Mark F. Stone reads his poetry at the Society of Classical Poets’ in-person Poetry Symposium held in Naperville, Illinois on September 5-6, 2025:
Video created by Andrew Benson Brown.
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Thanks Margaret. I enjoy how you tie poems together!
I love this poem, Paul, because of how well it describes and explains one of the most uniquely beautiful places…
Joe, I love your interpretation - as far as I'm concerned" a gold-digging young gigolo who attaches himself to a…
Urszula, what an imaginative limerick! That is something Poe might have done! Sorry to be so late seeing this.
Agreed, Urszula! Thank you for commenting.
The personal, the comic, the satirical.
I especially enjoyed the first after your intro.
Your first poem disclosed the trepidations of all poets, or so it does for me. I like the second one, also. The internal rhyme scheme in the third poem was especially rewarding to hear and read.
Paul and Roy, Thank you very much for your kind words. I must also thank Andrew Benson Brown, a world-class editor, who did a phenomenal job editing this video! Mark
Great reading of your poems. I really enjoyed the first one, the second is quite clever with connecting Dactyls with pterodactyl. The third one was quite ambitious. I enjoyed the musicality in all three of them.
Thanks for sharing and thanks to the editor as you mentioned.
Wonderful wit and humour – great to see you in action again, Mark. Very droll indeed! I must come to the USA and perform with you all over again!!
Paul: I am very pleased that you enjoyed the poems. Thank you for taking the time to comment!
James: Thank you for your kind and generous words. Yes, it was great fun reading poems together in that park in New York City back in 2019. You absolutely must come to the next SCP conference. We all would love to meet with you in person again!
Ok, noted Mark – I am hoping to free up more of time to do such things soon!!! Love to see you, Evan and the gang again!