Photo by Catrinel Popa
If you liked my voice on NPR
I think you would enjoy its unchained adult rasp
Another world heavyweight poetry championship between Andrei & Charles Bernstein
Hosted by Unnameable Books, Brooklyn
Info here
If you liked my voice on NPR
I think you would enjoy its unchained adult rasp
If you liked my voice on NPR
I think you would enjoy its unchained adult rasp
If you liked my voice on NPR
I think you would enjoy its unchained adult rasp
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
If you liked my voice on NPR
I think you would enjoy its unchained adult rasp
If you liked my voice on NPR
I think you would enjoy its unchained adult rasp
If you liked my voice on NPR
I think you would enjoy its unchained adult rasp
If you liked my voice on NPR
I think you would enjoy its unchained adult rasp
If you liked my voice on NPR
I think you would enjoy its unchained adult rasp
If you liked my voice on NPR
I think you would enjoy its unchained adult rasp
If you liked my voice on NPR
I think you would enjoy its unchained adult rasp
If you liked my voice on NPR
I think you would enjoy its unchained adult rasp
If you liked my voice on NPR
I think you would enjoy its unchained adult rasp
If you liked my voice on NPR
I think you would enjoy its unchained adult rasp
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
If you liked my voice on NPR
I think you would enjoy its unchained adult rasp
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
If you liked my voice on NPR
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If you liked my voice on NPR
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If you liked my voice on NPR
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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
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.
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
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
An exciting international festival of ideas
The Moving Center Literary Foundation (in cooperation with the House of National Minorities & Rue Paré Community) present a full series of readings, concerts, workshops, panel discussions, film screenings, and a dance performance
Featured in this festival is the European premiere of Julian Semilian’s 2024 documentary on Andrei: Fish Have No Psychiatrists: a day with Andrei Codrescu – official selection of the Cannes Film and River Run Film Festivals, 2024. Experimental filmmaker Julian Semilian is a film editor, teacher, poet, translator, and novelist & and Andrei’s dear friend and fellow Romanian exile
Featuring an international collection of voices, this festival promises to inspire Presenters include:
Andrei Codrescu (RO/USA), acclaimed author and poet
Czech & Dutch premiere of the documentary Fish Have No Psychiatrists, and a Q&A
with the director, Julian Semilian (USA)
Christine Otten (NL), author of The Last Poets
Derek Sayer (CA), author of The Coasts of Bohemia and Prague, Capital of the 20th Century:
A Surrealist History ...and many more
For details (including schedules and prices), visit moving-center.org
Curated and hosted by Lucien Zell
Prague, October 10-11, 2024: House of National Minorities Vocelova 602/3
120 00 Praha 2
Amsterdam, October 12-13, 2024: Ru Paré Community Chris Lebeaustraat 4 1062 DC Amsterdam
+420 608 619 489 | lucien@moving-center.org | https://moving-center.org
An exciting international festival of ideas
The Moving Center Literary Foundation (in cooperation with the House of National Minorities & Rue Paré Community) present a full series of readings, concerts, workshops, panel discussions, film screenings, and a dance performance
Featured in this festival is the European premiere of Julian Semilian’s 2024 documentary on Andrei: Fish Have No Psychiatrists: a day with Andrei Codrescu – official selection of the Cannes Film and River Run Film Festivals, 2024. Experimental filmmaker Julian Semilian is a film editor, teacher, poet, translator, and novelist & and Andrei’s dear friend and fellow Romanian exile
Featuring an international collection of voices, this festival promises to inspire Presenters include:
Andrei Codrescu (RO/USA), acclaimed author and poet
Czech & Dutch premiere of the documentary Fish Have No Psychiatrists, and a Q&A
with the director, Julian Semilian (USA)
Christine Otten (NL), author of The Last Poets
Derek Sayer (CA), author of The Coasts of Bohemia and Prague, Capital of the 20th Century:
A Surrealist History ...and many more
For details (including schedules and prices), visit moving-center.org
Curated and hosted by Lucien Zell
Prague, October 10-11, 2024: House of National Minorities Vocelova 602/3
120 00 Praha 2
Amsterdam, October 12-13, 2024: Ru Paré Community Chris Lebeaustraat 4 1062 DC Amsterdam
+420 608 619 489 | lucien@moving-center.org | https://moving-center.org
Projection Booth is an exhibit that animates and explores the nature of projection within the mind, not merely in psychological terms, but also as it relates to aspects of neuroscience, healing and tantalizing postulates of how consciousness may emerge within the brain
Our series of video projections, interactive and illuminated effects represent our vision and interpretation of how the mind changes over time (neuroplasticity) and how harnessing that ability to change may heal and reveal proposed neural correlates of consciousness. Memory reels screen in our personal projection booth, and we ‘project what happens next’ — this projection directs our actions. Through dynamic immersive light, we invite visitors to contemplate not only why and how we think and act the way we do, but how our thought patterns change over time. Our installation will make this process visible using light, sound/poetry and two videos: one projected on a wall and another projected onto a geometric form. We hope to start a conversation about how the ability to ‘change our minds’ heals and helps reveal truths about how consciousness may arise
we are deeply grateful to Hugh Rogovy, Lulu Parent and Asher Rogovy of the Rogovy Foundation for their generous support of Projection Booth
Lin Jingjing is an internationally recognized installation performance video conceptual artist who’s work is frequently on display in New York and Hong Kong. In April 2024, Jinging was listed one of the top 10 artist participating in Art Basel Hong Kong. Profiled in the Tate and highly regarded, Jingjing describes herself as a multimedia conceptual artist who frequently employs experimental narrative techniques to present a possible future infused with absurd imaginings and humor. How perfect for us!
the world is a kaleidoscope of Maya (illusion), where our senses paint a picture of reality that veils the eternal truth – Hindu precept
private event exhibit, NYC June 1-3 2024
image © Lin Jingjing 2024
Produced by the Brooklyn Rail, this festive gathering and poetry reading celebrates the closing of Singing in Unison Part 9: Peter Acheson & Gret Sterret Smith, featuring readings by Andrei Codrescu, Alicia Mountain, Vincent Katz, and Phong H. Bui
more info here
Bucharest Inside the Beltway presents a bevy of brilliant Romanian-American poets
Adela Sinclair, Carmen Firan, Adrian Sangeorzan
Guaranteed timelessness
Andrei joins local musicians, poets and authors of like winter-minds
Full line up here
Andrei reads a 2:25p
Andrei and Vincent are delighted that the inaugural reading from their new collaborative poem A Possible Epic of Carew (Black Widow Press 2023) will be held at the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation
Hosted and introduced by the Foundation’s curator and Program Director, Alex Paul Chapin, the reading will include a reception and book signing
The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundationis a nonprofit organization that promotes the legacies of the artists Milton Resnick (1917–2004) and Pat Passlof (1928–2011) and supports the work of other painters by organizing exhibitions, publishing catalogs, and hosting related programming in Resnick’s former home/studio in Manhattan’s Lower East Side
Vincent Katz, born in New York, is known for his work as a poet, critic, curator, and translator. He is the author of fourteen books of poetry, including Broadway for Paul (Alfred A. Knopf 2020), Southness (Lunar Chandelier Press 2016), Swimming Home (Nightboat Books,2015), Understanding Objects (Hard Press 2000) and Cabal of Zealots (Hanuman Books 1988). He is the author of The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius, which received the National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association. He has curated exhibitions on Black Mountain College and Rudy Burckhardt, and recently co-curated a retrospective of the films of Isabelle Huppert at Film Forum in New York City. From 2010 to 2021, Katz curated "Readings in Contemporary Poetry" series at Dia:Chelsea in New York City. More info vincentkatz.net
The authors are grateful to the The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation and to Alex Paul Chapin for graciously hosting this event
tickets and information here
Closing celebration of Palm Beach Photographic Centre’s exhibition of never-before-seen portraits of Beat Generation icons to celebrate the centre’s 35th Anniversary
This exhibition features over 70 images and stunning enlargements of iconic, culture-bending poets, activists, and artists of the Beat Generation, including Allen Ginsberg, Lenore Kandel, Kenneth Rexroth, and many others
Appearing live at the event read, remember and share are: Ed Sanders, John Kruth, Peter Yarrow (pending health in November), Curtis Wong, Michael Basinski + Donald Metz, Kenneth Irby, Richard Blau, Jeff Simon, Thomas Southall, Rebekkah Pavlov, Peer Bode, William Heyen and a live televised appearance by Anne Waldman
with: Brenda Knight (Writer - Women Of The Beat Generation), Jessica Hagedorn, Lawson Inada
This collection of images taken in the 1960s and ’70s by little-known poet/ photographer/activist Joey Tranchina were stored away for nearly 50 years before being discovered by his son in 2018 and later shared with critic and art historian Dr. Anthony Bannon and art consultant and producer Dolores Lusitana
opening event in October details here - please note - the closing event November 27-29, 2023 details are to come
To celebrate the launch of the new podcast The Second Oswald –– Live one-night-only play with totally slammin’ poet Bob Holman & followed by a discussion hosted by Jesse Walker, author United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory. HarperCollins, 2013
A new podcast and play, THE SECOND OSWALD sheds light on a little known aspect of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. Could the accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, been set up to be the patsy? The series focuses on writer Kerry Thornley who served with Lee Harvey Oswald in the US Marines and wrote a novel about him a year before he killed JFK. Thornley would later implicate himself in the conspiracy and became a major influence on Q-Anon and other fringe underground groups through his writings. T
This is not just another conspiracy theory
tickets available at evenbrite here
New York Public Library Jefferson Market Branch and Three Rooms Press present
A Dual Book Launch with Peter Carlaftes & Kat Georges – celebrating the release of their new poetry collections
LIFE IN THE PAST LANE and AWE AND OTHER WORDS LIKE WOW
with special guests Andrei Codrescu • Uche Nduka • Puma Perl • Karen Hildebrand • Jane LeCroy • Sophie Malleret
Jefferson Market Library NYC – free & open to the public more info here
WHITE RABBIT magazine, Ed. Dorothy Friedman August, and Jefferson Market Library present The Two Steves, a compilation party and a reading dedicated to Steve Cannon and Steve Dalachinsk
This is an ensemble, group participatory event to commemorate the life and work of these two larger than life denizens of the LES poetry scene
Yuko Otomo, Nancy Mercado, Ron Kolm, Danny Shot, Austin Alexis, Katherine Arnoldi, Ama Birch, Ken Angel Davis, Jim Feast, Bonny Finberg, Philip Giambri, Diana Gitesha Hernandez, Bob Holman, Linda Kleinbub, David Lawton, Mindy Levokove, Prince McNally, Lissa Moira, Shalom Neuman, Eve Packer, Puma Perl, Barbara Rosenthal, Yuyutsu Sharma, Larissa Shmailo, Joanna Sit, Mervyn Taylor, Richard West
WHITE RABBIT’S publisher is award-winning poet Dorothy Friedman whose work has appeared most recently in Tribes WORD anthology
This event is free and open to the public
more information here
