Happy Birthday, Laura Vookles

 

 

Tonight!

Help us pay tribute to Ron Goba tribute this evening at The Cantbab Lounge!

 

Don't Forget!

Come to the Ron Goba tribute next Wednesday!

 

April 1: A Tribute to Ron Goba at the Cantab Lounge

 

 

For over a decade, the Cantab's Boston Poetry Slam served as a home for Ron Goba, doorman for the attendees and friend to countless poets.

As someone who knew Ron as a friend and mentor, I am honored to be part of this special tribute to Ron happening on April 1, the beginning of National Poetry Month.

I am grateful to Tom Daley for organizing this event and getting as many people as possible to gather under one roof to say farewell to a literal and figurative giant in the Boston poetry scene.

Join myself, Tom, Nate Connors, Michael F. Gill, Victoria Bosch Murray, Jenny Oliensis, James Stotts and Prabakar Thyagarajan and countless other lovers of Ron at The Cantab on 738 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The door opens at 7:15 and starts at 8:00 PM.

I hope we can fill that room one last time.

Ron at the Mic

Here is a photo of Ron reading at the Cantab Lounge back on May 11, 2011. It was the last reading he did while his wife Sue was still alive. He performed one other time after Sue's death on May 27, 2015, two year's after Sue's death. This picture will hopefully be used for promotion of an event in May. I'll share more information when I'm allowed to.

Happy Birthday, Valerie Loveland

 

 

Happy Birthday, Ryk McIntyre

 

 

Happy Birthday, Laura Vookles

 

 

Happy Birthday, Melissa Guillet

 

 

Happy Birhtday, Antonia Lassar

 

Happy Birthday, Artie Moffa

 

 

Happy Birthday, Melissa Guillet

 

 

Happy Birthday, Valerie Loveland

 

Throwing in my Hat

Cantab, New England Poetry Club, Lizard Lounge, Stone Soup?

May 26: Mr. Hicks Returns to Stone Soup Poetry

When I was recording Gary Hicks reading at The Cantab in 2009, I never expected it to be his least reading there. Even when he left Boston, I always expected to see him return to The Cantab Lounge at some point. Sad to say it never happened. The Cantab is now gone, but at least one of Boston's poetry homes survives. Once again by the magic of Zoom, Gary Hicks joins this Wednesday us as we close out Stone Soup's fiftieth anniversary celebration (for now).

Join us on May 26 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 841 4477 8933

Password: stonesoup

Thirty Days of Stone Soup Stuff

 

 

 

Jack McCarthy featured at Stone Soup Poetry once while I was host on May 21, 2007. I tried to bring him back many other times without success. He died in 2013. 

Happy Birthday, Ryan "Rat" Travis

 

Happy Birthday, Gary Hicks

 

SAFE DISTANCE EDITION - Stone Soup Croutons, 12-2-20: Thursday Morning

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. 

So grateful for Tony Brown's feature this past Wednesday. A fantastic night with some faces I hadn't seen either for a long time or ever. Tony's set had everything I wanted, including a classic poem from the first chapbook I bought one night at the late Cantab Lounge years ago. A perfect way to kick off the last month of this wretched year.

 

I started this week's poem as the open mic was happening, only to have to finish after work. Well, I thought, guess this makes it a work poem. Except there's more than a little of my frustrations over this past Thanksgiving. Writing this made me watch the opening "16 Tons" segment from Joe Versus the Volcano. Now I want to watch Joe Versus the Volcano. Thanks for reading.

Thursday Morning

 

Spin and be own tornado.

If also own gun, then

are morning acts on self

considered suicide?

Happy Birthday Ryan "Rat" Travis