"Through the front door, a small coffee shop serving great coffee and Yonah Shimmel Knish Noshes. Clothespinned to the clothesline above the cash register are homemade chapbooks--under the counter are spoken word CDs--Poetry Served Here. Behind the curtain, a performance space that seats over 100, a state-of-the-art sound system with digital recording and cybercast facilities and a full bar." A permanent home for poetry events in NYC on the Bowery.

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