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.
March 10: Mignon Ariel King Returns to Stone Soup
For almost half of Mignon Ariel King's features for Stone Soup, she has given attention to other poets that she's published. This year, I'm glad to not only have Mignon back after so long, but to have her featuring a brand new collection. Not only that, she's also released a call for submissions for her new Tell Tale Chapbooks. Take a look at her recent poem in Oddball Magazine, and plan to be in the audience this Monday.
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. Keep visiting the Massachusetts Poetry Festival website for more information on this event and others.
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. Keep visiting the Massachusetts Poetry Festival website for more information on this event and others.
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.
Go JoeGO Go! Poems for José Gouviea at Oddball Magazine
About a month ago, Oddball Magazine presented a series a poems dedicated to José Gouveia, poet, editor and WOMR radio host, who is undergoing another treatment for cancer this Monday the 30th. We hope you will not only appreciate the love and support from an array of contributing poets but also consider donating to the Joe Gouveia Recovery Fund, an online effort to help offset the cost of this costly and vital surgery. The fund actually hit over $10,000 before his surgery took place on December 30th. Thanks for all your support, and click here to see the poems we have so far. Consider donating for the first time or even a second time.
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
