Flashback: Carol Weston and Stone Soup's Retrospective from 2013

Last night's "Carol Weston and the Boston School." was an amazing oral history, but even that could only touch on maybe half of the literary circles Carol has traveled in. Hear about her time among the beats in this retrospective from the Massachusetts Poetry Festival with James Van Looy and Dan Shanahan.

 

Things I'm Glad I Finally Got Archived in 2021: Stone Soup's 2013 Retrospective

Nearly a decade after Stone Soup's panel with Carol Weston, Dan Shanahan and James Van Looy at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, I was finally able to share it on YouTube to a wider audience. The quality is dicey, the camera angle not great, but it's the only archive to this momentous occasion and I'm glad it's anyone can view it now.

Now Online! Stone Soup's Retrospective from the 2013 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

 

 

This presentation was given at Salem's Hawthorne Hotel the month of Stone Soup Poetry's forty second anniversary. It was a rare opportunity to have three long-time friends of the late Jack Powers share the story of Stone Soup with the help of photos and other memorabilia from Julie Stone. Much gratitude to Bill Perrault for filming.

Happy Birthday, Julie Stone

Thanks for being Stone Soup's eye for so many years.

Young Dan Shanahan in early Stone Soup days.

Tonight

Martha Boss doesn't slam, or even beat. She taps. Slowly, methodically, until you slow down, compelled to listen along.

Martha is one of the poets headlining Stone Soup Poetry's forty-fifth anniversary celebration happening tonight. She's reading with Dan Shanahan and Carol Weston. Don't miss it.

Scenes and Video from The Stone Soup Retrospective

And the closing reading of a Jack Powers poem by Carol Weston.

With any luck, we will have the full presentation available, courtesy of Bill Perrault.