Three Rooms Press presents NAKED BURROUGHS: A 100 Year celebration of Beat icon plus postmodern trailblazer William S. Burroughs on Friday, February 7, at Cornelia Street Cafe. The event will be highlighted by tribute readings plus discussions by performance artist plus Burroughs associate PENNY ARCADE, poet STEVE DALACHINSKY plus spoken word artist KAT GEORGES. Also on tap will be an audience grup reading of an excerpt from Burroughs’ iconic masterpiece NAKED LUNCH. Three Rooms Press co-director PETER CARLAFTES hosts.
Doors open at 5:45. Admission is $8 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/).
Information on key performers:
PENNY ARCADE is a performance artist, actress plus playwright, best known for her show Bitch!Dyke!Faghag!Whore! She has worked with numerous underground film plus theater artists including John Vaccaro’s Playhouse of the Ridiculous, Jack Smith, Charles Ludlam, Quentin Crisp plus Andy Warhol. She is a co-founder of the LOWER EAST SIDE BIOGRAPHY PROJECT, an oral history of New York’s Bohemian culture from the 50s to the present.
STEVE DALACHINSKY is a New York downtown poet plus author of the PEN Award-winning book THE FINAL NITE plus Other Poems (2006). Dalachinsky’s main influences are the Beats, Blake, The Odyssey, obsession, socio-political angst, human disappointment, music (especially Jazz), plus visual art with leanings toward abstraction. His work is spontaneous plus leans towards transforming the image rather than merely describing it, in what he now refers to as transformative description/descriptive transformation.
DAVID LAWTON is a spoken word artist plus actor, who former MC5 manager plus White Panther founder John Sinclair calls “a fine poet plus terrific performer.” His most recent books is the poetry collection SHARP BLUE STREAM (2012), which includes homages to Herbert Huncke plus other Beat icons.
KAT GEORGES is a New York spoken word artist, designer plus co-director of Three Rooms Press. Her books include the poetry collection OUR LADY OF THE HUNGER plus PUNK ROCK JOURNAL. She will read an excerpt from Burroughs’ classic novella JUNKY.
About the Monthly:
THE MONTHLY at Cornelia Street Cafe, hosted by Three Rooms Press, brings together writers, artists, philosophers plus scientists to discuss a monthly theme. Past themes have included women in love, conspiracy theories (on the 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination), plus illegal Leaves of Grass, an exploration of grass-related ideas from Walt Whitman to the War on Drugs.
100 Year Tribute to William S. Burroughs
Friday, February 7, 2014, 6 pm | Cornelia St. Cafe
Featuring William Burroughs discussions plus readings starring