UK Poet Valerie Laws Lights Up Cornelia Street Cafe Friday, Nov. 4

Three Rooms Press & Cornelia Street Cafe present

SON OF A PONY Poetry Reading Series

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2011, 6 pm

Featured poet: Valerie Laws

PLUS NYC's Electrifying Open POETRY Mike

Hosted by Kat Georges

Valerie Laws (www.valerielaws.co.uk)  is a UK poet and sci-art specialist. Her new book All That Lives arises from Residencies at a London Pathology Museum, and at Newcastle University's Institute for Ageing and Health, working with scientists to write poetry about the brain, its bizarre beauty and life cycle. Her ten books include poetry collections, crime fiction, and drama.  She has written 12 commissioned plays for stage and BBC radio. Many prizes, including Wellcome Trust Arts Award, twice prize winner in National Poetry competition. Invents new forms of poetry and devises science-themed poetry installations and commissions including the infamous Quantum Sheep, an Arts Council funded project spray-painting random haiku onto live sheep.  She featured in BBC2 TV's Why Poetry Matters, with Griff Rhys Jones. Poetry AV installations have featured in public exhibitions in London and Newcastle. Many residencies, including in Egypt.

The featured reading follows the renowned Son of a Pony open reading at the cafe, hosted and curated by the smashing Kat Georges. Doors open at 5:45 p.m.;  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

Links:

Quantum Sheep

http://www.valerielaws.co.uk/science/sheep.html

Balls

http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/event/10005286-quantum-sheep-and-a-load-of-balls/

Poets James Richardson & Kelli Stevens Kane Light Up Son of a Pony

Three Rooms Press 
and Cornelia Street Cafe

present

SON OF A PONY Poetry Reading Series

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2011, 6 pm

Featured poet: James Richardson

Spotlight poet: Kelli Stevens Kane

PLUS NYC's Sensational Open POETRY Mike

Hosted by Kat Georges

JAMES RICHARDSON is the recipient of the 2011 Jackson Poetry Prize.   His most recent books are By the Numbers:  Poems and Aphorisms, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, Interglacial:  New and Selected Poems and Aphorisms, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Vectors:  Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays.  He teaches at Princeton University and his is regularly published in New Yorker.

KELLI STEVENS KANE's first poetry manuscript, Hallelujah Science, was selected as a finalist for the 2011 Four Way Books Levis Poetry Prize. She's a Cave Canem Fellow; a Flight School Fellow; and an alum of the Callaloo, VONA, and Hurston/Wright poetry workshops. She's also the recipient of a merit based scholarship to a playwrighting workshop at the Norman Mailer Center, and the author of an oral history manuscript about Pittsburgh's Hill District. 

The featured reading follows the renowned Son of a Pony open reading at the cafe, hosted and curated by Kat Georges. Doors open at 5:45 p.m.;  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