Three Rooms Press: January 2009

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Call for Submissions: Maintenant 3 DaDa Poetry Journal

Be a part of the 2nd annual New York DaDa Poetry Salon Magazine, by submitting your DaDa-inspired poetry and/or art to Maintenant 3, inspired by DaDa instigator and Three Rooms Press spiritual advisor Arthur Cravan. We're looking for short DaDa-inspired poetry for this crazy 'zine or black and white art. The 'zine will only be distributed at the DaDa Poetry Salon on March 20th, 2009 at Cornelia Street Cafe (6-8 p.m.), and via mail to contributors. No online distribution!!

Hurray for print and things you hold in your hand!

Interested? Please send an email to threeroomspressms@mac.com for details. We look forward to hearing from you. Picture is the cover of last year's Maintenant 2. Arthur Cravan is credited with creating the first 'zine in the world with his publication Maintenant. We're proud to carry on the tradition.

Friday, January 23, 2009

MONDAY, JAN. 26: The Green Scene Cabaret at Theater for the New City

A crazy event to support getting a green roof for Theater for the New City.

In the spirit of ecological responsibility, THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY has recently launched a campaign to turn its flat roof into a Green Roof with a Solar element, with the ultimate goal of supplementing our energy and greatly reducing its bills while sweetening the neighborhood air. The first of these events is The Green Scene Cabaret, hosted by playwrights Lissa Moira and Richard West (their musical, Who Murdered Love? opens at TNC in March).

Three Rooms Press' own PETER CARLAFTES and KAT GEORGES will be lending their talent to the cause in the debut of their new performance piece, "GreenAgers In Love." Very fun! Very funny! Two kids on a mission to save the world from itself. Hope to see you there.

Other performers with all Green-themed pieces include: Green Comedians: Stan Baker and Stan Rifken plus Green Musicians soft rock group Break And Run, Glorious chanteuse about town Louisa Bradshaw, Song stylist David Vernon, Satirist and composer Richard West. Plus Green Earth Performers (Theater): The Drama Bums, Lissa Moira (performing her own piece, The Seduction of Time, opposite the brilliant Zen Mansley), Zen Mansley, Playwright Larry Myers contributes a new monologue AND Greensleeved Poets: Ronnie Norpel, and Sally Davidson

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 1st Avenue, New York, NY 10003
Tel: (212) 254-1109
www.theaterforthenewcity.net
Monday, January 26th, 8:00 – 10:00pm
Tickets $7.50 or 2 for $12.00

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Ism Is a Retrovirus

Inheriting Craziness is LIke a Soft Halo of Light

Thomas Fucaloro's spectacular first collection of poetry is a beautiful, raw, intense read. According to Emily Kagan Trenchard, curator of the louderARTS Project, "Thomas Fucaloro’s particular gift is to harness the crazed wisdom at the bottom of the bottle, to scrape a fleck of beauty from the underside of a binge, and to call madness by a name so familiar we can’t help but recognize it in ourselves." In these 57 poems, Fucaloro brings to light new angles of perception of madness, addiction and modern urban living. Each poem takes risks in form and content. As author Jon Sands notes, "To read Thomas is to literally discover each line with him. There's really nothing he won't say. He's as surprised as you are."

DRUNKYARD DOG

DrunkYard Dog by Peter Carlaftes is a collection by a new poetic master who has honed his intense, insightful and inspiring poetic voice on the playgrounds of the Bronx, and the bars of Manhattan. Tales of bartender blues and bliss, injected with hope in a mileau of madness swirl into a powerful poetic cocktail. Carlaftes offers a brilliant poetic voice, filled with drop-dead humor, searing insight and resilient originality, even while resonating with overtones of Bukowski, Baudelaire and Bogart.

TRIUMPH FOR RENT

Playwright Peter Carlaftes presents three compelling, funny and biting dramas in Triumph for Rent: Three Plays (Three Rooms Press, 182 pages, 2010). The plays include Spin-Dry: An hilarious wild ride through a 90s rehab center for celebrities; Hunger: inspired by the Knut Hamsun novel; and Frontier A-Go-Go, a time travel piece uniting the hippie 60s, nerd/rave 90s and techno future. "As with Strindberg, Beckett, or even Satre—Carlaftes' message seems to be something we intuit . . . like music." SF Weekly.

MARY ANDERSON'S ENCORE

In “Mary Anderson’s Encore,” award-winning international playwright Larry Myers explores the great American tragedienne, Mary Anderson, who skyrocketed to fame with her first role, and retired by age 30. Called by the New York Daily News “One of Off-Broadway’s wittiest & more prolific playwrights,” Myers’ works have been seen in Rome, Italy at Teatro Olimpico & Scotland’s Edinburgh Festival, as well as Anchorage, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Louisville, San Francisco & Los Angeles.