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Fogarty notes, “‘You Are White Inside’ is a very satisfying book of poetry. . . understated and overwhelming. . . A stunning work about the triumph of love.”

A few copies are still available at threeroomspress.com.

LEANNE AVERBACH is a Canadian poet and experimental filmmaker who has published and performed her work with musicians across Canada, New York City and Italy. Her first book Fever (Mansfield Press, Toronto) was short-listed for the national Canadian Gerald Lampert Memorial prize, 2005. Her companion CD Fever is a fusion of her spoken words and blues/jazz accompaniment with her band, Indigo and they are currently cutting a second CD. Averbach’s short films have garnered numerous awards, including Best International Short at the New York Independent International Film & Video Festival, 2008 for Teacups & Mink. She is currently writing her first feature length film. Leanne will be reading tonight from her second volume of poetry Come Closer (Tightrope Books, Toronto) available for purchase at the back table with her CD, Fever.

YUYUTSU RD SHARMA is the author of nine poetry collections, including Milarepa’s Bones (Nirala, 2102), Space Cake, Amsterdam & Other Poems from Europe and America (Howling Dog Press, 2009) and more. He has received fellowships and grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, Ireland Literature Exchange, Trubar Foundation, Slovenia and more. A widely traveled author, his work has been heard in London, Belfast, Amsterdam, Chicago, Canada, Italy, New York and his home town of Kathmandu. This year, he is a visiting poet at New York University, and in June, he will be a guest poet at the Poetry Parnassus Festival organized to celebrate the London Olympics of 2012.

The featured reading follows the essential Son of a Pony open reading at the cafe, hosted and curated by the fervid Kat Georges. Doors open at 5:45 p.m.; open reading begins at 6 p.m. Admission is $7, which includes a free drink.  

Monday, May 14, 8:30 pm
Cornelia Street Cafe, New York City

Classical and contemporary jazz collide as pianist Kayo Hiraki and flautist/poet/composer Kat Georges cut-the-edge with “Cornelia Suite,” an anthology of cut-the-edge neo-classical jazz for piano, flute, iPad and vocals. The event will include the world premiere of Ms. Georges’  hard-bit ”Punk Symphony for Four Classical Elements in C Minor (for Flute, iPad and Vocals)” and will be held at Cornelia Street Cafe in the West Village. Doors open at 8:30. Tickets are $20 (includes a drink). 

New York based pianist and Steinway piano artist, Kayo Hiraki appears in Cornelia Street Cafe for the first time. Steinway Artist Kayo Hiraki was born in Japan, the daughter of a classical pianist. A child prodigy, she started playing the piano when she was three years old. She has been performing five nights a week for seventeen years as the house pianist at the famous jazz spot, Arturo’s in Greenwich Village. She has played at the Blue Note NYC with her Kayo Hiraki Piano Trio, including the legendary bassist Ron Carter, who notes: “Rarely have I heard a musician as gifted as Ms. Hiraki. To hear her play is to experience the joy of her creative ability and the depth of her experience as a talented performer.” She tours regularly in Europe and Japan and was recently featured in Japan Airline in-flight magazine. She will perform a series of jazz tunes inspired by classical compositions.

Kayo will be joined onstage by New York-based poet/composer/flautist Kat Georges. Kat will present the World Premiere of her hard-bit neo-classical, “Punk Symphony for Four Classical Elements in C Minor (for Flute, iPad and Vocals).” Kat Georges is a musician, poet, playwright, performer and designer. Her full-length poetry collection, “Our Lady of the Hunger,” will be released soon on Three Rooms Press, which published two previous collections, “Punk Rock Journal” and “Slow Dance at 120 Beats a Minute.” In New York since 2003, she has directed numerous Off-Broadway plays, curated poetry readings, and performed widely. She is co-founder and editor of Three Rooms Press; its most recent books include “Maintenant 6: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art” and “Mike Watt: On and Off Bass,” a collection of photos and distilled tour diaries from the legendary punk rock bass player.

The Cornelia Street Cafe is located at 29 Cornelia Street, New York, NY 10014. Advance reservations highly recommended: phone 212-989-9319. 

Tune in online at wnyc.org and call in, send your comments and tweets, or just get fix for the launch tomorrow night and check out Watt yourself!

And be sure to get your order in soon for the very Limited First Edition at threeroomspress.com

Mike Watt: On and Off Bass

Check it out at MTVHive.com.

And get your hands on the limited First Edition of “Mike Watt: On and Off Bass” today, by placing your order(s!) here.

Mike Watt: On and Off Bass

Pell raves, “His skill lies not in classical composition — although photo nerds will nonetheless find plenty to like in the book. Rather, Watt’s strength comes from his ability to capture everyday scenes. His pictures make the mundane into the sublime.”

Check out the full interview, commentary and exclusive photos at blogs.laweekly.com

And get your copy of this limited first edition soon by ordering here.

Mike Watt: On and Off Bass

http://read.mtvhive.com/2012/04/30/mike-watt-interview/

Check out the review and then catch one of the two rockin’ book launches this week. May 2 at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC and May 5 at Beyond Baroque in LA.

Mike Watt: On and Off Bass

“Mike Watt: On and Off Bass”: 
Legendary Punk Bass Player Mike Watt’s 
Photography, Reflections and Diary Excerpts

“Mike Watt: On & Off Bass” by Mike Watt (ISBN 978-0-9835813-0-7, Size: 8″ x 10″, 112 pages, full color, Three Rooms Press 2012Order your copy today: $25 (plus shipping and handling; sales tax applies for NY state residents).

The New Yorker calls it “unusual and beautiful.” The LA Weekly raves, “the photos are strikingly inventive, revealing yet another side of this modern-day Renaissance man.” MTV calls it “a charming, well-shot document of a the legendary punk rocker’s photographic dabbling.” Detroit Metrotimes: “A unique insight into Watt’s mind.”

“Mike Watt: On and Off Bass” is getting a lot of buzz. And for good reason, considering the author and photographer is the legendary punk bassist himself.

Mike Watt got his musical start thumping the bass with legendary San Pedro punk trio, The Minutemen in 1980 and he has been at it ever since. Over the years, he’s toured with Dos, fIREHOSE, his own The Black Gang, The Secondmen, The Missingmen, and others, and he has worked bass as a sideman for Porno for Pyros, J Mascis and the Fog, as well as punk godfathers The Stooges.

Off the road, at his beloved San Pedro, CA home base, Watt developed a deep interest in photography. In Spring 2010, Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica, CA hosted an exhibit of his photos: “Mike Watt: Eye-Gifts from Pedro.” According to Track 16 executive director Laurie Steelink, who curated the exhibit, “He has this knack for finding the early morning sweet spots when venturing out alone on his bike or kayak. The resulting photographs never seem to dry: light, flight, salt, rust, and tide commingle in fiery sunrises, endless heavens, roiling waves and fog.” The photos offer another side of Watt that fans of his punk rock music may not be familiar with: While seemingly serene, many have an underlying tension and that often shows the sharp contrast between industry and nature.

In “Mike Watt: On and Off Bass,” photographs that appeared in the exhibit are punctuated by Watt’s poetry and snippets selected from 10 years of his diaries. Watt’s writing is insightful, funny, intimate and honest, as he explores topics like John Coltrane, long hauls and overcoming performance fears. “Mike Watt: On and Off Bass” exposes Watt’s vision as a photographer, diarist and poet, taking its readers on a trip. And when you stop turning the pages of Watt’s story, you start turning the pages of yours, re-ignited.

This is a limited first edition. Be sure to order your copy today for $25 (plus shipping and handling; sales tax applies for NY state residents)

And if you’re in either NYC or LA this week, join us for two of this planet’s most rockin’ book launches ever!

NYC Book Launch: Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 7pm, at LePoisson Rouge
with Hellride East (Mike Watt, J Mascis, and Murph)
plus Appomattox and Dead Trend
AND very special guests!
tickets available here

LA Book Launch: Saturday, May 5, 2012, 2pm at Beyond Baroque
with Mike Watt & The Missing Men
plus The Lofty Canaanites (feat. Jack Brewer & S.A. Griffin)
info/reservations: info@threeroomspress.com

Mike Watt: On and Off Bass

“Mike Watt’s photos are the poetry of San Pedro…every time he goes out on that kayak he comes back with gold. These gorgeous images paired with the raw reflections of 3 decades on the road are sure to blow the minds of all who love punk rock and our beloved vision questing troubadour.”
- Jack Black, actor

“When you mix pirate, Pedro pix, music, d. boon forever, hard work, weird sincerity, good will, curiosity, love, and an adult moustache, what do you have? Poetry is the answer. Poetry poetry poetry. Watt Watt Watt!”
- Richard Hell, writer & musician

“Here is the last stand of the fruited earth and the ship-freighted sea. How lovely America was. God bless San Pedro and Mike Watt.”
- Iggy Pop

About the Book
Mike Watt got his musical start thumping the bass with legendary San Pedro punk trio, The Minutemen in 1980 and he has been at it ever since. Over the years, he’s toured with Dos, fIREHOSE, his own The Black Gang, The Secondmen, The Missingmen, and others, and he has worked bass as a sideman for Porno for Pyros, J Mascis and the Fog, as well as punk godfathers The Stooges.

Off the road, at his beloved San Pedro, CA home base, Watt developed a deep interest in photography. In Spring 2010, Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica, CA hosted an exhibit of his photos: “Mike Watt: Eye-Gifts from Pedro.” According to Track 16 executive director Laurie Steelink, who curated the exhibit, “He has this knack for finding the early morning sweet spots when venturing out alone on his bike or kayak. The resulting photographs never seem to dry: light, flight, salt, rust, and tide commingle in fiery sunrises, endless heavens, roiling waves and fog.” The photos offer another side of Watt that fans of his punk rock music may not be familiar with: While seemingly serene, many have an underlying tension and that often shows the sharp contrast between industry and nature.

In “Mike Watt: On and Off Bass,” photographs that appeared in the exhibit are punctuated by Watt’s poetry and snippets selected from 10 years of his diaries. Watt’s writing is insightful, funny, intimate and honest, as he explores topics like John Coltrane, long hauls and overcoming performance fears. “Mike Watt: On and Off Bass” exposes Watt’s vision as a photographer, diarist and poet, taking its readers on a trip. And when you stop turning the pages of Watt’s story, you start turning the pages of yours, re-ignited.

THE PREORDER PERIOD HAS ENDED. But you can still order this limited first edition, for $25 (plus shipping and handling; sales tax applies to NY State residents). Please go here to place your order.
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