Heading to North Station to make it to my feature tonight. See you there?
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
In New York
The subject of Steven Schutzman's poem--Larry freaking David--has lived in California for decades. Still, this feels like a New York poem. Appropriate given that today is September 11. I have to run this piece with artwork from New Yorker Ira Joel Haber. Thanks for reading Oddball Magazine this Wednesday.
A Bonus Moment of Comics
John Linton Roberson has been showing this page from Joe Matt's Peepshow strip collection from Kitchen Sink Press. It features him and Bernie Mireault as two young cartoonists scraping by. Even before Mireault's recent suicide and Matt's recent death after living a meager and miserly existence for the last several years (albeit willingly), John said it worked as a cautionary tale and urged him to not be broke and destitute in life. I have more thoughts about Joe's work in particular. Particularly the last work he ever did.
Broken Homes
A good poem by Robert Witmer with fitting photography by Glenn Bowie. It's Oddball Magazine on a Wednesday. Welcome.
New Series
Check out Art About, a new public access by Jen Campbell focusing on the North Shore arts scene. Episode 2 with Judi Jorge is out now.
Like This Person
The person writing "Long Live Palestine" on the mailboxes like this is clever. Much harder for anti-Palestine people to inject their own words ("usually something something Hamas").
A Moment of Comics
John Cassaday passed away earlier this week. People have been posting his pages from Captain America and Astonishing X-Men. These are good choices, but despite Warren Ellis' fall from grace, Planetary deserves to be in print forever. Cassaday was at his best when he was creating his own worlds. If it wasn't for Cassady, comics in the early 2000's would have been far less interesting.
He seemed to work exclusively on covers after Astonishing X-Men. That move was smart, but then we missed pages like the one above from the groundbreaking Planetary #1, written by Ellis, drawn by Cassady. Laura Martin's colors can't be overlooked either. RIP, Mr. Cassaday.
American Haiku: What I Have
When I started my Sarcastic Haiku series, I wrote my first American Haiku.
An American Haiku doesn't care about tradition, formality or history. it takes as long as it wants to make its point because America. You can read
others I've written since by clicking here and scrolling down.
American Haiku: What I Have
Do I have haiku
about the debate and Trump?
I have concepts of haiku...
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
See You in Lynn This Wednesday for Speakup
Over a decade ago, I had my first marquee experience, with my name up in lights at the Walnut Street Cafe in Lynn Massachusetts. I return there this Wednesday on September 11 as the feature poet of Speakup. If you are not in the area, you can join us via this Zoom link (passcode: Speakup). It will be great to be with the north shore poets again.
Rest Easy
Jason Wright's tribute to LUCCI is up now. Read his latest Jagged Thought up at Oddball Magazine.
LUCCI
LUCCI, aka Glenn Lucci Furman, had given us poem for a future project. We are presenting it today with thanks to Jason Wright. Read the poem today at Oddball Magazine. RIP LUCCI.
This Week's Most Distinguished Network Name
It's amazing what people will name their online networks. I'm always
trying to hijack Wi-Fi when I'm commuting, so I often come across a
number of interesting names. Every Tuesday, I post the most impressive
and/or cringe-inducing names.
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| No! God please! No! |
Monday, September 09, 2024
September 18: A Distinguished Gentleman Visits Stone Soup Poetry
Ed Gault, longtime open mic participant in person and online, will be featuring on the 18th. The last time he featured for Stone Soup Poetry, Ed had to share his time with a hastily assembled tribute (thus earning his nickname). I'm happy to give Ed all the time he needs to read from his first poetry collection.
Join us on September 18 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 871 5296 8875
Password: stonesoup
Chapter 8
Steven David Justin Sills' latest part of his ethics (illustration by Richard Spisak) is up now at Oddball Magazine.
September 12: Stone Soup Poetry on a Thursday!
Space is warped and time is meaningless! This week, Stone Soup is on a Thursday!
I have a gig this Wednesday. Next week we'll be back to our regular
Wednesday schedule for what should be the rest of the year.
Join us on Thursday September 12 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 842 3182 0148
Password: stonesoup
Tonight: The Contro-Verse Open Mic at Urban Media Arts in Malden with Andrea Donna
From 7:00 to 8:00 PM. Doors open at 6:30 PM. Hosted by Jeff Taylor and Anna Geoffroy. click here for more information.
More of Anne's Work History
Anne Skove comes back with another autobio comic. Read "She Who Laughs Lasts" now at Oddball Magazine.
The Less Enticing Road
"Psalm of Sand" is my latest From Picture to Page poem on my Patreon. Subscribe for as little as a buck.
Beware
Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is back with another acrostic over at Oddball Magazine. Welcome to Monday!
Almost Back to Normal
By the time fall is here, this blog and our schedule will be as back to normal as it can be.
Announcements coming.
Announcements coming.
Yeah...
Not good when my first reaction to the day is to recreate the "I will fuckin' end you" scene from Good Will Hunting.
Something's Going Well
Sending some submissions out after weeks of stalling.
Might be getting rejected, but I'll be sending the rejected work out again immediately.
On Probation
Twig was in the bad kind of dog house this past weekend. So here's some pictures from two weekends ago when he was slightly more bearable.
How to Ruin a PIece
So back in August I noticed this piece on Centre Street at the empty space where the 7/11 store used to be.
My Monday Morning Music
Canadian cartoonist Bernie Mireault took his own life last week. A cartoonist I knew from his various appearances in Joe Matt's Peepshow and his work for anthologies like Taboo, I wish I had gotten into his work more back in the nineties. I just found out about his band Bug Eyed Monster. Here's one from his YouTube page.
Sunday, September 08, 2024
Your Weekly Dose of God
Because my girlfriend knows me, she took a photo of this Lego Jesus in the bathroom of the campsite we stayed at over Labor Day weekend.
Saturday, September 07, 2024
New TikTok Exclusive Poem
A nonsense poem to make D Train more famous.Spell check isn't talking to me anymore.
@chadpoetforhire A nonsense poem to make @Donnell Anderson more famous. Spell check isn’t talking to me anymore. #fy #foryou #fyp #foryoupage #poetry #poem #southie #capecod #capecodmassachusetts #capecodsummer #summer #summer2024 ♬ original sound - Chad Poet for Hire
Jackie Corley, Virtual Thursdays Dire Literary Series Plus Q and A with Timothy Gager, 9/6/24
Yesterday's Dire today. Hosted by Timothy Gager.
This Keeps Happening
How bad is it when I'm initiating a phone call and by the time I hang up, I'm yelling "Can you f---ing leave me alone?!?
Friday, September 06, 2024
My Friday Evening Music
Videos that are sequels to other videos seemed cursed. I remember seeing this video before the "Jeopardy" video that preceded it. These guys knew how to have fun. Petty they weren't even bigger. Still, after getting parodied by "Weird Al," where can you possibly go?
This Sunday
The Robert Frost Foundation
Welcomes You
To Our First Poetry Hoot of the Season
Sunday, September 8 at 7pm
Salvatore’s Riverwalk
Lawrence, MA
Featuring Poets From
The North Andover Poets Corner
The Robert Frost Foundation
The Grey Court Poets
Open mic to follow if time permits
Regular Menu Available
Please Come Join Us
Monday: The Contro-Verse Open Mic at Urban Media Arts in Malden with Andrea Donna
From 7:00 to 8:00 PM. Doors open at 6:30 PM. Hosted by Jeff Taylor and Anna Geoffroy. click here for more information.
Tonight: Jackie Corley, at the Virtual Dire Literary Series
I Laughed
The people over at Provincetown Bookshop must have a sense of humor to put Bill Maher's latest mental masturbation among books like these.
Stone Soup Croutons, 9-4-24: Old Schoolmates
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.
It was fun. Everyone was so nice. It would make the poem harder to write if not for all the crazy surprises.
Thanks for reading.
Old Schoolmates
Brothers stone sisters
in playground center
before first class.
Eulogies bore them.
Real devils party
during day,
Thursday, September 05, 2024
Now Spill!
Spillwords Press is looking for Halloween themed work. Click here to submit your own words before September 17.
New Journal
Patricia Carragon is starting a new journal called Sense and Sensibility Haiku. Click here to learn the prompt and how to submit.
Oh, So Many
Here's James Van Looy holding up Thursdays at Oddball Magazine with his poem column, It's All One Thing.
Janet's Flowers from June
Janet sent us this garden view back when summer was just starting. I'll have to ask her how it turned out.
For Janet's written work, read her Bamboozled No More! column every Friday at Oddball Magazine.
Stone Soup Poetry Open MIc, 9-4-24
From this week's online gathering. Lots of screen sharing. Lots of unearthed poetry. Wild ending. Typical Wednesday. Come back for more.
Good Bye and Good Riddance, Labor Day Weekend
Stone Soup made it to September! Thanks to everyone who came out or listened to last night's all-open mic. Announcements coming.
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