Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

This May I'll mark Stone Soup's fifty-fifth anniversary by featuring some of its lost friends. I'll start with John Wieners, who passed away in 2002. Here is his poem "Forthcoming," courtesy of Poets.org.

My Boston Fantasy

I don't begrudge the delivery workers, but the lunatics out there need to slow down or just walk.

A Mess

Jason Wright's Jagged Thought poem column is up now at Oddball Magazine. 

This Thursday: Poets from the Birdbrains Anthology 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.

Worked Hard on This One

Finding My Worse Self, Part Three: Keep It in Your Head. Read it on my Patreon.

To Pledge

Glad to have a photo of mine paired with the work of poet Scott T. Hutchison this Tuesday at Oddball Magazine. 

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.

Nice try...

Happy Birthday, Jules Nyquist

 

This Is The Life

But not really.

Hey

You're older than me. I get it. 

What  else do you have to make me think you have wisdom?

Do you have anything else? 

Anything, you piece of sh-t? 

If not, then get in back of the line.

I don't need to hear from you.

Comics Spotlight: Alfonso M. Rodriguez

Thank you for reading Oddball Magazine this Monday. 

To Sum Up the Day

Performative bullshit. 

Performative bullshit. 

Performative bullshit. 

Performative bullshit. 

Performative bullshit. 

Any questions? 

Threat/Not Threat

Jon Wesick takes wisdom from the internet despite the internet and gives us a poem you can read now over at Oddball Magazine. 

Poets on Social Media

And so it goes. 

It's All There

Enjoy Anne Skove's "She Who Laughs Lasts" comic for Oddball Magazine. 

Old Territory

 

It's Later Now, Part Thirty-Five: Neglect. Read it on my Patreon.

Oops!

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons on identities and mistakes opens up Monday at Oddball Magazine. Enjoy the week if you can!

May Is Here

Harris Gardner is Stone Soup Poetry's first anniversary feature this Wednesday.

Twig the Killer

A chew toy monkey in Twig's hands for about twenty minutes. A crime scene. An unrepentant mauler.

Tulips

The tulips planted around our stump have really popped up. I hope they all survive the cold. 

Obligatory Haiku

Happy May the 4th!
Remember, America: 
We're the Empire.

More of the NOT-Bicycle! Bicycle! Bicycle! Artist

IS it the same person? I'm going to post more of the the Bicycle! Bicycle! Bicycle! artist and maybe someday/never get to the bottom of this.

This Week's Friendly Reminder

On one hand I get the message. On the other hand, we need to record ICE and all their atrocities. I wonder if the "+ ICE" was added by someone else other than the original artist.

My Monday Morning Music

I'll be older soon. So let's look at some older bands that have new music. Let's start with the Butthole Surfers.

 

News from the Front, 5-3-26

Bonus content for the weekend.

 

News from the Front

Wore yesterday’s shirt for this one. 

It's Me!

 

 

A portrait of me as done by Geoffrey Fallon for a podcast project we created that I'd love to finally edit and put up even though it's very dated now. I'm not a natural video editor. I’m entirely self-taught with whatever free software I can get my hands on. So I'm very, very slow doing something that is already a very slow process. Luckily, I might have some extra free time this summer. Let's see what happens. 

Annoying Thought of the Day

Not everything you have in your house needs to give you joy, but it should give you purpose.

Happy Birthday, Dave Brinks

 

 

Happy Birthday, J.D. Scrimgeour

 

 

Your Weekly Dose of God

Ever ask yourself what someone is like when they're home? I did when I saw a gaggle of Jehovah's Witnesses packing up and heading hom from the Malden Center T stop.

My Post NaPoWriMo Video

IYKYK.

News from the Front, 5-2-26

Thanks to Ari for the new graphic. 

For MAGA People Who Make No Kings Jokes

 

"Kingdom" is my latest Truth Social blackout poem up now at Medium.

My Saturday Haiku for Bluesky, 5-2-26

 

Waking at lunchtime.
Time to see if tea's still good

in the afternoon.

Happy Birthday, Stevie Edwards

 

 

It's Over

Brothers, lay down your arms.  Our war with winter is over. I think.

My Friday Evening Music

Bikowski with Akira the Don with Tom Waits. Have a good evening. Looks like Monday's selected piece was also done with Akira The Don. I've corrected it.

 

 

Steam

I'm running out. 

Tonight: First Fridays Youth Open Mic with Kapatid Kud

Held at the First Baptist Church on 633 Centre Street in Jamaica Plain. Doors open at 7:00. Click here for more info. 

The Banality of Wisdom

Wise Words by Bruce Wise closes out Oddball Magazine. 

Thanks for reading us this week.

Security at the Rescheduled WHCD

 

Day Full

Janet Cormier's Bamboozled No More! is up at Oddball Magazine. 

Friday is here.

 

Happy Birthday, Matt Ganem

 

Happy Birthday, Cynthia Bargar

 

Happy Birthday, David Lewitzky

Don't give me that you-know-what!

Happy Belated Birthday, Judson Evans

 

NaPoWriMo Epilogue

National/Global Poetry Writing Month is over. How did I do? Click here and let me know. 

It was harder to keep up due to health issues, both mine and other people in my life. 

I didn't experiment as much with form. Just no time for it after I caught up. 

For the past few years, I feel I learn nothing after this exercise is done. 

I might write more about it elsewhere. 

Happy Fifty-Fifth Anniversary, Stone Soup Poetry

My Friday Morning Music

Here's a Charles Bukowski compilation with Akira The Don. 

 

  

Leopards Eating Faces Update!

 

This week it's Laura Loomer. Lost a court case against the one person who would have slept with her several surgeries. Unfortunately, she's too old and over the hill for him now. She probably wanted the coveted position Ann Coulter had in the early two thousands, but she doesn't even get that. If we're lucky, she'll be most known for her father divulging her sexual history for all the world to wince at.

NaPoWriMo, Day Thirty, Poem Thirty

Now is the Worst Time

The best is
what's not
revealed.

Been Wanting to Do This Meme for a While

 

Who Is Sarah?

 

A life examined in this week's poem by Steven Karl over at The Arts Fuse.

Helps to Get It Out

James Van Looy is back with his poem column.

Read It's All One Thing at Oddball Magazine. 

Happy Thursday. 

Stone Soup Poetry All Open Mic, 4-29-26

From this week's online gathering. National Poetry Month is over, but the poetry continues as Stone Soup enters its fifty fifth anniversary. Stay tuned.

 

 

Goodbye, April

April is done for Stone Soup. National Poetry Month is done for Stone Soup. May is upon us and so is Stone Soup Poetry's fifty-fifth anniversary. Be with us next week for Harris Gardner's feature and stay tuned for more Stone Soup news.