Three Rooms Press: Moving Forward with Better, Brighter Books this summer

Monday, April 9, 2007

Moving Forward with Better, Brighter Books this summer

Three Rooms Press is on the move with 2 new books due out this month (Slow Dance at 120 Beats a Minute, and Punk Rock Journal by Kathi Georges), as well as mid-summer publication of a collected poems by Peter Carlaftes, including those previously published in his books Bar Essentials, Sheer Bardom, Nightclub Confidential and Barstool Backslide; and late-summer publication of Splinters, which features poetry by Karen Hildebrand and artwork by William Wareham. Thes e last two books represents our move into "legitimate" books, perfect bound with bright, shiny covers and (gasp!) ISPN numbers. More than this, these books are HOT! with incredible work by
some of the today's best American writers.

The book release party for Slow Dance and Punk Rock Journal will be held at Cornelia Street Cafe in New York City on June 8, 2007, at 6 pm. For those of you who are not in NYC, we will be having a special, almost-live PODCAST of Ms. Georges reading poems from her new book so you can join in the exciting event remotely!

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