Back at the Parkside Lounge!

** EVERYONE MUST PROVIDE PROOF OF FULL VACCINATION + ID TO ENTER THE VENUE.

Featuring Amber Atiya and Deborah Pintorelli

Hosted by David Lawton

Plus open mic

21+

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

Amber Atiya, a women's rights advocate and former occupant of shelter bed 2-053, is a multidisciplinary poet from Brooklyn. Dig on her poems in the Soul Sister Revue Poetry Compilation, the Boston Review, Gulf Coast Journal, and elsewhere. Her visual and text-based art/objects have been exhibited at the Knockdown Center, Bessie's Brooklyn, and Pace University. A 2021 recipient of the Oscar Williams and Gene Derwood Award, she is a member of Sari-Sari, a women of color writing group, celebrating 20 years this March. Her chapbook, the fierce bums of doo-wop, was published by Argos Books.

Deborah Pintonelli is the author of Meat and Memory (poetry) and Ego Monkey (stories), and several novels. She has won awards from the Illinois Arts Council, PEN Midwest, the National Association of Arts and Letters, and is a 2018 recipient of an Acker Award. Her stories and essays have been published in Gargoyle, Conjunctions, Ikon, Tribes, Autonomedia, Criminal Class Press, Literary Orphans, Vida, Red Fez, and Sensitive Skin. She is included in the anthology Up Is Up, But So Is Down: New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992, and in anthologies by Autonomedia, Thin Ice Press, and Arbre a Cames Editions. She teaches preschool, and lives in New York City, where she is currently a degree candidate at the Bank Street Graduate College of Education.