News and Events
Photo by Jerry Hoyt
I'll be updating this site with news concerning my work and readings, as well as including features for Stone Soup Poetry, where I host almost every week. For slightly more updated news, more personal material, and occasionally more quirky things, you can visit my regular blog:
chadparenteaupoetforhire.blogspot.com
My Book Patron Emeritus Is Available
My book came out in 2013. You can get a little bit more info on this page or even this one. The most important information is where to buy it. Please click here and do so if you haven't already.
Oddball Magazine's Poetry Marathon Has Begun!
Today Oddball Magazine is posting poetry commemorating last year's Marathon Tragedy. Keep following this link throughout the day for new postings from poets like Doug Holder, Neil Silberblatt Chris Warner, and many others.
April 21: Marathon Monday and Jennifer Jean
When the Boston Marathon bombing happened last year, I cancelled Stone Soup Poetry for the evening. I hope I will not have to do that again tonight. I urge you all to come to Cambridge and share your words and thoughts on the events and even today's happenings, whether it is excitement over today's winners or praise for a family member who finished. Additionally, I want you to be in the audience when Jennifer Jean reads from her new book The Fool. Consider it a capstone to today's celebrations as well as a preview to next month's National Poetry Month festival. Let's close out one year later in the best of ways, with friends and art.
Boston Marathon U.M.Ph.! Prose Issue Up Again
Mignon Ariel King closed her online journal U.M.Ph.! Prose but to commemorate last year's Boston Marathon tragedy, she is reposting for a limited time her commemorative issue of the journal from May 2013. My poem "Mom at The Marathon" first appeared in that issue. Read the entier issue while you can here.
See Me Read at The Massachusetts Poetry Festival
I'll be part of the Poets with New Books reading on May 3. There are three sessions of readers for that afternoon, and I'll be reading during the third one. The full schedule of readers is here. I'll be reading alongside a number of friends, colleagues and voices new to me. I hope you're there to see more than just me. In fact, check out the Massachusetts Poetry Festival's main site for the whole weekend. I'll be there Friday not only for my panel but for personal poetry idol Phillip Levine and many others.
Another Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Another Panel--"Stone Soup Presents: Oddball Magazine"
Come to Our Panel at The 2014 Massachusetts Poetry Festival
Stone Soup Presents Oddball Magazine
Friday, May 2, 2014, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia Room
Salem Massachusetts
In 2013, the long-running Stone Soup poetry series joined forces with an eclectic poetry journal to provide voices to various uncollected voices and gather them under one supportive banner. The journal has since expanded to include regular columns and features that help to support and promote Stone Soup and other artistic efforts in the Boston area and beyond. Please join us for a reading from Oddball’s most noted and regular contributors, including former Cambridge Poet Populist Toni Bee, Stone Soup host and organizer Chad Parenteau, and Oddball Magazine founder Jason Wright. Click here to reserve a spot.
Stone Soup Presents Oddball Magazine
Friday, May 2, 2014, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Hawthorne Hotel, Sophia Room
Salem Massachusetts
In 2013, the long-running Stone Soup poetry series joined forces with an eclectic poetry journal to provide voices to various uncollected voices and gather them under one supportive banner. The journal has since expanded to include regular columns and features that help to support and promote Stone Soup and other artistic efforts in the Boston area and beyond. Please join us for a reading from Oddball’s most noted and regular contributors, including former Cambridge Poet Populist Toni Bee, Stone Soup host and organizer Chad Parenteau, and Oddball Magazine founder Jason Wright. Click here to reserve a spot.
My New Column for Oddball Magazine
I am currently working with political cartoonist George Panagopoulos, on a humor column of words and pictures called "The Last(ish) Word." Check out our column by clicking here.
Find My Work in The Anthology Uncommon Core
My poem "He Wants to Be The Lion of Lonely-Hearts" appears in this new tome, which means I appear in a book alongside such dignitaries as Marge Piercy and Patricia Smith(!!!) among others. To understand the unique approach to this book--which explains the circumstances where my work could actually appear with Patricia Smith's--click the link here then order the book.
My Work In Sounds of Wind
The anthology Sounds of Wind: New American Lyrics debuted as part of the Drini Poetik International Festival of Poetry in Prizren, Kosovo. Albanian poet Lediana Stillo, who has been attending school in Massachusetts, asked me and other American poets to contribute to this volume, including Ian Thal, Dave Brinks, Maggie Cleveland, John Sibley Williams and several others. I am honored to have of my poems appear here both in English and in Albanian as translated by Lediana. As of now, there is no way to obtain this book, but hopefully that will change soon and I will be able to make announcements.
Initial news photo courtesy of Bill Perrault
