Three Rooms Press Tour Dates
- NY Times covers TRP poet George Wallace
- NYC and LA Launch Dates confirmed for new Mike Watt book
- 5th Annual NYC Dada Poetry Salon & Maintenant 6 Launch Slated for 3/16
- Michael T. Fournier To Tour West Coast in March 2012
- Poets B.R. Lyon & Billy Cancel set to Thrill at Son of a Pony 3/2
- TRP presents: Son of a Pony feat. Linda Lerner & Andrew Boston
- Son of a Pony & Three Rooms Press rock the NY Poetry Festival This Saturday
- Now Accepting Submissions: NYC-Based Short Story Anthology
- Poet Jane Ormerod features at Cornelia St. Cafe Fri. March 4, 2011
- 4th Annual Dada Poetry Salon Friday March 18 in NYC
- Poet George Wallace reads in Taos, NM, Fri Feb 4
- Jane Ormerod & Thomas Fucaloro to read in Los Angeles
- Poet George Wallace Blows Minds in England and Greece
- Poets Thomas Fucaloro & Amy Leigh Cutler Ride the Pony Jan. 21
- Annual Charles Bukowski Tribute Reading January 7
- Poet Matthew Hupert set for Book Launch Dec. 17 at Cornelia St. Cafe
- Call for Dada Submissions: Maintenant5 (pub date: March 2011)
- Thomas Fucaloro Book Launch: Sun. Nov. 7, 6 pm, Parkside Lounge NYC
- Cure for Summertime Blues: Book Launch for Triumph for Rent features Theater, Poetry & Rock–Sat. Aug. 14 at Parkside Lounge, NYC
- Poet Peter Carlaftes set for NYC Book Launch: June 18, 6 p.m., Cornelia St. Cafe
- TRP Poets Set to Ignite LA: Peter Carlaftes, Kat Georges, George Wallace June 13 at Beyond Baroque
- Maelström FiEstival NYC May 27-29
NY Times covers TRP poet George Wallace
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Poet George Wallace, author of the Poppin’ Johnny (TRP, 2009) and the upcoming English/Greek collection EOS: Abductor of Men (TRP, 2012) is featured in The New York Times March 30 edition. Times writer Karin Lipson ventured out to the Conklin Barn in Huntington, where Wallace’s monthly “Poetry Café” reading series has been staged for years. The article notes that Wallace, currently writer-in-residence for the Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic site, will commemorate Nation Poetry Month on April 11 at the Huntington Public Library with at reading of works by Whitman, Carl Sandburg and Maya Angelou. Hopefully one or two of Wallace’s own pieces will be read as well!
Check out the article at: http://nyti.ms/HapldZ
NYC and LA Launch Dates confirmed for new Mike Watt book
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Mike Watt and Three Rooms Press will launch the new book “Mike Watt: On and Off Bass” with two rockin’ events in New York City and Los Angeles in early May.
“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
MAY DAY 2: MIKE WATT AND FRIENDS
featuring live perf. by Hellride East
with Mike Watt, J Mascis and Murph
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 7 P.M.
LE POISSON ROUGE, NYC
Three Rooms Press & CEP Presents: NYC launch for “Mike Watt: On and Off Bass” at Le Poisson Rouge. Featuring HELLRIDE EAST with Mike Watt + J Mascis + Murph, plus Appomattox and Dead Trend, and a reading and signing by Mike Watt along with additional very special guests. Book available for purchase at event. Advance Tickets ($20): lepoissonrouge.com
“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
CINCO DE MIKE WATT
featuring live performance by
MIKE WATT AND THE MISSINGMEN
SATURDAY, MAY 5, 2 P.M.
BEYOND BAROQUE, VENICE, CA
On Saturday, May 5th, 2 p.m., Three Rooms Press presents the West Coast book launch for Mike Watt: On and Off Bass at Beyond Baroque. The event will feature live performances by Mike Watt & The Missingmen and The Lofty Canaanites, plus reading & signing by Mike Watt along with very special guests. The new book, and Watt’s limited edition photographic prints (from Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica) will be available for purchase at the event. Tix $10 available at the door. Reservations (recommended): info@threeroomspress.com
5th Annual NYC Dada Poetry Salon & Maintenant 6 Launch Slated for 3/16
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It’s back! And better than ever: The fifth annual Dada Poetry & Art Salon, with Dada hostess KAT GEORGES! This year’s theme: Declare Art on War!
Wear your favorite Dada fashion, thrill to the excitement of the strangest, most hard-hitting Dada performances ever, and enjoy Dada-inspired poetry read LIVE! from the latest edition of Maintenant: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing & Art* (Three Rooms Press, 130 pages, 2012).
Featured guest poets include Dada superstar boxer/poet Arthur Cravan, brought back to life for this special event. Plus Live Dada Twitter, and performances by underground comic book artist Mike Diana with Steven Retchard, NY Dada’s Joanie Hieger Zosike & Lois Kagan Mingus, NJ Dada’s John J. Trause, Romanian Dada descendent Valery Oisteanu, LA Dada’s Cynthia Toronto, Dada Daddy Peter Carlaftes, and surprise guests!
Plus: new videos, book giveaways and more. The first 20 people will receive a free copy of the hot-off-the-press Maintenant 6: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Literature & Art (inspired by Arthur Cravan‘s early 20th Century Maintenant ’zine–the first ’zine EVER!).
Doors open at 5:45. Admission is $7 which includes (naturally) a free drink! Cornelia Street Cafe is at 29 Cornelia Street, in the West Village, between W. 4th Street at Bleecker (http://corneliastreecafe.com). Reservations and additional information: threeroomspress@mac.com
Maintenant 6: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing & Art is the fifth edition of an annual collection of contemporary Dada work inspired by Dada instigator and Three Rooms Press spiritual advisor Arthur Cravan. This issue, edited by Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges, includes bold poetry, cutting-edge visual art, essays and word art from Neo-Dadaists worldwide, including: Roger Conover, Mina Loy, Jerome Rothenberg, Giovanni Fontana, Fork Burke, Paolo Pelosini, Constantin Xenakis, Vittore Baroni, George Wallace, Scott Wannberg, Duska Vrhovac, Bart Verburg, Mike Mollett and more than 100 other artists. Color cover, with interior black and white text and images. It is now archived in the MOMA library.
The original Dada movement peaked from 1916-1922, primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works. Its purpose was to ridicule what its participants considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world. In addition to being anti-war, dada was also anti-bourgeois and anarchist in nature.
Michael T. Fournier To Tour West Coast in March 2012
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Michael T. Fournier, author of the critically-acclaimed novel Hidden Wheel (Three Rooms Press, 2012) will tour the west coast for several readings from his new book in March. Scheduled readings so far include:
Friday, March 9, 7 pm
Blackbird Studios
1551 S. Commerce Street Ste. A
Las Vegas, NV 89102
(702) 782-0319
with special live musical performance by Coastwest Unrest and Walker Rose
Monday, March 12, 7 pm
Stories Books and Cafe, Echo Park
1716 West Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90026-3225
213-413-3733
Tuesday, March 13, 7:30 pm
Track 16 Gallery
2525 Michigan Avenue, Bldg C-1
Santa Monica, CA 90404
310-264-4678
Wedensday, March 14, 7 pm
Sub-Mission Gallery
2183 Mission Street (between 17th and 18th)
San Francisco, CA
415.255.7227
And look for him April 7th at Flywheel in Easthampton, MA,
with Sam McPheeters and others TBA
Poets B.R. Lyon & Billy Cancel set to Thrill at Son of a Pony 3/2
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Three Rooms Press & Cornelia Street Café present Son of a Pony Poetry Reading Series
Featured poet: B.R. Lyon, Spotlight poet: Billy Cancel.
PLUS NYC’s Sensational Open POETRY Mike; Hosted by Kat Georges
Friday, March 2, 6 pm
Three Rooms Press is pleased to present Son of a Pony, with special featured poet B.R. LYON celebrating the release of his new Three Rooms Press book, You Are White Inside, on Friday, March 2. Lyon will be going by spotlight poet BILLY CANCEL, and both readers will follow NYC’s most provocative open poetry reading, hosted by Kat Georges.
Poet, fiction writer, and musician B. R. LYON splits his life between Brooklyn and Egypt. He recently gave up twenty-five years of adminis-tration in juvenile justice and clinical social work practice, leaving it to others to work out their problems while he ponders his own. His other publications include a chapbook, Your Infidel Eyes (Poets Wear Prada Press, 2006), and his ‘poemusic’ CD, Beauty Keeps Laying Its Sharp Knife Against Me (Logochrysalis Productions, 2008). He is an editor for Great Weather For Media, and is the founder and producer of Hydrogen Jukebox, a New York City reading series that combines poetry with music, which, besides his life partner, are his greatest loves.
BILLY CANCEL’s work has recently appeared in Shampoo, Glitterpony & Cricket Online Review. He co-runs Hidden House Press. A collection The Autobiography Of Shrewd Phil was published by Blue & Yellow Dog Press last year. Sound poems, visual shorts, & other aberrations can be found at www.billycancel.com
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
TRP presents: Son of a Pony feat. Linda Lerner & Andrew Boston
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Three Rooms Press & Cornelia Street Café present
SON OF A PONY Poetry Reading Series
FRIDAY, January 20, 6 pm
Featured poet: Linda Lernerl Spotlight poet: Andrew Boston
PLUS NYC’s Sensational Open POETRY Mike, Hosted by 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
Son of a Pony & Three Rooms Press rock the NY Poetry Festival This Saturday
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Join Son of a Pony and Three Rooms Press as poets take over Governor’s Island for the FREE New York Poetry Festival Saturday & Sunday, July 30-31 from noon-5 each day.
The Son of a Pony Posse will read on SATURDAY, JULY 30 at 4:30 PM on the BRIGADIER stage. Featured poets include Hala Alyan, Peter Carlaftes, Kat Georges, Brant Lyon, and Jane Ormerod. During the reading, we’ll have free giveaways including books, cds & more!
Meanwhile, Three Rooms Press will be there both days with a table showing our latest offerings for you to check out!
With over 30 reading series, 100 poets and tons of vendors on board, the festival connects disparate poetry communities by bringing poetry out of the dark bars and universities, to a place amongst elms, plein trees & sycamores on an island in the sun. Bring a picnic, blanket, sunscreen, and lots of water!
There will be a Pre-Fest Party and Fundraiser at the Bowery Poetry Club on Thursday, July 21st, 8pm-2am. Tickets are $10 and support this free festival. Hear curators of the series to be presented at NYPF read their work, and dance to live jazz from Shawn Randall and tracks from DJ Eliel Lucero, among others.
NYPF’s sponsors include City Winery, Sixpoint Brewery, and Bowery Poetry Club.
Details available here: http://tpsny.org/
Now Accepting Submissions: NYC-Based Short Story Anthology
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Coming this Fall from THREE ROOMS PRESS—
HAVE A NYC: Tall Tales from The City
—Now Accepting Submissions—
Three Rooms Press is ecstatic to announce the upcoming publication of “HAVE A NYC: Tall Tales from The City,” an anthology of short fiction with a New York City setting. We’re currently accepting submissions via email. Deadline is September 21, 2011.
Daytime. Nighttime. Anytime. Despite myriad changes in the past decades, New York City is still a thriving hub of activity, where magic, mischief and malady collide on any given corner at any given time.
The “HAVE A NYC” anthology will include beautiful, hard-bitten narrative fiction based in the city that still never sleeps. All contemporary fictional subject matter will be considered. All submissions must be minimum 1,000 words and maximum 2,500 words.
Tap the energy of NYC and make it your own. Take your idea and run through the streets. See your creation come to life in “HAVE A NYC: Tall Tales from The City.”
All submissions must be received no later than September 21, 2011 at midnight EST.
Email your piece (one at a time/no more than two) as an attached Word file to editor@threeroomspress.com
Thanks —Looking Forward to Submissions.
Poet Jane Ormerod features at Cornelia St. Cafe Fri. March 4, 2011
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- Jane Ormerod & Elliott Smith read Fri. March 4 at Cornelia St. Cafe
FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2011
4th Annual Dada Poetry Salon Friday March 18 in NYC
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A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art
FOURTH ANNUAL DADA POETRY SALON SLATED FOR MARCH 18 AT CORNELIA STREET CAFE
Poet George Wallace reads in Taos, NM, Fri Feb 4
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Peace Corp volunteer and poet George Wallace, writer-in-residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace, will present a program of readings and conversation entitled “Whitman And Beyond, Fanfares for the Common Man” at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Taos NM, on Friday Feb 4, 2011 at 7 pm. In his presentation, Wallace will trace the thread of 19th century Romantic/Transcendental ideas about ‘the common man’ through early and mid-20th century American writing, and into the contemporary era.
Details here: http://peacecorpsworldwide.org/pc-writers/2011/01/30/rpcv-poet-george-wallace/
Jane Ormerod & Thomas Fucaloro to read in Los Angeles
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Three Rooms Press poets Jane Ormerod (Recreational Vehicles on Fire, New & Selected Poems by Jane Ormerod (112 pages, ISBN: 978-0-9840700-1-5, Three Rooms Press, 2009)) and Thomas Fucaloro Inheriting Craziness is Like a Soft Halo of Light, by Thomas Fucaloro (86 pages, ISBN: 978-0-9840700-7-7, Three Rooms Press, 2010) are set to hit the West Coast with a swing thru L.A. & San Francisco.
Ormerod & Fucaloro will hook up with L.A. poets Rubén Martínez and Mehnaz Turner on Friday, Feb 11 , 8-10 pm at Stories Books & Cafe, 1716 Sunset Blvd, Echo Park. Founding Carma Bum Doug Knott will host, at this Rafael F.J. Alvarado-organized event. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=178782878827065
Two days later, Ormerod & Fucaloro will read in support of the most recent Uphook Press anthology, hell strung and crooked at Beyond Baroque on Sunday, Feb 13 (with fellow UP editors Brandt Lyon and Ice Gayle Johnson, and Seraphime Rhyianir).
So–West Coast followers–get ready for some cut-the-edge poetry like you’ve never heard before!
Poet George Wallace Blows Minds in England and Greece
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Poet George Wallace is just back from a successful tour that included sold-out stops in England and Athens, Greece. Wallace reports that his readings and workshops in England were “packed to the rafters” and enthusiastic fans lined up for autographs on their new copies of Wallace’s incredible collection of New American Poems, Poppin’ Johnny (116 pages, ISBN: 978-0-9840700-2-2, Three Rooms Press, 2009). Later, at another packed reading at the About Cafe in Athens, Greece, Wallace again read to a mesmerized audience, with translator Lina Sipitanou swapping lines with Wallace for several pieces.
Plans are now in the works for a new Three Rooms Press release from Wallace: a collection of 40 new poems, in English, with Greek translations (working title: Citizen of the World). Stay tuned for details.
Poets Thomas Fucaloro & Amy Leigh Cutler Ride the Pony Jan. 21
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2011 6 PM
CORNELIA STREET CAFE
SON OF A PONY POETRY SERIES
Featured poet
Thomas Fucaloro
Spotlight poet
Amy Leigh Cutler
PLUS NYC’s Best Open POETRY Mike
Hosted by
Kat Georges
Thomas Fucaloro writes with a madness all his own that shines spectacular. His recently released debut poetry collection, “Inheriting Craziness is Like a Soft Halo of Light” (Three Rooms Press) showcases his intensity with 57 poems that slice through facade and illuminate an indefatigable inner spirit. 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.”
Opening for Fucaloro will be spotlight poet Amy Leigh Cutler, author of the book “Orange Juice and Rooftops” and the chapbook “American Woman.”
The featured readings follow 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
FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2011 6 PM
CORNELIA STREET CAFE
SON OF A PONY POETRY SERIES
Featured poet
Thomas Fucaloro
Spotlight poet
Amy Leigh Cutler
PLUS NYC’s Best Open POETRY Mike
Hosted by Kat Georges
Annual Charles Bukowski Tribute Reading January 7
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Son of a Pony
Friday, January 7, 2011, 6 pm
Charles Bukowski Tribute
With Featured Performers including
Peter Carlaftes, Angelo Verga, Kat Georges, George Wallace, Thomas Fucaloro, Ron Singer & Ryan Buynak
Host: Kat Georges
For the first Son of a Pony reading of 2011 at Cornelia Street Cafe, we’re once again celebrating the life with a tribute reading to Charles Bukowski. Poet Charles Bukowski was truly one of the few and far between: a champion of the outsider, the lost and lonely, the outcasts from society. Especially during this ongoing period of economic uncertainty and working class adversity, his work resonates like none other, revealing the naked human soul.
At this tribute reading, anyone is welcome to bring their favorite Bukowski poem, or read an original poem that was inspired by Bukowski. We’ll be showing videos of Bukowski, plus giving away his books and other prizes.
Plus a select number of readers including Host Kat Georges, and poets Peter Carlaftes, Angelo Verga, George Wallace, Thomas Fucaloro, Ron Singer and Ryan Buynak will bring Bukowski poems to life in five very unique ways.
Doors open at 5:45. Admission is $7 which includes (naturally) a free drink! Arrive early to sign up on the reading list, or just come and enjoy the fun. Cornelia Street Cafe is at 29 Cornelia Street, in the West Village, between W. 4th Street at Bleecker.
Reservations and additional information: threeroomspress@mac.com
Poet Matthew Hupert set for Book Launch Dec. 17 at Cornelia St. Cafe
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Join us for the last Pony reading of 2010!
Three Rooms Press is proud to present the book launch for Ism Is a Retrovirus by Matthew Hupert. Hupert a multi-media artist, writer, and that rarest of birds — the Native New Yorker. He believes the primary role of the Artist is to be the stick that your Zen master smacks you in the head with. His poetry has been published in The Formalist, the contemporary dada poetry and art journal Maintenant, and the anthology 150 Contemporary Sonnets.
Ism is a Retrovirus has been lauded by Mondo 2000 editor R.U. Sirius, and raved about by Jack Kerouac and Grateful Dead biographer Dennis McNally, who notes “[Hupert] sees how the words work, listens to them working, feels their meaning and spits ‘em out. I love his poetry.”
Emily F. Keller is a journalist, creative nonfiction writer and poet whose work mixes personal stories with social commentary. She writes about relationships, New York City, childhood and seasons. She lives in Brooklyn and performs at the Louder Arts Project, the Cornelia Street Café and the Bowery Poetry Club. You can learn more about her at www.emilyfkeller.com.
The featured reading follows the fabulous Son of a Pony open reading at the cafe. Poet & sultry 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
FRIDAY, December 17, 2010
6 PM | CORNELIA STREET CAFE
SON OF A PONY POETRY SERIES
Featured poets
Matthew Hupert (Book Launch)
AND
Emily F. Keller
PLUS
NYC’s Best Open POETRY Mike
Hosted by Kat Georges
Call for Dada Submissions: Maintenant5 (pub date: March 2011)
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Maintenant5 Call for submissions
Be a part of the 4th annual New York DaDa Poetry Salon, by submitting your DaDa-inspired poetry and/or art to Maintenant5, A Journal of Contemporary Dada Poetry & Art.
The concept of Maintenant is inspired by DaDa instigator and Three Rooms Press spiritual advisor Arthur Cravan. In the past three annual issues, we received increasingly bolder work from Neo-Dadaists worldwide. We’re excited about this year’s new perfect bound format, and we’re looking for the best Neo-Dada work ever to publish.
Poems should be no longer than 20 lines. Do not send multi-page poems as they will not fit our format and will be rejected outright. But DO submit your shorter work—as long as it is full of the intensity and madness that reflects the age we’re living in.. Also–we LOVE Dada-inspired word art, collage and photography. All art must be submitted in jpeg format, high resolution (300 dpi, 4×5 in). Black & White only.
Send your submissions to editor@threeroomspress.com
The journal will be distributed at the DaDa Poetry Salon on Friday, March 18th, 2010 at Cornelia Street Cafe (29 Cornelia Street, NYC, 6-8 p.m.), via mail to contributors, and to those wise enough to request a copy.
*Arthur Cravan is credited with creating the first ‘zine in the world with his publication Maintenant. We’re proud to carry on the tradition.
Thomas Fucaloro Book Launch: Sun. Nov. 7, 6 pm, Parkside Lounge NYC
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Three Rooms Press presents
Inheriting Craziness!
Book launch for
Inheriting Craziness is LIke a Soft Halo of Light
poems by
Thomas Fucaloro
Sunday, November 7, 6:00 pm
Parkside Lounge
317 East Houston Street New York, 10002
(212) 673-6270
Three Rooms Press’ latest release, Inheriting Craziness is Like a Soft Halo of LIght, by Thomas Fucaloro, is a spectacular first collection of poetry by an intense new literatry talent. 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.”
$5 admission (applies to purchase of book)
Featured reading
by Thomas Fucaloro
with additional performances by
Three Rooms Press All-Stars
including
Ryan Buynak
Peter Carlaftes
Karen Hildebrand
Puma Perl
Susan Scutti
Jackie Sheeler
George Wallace
with host Kat Georges
Cure for Summertime Blues: Book Launch for Triumph for Rent features Theater, Poetry & Rock–Sat. Aug. 14 at Parkside Lounge, NYC
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This Saturday, Aug. 14, Three Rooms Press presents a sizzling book launch for Peter Carlaftes‘ latest release, Triumph for Rent: 3 Plays, which will feature a torrid New York premiere of his uproarious play, Spin-Dry, along with poetry and live music.
Spin-Dry is a rollicking comedy anchored at Second Wind: A designer celebrity rehab center, set smack-dab in the 90s, where MTV mavens rub elbows with rockers and movie stars. The wild ride features Sara Kinetic (her mom died at Altamont; her dad in outer space), as she weaves her way through trysts and turns to get back on top of her game. The play stars Puma Perl, David DeCuir, Natalie Rose, Max Carlaftes, Kat Georges & Peter Carlaftes.
Also on tap will be sizzling readings from current and upcoming Three Rooms Press authors Jane Ormerod, Matthew Hupert, Thomas Fucaloro, Ryan Buynak, and Ronnie Norpel. In addition, the beloved downtown r’n'b band The JD’s (featuring Bob Musial) will round things out with a swinging set of smokin’ tunes.
Doors open 6:45. Show starts at 7:00. Tickets $10 at the door. Parkside Lounge is at 317 E. Houston (at Attorney). RSVP: info@threeroomspress.com.
ABOUT PETER CARLAFTES: Peter Carlaftes began his theatrical career on the playgrounds of the Bronx, and after seeing the world, branched out to Manhattan and beyond. He served as artistic director of San Francisco’s Marilyn Monroe Memorial Theater from 1993-2000. Nine of his plays have been staged, to critical acclaim, among them Anity, Frontier A-Go-Go, Spin-Dry and Closure. He also created and staged a deconstruction of Knut Hamsun’s classic novel Hunger, and created and starred in a one-man rendition of Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming. He has recently written and performed his solo work, Lenny Bruce: Dead & Well, and starred in numerous Off-Broadway plays including Arsenic & Old Lace and Barefoot in the Park, and will soon be seen in a revival of the 1995 Stephen Adly Guirgis black comedy, Den of Thieves.In 2010, he’s authored three books on Three Rooms Press, including A Year on Facebook (humor), DrunkYard Dog (poetry) and Triumph for Rent: 3 Plays.
ABOUT THREE ROOMS PRESS: Since 1993, Three Rooms Press has been a leading voice in the independent poetry, literature and dramatic fields, publishing more than 30 books of poetry, theater, and literary fiction, with a focus on the work of the best current New York underground writers. In addition, Three Rooms Press produces and promotes a variety of events; in the past 16 years it has staged more than 400 events in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Las Vegas and Europe.
Poet Peter Carlaftes set for NYC Book Launch: June 18, 6 p.m., Cornelia St. Cafe
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DrunkYard Dog, by Peter Carlaftes: NYC Book Launch June 18 6pm
Power poet Peter Carlaftes will launch his first full-length poetry collection, DrunkYard Dog (156 pages, Three Rooms Press, 2010) at the venerable Son of a Pony Poetry Reading Series on Friday, June 18, 6 p.m. at Cornelia St. Cafe.
Carlaftes work has been described as “a beautiful poetic voice, filled with drop-dead humor, searing insight and reselient originality, even while resonating with overtones of Bukowski, Baudelarie and Bogart.” He discovered his poetic voice on the playgrounds of the Bronx, and, after seeing the world, branched out to the bars of Manhattan. According to Carlaftes, DrunkYard Dog offers poems from “both sides of the bar,” and marks his third Three Rooms Press release in 2010, following A Year on Facebook (humor) and Triumph for Rent (three plays).
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
TRP Poets Set to Ignite LA: Peter Carlaftes, Kat Georges, George Wallace June 13 at Beyond Baroque
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PETER CARLAFTES, comic author, screenwriter, playwright, actor and poet, authored A Year on Facebook (humor), Triumph for Rent (3 Plays) and hot off the press—Drunkyard Dog (poems from both sides of the bar). GEORGE WALLACE, award winning poet and journalist, is author of Poppin’ Johnny: New American Poems along with 18 chapbooks. He’s also editor of poetrybay magazine (poetrybay.com) Poet/playwright KAT GEORGES has three collections of poetry, Punk Rock Journal, Maiden Claiming and Slow Dance at 120 Beats a Minute. She’s the founder and editor-in-chief of Three Rooms Press.
Maelström FiEstival NYC May 27-29
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NO POETRY? NO PARTY! Join us for three days of fiEsta : poetry, visual arts and music. More than 18 artists from Europe, Canada and the US come together in NYC to make history at the first ever maelström fiEstival NYC. Three Rooms Press is proud to be a sponsor of the event, which kicks off May 27th thru May 29th.
Since 2007 maelström—a Belgium-based publisher, artist, agent of ideas and propeller of acts—has organized an annual fiEstival of poetry, theater, visual art and music in Brussels. This May, for the first time ever, maelström will ignite the cultural skies of New York City with a three-day creative party featuring such renowned artists as Jerome Rothenberg, Nicole Peyrafitte, Pierre Joris, and Dwayne Morgan, as well an international palette of phenomenal emerging artists. The New York event is part of a touring poetry party that has made stops in Brussels, Quebec and Lebanon in 2009, and Paris, Brussels, New York and Montréal in 2010.
maelstrÖm, already a partner of City Lights San Francisco and publishing Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Anne Waldman in French, goes on building bridges between Europe and USA in association with Three Rooms Press and New Direction Publishing by presenting this first maelstrÖm fiEstival in New York City.
EVENTS INCLUDE:
Thursday 27th May – 7pm-11pm:
The Invisible Dog, 51 Bergen Street. $5 + bring your own chair!
Friday 28th May – 6pm-8pm:
Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street. $7 + one free drink.
Saturday 29th May – 7pm-9.30pm:
Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery. $5 + Belgian specialties.
PERFORMERS INCLUDE:
Jerome ROTHENBERG (USA) – Nicole PEYRAFITTE (FR-USA) – Pierre JORIS (FR-LUX-USA) – Dwayne MORGAN (CA) – Kat GEORGES (USA) – Peter CARLAFTES (USA) – Vincent THOLOMÉ (BE) – Maja JANTAR (BE) – Antoine BOUTE (BE) – Yanara FRIEDLAND (GER) – Giulietta LAKI (CH) – Benjamin POTTEL (BE) – David GIANNONI (IT) – Olivier DOMBRET (ES) – Gaetan SAINT-REMY (BE) – Yassin SERGHINI (UK) – Mark HAYNES (USA-CA) – Damien SPLEETERS (BE)
SPONSORS INCLUDE:
Three Rooms Press, New Directions Publishing, WBI Wallonie-Bruxelles International, Consulate General of Belgium
For more details, go to www.fiestival.org or check out maelström on facebook.
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What: Dada Poetry Salon
When: March 19, 2009, 6-8 pm
Where: Cornelia Street Cafe, 29 Cornelia St., NY, NY 10014
Cost: $7 (includes free house drink)
Costumes encouraged!
It’s back! And better than ever. The third annual edition of the very special one-night-only DaDa Poetry Salon, with DaDa hostess Kat Georges!
Featured guest poets will include DaDa superstars including boxer/poet Arthur Cravan and dada manifesto creator Tristan Tzara, brought back to life for this special event. Plus: new videos, book giveaways and more. The first 50 people will receive a free copy of the inaugural and only issue of Maintenant 4 (inspired by Arthur Cravan’s 1915 Maintenant magazine, the first ‘zine ever produced!). Included in the FREE zine is a special limited edition CD of contemporary Dada music and Wordscapes.
Wear your favorite Dada fashion, bring your Dada-inspired poetry for the open reading (sign up at 5:45, limited spaces available!).