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Three centuries, three conspiracies, and the interring of Baby Napoleon


Directed by Tristan Codrescu · Music by w8ing4ufos · Produced by Constance Lewis

Event for the recently renovated Marigny French Opera House

Live Performance　New Orleans, LA

Date/Time: December 10, 2025 7p

More Info here

Tickets here

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Another world heavyweight poetry championship between Andrei & Charles Bernstein

Hosted by Unnameable Books, Brooklyn

Info here

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For fans of Electricity, Radio, Opera, Music, History, Theater, Dance, Pigeons and living

Andrei joins the group for a reading from his fiery introduction Miriam Seidel’s new monograph (Fomite Press, 2025) chronicling her visionary 2006 bio-opera Violet Fire –– itself based on Tesla’s Opera: The Real, Stranger-Than-Fiction Nikola Tesla, by Lewis Whittingham

Seidel work revisiting Tesla’s genius features Seidel’s libretto, musical collaborator Jon Gibson’s scores, and essays from collaborators exploring the nexus of art, science and revolution

Terry O’Reilly, a director and artistic collaborator of the legendary experimental theater Mabou Mines, staged Violet Fire’s lauded performances at BAM in 2006, and contributes to the Tesla collection as well

Event info here

Event registration (free) here

Tesla’s Opera~ The real, stranger-than-fiction Nikola Tesla Fomite Press 2025

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2025 NYC ¡DADA! DO – Official Launch of MAINTENANT 19
Sunday, October 26, 2025 | 1:30–4:30 PM
NYPL Jefferson Market Library, 425 6th Ave, NYC
Free Admission

Join Three Rooms Press and the NYPL Jefferson Market Library for an afternoon of wild contemporary DADA poetry and performance celebrating the official NYC launch of MAINTENANT 19: Journal of Contemporary DADA Writing and Art.

The event features performances by leading NYC-area DADAists, including Andrei Codrescu, Bob Holman, Valery Oisteanu, Martine Bellen, and many more. Hosted by editors Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges, the salon promises an exuberant mix of provocation, humor, and creative anarchy.

Costumes encouraged. Come as you aren’t.
threeroomspress.com | Info: 212-243-433

Full event info here threeroomspress

Eventbrite info here

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"Forms of Fire" by Andrei Codrescu, Lynnea Villanova , and Micah Ariel James; Directed & Choreographed by Clove Galilee

A powerful, multimedia theater experience that intertwines the lives of three people—a scientist, a music teacher, and a dancer—each grappling with the long shadows of personal and collective trauma. Through a fusion of scientific exploration and artistic expression, the play delves into the fragile human psyche, asking how and whether we can truly rewire our minds to overcome the past. Set against the backdrop of experimental neuromodulation, the characters’ journeys are mirrored in kinetic sculptures that evolve as metaphors for their fractured identities and disparate quests for healing. With a chorus of dancers embodying their internal struggles, "Forms of Fire" offers a poignant meditation on memory, resilience, and the transformative power of connection.

This staged reading offers a first glimpse into the evolving piece, with immersive and staging elements prototyped in real time. The audience is not only witness but participant in the experiment.

MEET THE CREATIVE TEAM

Created by: Lynnea Villanova MD

Co-Authors: Andrei Codrescu, Lynnea Villanova, Micah Ariel James

Dramaturg: Micah Ariel James

Director/Choreographer: Clove Galilee (Mabou Mines)

Composer: Melvin Gibbs

Sound Design: Dean Parker

Installation Art: Jingjing Lin

Scientific Advisors: Boris Gutkin

Lighting Design: Cat Tate Starmer

Sculptors: Rosa Elling; Lute Breuer

CAST

Amanda - Meghann Reynolds

Edgar & Diego - Jack Pappas

Irene - Shauna Pinkett

Mila - Christianna Nelson

Sasha - Finley Rosser

Zeb - Felice Rosser

The Chorus - Nicola Bosco-Alvarez

Narration - Liz Colarte

This performance is presented by the Romanian Cultural Institute with additional support from TRICKSADDLE, The Rogovy Foundation, Mabou Mines, and Bowery Arts & Sciences Ltd. With additional support from LA MAMA.

Group reading with a lofty group

“This Machine Fights Fascists”

In 1943, Woody Guthrie put this phrase on this guitar, believing in the power of song. The quote was from a sticker placed on items coming from a war effort factory. In honor of Woody’s patriotism and faith, the Library offers a program in words and images which will make you feel free. Andrei Codrescu and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright invite you to a double book party.

How to Live Under Fascism, Andrei’s new book from Black Widow Press, is a guide for those who seek poems that terrorize the state with brazen observations about our corrupt body politic. Plus poems about love and the plague and the pleasure of making things up. Andrei’s mother and father were both photographers and this new book also features Andrei’s own photos which are strangely and not so strangely connected.

Erato’s Inbox by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright is another kind of guide book, one that proposes passion as a path to peace and transcendence. Written from the viewpoint of Erato, the muse of love, this mini épopée is a delightful and wise romp, instructive, bawdy, and uplifting. The poem is accompanied by sublime and bizarre AI generated images. Published in collaboration with Barbara Rosenthal and Xanadu Press.

Andrei joins the friends of Carmine Street Metrics to support and encourage poetry for all

More info here (this information is for the April reading - hour/place are the same, date is 6/1/2025)

Co hosted by Anton Yakovlev, Wendy Sloan and Terese Coe of Carmine Street Metrics

Jefferson Market Library Willa Cather Room

Andrei will read from his new collection of poems and photographs, How to Live under Fascism (Black Widow Press, 2025) at the Romanian Cultural Institute (RCI).

Fighting the basilisk of doom in Romania and the United States – filling the gulf of ignorance with the music of resistance

We are grateful to the Romanian Cultural Institute for hosting this event

Event link here

Link to purchase book here

Group reading of translations from Polish poet Witold Wirpsza. More details to come on the list of luminaries reading

‘the John Ashbery of Polish poetry’ – Andrei Codrescu

Von Bar, NYC

Live Mag!, the annual arts and poetry publication, invites you to an afternoon of celebration and acknowledgement.  In conjunction with the release of the new issue, noted East Village poet, John Godfrey, will be given the Live Mag! Lifetime Achievement Award for 2025.

With performing contributors: Andrei Codrescu, Lila Dlaboha, Elinor Nauen, Harris Schiff

Art by Martha Diamond, Donna Dennis and others in the issue, including Pamela Lawton, Curt Hoppe, Kim Keever, Rick Klauber, & Yuko Otomo.

Hosted by Publisher and Editors: Lori Ortiz, Ilka Scobie, and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright.

Tompkins Square Park Library

Julian Semilian’s documentary Fish Have No Psychiatrists, chronicling the life and imagination of Andrei Codrescu, was warmly received by a full house. The screening was followed by an engaging conversation with Julian and Andrei

This warm, surreal adventure is a must see for those looking to subvert

The Broad Theater, New Orleans

Andrei read from his new book, How to Live Under Fascism (Black Widow Press, 2025) to the delight of fans and patrons on Chartres St in New Orleans, during a heady week of festivals and post-mardi gras jubilation

A Gallery for Fine Art

Crescent City Books

Illustrious Bowery Poetry Tuesday night series features stalwarts of the LES in this winter 2025 series

01/14/25 ANDREI CODRESCU - LILA LABOHA - SIMON PETTET

01/21/25 ANSELM BERRIGAN - DONNA DENNIS - TONY TOWLE

01/28/25 LEE ANN BROWN - JOHNNY STANTON - KAREN WEISER - DON YORTY

02/11/25 MARCELLA DURAND - WANDA PHIPPS - JOHN YAU

02/18/25 EDDIE BERRIGAN - MIKE DECAPITE - MITCH HIGHFILL - JOEL LEWIS

02/25/25 JAIME MANRIQUE - NANCY MERCADO - EDWIN TORRES

03/4/25 ED FRIEDMAN - BOB HOLMAN - BOB ROSENTHAL