From Yesterday: The Latest Poetry Scandal

Good thing I don’t make money anyway. 

Gen X Haiku

First I asked myself what would happen if I heard it in the Stop & Shop, then it happened. 

 

Writing on the Weekends is a Privilege

Who relaxes anymore? Just write whenever you can! Even if it's micropoetry, which I do a lot of now. 

 

 

Poets During National/Global Poetry Writing Month

Speaking as a longtime 30/30 poet. 

 

Poets on Social Media

And so it goes. 

Another Poetry Meme

 Posting things for my own amusement again.

Bye to Another All-Open Mic

The open mic has come and gone, but Stone Soup will last...at least through October. Thanks to everyone who attended last night. Stay tuned for information about next week's feature, Elliot Gray Boodhan.

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

Here's a recently published poem from Stephanie Kaylor at Anvil Tongue Books: "How Long Did This Go On For?" 

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

Instead of posting Johnny Cash music, I'll be posting links to poems from other writers. I hope it will be poems I've known for a long time and poems I've recently come across. 

Today, I'll be posting a poem I've known for nearly thirty years that helps to sum up (though not completely) an recently closed era of my life. 

Let's read James Wright's "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota."

Look What I Found

I found this in one of the distribution boxes for The Weekly Dig outside of the Copley Square T stop

Tonight at 8:00 PM ＥＳＴ：The Oddball Show with ERATO

For this Tuesday’s #OddballShow, the boys are joined by the creative minds behind ERATO, a new experience in Boston nightlife. DJ Mizont, DJ Dende, and friend of the podcast Liza Zayas will be talking about the changes in the Boston house music scene, their mission to bring inspiration, and their 1-year anniversary event going down next Saturday night (7/9). Feel like dancing? Come join the conversation with the folks that will keep you moving, this week only on the #OddballShow.

Good Night

Sisyphus's snowball
discarded at hillside
fight's over

The Oddball Show #15 - Life on Marsachusetts

The regular gang of Odds gather to have a roundtable discussion with hip artists Mars Jupiter. In addition to tonight's topics of hip hop and the sudden death of Sean Price, Mars will talk about hsi band the Seventh House and what its like to be living in Marsachusetts.

Happy One Year Anniversary, James Van Looy

From the back cover of the recently published Stone's Throw #1 using artwork created by James over 30 years ago

James Van Looy was involved with Stone Soup Poetry since the early per-milleneal years.  He had been a way for a few years but returned to the open mic when I was a couple of years into hosting Stone Soup Poetry for the late host Jack Powers.  

I was amazed by how prolific James was and tried to use his work whenever I had the opportunity.  When I accepted an Associate Editor position at Jason Wright's Oddball Magazine, one of my first target goals was to give James a regular weekly forum on the magazine.  

After watching him contribute new work to Stone Soup's open mic week after week, it was clear to me that he would have no problem at all adhering to a weekly schedule.  The concept of the poem-column was underway and James Van Looy's "It's All One Thing" was born.

It is now one year later.  James Van Looy published his 50th column 2 weeks ago, and this week marks his one year anniversary at Oddball Magazine, never missing a week.  And I call it divine coincidence that I picked out his 52nd column months before I realized that it was going to fall on the week of Halloween.

Read his poem, "It's All One Thing," which inspired the title of his regular column.* Then tomorrow at one o'clock, visit Oddball Magazine for his one year anniversary poem, "Monsters of The Deep."  An appropriate Halloween and Anniversary piece.

Congratulations.

*I guess this means he's already published 52 poems, but I'll keep a secret if you can.