Three Rooms Press presents

The 18th Annual 

CHARLES BUKOWSKI Memorial Reading

Celebrating Bukowski’s 105rd birthday!

Wednesday, August 20th, 6-8pm

Live at The Bitter End

147 Bleecker Street | NYC | Advance Tickets $10

Poems, Readings & Performance by

Penny Arcade | Jennifer Blowdryer | Puma Perl | Michael Puzzo 

Danny Shot | Richard Vetere | Frank Messina | 

+ Special Guests

Join Three Rooms Press as we celebrate the 105th birthday of legendary poet Charles Bukowski during the 18th Annual Charles Bukowski Memorial Reading Live at NYC’s iconic Bitter End (147 Bleecker Street) on Wednesday, August 20, 2025, 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, and NJ Beat Poet laureate Frank Messina plus special guests. Advance tickets: $10.

Charles Bukowski was considered the champion of outsiders and outcasts of society. His work is still vividly relevant today since Bukowski wrote about the human condition, something that can be applied to any time period regardless of changes in technology, politics, or societal conflict.

At the annual memorial reading, performers will consider all this and more while channeling the spirit of Bukowski through his poems and personal stories. In addition to readings and discussion, all attendees have a chance to win Bukowski books and other prizes.

Doors open at 5:45pm. Advance tickets ($10) and more information via Bitter End (www.bitterend.com)