TRP Poet Peter Carlaftes kicks off 2010 Gazebo Reading Series

Three Rooms Press poet Peter Carlaftes—whose poetry is “filled with drop-dead humor, searing insight and resilient originality, even while resonating with overtones of Bukowski, Baudelaire and Bogart”—will help launch the 2010 Summer Gazebo Reading Series, June 7, 7pm, at the Gazebo on Schoolhouse Green in Oceanside, Long Island, New York.

Each Monday throughout the Summer, four published poets and authors are selected to read at the series, which is hosted by Tony Iovino. For the June 7 reading, Carlaftes will be joined by poets Tom Phelan, Barbara Ann Branca, and Christine O'Hagan. The readings are held on Schoolhouse Green which is located on Foxhurst Road, Oceanside, New York (just east of Long Beach Road). Directions can be found here.

Carlaftes is celebrating the upcoming release of his first full-length poetry collection, DrunkYard Dog (156 pages, Three Rooms Press, 2010, 978-0-9840700-4-6). Copies of the book will be available at the performance.

Summary of Event Details:

What: Gazebo Poetry Series

Where: Schoolhouse Green Gazebo, Foxhurst Road, Oceanside, New York

Date: Monday, June 7

Time: 7 pm

Poet Jay Chollick lights up Cornelia St. Cafe: Friday, June 4, 6 p.m.

Jay Chollick, a prolific, award-winning poet who has been a mainstay on the New York Poetry scene for decades, will be the featured poet on Friday, June 4, at the fabulous Son of a Pony Poetry Reading Series.

Chollick has been described as a "master of metaphor" and has been published in numerous prominent literary journals. His poems are often laced with mythological sexual imagery, interspersed with metaphorical images of nature.

He is a frequent performer at New York poetry events, and is Poetry Laureate of the Saturn Series and Poet Local Laureate of A Shout Out at Otto's Shruken Head.

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

Poetry Galore in NYC Today, May 29, 2010!

Today (Saturday, May 29) is a banner day for poetry in NYC! Check it out:

Daytime:

Lower East Side Arts Festival. East 10th Street @ 1st Avenue. 1-5 p.m. Poetry, Music & Theater sponsored by City for the New Theater. Three Rooms Press authors Jane Ormerod, Ronnie Norpel, Peter Carlaftes & Kat Georges will all be performing sometime between 1:30 and 3 p.m. Also, be sure to catch the musical group Bob's Bios, featuring the wonderful singer/songwriter Bob Musial (they're at 2 p.m.) FREE

Early Evening:

Hydrogen Jukebox: Brant Lyon's fabulous monthly poetry/music extravaganza electrifies the city with an open mike and two powerful featured readers: Christian Georgescu and Samantha Barrow. 6 p.m. at Cornelia St. Cafe, 29 Cornelia Street (btwn W. 4th & Bleecker), NYC. $7 admission includes free drink.

Tonight:
Maelström Fiestival NYC, Day 3. Catch the final performance of the traveling poetry group based in Brussels, Belgium with guest stars from England, Germany, Italy, Canada and the U.S. Tonight at 7 p.m. at Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bower (btwn Houston & Bleecker). Admission $5 includes free Belgian specialties!

Incredible Poetry straight outta Europe tonight (5/28) at Cornelia Street Cafe

Tonight at Cornelia St. Cafe, 6 pm, is Day 2 of the Maelström FiEstival, a travelling global festival of poetry. No poetry? No party!

Last night's event at the Invisible Dog in Brooklyn was inSANEly good, with poets from Belgium, France, Italy, Germany & Canada ready a whole new style of intense sound poetry. Three Rooms Press founder Kat Georges was so impressed(!), and is extremely happy to be hosting tonight's reading.

Tonight's readers include:
Dwayne Morgan
Vincent Tholomé
Antoine Boute
Giulietta Laki
Damien Spleeters
David Giannoni

Since 2007 maelström—a Belgium-based publisher, artist, agent of ideas and propeller of acts—has organized an annual fiEstival of poetry, theater, visual art and music in Brussels and other parts of the world. They just held 2010's critically acclaimed festivals in Brussels and Paris, and they're headed for Montreal in June.

Doors open at 5:45. Open reading is first, followed by the Maelström magic! If you'd like to participate in the open reading, please arrive early. Admission $7--includes a free drink.

See you tonight!

Maelström FiEstival NYC Poetry Party Rocks New York City May 27-29

NO POETRY? NO PARTY! Join us for three days of fiEsta : poetry, visual arts and music. More than 18 artists from Europe, Canada and the US come together in NYC to make history at the first ever maelström fiEstival NYC. Three Rooms Press is proud to be a sponsor of the event, which kicks off May 27th thru May 29th.

Since 2007 maelström—a Belgium-based publisher, artist, agent of ideas and propeller of acts—has organized an annual fiEstival of poetry, theater, visual art and music in Brussels. This May, for the first time ever, maelström will ignite the cultural skies of New York City with a three-day creative party featuring such renowned artists as Jerome Rothenberg, Nicole Peyrafitte, Pierre Joris, and Dwayne Morgan, as well an international palette of phenomenal emerging artists. The New York event is part of a touring poetry party that has made stops in Brussels, Quebec and Lebanon in 2009, and Paris, Brussels, New York and Montréal in 2010.

maelstrÖm, already a partner of City Lights San Francisco and publishing Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Anne Waldman in French, goes on building bridges between Europe and USA in association with Three Rooms Press and New Direction Publishing by presenting this first maelstrÖm fiEstival in New York City.

EVENTS INCLUDE:
Thursday 27th May – 7pm-11pm:
The Invisible Dog, 51 Bergen Street. $5 + bring your own chair!

Friday 28th May – 6pm-8pm:
Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street. $7 + one free drink.

Saturday 29th May – 7pm-9.30pm:
Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery. $5 + Belgian specialties.

PERFORMERS INCLUDE:
Jerome ROTHENBERG (USA) – Nicole PEYRAFITTE (FR-USA) – Pierre JORIS (FR-LUX-USA) – Dwayne MORGAN (CA) – Kat GEORGES (USA) – Peter CARLAFTES (USA) – Vincent THOLOMÉ (BE) – Maja JANTAR (BE) – Antoine BOUTE (BE) – Yanara FRIEDLAND (GER) – Giulietta LAKI (CH) – Benjamin POTTEL (BE) - David GIANNONI (IT) – Olivier DOMBRET (ES) – Gaetan SAINT-REMY (BE) – Yassin SERGHINI (UK) – Mark HAYNES (USA-CA) - Damien SPLEETERS (BE)

SPONSORS INCLUDE:
Three Rooms Press, New Directions Publishing, WBI Wallonie-Bruxelles International, Consulate General of Belgium

For more details, go to www.fiestival.org or check out maelström on facebook.

Poets Robert Gibbons & ICE May 7 at Cornelia St. Cafe

FRIDAY, MAY 7, 2010

6 PM | CORNELIA STREET CAFE

SON OF A PONY POETRY SERIES

Featured poet

ROBERT GIBBONS & ICE

PLUS

NYC's Best Open POETRY Mike

Hosted by Kat Georges

Robert Gibbons is published poet, and unique spoken word artist who frequents many hot spots on the New York poetry scene. He has more than 15 years of teaching experience as a classroom teacher, and presently is a curriculum writer for the New York Junior Tennis League.

ICE is a New York based multi media artist. The producer, author, of a self named cd and dvd purchase on cd.baby.com and film baby.com with a strong focus on performance, she’s read in Boston, Portland,Philadelphia, Eugene, San Francisco and more. Published in a variety of anthology’s, online publications, is a founding editor of Uphookpress, an annual judge and feature at Cuny college Poetry Festival, and she annually attends Juniper summer writers institute at UMass with Mark Doty, Matthew Zapruder, and Dara Wire...

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