Three Rooms Press: January 2012

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

NYC Native Linda Lerner & Andrew Boston set to spark up Son of a Pony Friday Jan. 20

Three Rooms Press & Cornelia Street Café present

SON OF A PONY Poetry Reading Series

FRIDAY, January 20, 6 pm

Featured poet: Linda Lerner

Spotlight poet: Andrew Boston

PLUS NYC's Sensational Open POETRY Mike

Hosted by Kat Georges

Following a raucous time to kickstart 2012 at the 4th Annual NYC Charles Bukowski Poetry Reading on January 6th, Son of a Pony shimmers again on Friday, January 20 with featured readings by NY native Linda Lerner, rock solid up and comer Andrew Boston, and NYC's best open reading, hosted by Three Room Press's stimulating Kat Georges.

LINDA LERNER's most recent poetry collection "Takes Guts & Years Sometimes" (NY Quarterly Books, 2011) is a heartfelt work that examines how to maintain a sense of beauty and humor in the face of adversity. Lerner has authored 12 other poetry collection; several were Small Press Reviews' picks. Her work has been published in numerous journals including New York Quarterly, Onthebus, Van Gog's Ear, Lips, and more. A native New Yorker, she has read widely throughout the U.S.

ANDREW BOSTON recently released his first chapbook "Elvis at 21." His work has been published in the Uphook press anthology "Gape seed" and he hosts a Sunday reading series at ABC No Rio on the Lower East Side. He is currently studying at NYU and serving as poetry editor for the upcoming issue of Tribes magazine.

The featured reading follows the renowned Son of a Pony open reading at the cafe, hosted and curated by the dynamic 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

Sunday, January 1, 2012

TRP poets talk about Bukowski on WBAI (Jan. 2 at 2pm EST)

January 2 at 2 PM EST: Tune into KBAI 99.5 fm (available online at kbai.org!) and hear TRP's own Peter Carlaftes and Angelo Verga talking about Charles Bukowski on Janet Coleman's Cat Radio Cafe show. Call in with comments! And be sure to join us on Friday at 6pm at Cornelia Street Cafe for the 4th annual NYC Bukowski Poetry Tribute. Details in this week's New Yorker magazine (how cool is that?!).

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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.