Happy Birthday, Mary Jennings

 

 

Mary Jennings Features at Stone Soup Poetry, 9-10-25

From this week's online gathering. Help support the completion of Jennings' first poetry collection and her novel. You can donate to her Venmo  (@Mary-Jennings-51) or her PayPal (@nomadsroad). 

 

 

Na Na Na Na, Hey Hey, Goodbye

Thanks to Mary Jennings for taking our mind off things for a little while. You can donate to her Venmo  (@Mary-Jennings-51) or her PayPal (@nomadsroad). Stay tuned for more news!

Feature Tonight!

This evening, Mary Jennings is invited back to our virtual podium.

A Feature This Wednesday!

Mary Jennings helps Stone Soup get correct this Wednesday.

September 10: Stone Soup Returns with the Classics

So glad we get back to basics this Wednesday with Mary Jennings, who had one of our best features back in 2022. You need to be in the audience this week as Stone Soup kicks up for the end of the year.

Join us on Wednesday, September 10 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.  

The meeting ID is 896 8417 6890

Password: stonesoup

Stone Soup Croutons, 4-24-25: 2025

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.

 

Got back from New Orleans last Wednesday and put together a last minute open mic on Thursday.

There's a blink-you-miss it video of the event.

I did take part in the open mic but because I never include my own work as part of the open mic mix (it's better this way), here is a haiku to catch up for the new week.

 

Thanks for reading.

2025

Stone Soup Poetry All Open Mic, 4-24-25

From this week's online gathering. This was last minute, late and therefore really, rally quick. Blink and you'll miss it! Oh, you did...

 

Bye from the Garden of Good and Evil

Thanks to Richard, Mary and Jackie for coming out for what might be the quickest online open mic Stone Soup has ever done. Stay tuned for more news. 

Happy Birthday, Mary Jennings

 

Happy Birthday, Mary Jennings

 

 

Happy Belated Birthday, Mary Jennings

 

Wednesday is Back!

WordPress is working for the moment. We can enjoy poetry by Mary Jennings with photography by Bonnie Matthews Brock. Wednesday can finally get started at Oddball Magazine. 

SAFE DISTANCE EDITION - Stone Soup Croutons, 1-26-22: A Trumpeter's Last Breath

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

Mary Jennings had an amazing feature last Wednesday. So why did it take so lon got get this crouton poem out?

In the video, I noticed that both she and I were coughing. I joked that I was glad she didn't catch the cough from me. I think I paid for that joke. 

 

Sure enough, my cough (which started up again after I was cleared of COVID) got worse over the weekend. 

 

Every day I tried to work on the poem, it seemed symptoms either popped up or intensified. I ended up having a fever that only broke yesterday. I'm monitoring myself at home, taking stronger cough medication and taking one more COVID test in the hopes that I'll be clear tomorrow.

Last night, to celebrate my broken fever, I picked up my pen for the first time since Saturday and started working on the poem again. This is what I came up with. I knew I had to put my best effort in after hearing her poem titled after an old "Twilight Zone" episode. Thanks for reading and thanks for your patience.

A Trumpeter's Last Breath

Dead are toasted with survivor's guilt, 

the sins commited in their place,

the TV shows they never watched.

 

You, one of the slightly motivated

quietly wait for laws the change 

so you can finally be something else.

Mary Jennings Features at Stone Soup Poetry, 1-26-22

From the weekly online gathering. Please consider supporting Mary by donating to her Venmo (@Mary-Jennings-51) or PayPal (nomadsroad@gmail.com).

Cough Cough, Wave

 

 

My first post-Covid Stone Soup happened last night, and it was awesome. Thanks so much to Mary Jennings for a wonderful feature. Please consider supporting Mary by donating to her Venmo (@Mary-Jennings-51) or PayPal (nomadsroad@gmail.com). Stay tuned for news of upcoming features.

Life and Stone Soup Goes On

I survived this latest round of Covid, Stone Soup is back tonight, and Mary Jennings is featuring tonight. I hope you can make it tonight.

Come to Stone Soup Tonight

Join us this evening for our feature with Mary Jennings.

Coming This Wednesday

Stone Soup Poetry is back, and Mary Jennings is our feature.

Happy Birthday, Mary Jennings

Catch her feature this Wednesday at Stone Soup.