Happy Birthday, Valerie Loveland

 

 

Happy Birthday, Valerie Loveland

 

 

Stone Soup Croutons, 5-29-24: How to Remove Blood

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.

Thank you, Valerie Loveland, for closing May out this past Wednesday.  Her computer died, but she was able to get back on and complete her feature. The part in the video when she "freezes" is even worth watching.

The poems I've been writing for the last week have been less surreal and more bordering on the senseless. This week I really tried to match the surreal quality of Valerie's work. The blood came from something else I'm working on related to everything thing I'm seeing online. 

Just my way of saying don't ask me what it means.

I hope to be less exhausted and more lucid in June.

Thanks for reading. 

How to Remove Blood

 

Because you asked.

First the clothing,

the body, needs to 

agree to be purged. 

Valerie Loveland Features at Stone Soup Poetry, 5-29-24

From this week's online gathering. Thanks to Valerie for pushing through technical difficulties to deliver a wonderful feature. Be sure to purchase her book from The Crooked Tree House.

 

 

Bye, May!

Our celebration of Stone Soup's fifty-third anniversary has come to an end. Thanks to Valerie Loveland for closing out the month. To get a copy of her latest book, you can send $14 to Venmo (valerie-loveland) Cash App ($valerieloveland) or PayPal (lovelandvalerie@yahoo.com). Thanks to everyone who was a feature, a participant or a virtual audience member in May. Stay tuned for more Stone Soup Poetry news for June!

I Need to Leave

Stone Soup Poetry presents Valerie Loveland in just a few hours. I hope you'll join me for the last night of Stone Soup Poetry's anniversary month. 

Tonight!

Stone Soup concludes it's fifty-third anniversary month with Valerie Loveland.

After This Holiday Weekend

Join us for Valerie Loveland's Stone Soup Poetry's feature this Wednesday.

Wait Until We Get to the End of the Month!

Valerie Loveland closes out Stone Soup Poetry's fifty-third anniversary month.

Mystery Solved: Valerie Loveland Closes Out May for Stone Soup Poetry

 

 

Valerie Loveland has been away from Stone Soup for a while. Thanks to the power of Zoom, we can have her back for Stone Soup's fifty third anniversary and celebrate the release of her new poetry collection. So please join us as we welcome back Valerie on May 29.

Join us on May 29 from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET by clicking this link.

The meeting ID is 846 0873 9124

Password: stonesoup

 

Happy Birthday, Valerie Loveland

 

 

Waited a Year to Post This

Valerie Loveland used this meme on Facebook last March. I stole it and waited until today to post it here. 

Happy Birthday, Valerie Loveland

 

Your Wednesday Morning Poetry

A little rebranding this week. Calling this series "Your Wednesday Morning Poetry" now because sometimes there will be more than one poem, like today. Here's a set of poems in Dream Pop Journal from Valerie Loveland inspired by the classic "Unsolved Mysteries" television series.

Happy Birthday, Valerie Loveland

 

Speaking of New Issues

In addition to Wilderness House, the new issue of FreezeRay Poetry just came out. Highlights include a Judge Judy poem by Zeke Russell and Valerie Loveland's series of poems inspired  by the TV show "Unsolved Mysteries." 

Both these journals have two things in common. 

1. I've been published in them before.

2. I really wanted my work to be in them right now, but it didn't work out.

At least I can still enjoy reading them while planning my next batch of submissions.  

Another Donation

To be fair, I do have another copy of this book, which I bought when this one got water damaged.

Valerie Loveland's Recent Chapter and Verse Reading

Loving the "Unsolved Mysteries" poems from this reading. 

Happy Birthday Valerie Loveland

Happy Birthday Valerie Loveland

I know you've found a better job since this poem.

I mean, you would have had to, right?