Puma Perl & Friends, New York, NY

Puma Perl & Friends, New York, NY

Hot Updates! Special Event

Special Performances –

Puma Perl and Friends with SoulCake

Wednesday, February 23rd;  8:00pm-11:00pm

The 11th Street Bar
510 E. 11th St
New York City, NY
(212) 982-3929

Monday, February 28th;  9:00pm-11:00pm

The Anyway Café,
34 East 2nd Street (corner 2nd Avenue)
New York, NY
(212) 533-3412

Friday, March 18th;  8:00pm-11:30pm

Cyndi Dawson Birthday Bask
Parkside Lounge
317 E Houston St, New York, NY 10002
(212) 673-6270

Monday, March 28th;  9:00pm-11:00pm

The Anyway Café,
34 East 2nd Street (corner 2nd Avenue)
New York, NY
(212) 533-3412

Part of Howl’s Artist-in-Residence Series

Puma Perl and Friends is art at its best—collaborative, thrilling, and authentic. There is no posturing; it’s poetry and music and its own divine experience. —Elizabeth Grey, writer

Howl Arts is pleased to present its May artist-in-residence: performing poet Puma Perl. She will host and curate Howl’s May residency series, bringing spoken-word and musical performances featuring her original work with guest appearances from writer and musician friends who join her in a variety of configurations.

Puma utilizes her life on the Lower East Side as a backdrop for her writing and performances. The first of her five books, Belinda and Her Friends, was published in 2008. Along the way, she moved into working with downtown musicians, and in 2012 began the improvisational band Puma Perl and Friends.

Puma Perl is a poet, writer, performer, and producer. She’s the author of two chapbooks, Ruby True and Belinda and Her Friends, and three full-length poetry collections, knuckle tattoos, Retrograde (great weather for MEDIA), and Birthdays Before and After (Beyond Baroque Books). She is the creator, curator, and host of Puma’s Pandemonium, events which fuse spoken word and rock and roll. As Puma Perl and Friends, she performs regularly with a group of talented musicians. She’s received three awards from the New York Press Association in recognition of her journalism and was the recipient of the 2016 Acker Award in the writing category.

Poems, performances, photography, productions, stories, prose, music, surviving despite the odds. Is it all true? Yeah. Maybe. Sometimes. Creation is transformative. I collaborate with amazing artists and musicians and no two performances are ever the same. Books available as well: knuckle tattoos, Belinda and Her Friends, Ruby True. A new collection of poems was published in 2014.

Puma Perl is a widely published poet and writer, as well as a performer, journalist, photographer, and producer. She is the author of two chapbooks, Ruby True and Belinda and Her Friends, and three full-length poetry collections, knuckle tattoos, and Retrograde, (great weather for MEDIA), and Birthdays Before and After (Beyond Baroque. She was the creator, curator, and producer of Puma Perl’s Pandemonium, which launched at the Bowery Electric in 2012 and, until 2020, brought spoken word together with rock and roll. She wrote for The Villager from 2013-2018, and received two honorable mentions and one first place award from the New York Press Association in recognition of her coverage of the arts. Since 2019, she has been a staff member of ChelseaCommunityNews.com and, in 2020, started a weekly column called “Writing the Apocalypse,” in which a new poem was published in each edition. In 2016, she received the Acker Award in the category of Writing. In May of 2021, she was honored to be the HOWL Happening! artist in residence.