Three Rooms Press: October Babies Unplugged! Kat Georges! Raphael Moser! Susan Scutti! Aug. 24-7:30-East Village

Sunday, August 22, 2010

October Babies Unplugged! Kat Georges! Raphael Moser! Susan Scutti! Aug. 24-7:30-East Village

To celebrate Raphael Moser's one year anniversary at online poetry journal October Babies (http://octoberbabies.wordpress.com), we're doing a one-night only reading: October Babies Unplugged! Features include the three OB mainstays—Kat Georges, Raphael Moser & Susan Scutti—PLUS guest poets who have contributed to the journal during its two-year lifespan.

Guest poets? Make that NYC-based poetic luminaries—including Madeline Artenberg, Steve Dalachinsky, Thomas Fucaloro, Robert Mueller, Yuko Otomo, Eve Packer, and George Spencer.

One night only! Tuesday, August 24, 7:30 pm at Bar Ten-Eleven (171 Ave. C, btwn 10th & 11th). Great venue—and it's FREE!

About October Babies: October Babies began in December 2008 with weekly contributions from Susan Scutti and Kat Georges. In August 2009, Raphael Moser joined as a weekly contributor. The goal of the publication is for each of the main contributors to write and post a new poem-in-progress every week, to keep creative juices flowing and allow for commentary on work as it is being developed. Sprinkled between the weekly contributor's work are the poems of guest poets, curated by Scutti. For more information, email lunarmind@gmail.com (please include October Babies in the subject line).

And be sure to visit October Babies online at http://octoberbabies.wordpress.com) to read, comment & contribute your poetry!

No comments:

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.