LIFE! WOW! POETRY! LIVE POETRY PERFORMANCE
Join poets Peter Carlaftes and Kate George (co-directors, Three Rooms Press) in a celebration of the Athens release of their poetry books: LIFE IN THE PAST LANE and AWE AND OTHER WORDS LIKE WOW. The event will feature poetry performances by the authors and special guest Georgia Pavlidou.

Books will be available at the event for purchase and signing. For more information, please contact Peter Carlaftes at info@threeroomspress.com.

High Praise for Peter Carlaftes and LIFE IN THE PAST LANE
“Audacious!” The New York Times Book Review
ˆA stunning work of memoir rendered in totally original poetry. You won’t find any of the artifices of academic verse here. This is real. These are to-the-bone poems.” —W.K. Stratton, author, Los Angeles Times bestseller The Wild Bunch
“Peter Carlaftes is an energetic, generous, and anarchic poet. His iconoclasm is priceless.” —Uche Nduka, author, Bainbridge Island Notebook
“This is poetry at its finest.” Richard Modiano, Director Emeritus Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center

AUTHOR BIOS
Peter Carlaftes is author of five books including the poetry collections Drunkyard Dog and I Fold With the Hand I Was Dealt and two collections of plays: Teatrophy and Triumph for Rent. He is co-editor of the annual contemporary dada journal, Maintenant and editor of The Faking Of The President: Nineteen Stories of White House Noir. His poetry has recently appeared in NYC from the Inside, Love, Love, Chorus: A Literary Mixtape and many more. He is co-director of Three Rooms Press.

Kat Georges is an internationally-acclaimed New York City-based author, poet, playwright, and graphic designer. Her previous books include of Our Lady of the Hunger: Poems and Three Somebodies: Plays about Notorious Dissidents, along with multiple chapbooks. Her poems and short stories appear in Arriving at a Shoreline, Love Love Magazine, Ladyland, Signs of Life, Have a NYC and Have a NYC 2 (NYC noir), and many more anthologies. She lives in Greenwich Village, New York City.