Where Will the Stone Soup Stagecoach End Up Next?

We may find out soon.

Tonight: The Stonecoast Review #9 Release Party

NOTE: The  Dudley Cafe is closed now but opens up at 6:30 tonight.

I'm really excited to have this event tonight. I hope you will make it to tonight's release/reading party.

Despite the weather, people are telling me they're coming. I'm very grateful.

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.

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.

Announcing Stone Soup Stagecoach

Artwork by Whiskey Radish.

Stone Soup Stagecoach is the new brand name/imprint for anytime Stone Soup Poetry has an event, a workshop, or a special guest appearance outside of our regular weekly gathering. As a Mass Poetry Representative of Suffolk County, I am hoping to extend Stone Soup from its current Cambridge home to Boston proper (where Stone Soup got it's start), as well as wherever else we are invited.

I hope to make an announcement soon regarding our first Stagecoach "outing." If you are someone who would like to be part of a stagecoach gathering in any form, a regular presence at Stone Soup  will definitely help you stick out as a prospect (that doesn't mean you show up every week, don't worry, I'm fair, but it helps if you are there to help advertise your work to me and to people interested in having us). Of course, contacting me at chadpoetforhire@yahoo.com will also help.

More news coming soon.