Tonight: Toni Bee's Poetry Workshop.

If you go to Toni's workshop then call in to Stone Soup, I'l be your best frind. Click here to register. 

Two More Days Until Toni Bee's Poetry Workshop

Write with former Poet Populist Toni Bee on the subject of roses and thorns and share the work you create in the session. Click here to register. 

Sign Up for Toni Bee's Poetry Workshop

Write with former Poet Populist Toni Bee on the subject of roses and thorns and share the work you create in the session. Click here to register. 

Next Saturday: Finding Mrs. Phillis

A writing workshop inspired by the life and work of Mrs Phillis Wheatley- Peters. Lead by Toni Bee, organized by Porsha Olayiwola. Join them next week at the Roxbury branch of the Boston Public Library. Click here to reserve a spot.

Porsha Olayiwola Book Tour Makes Its First Stop in Boston Tonight

Tonight she reads at the Boston Public Library. I hope to make her reading at Northeastern University a couple of weeks from now. If you can make it tonight, you should.

Copley Library

My best attempt at photographing Copley while the sun was blinding me.

April 19 is Stone Soup's Walter Howard Tribute in Jamaica Plain

Poet's poet and open micer's open micer Walter Howard passed away in January. People are still doing their best to keep his memory alive. Tribute poems are being written for National Poetry Writing month, and people are buying the newly released Walter Howard: Reflections in Moonlight. Better still, people seem psyched that Stone Soup is getting together this Thursday at the Jamaica Plain branch of the Boston Public Library to pay tribute to one of of Boston poetry's best friends. Follow this link for the address and to see all the wonderful poets who will be with us this week. We hope you come too. Stone Soup isn't meeting as much as it used to, but we're making every gathering count.

View of The Library

Last Night in Copley

A night shot that I like.

Copley Library, End of Day

Last pic from Wednesday. I just like this view.

Copley at Dusk

Tried to get some more photos of Copley after most of the snow got off of the streets.

iBooks?

It's strange to walk by the library at Copley Square and think you're looking into an Apple store.

Disturbing. But I simply have to make time to go in soon.

Christmas (up against the wall!)

The side of the Boston Public Library, Wednesday night.

April 9: Take Part in The Boston National Poetry Month Festival Open Mic

Edit: So in my rush to get people to come to the event, I realize now that only twelve people can sign up. I encourage those of you who can't make it at 10 to sign up to come and support the entire day of the event.

The Boston National Poetry Festival is a packed four day event. I'll be hosting the open mic at the Boston Public Library at Copley Square beginning at 10:45 in the morning. I am inviting everyone I know, particularly anyone who has attended the Stone Soup open mic over the past couple of years. Stone Soup has created and maintained a great vibe with many new voices coming on as we approach our fortieth anniversary. I would like to carry that vibe over to this event and make our own festival within a festival. Thanks to Harris Gardner and Kirk Etherton for giving me this opportunity, and thanks to those of you who are already making plans to come.

An Unexpected Show Last Night

The picture below was taken from Mayor Walsh's Celebration of Light being projected on the side of the Boston Public Library in Copley Square all this week. In this part, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" was playing with accompanied animation. 

I wonder how many people were with me in the rain, scrambling to take the Five Gold Rings part.

Liked This

Sometimes simple is best. Taken outside the Old South Church across from the Boston Public Library in Copley Square.

Two Saturdays from Now: Danielle Legros Georges Teaches a FREE Poetry Workshop

The last workshop of this summer with the new Boston Poet Laureate will be taking place at the Honan-Allston Branch of the Boston Public Library on August 8, 2-4 PM.

Danielle Legros Georges was appointed Boston’s Poet Laureate by Mayor Martin J. Walsh in December 2014 and teaches at Lesley University in the Creative Arts and Learning Division. She is the author of Maroon, a book of poems, and her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies. Her essays, interviews, poems, and reviews have appeared in publications including The American Poetry Review, The Boston Globe, Callaloo, Consequence, Salamander, spoKe, Solstice, Transition, World Literature Today, and the Women’s Review of Books. A resident of Dorchester, she was born in Haiti, has lived in Boston’s Haitian community of Mattapan, Chicago and New York, and has travelled to various parts of the world.