Saturday, August 13, 2022
Friday, August 12, 2022
Tonight: Ellene Glenn Moore at the Virtual Dire Literary Series
Some Things
Janet Cormier's Bamboozled No More! kicks off the last day of the week at Oddball Magazine.
Stone Soup Croutons, 8-10-22: On Strike Against the FBI
Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions picked 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.
The live open mic turned into an online open mic. I'm sorry to do that, but I had responsibilities to my injured girlfriend, who I'm taking again to the doctor this afternoon. I've been very short with my crouton posts in recent weeks. Emotionally speaking, this summer has beaten me to a f---ing pulp. No joke. I hope in the fall I can be more mellow. Until then, here's another poem very, very loosely influenced by recent events. Thanks for reading.
On Strike Against the FBI
Last week they threw a smoke bomb
through your kitchen window so you
couldn't see the water you're drinking,
Thursday, August 11, 2022
At the Sacred Center
James Van Looy's poem column is up now. Read It's All One Thing now at Oddball Magazine.
Stone Soup Poetry Open Mic, 8-10-22
From this week's online gathering. This was supposed to be a live gathering, but things didn't work out. It was nice when everyone still showed up anyway.
Everyone Wave to Julianne's Pug!
Thanks to everyone for adjusting to this week's cancellation of our live gathering and getting together online. In the future, it looks like we'll be moving to two live shows a month. I hope I can iron this out in the days to come. The news will be announced sooner rather than later.
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
How Did I Get Through Today?
I'll be home soon to get ready for this unexpected online Stone Soup tonight. Hope you're there.
This Friday: Ellene Glenn Moore at the Virtual Dire Literary Series
Messing Around
Trump had a lot to say on Monday, and I was curious. Had a bit of time and created a new Statement of the United blackout poem for the first time in a while! Read it now over at Medium.
Already Gone, Already Done
Thanks to poet Phip Ross and photographer Bonnie Matthews Brock for their work. We close out the day on a strong note. Thank you for reading Oddball Magazine this Wednesday. More exciting work coming soon.
August 10: No Stone Soup Live Show Tonight! Join Us Online Instead!
Join us on August 10 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.
The meeting ID is 810 1339 1307
Password: stonesoup
Freak Angel Takes Flight
Emerging poet Leigh Parsons joins up with returning artist Bill Wolak. It's another exciting Wednesday at Oddball Magazine. We're glad you stopped by.
A Moment of Comics
I posted one of my two favorite pages from Crisis on Infinite Earths #12. Might as well post the other one. It's easy to make fun of Marv Wolfman's purple prose as a modern reader, but when he wanted to be subtle, he could be. Aside form George Perez's haunting image of Psycho Pirate, Wolfman did a good job giving us an unsettling ending to the series. The one who remembers what happened to the DC Multiverse is an insane man and therefore the ultimate unreliable narrator? An anti-narrator, if you will? Chilling.
American Haiku: White Lines
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.
Your Wednesday Morning Poetry
I was thinking about Rudyard Kipling's "If" while half-asleep last night. It's been shared innumerable times. I've seen it in poetry anthologies, in comics books, even on Dr. Bronner's s soap bottles.
I remember one writer opining on how its "political incorrectness" (referring to the gender specific line "...you'll be a Man, my son!" ) as being necessary for the poem to have its emotional weight.
I asked myself this: What is its twenty-first century equivalent? Does there need to be one?
Has anyone presented a response poem to it? Have I read it without knowing it?
I'll look into this later. For now, here's If" courtesy once again of the Poetry Foundation.
Tuesday, August 09, 2022
Monday, August 08, 2022
Shadow Language
Welcome back Mark Blickley and photographer Kellie Scott-Reed. Turning up the heat on an already hot summer day over at Oddball Magazine.
There's a Sport for Everyone
Anne Skove's comic keeps the Mondays going. Read "She Who Laughs Lasts" at Oddball Magazine.
Photo of Me at the Boston Poetry Marathon by Timothy Gager
Me Reading at the Boston Poetry Marathon While Missing the Top of My Head.
With this photo, I now have an idea what I'll look like at the podium with no hair. Which is why I might start hoping to die before that happens.
Self-Portrait at the Boston Poetry Marathon
I look like a mess, but at least the top of my head isn't cropped off.
Limits Have Been Reached
The week starts again! Time for comics! Read Geoffrey Fallon's "The Secrets of Skinny People" now at Oddball Magazine.
Keep Watching
Sunrise, Sunset
Spent Saturday afternoon and Saturday evening at the Community Church of Boston. Decided to photograph the John Hancock Tower before and after the event.
My Monday Morning Music
DJ Cummerbund is a different kind of DJ, mixing several songs together to create new fun and amazing musical creatures. This might be his most popular mix. If you browse TikTok or view YouTube and Facebook's mini videos, you've likely heard it.
Sunday, August 07, 2022
Your Weekly Dose of God
Some weeks I'm too super busy to do a substantial post. Other weeks I'm lazy. This is a case of being both.
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