Three Rooms Press: November 2010

Sunday, November 21, 2010

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!

Sunday, November 14, 2010

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

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Ism Is a Retrovirus

Inheriting Craziness is LIke a Soft Halo of Light

Thomas Fucaloro's spectacular first collection of poetry is a beautiful, raw, intense read. 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."

DRUNKYARD DOG

DrunkYard Dog by Peter Carlaftes is a collection by a new poetic master who has honed his intense, insightful and inspiring poetic voice on the playgrounds of the Bronx, and the bars of Manhattan. Tales of bartender blues and bliss, injected with hope in a mileau of madness swirl into a powerful poetic cocktail. Carlaftes offers a brilliant poetic voice, filled with drop-dead humor, searing insight and resilient originality, even while resonating with overtones of Bukowski, Baudelaire and Bogart.

TRIUMPH FOR RENT

Playwright Peter Carlaftes presents three compelling, funny and biting dramas in Triumph for Rent: Three Plays (Three Rooms Press, 182 pages, 2010). The plays include Spin-Dry: An hilarious wild ride through a 90s rehab center for celebrities; Hunger: inspired by the Knut Hamsun novel; and Frontier A-Go-Go, a time travel piece uniting the hippie 60s, nerd/rave 90s and techno future. "As with Strindberg, Beckett, or even Satre—Carlaftes' message seems to be something we intuit . . . like music." SF Weekly.

MARY ANDERSON'S ENCORE

In “Mary Anderson’s Encore,” award-winning international playwright Larry Myers explores the great American tragedienne, Mary Anderson, who skyrocketed to fame with her first role, and retired by age 30. Called by the New York Daily News “One of Off-Broadway’s wittiest & more prolific playwrights,” Myers’ works have been seen in Rome, Italy at Teatro Olimpico & Scotland’s Edinburgh Festival, as well as Anchorage, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Louisville, San Francisco & Los Angeles.