Poets Hala Alyan & Jacob Victorine Rock the Pony Friday, May 20

FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2011

Featured poet: Hala Alyan

Spotlight poet: Jacob Victorine

PLUS NYC's Best Open POETRY Mike

Hosted by Kat Georges

HALA ALYAN is a doctoral student, a psychologist-in-training, and a poet. Having lived all of the world, spanning from Oklahoma to Beirut, she tends to fall in love with cities and her latest object of affection is Manhattan. She writes relentlessly, with a deep passion and intense intimacy, tracing lines of global issues into personal spaces.

JACOB VICTORINE is a poet, emcee and performance artist born and bred on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. A 2009 graduate of Brooklyn College, he has won awards for both his poetry and literary criticism. His work appears in the Uphook Press anthology, "Hell Strung and Crooked."

The featured reading follows the fabulous Son of a Pony open reading at the cafe. Poet & most illuminating 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

You Gotta Have Hart--A Spring Literary Extravaganza

Three Rooms Press presents

You Gotta Have Hart!

A Spring Literary Extravaganza!

featuring

A Preview of New Releases on Three Rooms Press

and A Celebration of Poet Bob Hart's 80th Birthday

with special performances by

RYAN BUYNAK | MICHAEL T. FOURNIER

THOMAS FUCALORO | KAT GEORGES | BOB HART
KAREN HILDEBRAND | CARMEN MOJICA

JANE ORMEROD | PUMA PERL | LIZA WOLSKY

plus outrageous predictions from
NOSE/THROAT DUMBASS (aka PETER CARLAFTES)

TUESDAY, MAY 17, 7:30 pm | $10

Bowery Poetry Club | 308 Bowery | 212-614-0505

Celebrate spring with NYC’s leading performance poets, honor esteemed New York Poet Bob Hart (Lightly in the Good of Day, Bench Press) on his 80th Birthday, and get a preview at new Three Rooms Press releases at the raucous extravaganza “You Gotta Have Hart!” on Tuesday, May 17, 7 pm at Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery, New York, NY (212) 614-0505).

Special poet-performers include: Ryan Buynak, Michael T. Fournier, Thomas Fucaloro, Kat Georges, Karen Hildebrand, Carmen Mojica, Jane Ormerod, Puma Perl and Liza Wolsky, offering new work and tributes to the birthday guest of honor. Later, the famed Twitter oracle “Nose/Throat Dumbass” (a.k.a. Peter Carlaftes) will present his latest outrageous predications on what will happen in the rest of 2011—and beyond. Plus we will have a special presentation to poet Bob Hart on his 80th birthday.

In addition, we’ll offer a sneak preview at upcoming Three Rooms Press books including:

--“Oil & Water,” a look at photography and tour diaries of punk bassist Mike Watt;

--“Hidden Wheel,” a punk rock underworld novel by Michael T. Fournier;

--“Hunger Sinner,” intense collected poems by Three Rooms Press Founder Kat Georges;

--“You Are White Inside,” new poetry by B.R. Lyon

--“Have a NYC Night®” a NYC-based short story anthology

Doors open at 6:45. Show starts promptly at 7:30. Tickets $10 at the door.

Legendary Downtown Poets Steve Dalachinsky & Yuko Otomo Featured in NYC Friday, May 6

FRIDAY, MAY 6, 2011

Featured poet: Steve Dalachinsky

Spotlight poet: Yuko Otomo

PLUS NYC's Best Open POETRY Mike

Hosted by Kat Georges

STEVE DALACHINSKY was born after the last Big War & has managed tosurvive lots of little wars. His poems have appeared extensively in journals on & off line including, Big Bridge, Milk, Unlikely Stories, Xpressed, Evergreen Review, Long Shot, Alpha Beat Soup, Xtant, Blue Beat Jacket, Unbearable Assemblage Magazines, NY Arts Magazine, 88, Lost and Found Times, plus such anthologies as Beat Indeed, The Haiku Moment and the esteemed Outlaw Bible of American Poetry.

YUKO OTOMO's poetry has been read and heard internationally, including her native Japan. Her collections include "Small Poems," "The Hand of The Poet" (both Ugly Duckling Presse), "A Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of Museum" (Propaganda Press), and "Fragile" (Sisyphus Press).

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