Happy Belated Birthday, Sam Cha

 

 

Surprise

 

A selection of Sam Cha's poetry for this Thursday at The Arts Fuse. 

Happy Birthday, Sam Cha

 

Happy Birthday, Sam Cha

 

Gaza and God

 

Kudos to Sam Cha for his poem in this week's edition of The Arts Fuse. 

 

Happy Birthday, Sam Cha

 

Tonight: The Garage Poets Open Mic featuring Sam Cha

Hosted by Jeff Taylor and Anna Geoffroy. Click here to find out how to join.

Happy Birthday, Sam Cha

 

 

Happy Birthday, Sam Cha

 

SAFE DISTANCE EDITION - Stone Soup Croutons, 9-15-21: First Day

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.

Thanks to Sam Cha for an amszing feature on Wednesday. I submit a poem that is woefully inadequate to the night. You're best to watch the show than read this. 

For this week's poem, I thought about Sam Cha's new teaching gig, a hundred adjunct horror stories over the years, and I just went from there. I'm not sure whey I chose purple be a "bad" color to have. I'll need to go back to that later. Not sure who the "you" is in the poem, but I sure as hell hope it's not me. Thanks for reading.

First Day

Look both ways before

going out wearing purple,

the color of doomed adjuncts,

 

scores of  Edward Munchs 

waiting for the right bridge 

to cry help, save them from 

Sam Cha Features at Stone Soup Poetry, 9-15-21

From the weekly online gathering. Please support Sam Cha by purchasing his two collections: American Carnage and his latest, The Yellow Book.

Sam Cha Did The Wave! You Saw It!

 

 

Thanks to Sam Cha for an amazing feature after being away from our group for too long. Stay tuned for news for next week, and be back in two weeks for Denise Washington.

We're Almost There!

Just a few more hours until Sam Cha's feature at Stone Soup Poetry. I've waited this long. I can wait a little bit more. I hope you're all there with me on the Zoom call tonight. 

At Long Last

Don't miss Sam Cha's feature tonight at Stone Soup Poetry.

We Finally Got Here

Sam Cha returns to Stone Soup Poetry this Wednesday.

Wave to Help Keep You Cool (it's still summer, after all)

 

Thanks so much to our first September feature, Meg Smith. Visit her website to buy her book or at least send a donation to her PayPal at meg@megsmithwriter.com. Be sure to come back next week for the long-awaited feature of Sam Cha.

This September

Sam Cha features at Stone Soup Poetry on September 15.

September 15: Stone Soup Poetry and Sam Cha

 

Along with Stephanie Kaylor, Sam Cha was the other poet I thought about giving a forum to after the terrible acts of violence committed in April of this year. I had some poems of Sam's published in Oddball Magazine and waited for the right time to get him to Stone Soup. Now I can announce that Sam Cha has a Stone Soup feature for September. I encourage you to tune in and listen. It's been years since I've had him read for us, and I'm glad to finally have him return.

Join us on September 15 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 829 9463 6404

Password: stonesoup

Thirty Days of Stone Soup Stuff

 

Before I put my efforts into Oddball Magazine, there was Spoonful, an online tribute magazine to Stone Soup Poetry and its participants. 

I would never have had to courage to press on with this idea if it weren't for James Conant and his wife Cindy K. Williams, two artists who always had work for me for six straight issues (Issues #0 to #5). Cindy would give me a great cover photo to anchor the work in place, and James would provide the quirkier works for the poems inside, though they would work together as well.

The above art piece is called "Lost Days" one they worked on together. I believe Cindy took the initial photo and James did his style over it. It adorned a poem by Sam Cha in issue #3 back in 2008. 

There's probably a lot of poets who wish they could take back their work for that journal, given that I was just learning how to manipulate Blogger. Whatever. I did the best with what I knew and what I had, and I still owe James and Cindy the world a dozen times over for all their help. 

Final Word

In response to the terrorism attacks in Georgia on March 16, we present an excerpt from Sam Cha​'s 2018 chapbook, American Carnage, plus one additional poem. Thanks for reading Oddball Magazine this week.