Happy Birthday, DiDi Delgado

 

Happy Birthday DiDi Delgado

From Picture to Page: Cast Out

Had a meeting yesterday. Took this picture on the way home. Wanted to call this "Step Out" like DiDi Delgado suggested, but it didn't fit. Maybe another poem, for a different place.

Cast Out

Hurled from here,
drum-beaten worse
than democrats.

Happy Birthday DiDi Delgado

Thinking of Birthdays Past

The scene from DiDi's birthday from two years back.

Happy Birthday DiDi Delgado

The Podium Made It!

Last night I dropped off the Stone Soup podium (painted by Deb Priestly so many years ago) at Brew on the Grid.

The Podium Survives!

As the Out of The Blue  scrambles to move everything during it's final hours in Central Square Cambridge, thanks to DiDi Delgado, the podium Stone Soup Poetry has used for over a decade--maybe closer to two--is now in a temporary home.

Stone Soup Poetry is not meeting this Monday. I hope we can meet before the end of the year. I will let you know if and when that happens. In the meantime, I hope to talk to people in the hopes of not only securing a new home for the series but also a permanent home for this podium.

The International Community Church in Allston is a place Jack Powers enjoyed going to in the last years of his life. It also became home to a number of Jack's found art creations (created under the name "Jack Debris"), and I'm hoping the church takes the podium as one last piece of Jack Powers/Stone Soup history.

I will let you know what happens in the days to come.

On Rent and Racism

Read DiDi Delgado's latest article in Shelterforce.

Scenes from Motherhood and The Muse

The Massachusetts Poetry Festival is done for another year. All that's left are the memories. I wasn't able to record the event, but thankfully Toni Bee, one of the panelists for last Sunday's "Motherhood and The Muse," wrote a paper on the event for one of her college classes.

I am humbled by her recap and asked if I could post it on my website. I also included photos and videos of Toni, DiDi Delgado and Rene Schwiesow reading at the panel. You can enjoy the highlights by clicking here.

Thank You, Ladies

Thanks so much to Toni Bee, Rene Schwiesow and DiDi Delgado for doing such a great job at yesterday's panel at this weekends Massachusetts Poetry Festival, "Motherhood and The Muse."

I couldn't get much audio or video of the panel, but I did get photos and video of people reading. The videos I'll see if I can post later. Here are some photos now.

No photo of DiDi reading, but at least there's one of her enjoying a post-reading victory drink.

See Me at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival Tomorrow Morning

Tomorrow morning at 11:30 is the Motherhood and The Muse panel at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival starring Toni Bee, DiDi Delgado, Jeannie Nunes and Rene Schwiesow. I hope you'll be able to make it. Tomorrow morning at 11:30 is the Motherhood and The Muse panel with Toni Bee, DiDi Delgado, Jeannie Nunes and Rene Schwiesow. I hope you'll be able to make it.

All Together Now

For everything you need to know about this event, including bios on the performers and a lengthly interview with the event's founder Anna Rae, see this week's Twist of JP Lime over at Oddball Magazine. We're thrilled to help with promoting this event that shouldn't be missed.

DiDi Delgado Has Been Busy

Check out her latest article on all-white anti-racism groups today on Medium, the version before it was changed by The Huffington Post.

Happy Belated Birthday, DiDi Delgado

For the words to the poem, check out Oddball Magazine.

Stone Soup Croutons, 1-9-17, We The Ignored

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 (and sometimes the rest of the poem) later.

I made it back to Stone Soup last night. It's been going on without me for a while. I decided to come back and see what's up, as well as give away copies of Stone's Throw. And to hear DiDi Delgado, Navah The Buddaphliii, who offered to perform for my return show.There was a lot of emotions going on in my head. I eventually settled on being happy for the support. 

Going Back

Tonight's The Night. DiDi Delgado, Navah The Buddaphliii, and my print journal. All at Stone Soup Poetry.
 

Five More Reasons Why You Should Come to Stone Soup Tonight

January 10: The SOUP'ed Up Poetry Slam Returns

I will be participating on some level (keeping time or score most likely) in the first 2017 slam competion at The Dudley Cafe this Tuesday on January 10. It's hosted (as aways) by the Society of Urban Poetry and might even have DiDi Delgado hosting with her newborn daughter. There's a huge grand prize for the winning slam poet and an amazing show for everyone else, whether you're competing or just watching.

January 9: Stone Soup! DiDi Delgado! Navah The Buddaphliii! Stone's Throw Print Release!

The words above say it all. I'm coming back to Stone Soup, and I hope you come along with me this coming Monday night.