September 16: The All-Open Mic Continues

Being in a relationship with a teacher means I view September as the official start of the "new year." Please accept my apologies for the slow start. Come to our second all-open mic in a row tonight, and I promise to announce our first feature for September soon.

Join us on Wednesday, September 16, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 837 0804 4470

Password: stonesoup 

 

Tonight: The Contro-Verse Open Mic at Urban Media Arts in Malden with Keaton Howl

From 7:00 to 8:00 PM. Doors open at 6:30 PM. At Urban Media Arts on 145 Pleasant Street in Malden, MA. Hosted by Anna Geoffroy and Ethan Mackler. Click here for more information.

Tonight: Kai Maristed 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.

 

Stone Soup Poetry All Open Mic, 9-9-26

From this week's online gathering. It's good to be back! More coming!

 

 

About Time We Have a Wave

Stone Soup returned! Thanks to everyone who showed up to last night's all-open mic. Hope to make some announcements very soon. 

NOW I Can Head Home

Stone Soup returns tonight.

Hope I can make it to my office in time.

 

September 9: Stone Soup Poetry Returns

Stone Soup returns with an all-open mic. Am I ready for the grind again? No. Am I doing it anyway? Yes. Am I hoping you join me? God, yes.

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

The meeting ID is 825 1058 4516

Password: stonesoup 

 

Tonight: The Contro-Verse Open Mic at Urban Media Arts in Malden with Prince Shapiro

From 7:00 to 8:00 PM. Doors open at 6:30 PM. At Urban Media Arts on 145 Pleasant Street in Malden, MA. Hosted by Anna Geoffroy and Ethan Mackler. Click here for more information.

Stone Soup Croutons, 7-29-26: Answer Calmly

Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions selected 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 collecting the best of my first year of poems. Click here to purchase it.

 

Diana Saenz closed out July beautifully. 

 

Sorry I forgot to mute and coughed during Marshall Harvey's reading.

 

Recent witch hunt news colored this poem a bit. 

Thanks for reading. 

 

 

Answer Calmly

 

From hero to scapegoat, you job's

a future court date. They ask you 

where you were in America when

crimes in other countries were being

committed. What scent do you recall

Diana Saenz Features at Stone Soup Poetry, 7-29-26

From this week's online gathering. A great time had by all as Diana reminded us why she featured live at Stone Soup so many times. 

 

 

Goodbye, July

Thanks to Diana Saenz for a wonderful feature to close out July. We will be taking the first week of August off but hope to announce the first feature of August soon.

 

If I'm Still Conscious, Then This Was a "Good" Day

Alive is my usual low bar setting for a good day.

Stone Soup Poetry is happening in a few hours. 

Diana Saenz is featuring one more time. 

I hope you join us.  

How to Say Bye to July

Diana Saenz features at Stone Soup tonight to help us close out July.

Tonight: The Contro-Verse Open Mic at Urban Media Arts in Malden with Nancy Casey

From 7:00 to 8:00 PM. Doors open at 6:30 PM. At Urban Media Arts on 145 Pleasant Street in Malden, MA. Hosted by Anna Geoffroy and Ethan Mackler. Click here for more information.

We're Not Done Yet

Diana Saenz features at Stone Soup Poetry this Wednesday.

July 29: Dianne Saenz Returns to Boston

Diana Saenz featured multiple times in the early tens of this century when she was still in Boston. She has since moved back to her home state of California but shows no signs of slowing down. 

As part of my determination to document more poets from Stone Soup's past, it gives me great pleasure to have Diana close out the month of July this coming Wednesday. 

Join us on Wednesday, July 29, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 870 1187 2142

Password: stonesoup

Stone Soup Croutons, 7-22-26: Wisdom from a Troll Taking Tolls

Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions selected 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 collecting the best of my first year of poems. Click here to purchase it.

 

Marc D. Goldfinger gave us an amazing feature. 

 

Features like his are why I continue to host Stone Soup online. 

 

You can watch the video here, and I encourage you to do so. 

 

I had to do a Stone Soup Croutons poem for this night. I hope I can continue the pace.  

 

In the title is a nod ot Marc's longtime email address. 

 

Thanks for reading. 

 

 

Wisdom from a Troll Taking Tolls

 

Angels smack

our leaders

with guilt. 

 

It's all they
can feel for

the left behind.

Susan Buttenwieser, Virtual Thursdays Dire Literary Series Plus Q and A with Timothy Gager, 7/23/26

Yesterday's Dire today. Hosted by Timothy Gager. 

Tonight: Susan Buttenwieser 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.

 

Marc D. Goldfinger Features at Stone Soup Poetry, 7-22-26

From this week's online gathering. A wonderful night of poetry by a poetry and activist legend. Do not scroll past this.