Another Travelogue come from Anne Skove.
Read "She Who Laughs Lasts," up now at Oddball Magazine.
Monday, July 27, 2026
Wow Now
Mike Mesterton-Gibbons' ode to a unique dog kicks off Oddball Magazine this week. Let's get through it together!
Bicycle! Bicycle! Bicycle! in Forest Hills
Have seen this graffiti down by the hospitals, but I haven't seen much of it on the other end until this weekend.
My Monday Morning Music
Let's focus on music that views summer as a positive time of year (PS I hate summer). Bryan Adams is the most logical first choice.
Sunday, July 26, 2026
Found Thesis
One of the items I found in Jack Powers' collection. Here is the slightly worn cover to a 1994 thesis out of Burlington College by P.R. Smith and A. Blackmere entitled "The evolution of a U.S. Government Secret Subculture; Its Use and Abuse of Drugs as a Political Weapon. (Ipso Facto on Assassination and Extremism)."
Your Weekly Dose of God
Seeing Mom later today. Right now, she's at Saint Blaise. Here's one more picture I took of the church back in June.
Saturday, July 25, 2026
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
My Saturday Haiku for Bluesky, 7-25-26
Let's all raise a hand
if you're against fascism!
Now put both hands up.
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.
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
can feel for
the left behind.
Friday, July 24, 2026
My Friday Evening Music
The title track of Sleeps with Angels, dedicated to Kurt Cobain. I'll be listening to this album tonight. You should too.
Feeling Uncute, May Delete Later
Here's a previously unpublished photo of Twig playing tug of war with me to describe my current mood. Hint: I'm the chew toy.
Reshaping
A very different Bamboozled No More! poem column by Janet Cormier is up now at Oddball Magazine. Happy Friday!
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.
Surprise!
These flowers aren't far from where I live, and they came out of nowhere! Did some housing authority plant these overnight?
My Friday Morning Music
I'm indebted to the Launch Yahoo! app for playing selections like this one from Neil Young's Sleeps With Angles album.
Leopards Eating Faces Update!
Andrew and Vivian Tate teach a lesson to the hopelessy dense once again. The lesson is this: If you devote your life to supporting Donald Trump, he and his allies will leave you to rot in whatever prison you have created for yourself. This is actually good because if you've lasted this long a s a Trump disciple, you've likely done some terrible, unspeakable things.
Thursday, July 23, 2026
Poems About Peaches, Peaches for Me
Poet, translator and editor Sharon Dolin is this week's poet with an ode to summer fruit over at The Arts Fuse.
Crimes on Crime
James Van Looy gets inspiration from Canada's smoky skies.
Read this week's It's All One Thing poem column at Oddball Magazine.
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.
See You Soon, Marc
Last night we featured Marc Goldfinger, one of the hardest working and most active poets in Boston. If you missed it, look for the video later. Thanks to Marc for a wonderful evening to remember. Stay tuned for more Stone Soup news.
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
That Wasn't So Bad, Was It?
Yes. Yes, it was.
But we're done now.
Heading home soon to prep for tonight's online Stone Soup.
It's going to be a special night.
I hope you're there for it.
Stomping to the End
Poet Vivian Walman-Randall and artist Mark Blickley close out our Wednesday at Oddball Magazine. Thanks to everyone who stopped by.
Thoughts While Walking, 7-22-26: Evil Never Dies
Evil is never on borrowed time. It's on stolen time.
Start with a Moment of Silence?
Poet Steven Losco has a different kind of lamentation with artwork by Bill Wolak.
Just another quirky Wednesday at Oddball Magazine.
Visit the Place
From the muddy river comes Brookline Poet Laureate Zvi A. Sesling in this week's Lyrical Somerville for The Somerville Times.
Tickle Me Purple?
Is this a new city initiative? I have to admit, painting the mailboxes purple (or lavender maybe) does make the graffiti look a little more needlessly garish.
A Moment of Comics
It was funnier thirty six years ago to think that an evil president could survive in a robot body after his body dies. Ask me if it's still funny in November. From the Give Me Liberty trade paperback by writer Frank Miller and artist Dave Gibbons. Originally published in Give Me Liberty #4 from the limited series.
American Haiku: Trump Understands Women
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.
New In the Mail
Thanks to Susan Isla Tepper for mailing me a copy of her latest novella, Girl Upside Down from Wilderness House Press. The first chapter of the book appeared in Oddball Magazine. Can't wait to read the full story during my next trip (coming soon). Contact Susan on Facebook Messenger and get your copy today.
Your Wednesday Morning Poetry
Jamilla VanDyke-Bailey recently recommended a collection by peot Omotara James, and I'm grateful for the recommendation. Read her poem "Tripartite" over at Coffee House Press.
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Hi, Ernie!
Poet Ralph Dranow and photographer Jennifer Matthews give us the Tuesday goods over 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.
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| I thought last week was the last internet pun for a while. I was wrong. |
![Andrew and Vivian Tate teach a lesson to the hopelessy dense once again.](<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg7T7GeSBqxNLYOg26zReBkdQh3cEgXXwiVRnobUUMndvy1522vw-JDDLo55REPZCP-wZPhymUS5oCGjc5TAPkx45RiNjwXzIsLJigVcEWjgWkz-_-xm9xMdfoiECDWGS9vD7t57kE19TSYmLvIw-KQQQU7ssMRBF6fQEeME4qk1P7tpEIF4zH/s900/Leopards%20Ate%20my%20Face.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="777" data-original-width="900" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg7T7GeSBqxNLYOg26zReBkdQh3cEgXXwiVRnobUUMndvy1522vw-JDDLo55REPZCP-wZPhymUS5oCGjc5TAPkx45RiNjwXzIsLJigVcEWjgWkz-_-xm9xMdfoiECDWGS9vD7t57kE19TSYmLvIw-KQQQU7ssMRBF6fQEeME4qk1P7tpEIF4zH/w400-h345/Leopards%20Ate%20my%20Face.jpg" width="400" /></a> </div><p></p><p><a href="https://www.rawstory.com/trump-haiti/">Yes, Reverend, Trump "betrayed" you</a> (as much as someone who made his evil intentions clear can possibly betray you when they're being obviously and honestly evil), but you fed your congregation to the leopards yourself. You betrayed them even more, and you deserve the leopards you get.</p><p><br /></p>){kind=link}
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