Meg's Back

 

Meg Smith featured at Stone Soup Poetry last week. She's back today with poetry in Lyrical Somerville. Read her now over at The Somerville Times.

Meg Smith Features at Stone Soup Poetry, 5-20-26

From this week's online gathering. Sorry the open mic got cut off due to me only able to get on the call and record fifteen minutes after we started. Thanks to Richard Spisak for stepping in as host. Thanks to Meg Smith for a wonderful reading.

 

 

This Day Needed to End

Last night was a bit of a mess with me having to go back to work and grab the cord to my uncharged laptop, but Richard Spisak pulled through serving as open mic host before I was finally able to introduce last night's feature Meg Smith, who put on a great show. Visit her website to support her work. Learn more about this year's events for Edgar Allen Poe and Jack Kerouac. Be back next week for the final feature of our fifty-fifth anniversary month, Susan Deer Cloud.

 

I'm Not in the Best of Places Right Now

I'm still having Stone Soup tonight.

Meg Smith is featuring.

I hope you're there.

We can all take our minds off of things.

 

It's Happening

Stone Soup Poetry features Meg Smith this evening.

 

 

Two More Days

Meg Smith Features at Stone Soup Poetry this Wednesday. 

 

 

Next Week: Magic Time

Meg Smith features this coming week at Stone Soup Poetry.

 

 

May 20: Meg Smith Casts a Stone Soup Spell

Meg Smith has been a longtime friend of Stone Soup. She's featured multiple times and even danced for us when there was a fundraiser for the late and lamented Out of the Blue Art Gallery back in the day. 

We're glad she's coming back on May 20 to keep our month-long anniversary party going. 

If you haven't joined us yet, we hope you do so before our anniversary month ends. 

Join us on Wednesday, May 20, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 817 6566 1275

Password: stonesoup

Happy Birthday, Meg Smith

 

Back Before the Holidays

 

 

Two poems by Meg Smith in the latest Lyrical Somerville for The Somerville Times. 

Happy Birthday, Meg Smith

 

 

Happy Birthday, Meg Smith

 

 

Happy Birthday, Meg Smith

 

 

Tonight: Meg Smith at the Virtual Dire Literary Series

Hosted by Tim Gager. Click here to join the group and get information on how to join tonight's call. 

And don't forget to visit the author's website.

This Friday: Meg Smith at the Virtual Dire Literary Series

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

Click here to visit the author's website.

Happy Birthday, Meg Smith

 

SAFE DISTANCE EDITION - Stone Soup Croutons, 9-8-21: Bill Barnum's Prison Talk

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.

Meg Smith gave us a great feature on Wednesday. This summer was so rough, I forgot things like the second anniversary of Bill Barnum's death. It surprises me we haven't heard a Bill Barnum reference until Jan Rowe read an old Bill Barnum poem by James Van Looy. I just went from there.

My first Bill Barnum tribute poem was written days after his passing. He's due for another.

 

Disclaimer. Cats were referenced a bit during the open mic. I put that in this poem. I have no idea if Bil even liked cats, but he did write about them at least once. I also don't make any claims to Bill Barnum's philosophy. Instead, I take poetic license and create further apocrypha from Bill's larger-than-life persona.

 

That's all I have to say about this poem. Thanks for reading.

Bill Barnum's Prison Talk

While your self esteem 

cries Comfort me!

to your family,

Bill Barnum, 

behind bars, holds 

his high throughout,

Meg Smith Features at Stone Soup Poetry, 9-8-21

From the weekly online gathering. Please support Meg Smith by purchasing her books. Links are available on her website.

Also consider donating to Meg via her PayPal: meg@megsmithwriter.com. 

Wave to Help Keep You Cool (it's still summer, after all)

 

Thanks so much to our first September feature, Meg Smith. Visit her website to buy her book or at least send a donation to her PayPal at meg@megsmithwriter.com. Be sure to come back next week for the long-awaited feature of Sam Cha.

It's Happening Tonight!

I just fixed the link on Meg Smith's event page. Blogger has only gotten worse in recent months. It's now very easy to cut and paste text from one blog post to another and have the links be ruined. This never happened to me before, and I am doing my best to remedy this. For now, the link to tonight's reading work (they thankfully were fine on my main page), so I hope I'll see you all at Meg's reading tonight.