Bro!
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
Never Really a Day Off
Prepping for tonight. We have a great show coming up.
Julie Marie Hoey is feature for Stone Soup Poetry.
Hope to see you there.
Keep It Spinning
A longer, experimental poem by Timothy Gager with photography by Edward S. Gault closes out Wednesday for Oddball Magazine. Thanks for reading us.
Longer, Bolder Lines
Susan Kolon is first of our prose poets today with artwork by Eric N. Peterson. Enjoy this Wednesday at Oddball Magazine.
Give Thanks
The November edition of North of Oxford by Editors Diane Sahms and g emil reutter is up for your consideration. Give the poetry and reviews a read.
Young Howl
Poet and future filmmaker Liam Almond from Endicott College gets his week to shine at Lyrical Somerville at The Somerville Times.
A Moment of Comics
I anticipate Pete Hegseth's final press conference ever is going to be like this page from Give Me Liberty #3. Every time I reference Give Me Liberty in relation to today's politics, I pray it will be the very last time I reference Give Me Liberty in relation to today's politics. Words by Frank Miller and artwork by Dave Gibbons.
News from the Front: Beastly Boy
He was later seen in the parking lot yelling “Cahmahn! I’ll take you all on!”
American Haiku: Pete Bites
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.
who isn't a woman!
This is Sad
Saw this sad lil guy yesterday. No bodega cat should look like they're having an existential crisis at their workplace. That's a human thin, not a kitty thing.
Your Wednesday Morning Poetry
For Veterans Day, here is "Plea of the Negro Soldier" by Charles Frederick White. Thanks to African American Poetry: A Digital Anthologyby Amardeep Singh. I'll be going back to this frequently.
Tuesday, November 10, 2026
November 18: Stone Soup Sings "A ha ha, a ha ha, Gloria"
 |
| Photo by James Fraser |
An author. A renowned local publisher. A former Poet Laureate of Somerville, Massachusetts. Gloria Mindock, not content to rest on her laurels, is coming back to feature at Stone Soup Poetry on the 18th!
This is likely Stone Soup Poetry's final November feature due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Please join us for another celebration of verse.
Join us on Wednesday, November 18, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.The meeting ID is 865 7581 3392
Password: stonesoup
Sincerely
Glad I have a photo being paired with a poem by returning contributor Ken Tomaro. Enjoy another 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.
 |
| Just one more sign you need to see if you can update your router. |
Monday, November 09, 2026
Submit to the Upcoming Quit Pamphlet from Insurgent Press
Have you quit your job in spectacular fashion? Chucked a role? Thrown an opportunity over the wall? Ditched the chance in favour of the sofa? Or perhaps went the other direction. Stubbed the joint. Cleaned up your act. Preached to the choir… I know at least three of you have literally done some of this!
We want 500 words.
Serif font. Size 12. Double spaced.
Our QUIT pamphlet will come out fast and spread like fire.
Send to: josh@insurgentpress.co.uk
Farewell to Another Poet
A poem and artwork by Laurel Lambert so we can say goodbye to the late artist. It's up now at Oddball Magazine.
Thank You for Your Work, Anne Skove
Anne Skove's comic gives her dispatch from last Tuesday.
Read "She Who Laughs Lasts" at Oddball Magazine.
Another Poem Made from Shitty Memories
It's Later Now, Part Sixty-One: Cashier Days. Read it on my Patreon.
Deploy the Clowns
Monday's jam starts with poetry from Janet Ruth with blessings to the late artist Ira Joel Haber for his posthumous contribution. Welcome to a brave new week at Oddball Magazine. Let's hope we all make it to the end of the day.
Tanka 'bout Town
The daily challenge
to purchase a drink and snack
and not wait behind
walls of people brandishing
Keno numbers and scratch cards.
Right...
Sometimes I look at a graffiti sticker and get more curious, sometimes I just want to leave it alone. I'm not sure what my decision on this one is yet.
My Monday Morning News
This week, I feel like doing failed followup from one-hit wonders. I'm a Todd in the Shadows wannabe this week. I actually like this one from Blind Melon. I have one post planned for later, and I'm not sure what the last one will be.
Sunday, November 08, 2026
News from the Front: Do Declare
Sat on this joke until my head cold got better and I could do the voice again.
Whoops!
Looking through Facebook photo albums from Stone Soup's Out of The Blue Art Gallery days, I didn't find as many photos of the late Laurel Lambert as I thought I might. Looking at this photo from February 1st, 2010, I might have figured out why. She did seem to open up more to being photographed in later years. Here? Not so much.
Your Weekly Dose of God
Saw this paper last month. Universal News is apparently the newspaper for the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. Apparently, according to the cover story, Obsessive Compulsion Disorder (OCD) is seen as a "red flag" and a sign of a spiritual attack. That in and of itself is a huge red flag for me.
Ten Years Ago
This is the day we voted Trump in.
Ten damn years ago.
I remember spending nearly all night looking at the electoral map.
I remember the day after more clearly.
I remember apologizing to Molly the morning after.
I remember going into work, and a colleague tried to comfort me.
Don't worry, they said.
This happens all the time in my country. It'll work itself out.
"Where are you from?" I asked.
Turkey.
Even with my limited geopolitical knowledge, I knew that answer didn't bode well.
Saturday, November 07, 2026
Laurel
My last recording of poet Laurel Lambert, who passed away on October 27. A very off the grid poet who was at so many open mics prior to the closing of the Out if The Blue Art Gallery in Cambridge and the pandemic.
Laurel Lambert (1969-2026)
 |
| From Laurel Lambert's feature, March 19, 2019 |
This tribute is in fragments, but that's appropriate. Even when writing about her life, Laurel wrote in brief fragments, desperate to get all meaning and feeling out in brief lines.
When I wrote my initial post about Laurel Lambert's passing, I mentioned she was a Stone Soup regular. That wasn't exactly the truth. She was more of an Out of The Blue regular, spending a good amount of time in the gallery, sometimes helping to clean for late Gallery owner Tom Tipton, often staying for Stone Soup Poetry, Tim Gager's Dire literary series and Deb Priestly's Saturday night Open Bark. She was a regular at what seems now to have been a lost golden age in the local poetry scene.
Poet Puts Down Pen
Poets pay attention. Stephen Redic is being maligned for shame-slapping a Charlie Kirk wannabe at Turning Point.
My Saturday Haiku for Bluesky, 11-7-26
First frost of autumn
mice crawl in your car searching
for a hint of soy.
Friday, November 06, 2026
My Friday Evening Music
If it wasn't for my girlfriend, I wouldn't have rediscovered this song. She keeps me curious.
The Last(ish) Word
The final word for this week is for Luis Lázaro Tijerina, touching on the recent Midterms.
Probably not the last word on the Midterms, but it will do for now.
Thank you for reading Oddball Magazine this week.
Next Friday: First Fridays Youth Open Mic with Harissa Feltington and Zara Barryte
Held at the First Baptist Church on 633 Centre Street in Jamaica Plain. Doors open at 7:00. Click here for more info.
Too Much
Janet Cormier pulls through with her latest Bamboozled No More! column.
Read it now at Oddball Magazine.
And welcome to Friday.
Wyn Cooper, Virtual Thursdays Dire Literary Series Plus Q and A with Timothy Gager, 11/5/26
Yesterday's Dire today. Hosted by Timothy Gager.
My Friday Morning Music
Another of my girlfriend's downloads on her phone. She watched a documentary about Die Antwoord and downloaded this song afterwards. This one makes me smile, and the video is crazy.
Leopards Eating Faces Update!
Haley Stevens is the latest of a long line of individuals plaguing our system. She's just another cell in a metastatic pathology.
She's doesn't want to take up a cause. She wants to latch onto a winning team and not let go.
Just like all the Winning Team Republicans who popped up after 9/11. Like every other joiner after her.
Like all of my peers jumping on the Trump bandwagon.
It doesn't even ensure their safety.
It just makes them feel safe. It makes them feel "good."
It makes them feel like whatever cult they've joined is going to take care of them.
It isn't.
Thursday, November 05, 2026
RIP Laurel Lambert
I just found out from Margaret Wesel that Laurel Lambert, a staple of Stone Soup Poetry's open mic from the days at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery in Cambridge, passed away on October 27.
There will be on November 21. More details are coming.
Holy Harmony
James Van Looy's latest poem column takes you abroad and shares a moment from the poet's worldly travels.
It's All One Thing is up now at Oddball Magazine.
Tzynya Pinchback Features at Stone Soup Poetry, 11-4-26
From this week's online gathering. A feature worthy of a historical week. Let's keep the good feelings going.
Hello, November
I think I'm going to enjoy November. Thanks to Tznya Pinchback for giving us a wonderful post-Midterms feature. We're just getting started. Come back next week when for special feature Julie Marie Hoey.
Wow
This morning I found out I’ve been nominated for both a Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize for the same poem..
I knew November would be better, but wow. No notes for the first five days.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)