Featuring Lola Koundakjian and Alberto Zayden

Hosted by David Lawton

Plus open mic

21+

$3 suggested donation. Two drink min, alcoholic or non.

Lola Koundakjian is a regular reader in New York City and has appeared in four international poetry festivals. She curates a poetry reading series at the Zohrab Information Center in midtown Manhattan, and since 2006, has promoted her culture with texts, translations and audio for the Armenian Poetry Project. She is the author of The Accidental Observer (2011 USA) and Advice to a Poet (2014 Peru; 2015 USA). Her work has also appeared in journals and anthologies on three continents. www.lolakoundakjian.com

Alberto Zayden is a poet, writer, playwright and monologist. He was born in Havana, Cuba and is a long time resident of the East Village. He has been seen wandering the streets saying all kinds of crazy things. Some of them even make sense.