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