Happy Birthday, Joe Torra

 

Well Now

Above is a graffiti painting of the "See/Hear/Speak No Evil" monkeys with the words "Harvard Sewed Their Eyes Shut" above. 

I haven't been keeping up as much with local news, but they must have screwed up really bad for people to be badmouthing them all the way down in Northeastern University, where I found this. 

Happy Birthday, Joe Torra

 

Boston School

"Carol Weston and the Boston School"  was an amazing experience. Thanks to all the Stone Soup regulars for attending this event. Special thanks to Fanny Howe, Joe Torra, Amanda Cook, Jim Dunn and John Mulrooney for their panel work and Carol Weston for just being herself. A great way to begin National Poetry Month. Stay tuned as Stone Soup returns next Wednesday.

Carol Weston Tonight

Tonight instead of Stone Soup, please attend the Woodbine Poetry Room oral history session with Carol Weston entitled "Carol Weston and the Boston School."

If clicking here is too much of a hassle to join, I have the Zoom link here.

Please attend this event as it attempts to give Carol her proper due in the world of Boston poetry.

April 6: Help Celebrate National Poetry Month With Carol Weston

Instead of meeting for Stone Soup on April 6, I urge you all to attend this special Woodbine Poetry Room oral history with Boston's favorite poet Carol Weston entitled "Carol Weston and the Boston School."

Event moderator John Mulrooney put it best: "I think this event, in addition to her forthcoming book from Bootstrap, could be the start of not only Carol getting greater recognition but might offer a new dimension to understand poetry and poetics in the city where Jack Spicer saw the ghost of Emily Dickinson float up the Charles River."

Click here to register early for the event.

Stone Soup Croutons, 2-29-18, The Gasp of Old News

Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions butchered 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. You can read the other ones I've done since 2015 here. To paraphrase Lorne Michaels, this poem doesn't go up because it's ready, it goes up because it's Friday morning afternoon evening  Saturday morning afternoon DAMMIT!

On Thursday, the Stone Soup Stagecoach made a stop at Harvard University thanks to Melissa Castillo-Garsow, Robinson Hall was a little off the beaten bath, but we were joined by Michael Igo and at least had a round robin between the three of us, including Melissa reading from There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce by Morgan Parker, which made me think of "The Breathing, The Endless News" by Rita Dove. Mix, shake, make stuff up (i.e. I know nothing about chameleons and didn't look them up), and you have the poem for yesterday today DAMMIT!

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The Gasp of Old News

Poets and chameleon's need air
and space to change and learn.

Tonight: The Stone Soup Stagecoach Stops at Harvard

With the help of Melissa Castillo-Garsow, I'll be holding Stone Soup at  Harvard University in Robinson Hall. I am spreading the word. I'm doing the best I can. I hope Melissa and I will see some of you there.

The State of Stone Soup, 3-26-18

While I am waiting and hopeful that the Brew on the Grid will find a new home in Cambridge, I have not been idle.

Breaking Bread: My Poem from The Latinx Poetry Series

On Friday, as a part of Stone Soup Stagecoach, I attended the Latinx Poetry Series at Harvard University, which has been organized by Melissa Castillo-Garsow, who is spending a very productive year in Massachusetts at the college. Carmen Bardeguez-Brown was the guest speaker, instructor and feature poet at this event, which was attended by a diverse group of participants and onlookers, myself included.