Gary Indiana and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright at Son of a Pony NYC 12/2

Three Rooms Press and
Cornelia Street Cafe

present

SON OF A PONY 
Poetry Reading Series

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2011
6 pm

Featured poet: Gary Indiana

Spotlight poet: Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

PLUS NYC's Sensational Open POETRY Mike

Hosted by Kat Georges

GARY INDIANA is the author of several poetry books, plays and novels, the most recent of which is The Shanghai Gesture. His collaboration with Louise Bourgeois, To Whom It May Concern, was published in 2011 by Robert Violette Editions.

JEFFREY CYPHERS WRIGHT is best known as a poet and author of 11 books of verse. He is also the former publisher of Cover and is currently the editor of Live Mag! His artwork has been in numerous shows, most recently at Tribes Gallery. He writes criticism for Artnexus and The Brooklyn Rail. www.livemagnyc.com

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

Hail To Fulfill

Thank You, Br Lyon
Brant
Took it all the Way
Beyond
what else allows


No  less than most

Ms Hala Alyan
who handled
speaking
spoken
words


then
Ms Jane Ormerod
reality the game
the thought
one step behind
her words

and
Kat Georges
breathing
fire
Past
the uninspired
no one
ever less
the wiser

Perfect

bonded
worth
transmitting
only

tomorrow
leaves us
lonely

what a night
absolving loss


You Are White Inside
oh My

Three Rooms Press

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.

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

Obsidian & Hobobob Deliver at Son of a Pony 10/7

Three Rooms Press and Cornelia Street Cafe

present

SON OF A PONY Poetry Reading Series

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2011, 6 pm

Featured poet: "Obsidian!!!"

Spotlight poet: Hobobob

PLUS NYC's Sensational Open POETRY Mike

Hosted by Kat Georges

 "OBSIDIAN!!!" is a mystical beat poet, who's been spreading hismystical vibrations for the past 21 years. . "OBSIDIAN!!!'" has been published in several journals, such as "Diner with the Muse", "The Brownstone Poets Anthology", "Nomads Choir", "Stained Sheets", and "Eroto", to name a few, and he has a poetry blogsite: "OBSIDIAN"!!! The Mystic PoetTakes New York".

HOBOBOB is from Brooklyn and has lived in the streets, and now a flophouse on Broadway. He writes homeless and unrequited love poems and is a published poet on several online sites and journals, such as OctoberBabies, Stained Sheets, the Nomad’s Choir, and Brownstone Poets. He has featured in many New York City poetry venues the likes of the Saturn Series, Deacon Blue, and STARK at the Payan Theater. He does readings at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, and was the Co-

Together, "OBSIDEAN" and HOBOBOB cohosted  the famous 'Time Square Shout Out!', in Time Square, and the 'SHOUT OUT AT OTTOS!'-at Ottos Shrunken Head, in the lower East Side. They were also featured on the NPR radio show, This American Life.

The featured reading follows the wondrous Son of a Pony open reading at the cafe. Poet & amiable mistress of ceremonies Kat Georges curates and hosts. 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

Review: Lucky Tubb & The Modern Day Troubadours @ Hill Country NYC

Damn the luck! A show which should have been packed to the gills with pure music purists seeking absolution was darn near empty and a sorry showing for NYC's golden wings of support when the living legend known as Lucky Tubb and the Modern Day Troubadours strutted into a stellar two-set show at Hill Country on W. 26th St.

Rolling into the big city with a 4-piece, no-percussion ensemble, the Luckster blew the lid off the BBQ-joint with hits from his neo-roots-country album "Damn the Luck" along with a spattering of old style country covers and soon-to-be classic tracks off the new CD "Del Gaucho".

The style is stripped down honky-tonk early Haggard-esque purity. Hank Williams rides again. Lucky's got a country voice to die for, inherited from his great uncle Ernest Tubb. That such a raw, rare talent should be playing for a BBQ-chomping crowd of born yesterdays is a tough road to hoe. When the kitchen closed, the tables emptied. But the 30-odd folks who stuck around got a real treat.

Lucky Tubb is the real deal as his 2 long sets proved repeatedly. As a punk rock enthusiast, we believe in purity, and LT provided such solid purity it was difficult to do anything but dance, dance, dance and give birth to the two-step in us all.

Lucky Tubb is well worth  checking out on his new CD "Del Gaucho." Maybe if you give it a listen, you'll be with us dancing your ass off at the next NYC gig. We'll let you know when and where. Meanwhile check out the solid sounds at my personal fave, Bakersfield (and a song he did live at the Hill Country gig, singing the female part himself, per request, bless him.

Opening for Lucky Tubb was Ronnie Hymes, whose plaintive voice and singular guitar playing set the perfect honky tonk tone for night.