Happy Birthday, Anthony McPherson

 

Happy Birthday, Anthony McPherson

 

Happy Birthday, Anthony McPherson

 

 

Happy Birthday Anthony McPherson

Stone Soup Croutons, 5-9-16, Side Show

Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions picked up from poems overheard from Stone Soup's open mic readers and features. I figure out a title either then or later. It's likely some of the poets I thank at the end won't even be able to figure out which lines were inspired by their work. To paraphrase Lorne Michaels, the poem doesn't go up because it's good; it goes up because it's Tuesday morning afternoon early evening before midnight early Wednesday.

Last night was both a slam and a feature by Anthony McPherson. I ended up helping to host a good deal of the slam. Therefore, my inability to collect people's words was severely curtailed. Full disclosure: I made most of this up today from half-baked memories and things I said. I couldn't remember everyone's poems eight hours later, sadly, so I winged it. Enjoy.


Side Show

A man up in the bleachers holds a sign up:
"WILL HAVE SEX FOR FOOD!"
It and the vomit covering his shirt
fails to draw the attention
of the girl sitting on the lap
of the band's drummer, still playing.

Time to leave, if not for a smaler stage,
where poets clash like mixed martial arts.

Tonight: Anthony McPherson and The Spit That Fire Slam

Tonight's show involved a lot of investment of time and money between Stone Soup and the Society of Urban Poets. If you care about the scene at all, consider coming by tonight. If you have any respect at all for Navah The Buddaphliii, DiDi Delgado and the rest of SOUP, please pay the full $5 donation. Come and see the show!

Anthony McPherson is Featuring Tonight at Stone Soup Poetry

Read an excerpt from his chapbook in today's Stone Soup Servings at Oddball Magazine. Then be in the audience by 7:00 PM.

May 9: Spit That Fire With Anthony McPherson!

The forty-fifth anniversary month continues with its mixture of the new and the old. Last Monday, we had some of Stone Soup's most stalwart regulars. This coming Monday, we bring the slam back and introduce you all to the wonderful work of Anthony McPherson. If watching his YouTube video "All Lives Matter : 1800s Edition" doesn't convince you to join us on May 9, then you're beyond my help. But I have faith you'll be there with me. Thanks again to the Society of Urban Poetry for making this show possible.

Monday May 9

The better flyer.

Two Mondays from Now

Better flyer coming.