Today at 2! Great poetry reading at Bowery Poetry Club: "News from the 99%: Anti-Tea Coffeehouse Poetry Collective" with Hala HN Alyan, Amber Atiya, Peter Carlaftes, Kat Georges, Robert Gibbons, Larissa Shmailo and Bernard Block. Join us for subversive, counter-culture poems that challenge conventional wisdom, assumptions & opinions!!

Poets Charles Butler and April Jones Electrify Son of a Pony Reading on April 20th

Three Rooms Press and 
Cornelia Street Café present the 
Son of a Pony Poetry Reading Series
Featured poet: CHARLES J. BUTLER
Spotlight poet: APRIL JONES
PLUS NYC's Resplendent 
Open Poetry Mike
Hosted by Kat Georges
Friday, April 20, 6 pm
Three Rooms Press is pleased to present Son of a Pony, on Friday, April 20, with featured poet CHARLES J. BUTLER and spotlight poet APRIL JONES along with NYC's most spectacular open poetry reading, hosted by Kat Georges.


NY-based poet CHARLES J. BUTLER has read in nearly every venue in NYC. His first book, 39 poems (No Shirt Press, 2010), received widespread critical praise. Blogcritics.org noted, "His words create a freedom that exists nowhere else around in our world and he helps the reader to feel it too. Through that freedom we see what he sees; a stark world filled with fertility and barrenness that provides us not only with a place to survive but a place to grow and thrive." In New Mirage Journal, reviewer Cindy Hochman notes, "These poems will make you leap for blessed joy or cup your head in your hands; they will make you furious and grateful, and cruel and kind — most of all, they will make you feel." Butler's poetry has been widely published in journals including as Polarity, Rouge Scholars, New Mirage, Erato, Stained Sheets, Asbestos and Soul Journey.


APRIL JONES is a poet, producer, spoken word artist, screenwriter, community activist and more. She is the author of "A Faa Real Experience" (AuthorHouse, 2008), available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. She is also the producer of the Rythym Show, seen on Bronx network channels.


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

B.R. Lyon Book Launch at Bowery Poetry Club Sunday, 11/6 8pm

Three Rooms Press presents 

Occupy Book Launch

A Passionate Book Launch 

for "You Are White Inside" 
by B.R. Lyon

reading and signing 
by B.R. Lyon 

plus preview readings by 
Three Rooms Press authors

Hala Alyan  |  Peter Carlaftes  

Kat Georges  |  Jane Ormerod

with musical guests 

The JDs featuring Bob Musial

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 8 PM 

BOWERY POETRY CLUB

Three Rooms Press launches its latest release with a thrilling book launch full of powerful multimedia readings and music on Sunday, November 6, 8 p.m. at the world-famous Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery, New York, NY, (212) 614-0505).

You Are White Inside by B.R. Lyon (Three Rooms Press, ISBN 978-0-9835813-2-1) is a fierce new poetry collection by a fine and fearless New York-based poet, featuring work largely inspired by his real-life, ongoing, intimate relationship with a Muslim man in Cairo, Egypt. Daring and innovative, Lyon seeks fresh angles and inspiring language with equal touches of awe, shock, and tenderness.

In addition, Hala Alyan, Peter Carlaftes, Kat Georges and Jane Ormerod will present phenomenal multimedia previews of their upcoming books. 

PLUS: the event will feature a rare performance by downtown's great rockin' r&b band The J.D.s, headed by soulful crooner Bob Musial.

Doors open at 7:45. Show starts promptly at 8:00. Tickets $8 at the door. For details, including author interviews, review copies and media kits, email info@threeroomspress.com.

Kat Georges & Jane Ormerod fire up poetry at Guns of August DDAY show on 8/10 at Bowery Poetry Club

DDAY PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS GUNS OF AUGUST! POETRY & PERFORMANCE! Hosted by the one and only BIG MIKE, produced by BIG MIKE, PUMA PERL, and FAUX MAUX! For our first show at the Bowery, we honor women who have held the doors open for other poets through the creation of venues, publications, small presses, and wild dancing! Our featured performers: JANE ORMEROD - Jane is the author of the full-length poetry collection, Recreational Vehicles on Fire (Three Rooms Press, 2009), the chapbook 11 Films (Modern Metrics, 2008), and the spoken word CD Nashville Invades Manhattan. Look carefully and you may spot her in the ‘80’s cult horror movie classic Screamtime. Find out more at www.janeormerod.com. KAT GEORGES - Kat's poetry collections include "Punk Rock Journal," and "Slow Dance at 120 Beats a Minute" (Three Rooms Press) and her first full-length collection, "Hunger Sinner" (due out in late 2011). She curates and hosts Son of a Pony, a bi-weekly poetry series at Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village, and is poetry editor of A Gathering of the Tribes magazine and Maintenant (annual contemporary dada poetry and art journal) and is also the founder & publisher of Three Rooms Press. VIVIANA GRELL - She's the host of the Stark Reality Open Mic at Nola Studios in NYC is a writer/performer/dancer specializing in waking up the dead!! a wake up genie..through song, poetry and dance...published in numerous magazines and anthologies she has hosted Stark Reality since 2006 ....and continues to grow wings helping the young, the old, the numb, the mad ones in heaven and the angelic in hell...write write write!!! And let us entertain you some more: PUMA PERL – Poet/Writer/Performance Artist/Producer/Curator and co-creator of DDAY Productions and this event - author of the recently released book "knuckle tattoos," the award winning chapbook "Belinda and Her Friends," widely published in journals and anthologies, internationally! http://pumaperl.blogspot.c​om/ FAUX MAUX - Lifetime performance artist/actress/ playwright and writer, she took her one-woman play, Lil' Red and few burlesque acts to Holland and Scotland. Now, she does the occasional stand-up and continues to create plays, perform outragous acts of art, and creative havoc here in New York City. BIG MIKE - author of 2 books, 81 Pounds and Sibling Rivalry and appears in the anthology One Millimeter, all published by Pretty Pollution Press. Big Mike is known for his performance art and was awarded Best Neptune in the 2004 Mermaid Parade in Coney Island. Join us at the historic Bowery Poetry Club! OPEN MIC SIGN-UP 7:45! $3 Admission, and for that price you can afford a drink! http://www.bowerypoetry.co​m/

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.

Poet Pamela Sneed Rocks Her Words at Cornelia Street Cafe Friday, Oct. 1

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2010 6 PM
CORNELIA STREET CAFE
SON OF A PONY POETRY SERIES
Featured poet PAM SNEED
plus NYC's Best Open POETRY Mike
Hosted by Kat Georges

Pamela Sneed is a New York-based poet, performer, writer and actress. She is the author of Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery, published by Henry Holt (1998.) And KONG and other works published by Vintage Entity press 2009.

Sneed is the recipient of the 2006 BAX award for performance. She has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Source, Time Out, VIBE, Karl Lagerfeld's "Off The Record," on the cover of New York Magazine and in 2009 her work appeared in Essence magazine.

Recent & forthcoming publications include work in The 100 Best African American Poems edited by Nikki Giovanni (Nov. 2010),and Best American Short Plays. In 2001, 2002, and in 2005 she headlined the New Work Now Festival at Joe's Pub/Public Theater and performed before sold out houses.

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

Poet John Amen on the Pedestal at Cornelia Street Cafe Friday, Oct. 16

John Amen, a well-known poet and notable editor of award-winning bimonthly literary journal, The Pedestal Magazine, will read from his new collection At the Threshold of Alchemy on October 16th, 6 p.m., at Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village.

Amen is the author of three collections of poetry: Christening the Dancer (Uccelli Press 2003), More of Me Disappears (Cross-Cultural Communications 2005), and At the Threshold of Alchemy (Presa 2009), and has released two folk/folk rock CDs, All I’ll Never Need and Ridiculous Empire (Cool Midget 2004, 2008). His poetry has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including, most recently, Rattle, The New York Quarterly, The International Poetry Review, Gargoyle, and Blood to Remember. He is also an artist, working primarily with acrylics on canvas. Amen travels widely giving readings, doing musical performances, and conducting workshops. Amen is also well known as the founder and editor of the award-winning literary bimonthly, The Pedestal Magazine (www.thepedestalmagazine.com).

His reading will follow an open reading at the cafe. Poet/racanteour 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 Divine Dominique Lowell on Tap for Two NYC Shows Oct. 17-18

No one does spoken word poetry better than Detroit native Dominique Lowell. I first heard her out west in San Francisco and L.A. and bowed and kissed the ground she walked on every time she performed. She's been called "The Janis Joplin of Spoken Word" and it's a title well deserved. She disappeared for a few years to evolve in her hometown of Detroit and is now reemerging, stronger and more gripping than ever before.

For the first time in 10 years she's performing in NYC to celebrate the release of her latest book on Three Rooms Press: "Sit Yr Ass Down or You Ain't Gettin' No Burger King." Two shows--man, oh man--you should be there. Here's the details:

FRIDAY, OCT. 17, 6PM
Cornelia Street Cafe presents
Son of a Pony
Featured reader: Dominique Lowell
Host: Kat Georges
Open reading before feature, arrive 5:45 to sign up.
Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia St. (btwn W. 4th and Bleecker)
212-989-9319
$7, includes free drink
Open reading before feature

SATURDAY OCTOBER 18, 2 PM
Three Rooms Press presents
Dominique Lowell
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery ST. (btwn Bleecker and Houston)
212-614-0505
Opening band: Bob's Bios (roots rock band, featuring Bob Musial)
and Richard West singing a couple political ditties

For more information about Dominique Lowell, including photos and interviews, please contact Kathi Georges at threeroomspress@mac.com.

Lenny Bruce: Dead and Well at Bowery Poetry Club, August 31st

Three Room Press presents the amazing show "Lenny Bruce: Dead & Well," a one-man show performed by Peter Carlaftes at The Bowery Poetry Club, Sunday, August 31st at 5 p.m. Opening for Lenny will be New York activist/comic Randy Credico.

Carlaftes' fabulous show hits the stage running, with sizzling new material that packs a real punch during this heated election season. Lenny sure has plenty to talk about. His hilarious afterlife perspective gives him a knowledge of all that came before, as well as all that's destined to happen in the future. For instance:

-- Who really killed JFK? The answer is finally revealed--and it will shock you for the rest of your life!

-- What really happened on 9/11? For safety reasons, Lenny can't reveal the whole story, but he does have insider information that no one else has been courageous enough to talk about.

--And what about the elections?

Lenny knows the hierarchy of heaven. And because no one can persecute him anymore, he's got a new attitude and tons of new material that takes its cue from such Lenny Bruce classics as "Religions, Inc.," "How Hitler Got Started" and "To Is a Preposition, Come Is a Verb."

New York native writer, actor and director Peter Carlaftes fully embodies the essence of the comic genius. The SF Weekly nailed it, saying, "Carlaftes IS the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce." His comic timing is impeccable, and his material never fails to inspire. He recently opened to audience acclaim for 94-year-old comic legend Professor Irwin Corey.

Doors open 4:45 pm. Show at 5. Tickets $10. Reservations/additional information: threeroomspress@mac.com.

Poet Douglas Collura at Cornelia St. Cafe this Friday

Three Rooms Press presents

SON OF A PONY
at Cornelia Street Cafe
Friday, August 15, 6 pm

Featured poet: Doug Collura
Host: Kathi Georges

Open reading (arrive by 5:45 to sign up)
Admission $7 (includes a yummy free drink!)

Doug Collura is a Manhattan-based writer who has recited at the open mikes around town for the last twenty-seven years and has become a personal favorite of host Kat Georges. His work is multi-layered: a surface of outrageously funny biting satire; built on layer after layer of the reality of emotion and horror that Collura was able to squeeze and transform into beautiful works of art. Onstage, Collura is a real dynamo, and definitely worth a trip to the village for the experience.

Collura has been both a Third Prize winner and a finalist in the 1998 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, and a Second Prize winner in the 1999 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, along with being an Editor's Choice selection for the Paterson Literary Review. He is the author of a spoken word CD The Dare of the Quick World and the book Things I Can Fit My Whole Head Into, published by Jane Street Press, which was a finalist for the 2007 Paterson Poetry Prize. His work can be read and heard at his Web site, www.douglascollura.com. In addition to numerous publications in the Paterson Literary Review, he has been published in Lips Magazine, The Cynic and other periodicals, Web sites and webzines.

Go Go Go: Jackie Sheeler and Jean Lehrman Saturday at Cornelia St. Cafe

Don't let the snow keep you indoors this weekend. Get out in it. You don't get the real "snow" experience online.

And you don't get the live poetry experience online either. Chicks are boss this Saturday at with a reading featuring the one, the only, The Jackie Sheeler (check out her cool new website and awesome blog get angry with me), PLUS therapist/poet Jean Lehrman (joined by bartender/vibraphonist Dan McCarthy), PLUS the woman with the voice of gold Jane Omerod, PLUS ex-stockbroker-turned-SLAM-finalist Phyllis Talley. To review, that's: Jackie Sheeler, Jean Lehrman, Jane Omerod AND Phyllis Talley, all on one bill. Whew! 

You'd think a hot line up like this would cost a fortune, but you can slip in for a mere $7. Such a deal! See you there: Cornelia St. Cafe, 29 Cornelia St., Sat. Feb. 23, 6-8 p.m.

Patti Smith's Birthday Celebration at Bowery Poetry Club

Patti Smith changed my life. So as soon as I heard that Jackie Sheeler was planning a 60th birthday party for Ms. Smith, I begged to be a part of it. I played Patti Smith once on stage under the moniker "Padded Myth" (the nickname was an acknowldegement of the media's tendency to build up, then systematically attempt to destory everything good). I am more influenced by her work than any other female poet except Emily Dickenson (see "The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry" where Patti's on pages 82 through 91, and I'm on page 477). I spent hundreds of nights listening to her music while writing record and concert reviews for The Eye newspaper in the early 80s. And, for the past 20 years, through no fault of my own (no surgery, no makeover, nothing, honest!) I have been told that I look like Patti Smith.

All of this made me a natural candidate for being on the bill, I explained to Jackie via email.

Guess what?

Jackie understood! I'm reading at the Patti Smith Birthday Party, which is at the Bowery Poetry Club on Thursday, December 28th from 10 pm until... Please go! Other confirmed performers include Christine Goodman, Meagan Brothers, Jackie Sheeter, and The Bass Player from Hand Job. And maybe some of the band members from Patti Smith Group and maybe Patti. The whole night will be videotaped and given to Patti as a gift from the people who love her and her music.

Be there!

By the way, if you've never heard Jackie Sheeler's poetry, this will be a good chance to experience one the best poets in New York, or for that matter the world.

See you Thursday.