Charles Bukowski Tribute Reading with Free Prizes and Drinks Jan. 7 NYC

Charles Bukowski Tribute

Friday, January 7, 2011

6 pm

With Featured Performers including

Peter Carlaftes, Angelo Verga, Kat Georges, George Wallace, Thomas Fucaloro, Ron Singer & Ryan Buynak

Plus drinks! prizes! and poetry!

@ Cornelia St. Cafe NYC

For the first Son of a Pony reading of 2011 at Cornelia Street Cafe, we’re once again celebrating the life with a tribute reading to Charles Bukowski. Poet Charles Bukowski was truly one of the few and far between: a champion of the outsider, the lost and lonely, the outcasts from society. Especially during this ongoing period of economic uncertainty and working class adversity, his work resonates like none other, revealing the naked human soul.

At this tribute reading, anyone is welcome to bring their favorite Bukowski poem, or read an original poem that was inspired by Bukowski. We’ll be showing videos of Bukowski, plus giving away his books and other prizes.

Plus a select number of readers including Host Kat Georges, and poets Peter Carlaftes, Angelo Verga, George Wallace, Thomas Fucaloro, Ron Singer and Ryan Buynak will bring Bukowski poems to life in five very unique ways.

Doors open at 5:45. Admission is $7 which includes (naturally) a free drink! Arrive early to sign up on the reading list, or just come and enjoy the fun. Cornelia Street Cafe is at 29 Cornelia Street, in the West Village, between W. 4th Street at Bleecker (http://corneliastreecafe.com).

Reservations and additional information: threeroomspress@mac.com

Poets Matthew Hupert & Emily F. Keller Ride the Pony 12/17

FRIDAY, December 17, 2010

6 PM | CORNELIA STREET CAFE

SON OF A PONY POETRY SERIES

Featured poets

Matthew Hupert Book Launch

AND

Emily F. Keller

PLUS

NYC's Best Open POETRY Mike

Hosted by Kat Georges

Join us for the last Pony reading of 2010!

Three Rooms Press is proud to present the book launch for Ism Is a Retrovirus by Matthew Hupert. Hupert a multi-media artist, writer, and that rarest of birds — the Native New Yorker. He believes the primary role of the Artist is to be the stick that your Zen master smacks you in the head with. His poetry has been published in The Formalist, the contemporary dada poetry and art journal Maintenant, and the anthology 150 Contemporary Sonnets.

Ism is a Retrovirus has been lauded by Mondo 2000 editor R.U. Sirius, and raved about by Jack Kerouac and Grateful Dead biographer Dennis McNally, who notes "[Hupert] sees how the words work, listens to them working, feels their meaning and spits 'em out. I love his poetry."

Emily F. Keller is a journalist, creative nonfiction writer and poet whose work mixes personal stories with social commentary. She writes about relationships, New York City, childhood and seasons. She lives in Brooklyn and performs at the Louder Arts Project, the Cornelia Street Café and the Bowery Poetry Club. You can learn more about her at www.emilyfkeller.com.

The featured reading follows the fabulous Son of a Pony open reading at the cafe. Poet & sultry mistress of ceremonies 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

COMING SOON TO THE PONY:

NEW SCHEDULE IN 2011

1st & 3rd FRIDAYS ONLY!

January 7: Bukowski Tribute Night

January 21: Thomas Fucaloro

February 4: Ocean Vuong

February 18: Idiom Poets Group

Call for Dada Art & Poetry Submissions: Maintenant 5

Be a part of the 4th annual New York DaDa Poetry Salon, by submitting your DaDa-inspired poetry and/or art to Maintenant5, A Journal of Contemporary Dada Poetry & Art. The concept of Maintenant is inspired by DaDa instigator and Three Rooms Press spiritual advisor Arthur Cravan. In the past three annual issues, we received increasingly bolder work from Neo-Dadaists worldwide. We’re excited about this year’s new perfect bound format, and we’re looking for the best Neo-Dada work ever to publish.

Poems should be no longer than 20 lines. DO NOT send multi-page long poems as they will not fit our format and will be rejected outright. DO submit shorter pieces—as long as it is full of the intensity and madness that reflects the age we’re living in. Also–we LOVE Dada-inspired poetic word art, collage and photography. All art must be submitted in jpeg format, high resolution (300 dpi, 4×5 in). Black & White only.

Send your submissions to editor@threeroomspress.com

The journal will be distributed at the DaDa Poetry Salon on Friday, March 18th, 2011 at Cornelia Street Cafe (29 Cornelia Street, NYC, 6-8 p.m.), via mail to contributors, and to those wise enough to request a copy.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: JANUARY 31, 2011

*Arthur Cravan is credited with creating the first ‘zine in the world with his publication Maintenant. We’re proud to carry on the tradition.

http://threeroomspress.com/2010/11/call-for-dada-submissions-maintenant5-pub-date-march-2011/

Peter Carlaftes on the best pizza in New York City

TRP's own Peter Carlaftes was recently seen on The Travel Channel's primetime show "Food Wars," singing high praises for the pizza at John's of Bleecker Street in NYC. Check out the 32-second clip with his hilarious running commentary. Trust us: He means every word.

Tip of the week: John's will be handing out a very special FREE 2011 calendar over the next couple weeks, with concept & design by Three Rooms Press (so you know it's going to be great!). Pictured is a sneak peek of the cover. Get yours free at John's (278 Bleecker, between 6th & 7th Ave.) after Thanksgiving. And remember: Whole pies only--NO SLICES!

Poets T.C. Gardstein & Creighton Blinn Sparkle at Son of a Pony

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2010

6 PM | CORNELIA STREET CAFE

SON OF A PONY POETRY SERIES

Featured poets

T.C. GARDSTEIN & CREIGHTON BLINN

plus

NYC's Best Open POETRY Mike

Hosted by KAT GEORGES

T.C. Gardstein is a writer, artist, astrologer, copyeditrix, love child of Henry Miller & Anais Nin, and author of The Poetry Prostitute (erotic verse; Paper Bag Press), Sandwich Filling (erotic fiction; Paper Bag Press) and Circuit (fiction; Xlibris). Discounted books will be available at the reading.

Creighton Blinn's poetry has been published in The Binnacle, Down in the Dirt Magazine and Census. His prose story "The Fifth Day" has been serialized int he journal Zenite.

The featured readings follow the fabulous Son of a Pony open reading at the cafe. You are invited to bring your own work to read! Poet/convivial mistress of ceremonies 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

Thomas Fucaloro Book Launch: Sun. Nov. 7, 6 pm, Parkside Lounge

Three Rooms Press presents
Inheriting Craziness!
Book launch for
Inheriting Craziness is Like a Soft Halo of Light
poems by
Thomas Fucaloro

Sunday, November 7, 6:00 pm
Parkside Lounge
317 East Houston Street New York, 10002
(212) 673-6270

Three Rooms Press' latest release, Inheriting Craziness is Like a Soft Halo of LIght, by Thomas Fucaloro, is a spectacular first collection of poetry by an intense new literatry talent. 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."

$5 admission (applies to purchase of book)

Featured reading by
Thomas Fucaloro
with additional performances by
Three Rooms Press All-Stars
including
Ryan Buynak
Peter Carlaftes
Karen Hildebrand
Puma Perl
Susan Scutti
Jackie Sheeler
George Wallace
with host Kat Georges

Poet Tina Kelley Lights Up Son of a Pony Reading Series Fri. Nov. 5

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2010

6 PM | CORNELIA STREET CAFE

SON OF A PONY POETRY SERIES

Featured poet

TINA KELLEY

plus

NYC's Best Open POETRY Mike

Hosted by Kat Georges

Tina Kelley is on the staff of Covenant House, where she is co-writing a book of profiles of homeless teenagers. She was a reporter at The New York Times for ten years, and also worked at the Seattle Times and Philadelphia Inquirer. Her first book of poems, The Gospel of Galore, (Word Press, 2003) won a Washington State Book Award, and she won a fraction of a Pulitzer Prize for being a part of the Times’ coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks, and wrote 121 “Portraits of Grief,” short descriptions of the victims. She lives with her husband and two children in Maplewood, New Jersey.

The featured reading follows the fabulous Son of a Pony open reading at the cafe. Poet/convivial mistress of ceremonies 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

The Typewriter Girls and UK Poet James Byrne Ride the Pony Oct. 17

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2010

6 PM | CORNELIA STREET CAFE

SON OF A PONY POETRY SERIES

Featured poets

JAMES BYRNE

and

THE TYPEWRITER GIRLS

PLUS

NYC's Best Open POETRY Mike

Hosted by Kat Georges

James Byrne is the Editor and co-founder of The Wolf poetry magazine. His debut collection, Passages of Time, was published by Flipped Eye in 2003. Blood / Sugar is his second collection. He is the co-editor of Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century, an anthology of British and Irish poets under 35, to be published by Bloodaxe in 2009, and the Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees, forthcoming from Carcanet in 2010. In 2008 he won the Treci Trg poetry prize in Serbia. As a result his Selected Poems is to be published (in a bilingual edition) in Belgrade in 2009.

The TypewriterGirls are a performance art troupe who strive to embody the Comte de Lautréamont's creed "poetry must be made by all." Taking their cues from Hugo Ball and Tristan Tzara's Cabaret Voltaire, TypewriterGirls co-founders Crystal Hoffman and Margaret Bashaar orchestrate poetry cabarets that may include dancing, live music, circus acts, time travel and a million other surprises along the way. Always inspiring and exciting!

The featured readings follow the fabulous Son of a Pony open reading at the cafe. Poet/mistress of ceremonies 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

Poet Pamela Sneed Rocks Her Words at Cornelia Street Cafe Friday, Oct. 1

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2010 6 PM
CORNELIA STREET CAFE
SON OF A PONY POETRY SERIES
Featured poet PAM SNEED
plus NYC's Best Open POETRY Mike
Hosted by Kat Georges

Pamela Sneed is a New York-based poet, performer, writer and actress. She is the author of Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery, published by Henry Holt (1998.) And KONG and other works published by Vintage Entity press 2009.

Sneed is the recipient of the 2006 BAX award for performance. She has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Source, Time Out, VIBE, Karl Lagerfeld's "Off The Record," on the cover of New York Magazine and in 2009 her work appeared in Essence magazine.

Recent & forthcoming publications include work in The 100 Best African American Poems edited by Nikki Giovanni (Nov. 2010),and Best American Short Plays. In 2001, 2002, and in 2005 she headlined the New Work Now Festival at Joe's Pub/Public Theater and performed before sold out houses.

The featured reading follows the fabulous Son of a Pony open reading at the cafe. Poet/convivial mistress of ceremonies 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

Peter and the Parthenon: Reads Sat. Sept. 18 at Greek-Amer Writers Assoc. at Cornelia St. Cafe

Three Rooms Press' own Peter Carlaftes--just back from his Northern European poetry book tour--shivers the Greek timbers of his ancestry in what is sure to be a thunderous, Zeus-like reading this Saturday, Sept. 18, 6 pm, at the Cornelia St. Cafe's monthly Greek-American Writers Association series. He's sure to share some funny and touching stories of his Peloponnese-born grandparents, so don't miss out.

Dean Kostos, host. Readers include: Kalliope Constantaras, Peter Carlaftes, and Davidson Garrett.

No cover. 1 Ouzo minimum (kidding!)

Bob Hart Book Launch at Cornelia St. Cafe Fri., Sept. 17

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2010
6 PM | CORNELIA STREET CAFE
SON OF A PONY POETRY SERIES
Featured poet
Bob Hart
PLUS
NYC's Best Open POETRY Mike
Hosted by Kat Georges

Book launch for Bob Hart's new book "Lightly in the Good of Day" on Bench Press Poetry.

Bob Hart is a joker, a trickster, a gambler. He plays with life for the highest stakes, nothing less than immortality, fullness, significance. Not for him the solemn approach to these ponderous subjects, but the sleight-of-hand to match, and trump, chance, emptiness and transience. A pun, an accident of language, may be endowed by poetry with meaning. In Bob’s hands, a stone may be “a well of things well felt.”

Hart grew up in Harlem, on 145th Street, 142nd Street and 158th Street. He served in the army from 1952 to 1954, and was stationed in Germany during the Korean War. Now he works for a mail sorting company in Midtown West, and lives in Brooklyn. He has a previous small book of poems titled Acrobat. This is his second book.

Reading from the new book will be Jane Ormerod, Adriana Scorpino, R. Nemo Hill and Thomas Fucaloro. Bruce Weber and his band The No Chance Ensemble will render two poems in vocals and guitar, followed by a reading by the author himself.

The featured reading follows the fabulous Son of a Pony open reading at the cafe. Poet/convivial mistress of ceremonies 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

Poets Kat Georges & Janice Brabaw feature at Tillie's of Brooklyn Tuesday, Sept. 21

The Brownstone Poets presents:

KAT GEORGES with JANICE BRABAW

plus open poetry reading with host Patricia Carragon

on Tuesday, September 21, 7pm

at Tillies of Brooklyn, 248 DeKalb Ave. (at Vanderbilt) in Fort Greene, Brooklyn

Fresh off her European book tour, the intense and inspiring Three Rooms Press poet Kat Georges makes her Brooklyn debut with a featured reading at the venerable Brownstone Poets series at Tillie's of Brooklyn (248 DeKalb Ave., Fort Greene) on Tuesday, September 21 at 7pm. She will be joined by fellow featured poet Janice Brabaw. The event includes an open reading, and is hosted by Brownstone Press curator Patricia Carragon.

Georges has three collections of her poetry, Punk Rock Journal, Maiden Claiming and Slow Dance at 120 Beats a Minute (all Three Rooms Press). Her poetry appears in numerous journals and anthologies including The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thunder’s Mouth Press) and The Verdict is In (Manic D Press, also editor). In New York since 2003, she has directed numerous Off-Broadway plays, including Jack Kerouac: Catholic and Twitter Theater, by Larry Myers, and Sarah's Choice, by Peter Carlaftes. She co-hosts the weekly Son of a Pony poetry series at Cornelia St. Cafe, and is founder, editor and chief rabble rouser of publishing and performance powerhouse Three Rooms Press.

Janice Brabaw is the critically acclaimed author of two collections of poetry - Universe, Disturbed and Tongue for Folie. She is the editor of The Best of Stain anthologies and was the host of the Stained Glass Confessional and An Echo, A Stain reading series. Janice has performed at The Bowery Poetry Club, Otto's Shrunken Head, The Inspired Word, Soule Series, and the Library Lounge series at Telephone Bar. Her work has appeared in Poesis, smoke, Violent Femininity - A Journal of Female Poets, The Toronto Quarterly, Ophelia Street, The Record, and The Cartier Street Review.

Event Recap:

Poetry Grows in Ft. Greene

feat. Kat Georges & Janice Brabaw

plus open reading with host Patricia Caragon

Tuesday, September 21 at Tillies of Brooklyn

Starts at 7p.m. – Sign up at 6:45p.m.

Tillies of Brooklyn

248 DeKalb Ave. (at Vanderbilt), Brooklyn, NY 11205

Phone # (718) 783-6140

Take the J, R or Q trains to DeKalb Avenue, the C to Lafayette, the G to Clinton/Washington, or 2, 3, 4, 5 to Nevins St.

$3 Donation – plus Food/Drink – Limited Open Mic - one poem (3-minute limit)

Curated by Patricia Carragon

more info: pattiekake@earthlink.net

Twin Towers Kat Georges & Peter Carlaftes Read in London Sept. 11

THREE ROOM PRESS' OWN

KAT GEORGES & PETER CARLAFTES

(AKA — THE TWIN TOWERS)

INVADE LONDON WITH POETRY ON 9/11

The Cellar returns on the 11th September with a top notch bill that includes:

Kat Georges- Anthologised in the seminal Outlaw Bible of American Verse, Kat Georges is a true Renaissance woman - helming the Three Rooms Press, directing many off Broadway shows and running a weekly poetry event that has featured the like of Mark Strand, Anne Waldman and Paul Violi.

AND

Peter Carlaftes is a New York-based comic author, screenwriter, playwright, actor, poet, and director. He is the author of 12 plays, including a noir treatment of Knut Hamsun’s Hunger, and the celebrity rehab center spoof, Spin-Dry. He has appeared in numerous Off-Broadway productions, including his comic solo performance piece, Lenny Bruce: Dead & Well and brings his new book of bar poems —DRUNKYARD DOG, across the pond.

PLUS:


The Bros Grim- Skating the thin line between Hogarthian satire and full blown polemic, Chip Grim is as understated yet compelling a performer as he is a wordsmith. Dividing his time between the poetry scene and the Allstars boxing gym, Chip knows how to throw some heavy bombs and any lull in his tempo is a rope a dope before the next hit lands.

AND

Vanessa Kisuule- You may have seen this young lady kicking up a storm on many of London's open mics, so it is our pleasure to give a full set to Vanessa, who is destined to reach such heights that everyone will eventually know how to pronounce her name.

Your host for the night will be Niall O'Sullivan if he's allowed out.

The Cellar
Saturday 11th September
22 Betterton Street
London
Nearest Tube: Covent Garden/Holborn
£5/4concs

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!

Poet and Alzheimers Activist Gary Glazner On Tap at Cornelia St. Cafe Friday, Aug. 20th

FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 2010

6 PM | CORNELIA STREET CAFE

SON OF A PONY POETRY SERIES

Featured poet

GARY GLAZNER

PLUS

NYC's Best Open POETRY Mike

Hosted by

Kat Georges

Gary Glazner is the founder and Executive Director of the Alzheimer's Poetry Project, (APP). The National Endowment for the Arts listed the APP as a “best practice” for their Arts and Aging initiative. NBC's “Today” show, NPR's “All Things Considered” and Voice of America have featured segments on Glazner’s work. Harper Collins, W.W. Norton and Salon.com have published his work. In 2010, the U.S. Embassy is funding a pilot project for the APP in Germany. To date the APP has held programming in 20 states and served over 10,000 living with dementia. More info at www.alzpoetry.org.

The featured reading follows the fabulous Son of a Pony open reading at the cafe. Poet/rocker/mistress of ceremonies 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

Photo credit: Mike McGee

Den of Thieves by Stephen Adly Guirgis Opens Thur Aug. 29th at NYC's Chernuchin Theater

Den of Thieves, the hysterical dark farce by Stephen Adly Guirgis, gets its NYC revival starting Thursday, Aug. 19 at Chernuchin Theater, 314 54th St. (btwn 8th & 9th Ave.). Presented by Glen Hagen Theatrical, and directed by David Triacca, the cast features Michelle Cox, Wesley Curtis, Ralph John (RJ) Lucci, Giovanni Rho, Julia Sun, Chris Triana, and TRP's own Peter Carlaftes as "The Big Tuna."

In this outrageous comedy, Paul and Maggie meet at a 12-step program for shoplifting addicts. Flaco, Maggie's ex-boyfriend, and Boochie, a topless dancer and Flaco's girlfriend, convince Paul and Maggie to join them for one last "easy" score of $750,000 in unprotected drug money. Oops. Things go totally wrong and they end up as prisoners in The Big Tuna's basement, engaging in madcap verbal gymnastics to set things straight--and get the hell out of there.

The play was first presented to rave reviews in 1996 at The LAByrinth Theater (Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jon Ortiz, Artistic Directors). According to the L.A. Times, Den of Thieves "unfolds with cracklinc comic propulsion and a screwball sweetness as unexpected as it is welcome . . . thoroughly impressive . . ."

Den of Thieves opens Thursday August 19 and runs thru August 29th, Tuesday thru Friday at 8 pm; Saturday 2 pm & 8 pm, and Sunday 2 pm & 7 pm. Closing day, Sunday, August 29 is 2pm show only.

Tickets, priced $24-$30, are available by visiting www.smarttix.com or by calling (212) 868-4444. The American Theater of Actors, The Chernuchin Theatre, is located on the 2nd floor of 314 West 54th Street. For more information visit www.denofthievesnyc.com.

Beat Constellations: Tributes to Neal Cassady, Jack Micheline, Bob Kaufman & more: Wed. Aug. 18, 6 pm @ Cornelia St. Cafe

This annual event celebrates the works, artistic & cultural contributions of numerous later Beat era luminaries, read by contemporary poets. High energy talented performers tonight, so hold onto your hats!

Neal Cassady- Big Mike
Herbert Hunke- Zoe Artemis
Jack Micheline- Zack King-Smith
Mary Norbert Korte- Puma Perl
Bob Kaufman- Yvon Cormier
Ray Bremser- George Wallace
Janine Pommy Vega- Kat Georges
Dan Propper- Barbara Ann Branca

Another session of the George Wallace Poetry Explosion!!

Be there! Doors open at 5:45 pm. Show starts at 6. $7 admission.
Cornelia St. Cafe, 29 Cornelia St. Between W. 4th St. & Bleecker. 212-989-9319. http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com/

Cure for Summertime Blues: Theater, Poetry & Rock this Sat., Aug. 14 at Parkside Lounge (LES)

This Saturday, Aug. 14, Three Rooms Press presents a sizzling book launch for Peter Carlaftes' latest release, Triumph for Rent: 3 Plays, which will feature a torrid New York premiere of his uproarious play, Spin-Dry, along with poetry and live music.

"Spin-Dry" is a rollicking comedy anchored at Second Wind: A designer celebrity rehab center, set smack-dab in the 90s, where MTV mavens rub elbows with rockers and movie stars. The wild ride features Sara Kinetic (her mom died at Altamont; her dad in outer space), as she weaves her way through trysts and turns to get back on top of her game. The play stars Puma Perl, David DeCuir, Natalie Rose, Max Carlaftes, Kat Georges & Peter Carlaftes.

Also on tap will be sizzling readings from current and upcoming Three Rooms Press authors Jane Ormerod, Matthew Hupert, Thomas Fucaloro, Ryan Buynak, and Ronnie Norpel. In addition, the beloved downtown r'n'b band The JD's (featuring Bob Musial) will round things out with a swinging set of smokin' tunes.

Doors open 6:45. Show starts at 7:00. Tickets $10 at the door. Parkside Lounge is at 317 E. Houston (at Attorney). Reservations: info@threeroomspress.com.

ABOUT PETER CARLAFTES: Peter Carlaftes began his theatrical career on the playgrounds of the Bronx, and after seeing the world, branched out to Manhattan and beyond. He served as artistic director of San Francisco's Marilyn Monroe Memorial Theater from 1993-2000. Nine of his plays have been staged, to critical acclaim, among them Anity, Frontier A-Go-Go, Spin-Dry and Closure. He also created and staged a deconstruction of Knut Hamsun’s classic novel Hunger, and created and starred in a one-man rendition of Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming. He has recently written and performed his solo work, Lenny Bruce: Dead & Well, and starred in numerous Off-Broadway plays including Arsenic & Old Lace and Barefoot in the Park, and will soon be seen in a revival of the 1995 Stephen Adly Guirgis black comedy, Den of Thieves.In 2010, he's authored three books on Three Rooms Press, including A Year on Facebook (humor), DrunkYard Dog (poetry) and Triumph for Rent: 3 Plays.

ABOUT THREE ROOMS PRESS: Since 1993, Three Rooms Press has been a leading voice in the independent poetry, literature and dramatic fields, publishing more than 30 books of poetry, theater, and literary fiction, with a focus on the work of the best current New York underground writers. In addition, Three Rooms Press produces and promotes a variety of events; in the past 16 years it has staged more than 400 events in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Las Vegas and Europe.

This Friday: Poet Peter Chelnik Rides the Son of a Pony at Cornelia Street

AUGUST 6, 2010

6 PM | CORNELIA STREET CAFE

SON OF A PONY POETRY SERIES

Featured poet

PETER CHELNIK

joined by tenor sax Bob Feldman

PLUS

NYC's Best Open POETRY Mike

with your host

Kat Georges

Peter Chelnik's books include Railroad Heart, East Coast Line, Manhattan Wilderness, Eternity Road and Wildflower Serenade. He has had seven plays produced Off-Off-Broadway. These dramatic works include Street Rag, Prairie Fire, Parking Lot, Moving Target, Scarsdale Station and Tremont Vortex. Peter has also written Trick Bag, a novel of the 1960's. And yes, he does believe "the word will set you free." His latest book is STRAWBERRY HARMONY New Poems (Little Sky Press, March 2010).

The featured reading follows the fabulous Son of a Pony open reading at the cafe. Poet and innovative mistress of ceremonies 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

Let's Get Funky: Super Fun Poetry & Music Party This Friday at Funkadelic Studios

Funkadelic Studios is a really cool rehearsal studio space--very conveniently located at 335 W. 35th St., 3rd Floor (btwn 8th & 9th). Poetry Party Phenom Susan Scutti has lined up a cool list of local bands, plus in between and with the bands, there's poetry! Featured poets include Jackie Sheeler, Mark Brunetti, Elijan, and Steve McNamara. If you show up with your words, you can read too!

It's a Party! It's Music! It's Poetry! It's Fun! Doors open 7. Poetry & Music starts 7:30. Runs till 11 or more! $5 at the door. BYOB.

And don't forget: Also on Friday: Son of a Pony poetry series at Cornelia St. Cafe. Doors open 5:45; show starts at 6. Featured reader is Clara Hsu. Host is the fierce poet whirlwind, Jackie Sheeler. $7 admission, includes free drink.

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M.I.A. Promises Free Show on Return to NYC--Save Your Hard NYC Ticket Stubs!

NEW YORK—M.I.A. has acknowledged there were problems with the show on Saturday and puts the blame squarely on the sound team. She's canned the American sound techs and hired a new British team. See her Twitter updates here.

Most importantly, she has promised to do a FREE show on her return to NYC for anyone with either a Hard NYC ticket stub (see photo, above--click for enlarged version). If you don't have a ticket, she's promised free admission to anyone who will "do me a lil dance."

It's up to the NYC fans who really want to continue to support her, and who have defended her new album against undue harsh media criticism, as to whether this noble gesture will be enough.

No date as of yet—TRP will let you know when word is out. But according to her web site tour date list, she's in Europe through August 11, then doesn't have another show until October 9 in Austin. So maybe late August or September?

The trick is going to be convincing people that it will be worth it—those European shows better deliver big-time positive write-ups. And—it goes without saying—the free NYC M.I.A. show should be indoors, air-conditioned, and accessible by subway, not boat. How about Roseland, Hammerstein Ballroom, United Palace or even . . . the Garden?

If the problem really is the sound crew, let's have their name, so no other performer or audience ever gets stuck with them again.