If you're around New York City, stop by the Bowery Poetry Club tomorrow/Wednesday night for the launch party for Third Rail: The Poetry of Rock and Roll, a new anthology from MTV Books/Simon & Schuster edited by Jonathan Wells (and designed by Reading Between A & B reading series Mary Austin Speaker, pretty cool, eh?).

I'll be reading my two pieces that are in the anthology--or should I say comp? Plus, my friend and sometime collaborator Gene Cawley will be playing a couple songs as part of the set. He will act as a sort of opening act for Paul Muldoon's band Racket. Or is it The Racket. The Rackets? Racket, Lake, and Palmer?

Perhaps I'll see you there. It's a great excuse to come down to New York City at semester's end. And during the day, perhaps I'll see you here, here, or here.

Labels: New York City, Poems, Shameless self-promotion