Dear Poo-etry Lovers, I regret to inform you that tonight’s reading has been canceled due to weather and the inability of planes to get me from Denver to New York.  We look forward to re-scheduling in the near future, and in the meantime encourage you to step outside, look up at the snow, and imagine

As Christmas Eve 2010 descends upon us, and sugar plum fairies stretch their quads, preparing to dance in our heads once again, The Puru wants to bring you in on a rather crappy Catalan holiday tradition.  But first, a plug for our upcoming event this Monday night! This Dec. 27, Swift will spill the secrets

The Puru has begun making house calls.  The house (that is) of the Lord. Last night, I found myself at Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn, eating latkes and eggplant parmesan alongside two dozen too-cool-for-religious school 7th and 8th graders. Following dinner, they lit the candles and sang Chanukkah songs while I drank ginger ale and

First off, thanks so much for all the recent attention we’ve been generating online.  If you’re curious to know more about how we’ve been caught in the world wide web, take a look at our press page! That said, we wanted to talk about World AIDS Day, yet still things got kinda crappy… Here at