First time contributing poet Jerome Berglund comes in with artwork from returning contributor S.A. Griffin. The Monday 3:00 time slot matters at Oddball Magazine.
Monday, March 23, 2026
Tonight: The Contro-Verse Open Mic at Urban Media Arts in Malden with Lisa L Sears
From 7:00 to 8:00 PM. Doors open at 6:30 PM. At Urban Media Arts on 145 Pleasant Street in Malden, MA. Hosted by Anna Geoffroy and Ethan Mackler. Click here for more information.
A One-Woman Workshop
Anne Skove's comic this week is a comic, a instruction manual and zine all at the same time. Read and learn something over at Oddball Magazine with "She Who Laughs Lasts."
Rain, Rain, GTFO
When it rains, Mike Mesterton-Gibbons pours poetry. Let his work kick off another week at Oddball Magazine. Thanks for surviving last week. Let's see what we can do this week.
April 8: A Fellow Oddball Rolls into Stone Soup
My good friend Jason Wright returns to Stone Soup on April 8 to kick off National Poetry Month's features. I hope you're all at our virtual podium then.
Join us on Wednesday, April 8, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 814 1997 6616
Password: stonesoup
March 25: An All-Open Mic Goodbye to March
Stone Soup Poetry will buckling down for April and all things National Poetry Month. I hope this Wednesday we can enjoy a somewhat lighthearted all-open mic moment if we can.
Join us on Wednesday, March 25 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 843 2705 2547
Password: stonesoup
The meeting ID is 843 2705 2547
Password: stonesoup
Rose Colored Stage Lights
This was the Dropkick Murphys segment where they did the all-women mosh as the played "Rose Tattoo." There's a poem in this, but I don't think I'll be publishing it now.
This Week's Friendly Reminder
I saw this sticker in freakin' Brookline back in September. I'm so glad it survives.
My Monday Morning Music
Last week, we ended a Dropkick Murphys week with a collaboration. We'll start this week with another, with more Haywire songs coming.
Sunday, March 22, 2026
No Idea
My long suffering partner took this picture of me in March 2014 outside her Southie apartment. I have no idea what's happening or why I wanted this photo taken, but I guess I look happy enough.
Saturday, March 21, 2026
It's a Hoax
Everyone knows Chuck Norris died over twenty years ago during the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny!
Two Cents
Chuck Norris Jesus Haiku
Chuck Norris Jesus
thinks this is a step down from
being Chuck Norris.
Dam
Just realized I haven't written a Bluesky haiku in weeks.
Nobody else noticed, but I finally did.
My Saturday Haiku for Bluesky, 3-21--26
Skies hang overcast,
ready to cry once they know
what happens today.
Friday, March 20, 2026
My Friday Evening Music
What other Dropkick Murphys song could I end with? Featuring Haywire, a local band I hope to focus on next week.
No Man's Wisdom
Bruce Wise is our closer once again with his Wise Words poem column. Thank you for reading Oddball Magazine this week. I'm surprised we got through it.
Something Different
My poem "Just Dead" has been published in the Medium based journal Lit Up. Thanks to the journal's editorial crew for accepting my work for the first time.
My Friday Morning Music
More Dropkick Murphys music. This one was also played at last Friday's concert.
Thursday, March 19, 2026
The Weather Down Here
I have poetry and photography in Don Kingfisher Campbell's latest anthology Four Feathers Press: Weather. Thanks to Don for including me in one of his projects again. The rest of you have until midnight on Friday to submit your own work.
Resilient Life
James Van Looy is back with It's All One Thing. Read his latest poem column at Oddball Magazine.
Rick Christiansen Features at Stone Soup Poetry, 3-18-26
From this week's online gathering. Rick's performance is already an easy 2026 series highlight. An amazing bookmark of the times.
Strike a Wave Pose!
Thanks to Rick Christiansen for giving us an amazing feature via his new chapbook. Stay tuned for news on how to get that collection win it's inevitably published. Stay tuned for more Stone Soup news for this month and April.
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Well That Happened
Now that I got that over with, let's get ready for Stone Soup Poetry tonight.
Rick Christiansen is featuring.
You might want to be part of this.
Several Have-Nots
Enjoy a series of micropoetry by Pegah Rahmati Nezhad with artwork by Ken Tomaro. Thanks for joining us this Wednesday at Oddball Magazine.
Keytar Bear, Back Bay
I was so busy last week I forgot to post my Keytar Bear sighting back on Friday.
Always Be There
Young poet Allyson King breaks the morning silence and starts up Oddball Magazine this Wednesday with help from returning contributor Luis Lázaro Tijerina's photography. Welcome aboard.
Looks Like Shit Now
This spot went from having innocuous art on it to having anti-fascist graffiti placed on it to having it covered over in gray to having it with graffiti again. An no one's come to clean it. I wonder if that's because the graffiti is simply nonsensical and not overtly anti-fascist?
A Bonus Moment of Comics
This MF Doom album (with art that makes the musician look like a certain Marvelous villain) has been resting for some time r behind the window of a certain restaurant that may or my not be closed. I love that someone put a sticker of a huge smiling mouth on the window so they appear to be on the Doom mask. Now I picture Dr. Doom yelling in 60s comic book fashion "How dare you place fake lips and teeth on Doom's visage!"
A Moment of Comics
My heart goes out to Roberta Gregory, whose latest collection has been delayed due to an Iranian missile hitting a ship that was carrying her book's entire print run off the Strait of Hormuz. Enjoy a page of Gregory's creation, Midge McCracken, being her best self from Naughty Bits #8.
American Haiku: Trump Says Take Your Boats and Go Home
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: Trump Says Take Your Boats and Go Home
Who needs you countries
when I can trade blood for oil?
Who's got blood? Who's got blood?
The Rest of My Saint Patrick's Videos in One Post
My intro before going out to the parade.
I kept my smartass energy going for a bit.
Luckily, I brought my Homestar puppet.
Your Wednesday Morning Poetry
More Iranian poetry. Read "Night Is" by Nima Yushij, translated by Kaveh Bassiri, on the The Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) website.
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
April 1: A Tribute to Ron Goba at the Cantab Lounge
As someone who knew Ron as a friend and mentor, I am honored to be part of this special tribute to Ron happening on April 1, the beginning of National Poetry Month.
I am grateful to Tom Daley for organizing this event and getting as many people as possible to gather under one roof to say farewell to a literal and figurative giant in the Boston poetry scene.
Join myself, Tom, Nate Connors, Michael F. Gill, Victoria Bosch Murray, Jenny Oliensis, James Stotts and Prabakar Thyagarajan and countless other lovers of Ron at The Cantab on 738 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The door opens at 7:15 and starts at 8:00 PM.
I hope we can fill that room one last time.
Not Free
Happy to provide a photo for Peter F. Crowley's poem in this Tuesday morning's portion of 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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| And now I know all about this meme. |
Saint Patrick's Day
I can't think of anything more Saint Patrick's Day and Bosotn than a bit of graffiti celebrating Boston next to a bit of graffiti saying "Where the Hoe's at?!"
Yeah, I Know
Exhausted. No breakfast. No lunch. Went to bed very early.
I'll be posting a bunch today.
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