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Miss seeing these guys everyday!!!

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Now published

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What’s so funny about peace, love, and understanding?

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Such a thrill to spend quality time with the legendary Penny Arcade after our Bukowski reading!

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Vanya Down the Shore by Michael Puzzo LAB intensive 2026 ☀️🌊🐚

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75 artists, 26 plays, 8 days… @labyrinththeater 2026 Intensive 💚💚💚 (not pictured: about half the artists that made this week so special)

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Heading to LAByrinth Summer Intensive. So here’s a picture from my first intensive 29 years ago…

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Three Rooms Press presents
The 19th Annual CHARLES BUKOWSKI Memorial Reading
Friday, August 14, 6 pm at The Bitter End
147 Bleecker Street | NYC | Advance Tickets $10 @ bittterendnyc.com

Poems, Readings & Performance by
Penny Arcade | Jennifer Blowdryer | Frank Messina | Puma Perl | Michael Puzzo | Danny Shot | Richard Vetere | George Wallace + Special Guests

Join Three Rooms Press as we celebrate the 104th birthday of legendary poet Charles Bukowski during the 19th Annual Charles Bukowski Memorial Reading at NYC’s iconic Bitter End (147 Bleecker Street) on Friday, August 14, 2026, 6 pm.

The highly-anticipated annual event is hosted by Three Rooms Press co-directors Kat Georges and Peter Carlaftes and features poetry, oral history, rare videos, and live performance. This year’s event will feature Bukowski poems and tales performed by renowned performance artist Penny Arcade, musician-storyteller Jennifer Blowdryer, poet Puma Perl, playwright Michael Puzzo, poet Danny Shot, playwright/author Richard Vetere, poet George Wallace, plus special guests.

In addition to readings and discussion, all attendees have a chance to win Bukowski books, recordings, and other prizes.

Doors open at 5:45pm. For more information visit THE LINK IN OUR BIO!

For press passes or media inquiries please email info@threeroomspress.com.

#author #nycevent #bookevent #fyp #indiepublishing

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Friday August 14, 6pm at legendary Village club The Bitter End, 147 Bleecker Street.

Join Three Rooms Press as we celebrate the 104th birthday of legendary poet Charles Bukowski during the 19th Annual Charles Bukowski Memorial Reading at NYC’s iconic Bitter End on Friday, August 14, 2026, 6 pm. Doors open at 5:45pm. Advance tickets ($10) and more information via Bitter End https://bitterend.com/#/events/147662

The highly-anticipated annual event is hosted by Three Rooms Press co-directors Kat Georges and Peter Carlaftes and features Penny Arcade, Jennifer Blowdryer, Frank Messina, Puma Perl, playwright Michael Puzzo, Danny Shot, Richard Vetere, George Wallace, plus special guests. Advance tickets: $10 available at bitterend.com.

Charles Bukowski’s poetry and prose highlights the outsiders and outcasts of society: from drunks at the bar, to the denizens off the racetrack; from post office workers to lonely people living in crumbling apartments. Bukowski’s work retains its relevance today because of his focus on the core or what it is to be human, and modern society’s multiple ways of masking ourselves from our self. He's gone, but his spirit lives on!

This sells out earlier every year--be sure to get your tickets now!

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Axial Theatre is proud to be a part of the journey of playwright Michael Puzzo. We showed our support by hosting a private development reading of his new play, “Vanya Down the Shore” at New York City’s A.R.T. (Artist Residence Theatre) this July.

Actors reading the work included Erik Jensen, Meredith Garretson, Ken Forman, Kassandra Cruz, Laura Hughes, Axial ensemble member Susan Ward, and Axial Co-AD John Hickok.

The reading was directed by Axial’s ED and Co-AD, Cady McClain.

Follow @mpuzzo to see where this work takes this talented artist!

Michael Puzzo is a playwright, actor, producer, director and member of LAByrinth Theater Company since 1997. Productions of Mr. Puzzo’s plays include; SPIRITS OF EXIT ELEVEN (The Lion Theater @ Theater Row, NYC), THE SLASHER’S LAMENT (The New Ohio, NYC), LYRIC IS WAITING (Irish Repertory Theater, NYC), MY SOUL THE PAVEMENT (Prithvi Theater, Mumbai) THE 11a.m GIRL SAYS “GOODNIGHT” (Access Theater, NYC) 5 SANDWICHES (Medicine Show, NYC) , THE DIRTY TALK (CSNY & Edinburgh Fringe) and most recently his modern-day adaptation of Uncle Vanya commissioned by Hudson Theater Works (HTW, Weehawken, NJ) His work has been published by Dramatist Play Service, Applause Books, Smith & Kraus, Indie Theater Now and New York Theater Experience. Acting includes: John Patrick Shanley’s PIRATE! (New York Stage & Film) & DIRTY STORY (Harold Clurman Theater), Stephen Adly Guirgis’ IN ARABIA WE’D ALL BE KINGS (directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, CSNY) , the Pulitzer prize-winning BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY (Second Stage, NY) PHILIP ROTH IN KHARTOUM (The Public Theater) and as Father Sherman in the film DOUBT.

#axialtheatre #29hourreading #newplaydevelopment #puzzo

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Bank is closed.

It was fast and furious - and you only get one debut. So grateful for this one beside these legends ! Thank you for all who came out to support. See you in the next one!

#dogdayafternoon #broadway

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Sir, you’re on tv . . right now. We all are!
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#dogdayafternoon #broadway #michaelpuzzo #johnortiz

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