Hot Off the Press: Peter Carlaftes "A Year On Facebook"; Hilarious New Book that Will Have You ROTFL

Three Rooms Press proudly announces the realease of a hysterically funny new book by Peter Carlaftes, A Year On Facebook ($13.95, 184 pages, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9840700-3-9).

A Year On Facebook is a madcap journey through the hysterical daily Facebook status updates of author Peter Carlaftes, who became a viral Jonathan Swift through his irreverent social, political and just plain "out-there" observations.

An hilarious book to thumb through at random or read page-by-ROTFL-page, A Year On Facebook is a great gift item for anyone with a funny bone that needs tickling. It's packed with side-splitting illustrations, and "interactive" pages that will leave readers howling with laughter, as proven by the thousands of comments that have flooded Carlaftes' mailbox, many of which are included in this book. As one comment summed up, "I wonder if you know, Peter, how many times you make me laugh out loud with your status updates. Guess it doesn’t matter. Just keep me laughing, please. :)"

Available right now via email order threeroomspress@mac.com.

Poet Alfred Celentano plus Lorca Tribute Friday at Cornelia Street Cafe

Poet Alfred Celentano has lived in and around New York all his life, and works in New York City. He has been writing poetry for over 25 years. He also plays guitar and started writing poetry as lyrics for songs. His work has been published in several periodicals, including the Bay Area Poets Coalition in San Francisco and Philadelphia Poets.

Frederico García Lorca, the most important Spanish poet and dramatist of the 20th century, came to New York in 1929, writing many great poems during his one-year stay here. Celebrate the 80th anniversary of Lorca's New York days by bringing your favorite Lorca poem to read in either English or Spanish or both.

The featured readings will follow an open reading at the cafe. Poet/raconteur Kat Georges hosts. Doors open at 5:45 p.m.; the open reading begins at 6 p.m. Admission is $7, which includes a free drink.

Cornelia Street Cafe is at 29 Cornelia Street, between W. 4th Street & Bleecker, just around the corner from the W. 4th Street subway station. Phone: 212-989-9319. www.corneliastreetcafe.com

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 | 6 PM
CORNELIA STREET CAFE
SON OF A PONY
Featured reader: Alfred Celentano
PLUS
Special tribute to the poetry of Federico García Lorca
Host: Kat Georges
$7 includes free drink

Poet Alan Harawitz features at Cornelia Street Friday, November 6, with Scott Wannberg & David Smith plus open reading

Widely-published New York poet Alan Harawitz will be the featured poet, reading new and selected works, at the terrific Son of a Pony poetry series on Friday, November 6th, 6 p.m., at Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village.

Harawitz' poems have appeared in about 70 publications including Rattle; Poet Lore; Fugue; Pivot; Open Spaces; Pearl; Roanoke Review; California Quarterly; Red Wheelbarrow; and Main Street Rag among others.
Two mini-featured readings will be given by visiting troubadours David Smith and Scott Wannberg. Smith's most recent book "White Time" is on Off Beat Pulp Press. Wannberg's book "Strange Movie Full of Death" (on Viggo Mortenson's Perceval Press) has received rave reviews in the blogosphere.
The featured readings will follow an open reading at the cafe. Poet/racanteour Kat Georges hosts. Doors open at 5:45 p.m.; the open reading begins at 6 p.m. Admission is $7, which includes a free drink.
Cornelia Street Cafe is at 29 Cornelia Street, between W. 4th Street & Bleecker, just around the corner from the W. 4th Street subway station. Phone: 212-989-9319. www.corneliastreetcafe.com