BACK AT THE PARKSIDE LOUNGE!

Featuring Tony Gloeggler and Claudia Serea

Hosted by George Wallace

Plus poetry open mic

21+

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

Tony Gloeggler is a life-long resident of NYC recently retired after managing group homes for the mentally disabled for 40 years. Poems have appeared in New Ohio Review, Rattle, Crab Creek Review, BODY, and Chiron Review. His full-length books include One Wish Left (Pavement Saw Press 2002) and What Kind Of Man (NYQ Books, 2020), long listed by Jakar Press for the Julie Suk Award and chosen as a finalist for the 2021 Paterson Poetry Prize.

Claudia Serea’s poems and translations have been published in Field, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, The Puritan, Oxford Poetry, and elsewhere. She is the author of six poetry collections and four chapbooks, most recently Writing on the Walls at Night, published by Unsolicited Press in February 2022. Serea’s poems have been translated in French, Italian, Russian, Arabic, and Farsi and featured on The Writer’s Almanac. Her collection of selected poems translated into Arabic, Tonight I’ll Become a Lake into which You’ll Sink, was published in 2021. She is a founding editor of National Translation Month, serves on the board of The Red Wheelbarrow Poets, and co-hosts The Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Readings.