RIP Margie Shaheed

I heard from Mignon Ariel King that Margie Shaheed passed away this weekend. My condolences to Mignon, Margie's family and the lucky poets who knew her.

Thanks to Mignon, I was lucky to have her be one of the final poets to feature at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery's final Cambridge location. I was always hoping for her to return, and I'm sorry that didn't happen.

Mignon also published a collection by Margie, which I recommend you get today.

Stone Soup Croutons, 10-16-17, Welcome to Your New Home

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 on because it's Tuesday morning.

Margie Shaheed gave us a wonderful night of poetry. I'm indebted to her for a wonderful feature. Quite a surprise to me then that the poem came out as dark as it did. I "blame" Dexter Roberts for such a compelling poem about immigration to start off the night. At any rate, here it is.


Welcome to Your New Home

To join this elite cult,
you'll have to be able
to laugh in the face
of killing your best friend.

Off I Go

Margie Shaheed is reading tonight. I hope to see you there.

October 16: Margie Shaheed Visits Stone Soup

Margie Shaheed will be visiting us out of state to do a full feature for Stone Soup Poetry. More information will be coming. She's been published in a number of places, including Tell-Tale Chapbooks' Mignon Ariel King, who may also be in attendance. I'm hoping for a lot of new and old friends tonight as we celebrate our first first October feature (with more excitement next week).