Where Are the Other Nearly Forty-Four Sonnets?

 

Check out this week's featured poet Zachary Bos over at The Arts Fuse.

Happy Belated Birthday, Zachary Bos

 

 

Happy Birthday, Zachary Bos

 

Congratulation, Zachary Bos

Dreams do come true. Zachary Bos will soon be opening his dream store, the Bonfire Bookshop. Best of luck, with this new journey sir. The rest of you can check out the store's Facebook page (with links to its other social media accounts) for more news.

Happy Birthday, Zachary Bos

Consider donating a couple of bucks to his Bonfire Books dream.

Help Make the Bonfire Bookshop a Reality

Please consider donating and help Zachary Bos with this final push to create a bookshop in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. 

People I'm Grateful for in 2020: Zachary Bos

Zachary Bos spent a lot of time in 2019 and 2020 helping me get my act together. In 2019, he was an early supporter of Stone Soup Poetry's new era, This year, he recommended Headline Poetry & Press and sat down with me and Jason Wright to consult with us about Oddball Magazine's future. I appreciated all of his advice, even it seems sometimes like I didn't listen to any of it.

Dream Project

 

This is a proposed book cover from Zachary Bos. I love it. He both designed it and suggested the title. 

He told me he wanted to put out a chapbook of mine. It looks like it's going to happen. 

It just might not be a project with this title. 

Unless I create something new to make it work. 

Challenge accepted. 

 

Happy Birthday Zachary Bos

Last Night

At the recommendation of Zachary Bos, I went to see Sam Wronoski and Blake Campbell read Saturday afternoon at Cambridge's Outpost 186.

Stone Soup Croutons, 1-8-20, Bomb Calm

Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions 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 up because it's Friday morning.

This Wednesday was Stone Soup's first night back since December. Our first gathering in 2020. A.J. Odasso did an amazing reading. A.J. said they will stop by Stone Soup next week, so I recommend you grab their book The Sting of It, which wasn't delivered in time for the feature.

I write all this because for my first time back to writing these poems in nearly a month, I don't think I'll capture the night as well as I wanted to. Then there were the first few days of the year, of course (seriously, are you better off than you were ten days ago?). A.J.'s work seemed to encapsulate not only a personal journey but the sadness of the past few years felt by a lot of people locally and in the country. I'm still trying to unpack it.

I am so grateful for Wednesday's attendees. Especially Zachary Bos, who was nice enough to get wine. I'm still a little overwhelmed from it all, so I'll just get to the poem. Thanks for reading.


Bomb Calm

Booze, booze,
enough hobgoblins
to drown Emerson.

People I'm Grateful for in 2019: Zachary Bos

Zachary Bos came in during the last part of 2019 with a vision for helping Stone Soup.

And Zachary came through.

Things I'm Not Proud of in 2019: My Management of Stone Soup

Stone Soup was great. Stone Soup's features were tremendous. Stone Soup's open mic was always memorable. Later, I'll be highlighting people who helped to make Stone Soup great.

Stone Soup was great. The people who contributed to it were great. I wasn't.

January 8: A.J. Odasso Helps Kick Off Stone Soup Poetry's New Year

Stone Soup will be taking time off after Suzanne O'Toole's feature. We will return in the new year and come out swinging. On January 8, we begin 2020 with a feature by A.J. Odasso, who comes to us via Zachary Bos and Pen and Anvil Press, who have been incredibly generous to Stone Soup. We thank Zachary, Pen and Anvil, the Fort Point Arts Community, and of course A.J., who is coming to us from out of town. Help us fill the seats and make her visit all the more memorable. An exciting new year for Stone Soup starts here. I hope you're there to be part of it.

Awesome News

Thanks to Zachary Bos and Pen and Anvil Press, we will be presenting boadsides of April Penn's poem "Original Love" during her feature tonight.

We are hoping this is going to be a regular thing but don't want to jump to conclusions yet.

I am so grateful for changes happening at Stone Soup Poetry. Announcements will be made soon.
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Happy Birthday Zachary Bos

Hopefully, you'll be seeing more of him soon. Until then, have some early Oddball Magazine.

This Just In

Zachary Bos sent me the link to the latest chapbook compilation from Pen and Anvil Press, Twenty Sh*thole Limericks for Donald Trump. Thanks to Zachary for including me in this collection. YOu can download it here.

My Limerick

Zachary Bos is looking for limericks based on Trump's recent "s**thole" comments. I'm sending this to him now.

Trump's State of The Union address

is lies if he says it's no mess

between shutdown shits,

his bottomless fits

and a habit for racist digress. 

People I'm Grateful for in 2017: Zachary Bos

As I said in earlier posts, hosting Stone Soup was tough this year. Thanffully, Zachary Bos has a way of easing the poetic burdens of people like me by introducing them to fantastic new voices.

This year alone, thanks to Zach I met so many people from Russell Bennetts to  Melissa Castillo-Garsow to Vlad Savich. It really helped to revitalize me for this last stretch of the year.

Another resolution is to work with him much more--and anyone he introduces me to--in 2018. 

Stone's Throw #6 is Out

The last issue of Stone's Throw is out today. It's only been a month since the last one, but I wanted to have a sixth issue to close out the year. I thank everyone who contributed work throughout this past year. It's been fantastic publishing all of you.

“I Keep on Going, Guess I’ll Never Know Why” is the title/theme for Stone's Throw #6. You can download it here.

Big kudos to Adric Giles for going through with my idea for the cover. It's definitely a great follow-up to the #TrumpDump cover to Stone's Throw #4.

I have a poem to kick things off. Then you can get to the work by Elizabeth Hanson, Deta Galloway, Zachary Bos, Abagail Petersen, Liza Zayas, Melissa Silva, Laurel Lambert, Rene Schwiesow and Ron Goba.

If this is your first time hearing about Stone's Throw, I recommend clicking this page to download the rest.