I don't care. I knew I had tonight.
Stone Soup celebrates our fifty-fifth year as a poetry venue in a couple of hours.
Harris Gardner is our feature.
You should be part of the fun tonight.
Wednesday, May 06, 2026
Keeping with the Gray Tones
We're keeping with the color theme with a devastating pride poem by new author Aida Tsai nicely paired with artwork from Eric N. Peterson. Thank you for reading Oddball Magazine this Wednesday. We'll see you later.
May 13: Steve Glines Comes Back from the Wilderness
Steve Glines was helping to organize Stone Soup Poetry (including its
website) when I first started going as an open micer and a feature.
Steve moved on to do his own things as an editor and publisher, and he
hasn't stopped yet.
Steve is one of the Stone Soup alum coming home for its fifty-fifth anniversary.
We hope you can celebrate with us this month.
Join us on Wednesday, May 13, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 856 1078 4868
Password: stonesoup
Come Here
Poetry by Michael Paul Kozlowsky has been paired with photography by Edward S. Gault for our morning salvo. We're starting Wednesday strong over at Oddball Magazine. Welcome aboard.
May Gets Warm
This month gives us a hot and feisty issue of North of Oxford thanks to Editors g emil reutter and Diane Sahms. Check out this month's poetry and reviews now. Consider submitting!
In Bloom
Doug Holder's Endicott College student poets cavalcade continues with Kye DeAngelis. Check her work out in this week's Lyrical Somerville courtesy of The Somerville Times.
Found at Northeastern University
If you're going to both sides an issue, this is one way to do it, I guess.
A Moment of Comics
I've been thinking about my mood as I'm about to get older, and this page with Suicida's rant from the first Marshal Law series collected under the title Marshal Law: Fear and Loathing. From the Epic Comics published Marshal Law #1, written Pat Mills with art by the late Kevin O'Neill.
American Haiku: GOP Gets On Their Knees
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: GOP Gets On Their Knees
After we fund ICE,
we need bulletproof east wing.
Operation Cradle Trump's Right [East Wing] Ball[room]!
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.
Tuesday, May 05, 2026
My Boston Fantasy
I don't begrudge the delivery workers, but the lunatics out there need to slow down or just walk.
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.
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| Nice try... |
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.
Monday, May 04, 2026
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.
Oops!
Mike Mesterton-Gibbons on identities and mistakes opens up Monday at Oddball Magazine. Enjoy the week if you can!
Twig the Killer
A chew toy monkey in Twig's hands for about twenty minutes. A crime scene. An unrepentant mauler.
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.
Sunday, May 03, 2026
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.
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.
Saturday, May 02, 2026
My Saturday Haiku for Bluesky, 5-2-26
Waking at lunchtime.
Time to see if tea's still good
Time to see if tea's still good
in the afternoon.
Friday, May 01, 2026
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thursday, April 30, 2026
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.
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