Happy Birthday, Bryan Franco

 

 

Happy Belated Birthday, Bryan Franco

 

 

Tonight: The Contro-Verse Open Mic at Urban Media Arts in Malden with Bryan Franco

 

 

From 7:00 to 8:00 PM. Doors open at 6:30 PM. Hosted by Jeff Taylor and Anna Geoffroy. Click here for more information.

 

Monday: The Contro-Verse Open Mic at Urban Media Arts in Malden with Bryan Franco

 

 

From 7:00 to 8:00 PM. Doors open at 6:30 PM. Hosted by Jeff Taylor and Anna Geoffroy. Click here for more information.

 

Happy Birthday, Bryan Franco

 

You Know How Pro-Christmas Fanatics Bring Up How a Jewish Person Wrote "White Christmas" but Leave Out That He Wrote "Happy Holiday" Too? Well This Poem Isn't About That!

Bryan Franco is up next for The Christmas Wars at Oddball Magazine. Enjoy this special Wednesday!

Pride Is What It Is

Bryan Franco closes out our week with pride and an appropriate piece of art from Eric N. Peterson. Thank you for reading Oddball Magazine this week.

Happy Birthday, Bryan Franco

 

 

Stone Soup Croutons, 6-28-23: The Longest Last Day

Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions selected 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.

Stone Soup said goodbye to June--and with it, Pride Month--on Wednesday. What I post today is more of a footnote. More than one poem referenced the famous Stonewall Inn. The poem below is and isn't about Stonewall. It's about the loss of space. Something I feel these days as all of Boston uses the pandemic as an excuse to shrink my city.

I appreciate C.C. Arshagra bringing together one of of our largest groups of the year (seriously, every time I thought I was ending round one of the round robin, someone else would join us). I'm also grateful to Rita Rose and Bryan Franco for their almost bookend Stonewall poems that helped give my poem shape. 

I'm thankful if you were safe this Pride Month. That needs to be said more than ever these days. Thanks for reading.

 

The Longest Last Day

 

Musician on bar's stage plays sadly.

Saw a dog in the street that looked 

like his long lost pooch, lost to last

eviction and higher rents with no 

pets. It would take a spy novel to get 

the little guy back. They'd have to 

Another Deadline Coming

Sent to me by Bryan Franco. Click here to find out how to submit to the 2023 New Generation Beats anthology before the July 2 deadline.

Stone Soup Croutons, 6-14-23: Scenes from Your Latest Breakup

Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions selected 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.

This week the all-open mic trend continued. Something to do while counting down to the thunderclaps. Still a lot of sick people out there. I hope Bryan Franco is okay. 

Nothing overtly political this week. Not even going through a breakup. Just going through memory lane and reliving some worst moments. It will happen again. 

It ends on a weird note. Not what I intended it, but I'm keeping it that way for now. Thanks for reading. 

Scenes from Your Latest Breakup

 

Remember together rhymes with 

tether, not the hair that snapped

with you still holding it.