKim

 

Happy Birthday, Dave Somerset

 

My Work is Back in Molecule!

My poem "Forgiveness" has just been published in issue 12 of Molecule. This issue also includes a micro interview with Elizabeth Gordon McKim by Dave Somerset and and poetry by several others including Robbie Gamble, Richard Hoffman, Kymm Coveney and many more. Thanks to Editors Kevin Carey and M.P. Carver for including my work again.

Happy Birthday, Elizabeth Gordon McKim

 

Tonight: Elizabeth Gordon McKim at the Virtual Dire Literary Series

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This Thursday: Elizabeth Gordon McKim at the Virtual Dire Literary Series

Hosted by Timothy Gager. Click here to join the group and get information on how to join the call.

Click here to read a recent article on the author.

Elizabeth Gordon McKim

 

 

Happy Birthday, Elizabeth Gordon McKim

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Thirty-One Days of Stone Soup Stuff

A program for First Night, 1990 with The Stone Soup International Poetry Cabaret. A lineup of familiar people (some of which I tagged) and produced by Jack Powers. Starts with a memorial to the late Antonio Giarraputo.

 

Happy Birthday, Elizabeth Gordon McKim

 

Happy Birthday Elizabeth Gordon McKim

Read the poem here.

Happy Birthday Elizabeth Gordon McKim

read the poem here on Oddball Magazine.

Happy Birthday Elizabeth Gordon McKim

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Elizabeth Gordon McKim Features at Stone Soup, 11 27 17

Because i'm still waiting back from certain parties, it looks like The last Stone Soup at Out of The Blue will be the last Stone Soup for 2017.  But thanks to Elizabeth Gordon McKim, Stone Soup ended perfectly this year.

Stone Soup Croutons, 11-27-17, Our Regular Heckler Closes the Open Mic

Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions butchered picked up from poems overheard from Stone Soup'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. To paraphrase Lorne Michaels, this poem doesn't go up because it's ready, it goes on because it's Tuesday morning Wednesday afternoon damn it, because some Stone Soups events are more special than others.

Elizabeth Gordon McKim gave an amazing performance Monday night. This was the last Stone Soup at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery, which is closing it's door at the end of this month. Maybe they wil relocate to another town, but it seems certain that their time in Cambridge is up. Elizabeth is a poet with such history in Stone Soup and elsewhere that she added the perfect gravitas to the event.

The Out of The Blue is the source of a lot of memories for me. It was where I had one of my earliest features as part of Stone Soup, a time before I was ever offered a position of any kind within the loose knit group. That offer would have never happened if I didn't meet someone during an OOTB barbecue who later became my girlfriend for a time. We are not in each others' lives today, but it is undeniable that I owe her for connecting me to the late Jack Powers and the person who for a time recorded the weekly gathering That launched the series of events that led me to become the regular host a few months later. And the rest, I hope, is ongoing history. I don't want to be finished today.

The opening open mic poem about launching a torpedo helped shape the piece below. Things were helped further along when Elizabeth told about the time she first encountered a lady at Stone Soup shouting expletives at the people reading (including a group of poets from Russia). According to Jack, she was a regular.

I had to take extra time to take in the whole experience and listen to the videos I took of Elizabeth, Toni Bee and James Van Looy. There was so much to process, which is part of the reason why this poem is only going up now. I am so grateful for Elizabeth, Toni, James and everyone else who showed up on Monday night. We had many readers and nearly just as many listeners. If Stone Soup doesn't come back for the rest of the year (believe me I'm working on it), at least we can say it ended wonderfully.

No true hecklers in the audience, but we can always hope for next time.


Our Regular Heckler Closes The Open Mic


She comes bearing a torpedo
extracted from the north shore,
now posing as a giant pencil.

She needs a small bone
to complete a key chain,
is too shy to ask directly.

Tonight: The End of An Era

Say goodbye to the Out of The Blue on Mass Ave. in Cambridge as Stone Soup presents Elizabeth Gordon McKim for our final show in that location.

November 27: Elizabeth Gordon McKim Helps Us Say Goodbye

On November 27, we say goodbye to an era, as Cambridge's Out of The Blue Art Gallery is being forced to move from it's Massachusetts Avenue location. Stone Soup has had a long run with the Gallery in three different locations.

Where we go from here is in question. For now, we thank Elizabeth Gordon McKim for agreeing to feature on this final night. This event is getting a great response online. It looks like we'll have a great turnout for Stone Soup's last night at this location. If Stone Soup never resurfaces again, it will be a great, final end. Let's hope that doesn't happen. For now, plan to be in the audience, bring cash so you can buy an item at the gallery to help with the move.

Thanks to everyone who has supported us and the Gallery all these years. We hope to see you on the 27th.