Three Rooms Press: Poets Madeline Artenberg & Mireya Perez Light Up the Mic Friday, Aug. 3rd at Son of a Pony at Cornelia Street Cafe, Greenwich Village, NYC

Monday, July 30, 2012

Poets Madeline Artenberg & Mireya Perez Light Up the Mic Friday, Aug. 3rd at Son of a Pony at Cornelia Street Cafe, Greenwich Village, NYC

Three Rooms Press &

Cornelia Street Café

present

Son of a Pony

Poetry Reading Series

Friday, August 3, 2012

Featured Poet: Madeline Artenberg

Spotlight Poet: Mireya Perez

PLUS NYC's Terrific Open POETRY Mike

Hosted by Kat Georges

Madeline Artenberg’s work appears in many print and online publications, such as The Absinthe Literary Review, Margie, Rattle and Dirty Girls Come Clean. She has garnered awards for poetry, including for performance. She collaborated with Karen Hildebrand on the poetic play, The Old In and Out (Three Rooms Press, 2010), and is co-author (with Iris Schwartz) of Awakened (Rouge Scholar Press)

Mireya Perez's poems leap nimbly from English to Spanish and back again, invoking a powerful array of spirits. Her poetry appears in Caribbean Review, Revista del Hada, IRP Voices, Anthology of Colombian Women Poets, NYU Poetry Review, among others.

Plus--the invigorating Son of a Pony open reading, hosted by the extraordinary Kat Georges. YOU are invited to read your poetry! Go For It! Doors open at 5:45 p.m.; open reading begins at 6 p.m. Admission is $8, which includes a free drink. Cornelia Street Cafe is at 29 Cornelia Street, in the West Village of New York City (between W. 4th Street and Bleecker). 212-989-9319

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