Stone Soup Croutons, 6-11-25: While Recovering

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.

Lee Varon returned to feature this past Wednesday. It's been too long since we've had her back. Watch her feature if you weren't there.

Because Lee started off the night, here theme became the dominant theme of this week's poem. I'm glad for it. Her work is important and inspires.

 

Thanks for reading.

 

 

While Recovering

The waiting. For a bed.

For the one in tow to run

out of manic resistance. 

Lee Varon Features at Stone Soup Poetry, 6-11-25

From this week's online gathering. Now that you've heard Lee, visit her website to purchase her poetry and fiction.

 

 

A Wave and a Prayer

Thanks to everyone who came out to Stone Soup last night. Be sure to visit her website to grab her poetry and fiction. Be here next week for special feature Marvin Louis Dorsey.

 

I'm Just Glad to Be Alive

I knew this day was going to be rough. It'll all be worth it once I get home for Tonight's Stone Soup Poetry. Lee Varon is tonight's feature. Her first feature for us in seven years! I hope you join us.

Another Reunion

 Lee Varon returns to feature at Stone Soup Poetry this evening. 

The One Good Thing About Monday

Just two days left until Stone Soup Poetry. Lee Varon is this week's feature. 

June Starts Warming Up

Lee Varon is June's first Stone Soup Poetry feature. 

June 11: Join Stone Soup and the Return of Lee Varon

 
During Stone Soup Poetry's live action days in Cambridge, Lee Varon was a regular and a supporter of other poets for a good many years. We lost Lee as a regular when we moved from Cambridge, but she continues to create work today. We hope you're in our virtual seats when Lee Varon returns to share her latest work as Stone Soup's first June feature.

Join us on Wednesday, June 11 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 810 7599 6600

Password: stonesoup

 

Lee Varon, Virtual Thursdays Dire Literary Series Plus Q and A with Timothy Gager, 12/19/24

Yesterday's Dire today. Hosted by Timothy Gager.

 

 

Tonight: Lee Varon at the Virtual Dire Literary Series

Hosted by Timothy Gager. Click here to join the group and get information on how to join the call.

And don't forget to visit the author's website.

This Thursday: Lee Varon at the Virtual Dire Literary Series

Hosted by Timothy Gager. Click here to join the group and get information on how to join the call.

Click here to visit the author's website.

SAFE DISTANCE EDITION: Stone Soup Croutons, 5-6-20, The Non-Survival Artist

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

Nice short open mic this past Wednesday. A bit of a comedown from Friday, but I am already thinking of how to spice these open mics up. I'm also thankful for poets like Bil Lewis and C.C. Arshagra, who are going one step beyond the norm (see the first photo after this poem). Don't know if this week's poem reflects that, but I'm sure they helped. Thanks for reading.


The Non-Survival Artist

We put habit in our new habitats,
make our morning calls to Big
Brother. Why can't he start his
own live stream just to calm us down?

See Me At This Event Tomorrow Night

I'll be reading for this event at the Trident with a lot of great people including Martha Boss, Kirk Etherton, Doug Holder, Gloria Mindock. and the anthology editors Marc Goldfinger and Lee Varon. Not to be missed.

New Lee Varon Poetry Collection OUT NOW

Lee Varon gave me this book a couple of weeks ago, and I hope to read it soon. It's the culmination of her long work, with several poems I've heard over the years at the Stone Soup open mic. 

Shot In The Head was the first place winner of the 2017 Sunshot Book Award for Poetry. You should buy this as soon as you can. It's also available as an ebook.

I'll Be Part of This Next Month

I'll be glad to be reading alongside so many poets for this anthology. Hosted by Lee Varon and Marc D. Goldfinger.

Tomorrow Night: The First and Last Word Poetry Series

Information courtesy of co-hosts Harris Gardner and Gloria Mindock.

The Spare Change News Poetry Anthology is Out

I'm pleased to be part of this new anthology edited by Stone Soup alum Lee Varon and Marc Goldfinger, the longtime Poetry Editor of Spare Change News, where the poems in this collection originally appeared over the years. You can order this book by clicking here.

Stone Soup Croutons, 5-31-18, Scandalous

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. 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.

Last night was the long-awaited double feature of Julia Carlson and Lee Varon. There were many depictions of criminal behavior on the open mic, old and new, from Al Capone to Donald Trump. It definitely helped spin this poem into something unexpected. Thanks, everyone. Hope to see all of you and more at St. Paul's next week.

Scandalous

The path of rights and wrongs
are paved with claims of credit
from everyone else, blame for you.

To walk it takes love
greater than your health.
When you're no longer young,

See You Tonight

I'm looking forward to tonight. We have Lee Varon and Julia Carlson tonight at Stone Soup. I hope you come too.

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