BACK AT THE PARKSIDE LOUNGE!
Featuring Sara Fruner and Yuko Otomo
Hosted by David Lawton
Plus open mic
21+
$3 suggested donation. Two drink min, alcoholic or non.
Sara Fruner was born in Riva del Garda, Trentino, North-Eastern Italy. After graduating in English literature and language at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, and specializing with two M.Phils in literary translation from the English, she has been working as a translator in the publishing industry. Her translations include such authors as Monique Truong, Jane Hirshfield and W.S. Merwin.
Currently she teaches Italian at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She has also contributed extensively to bilingual newsmagazine La Voce di New York, and collaborated with the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) as well as Magazzino Italian Art.
In poetry, she likes to swing between Italian and English. Bitter Bites from Sugar Hills (Bordighera Press NY) her first collection of poems in English, came out in 2018. Lucciole in palmo alla notte (Supernova Editore), a collection of poems in Italian, came out in 2019. She writes fiction too. Her first novel, L'istante largo (Bollati e Boringhieri), came out in 2020, and received the second prize of the Severino Cesari National Award for Debut Novel 2021. Her second novel, La notte del bene (Bollati e Boringhieri), is coming out mid May 2022, and her new poetry collection in Italian, La rossa goletta (Crocetti Editore), in 2023.
Yuko Otomo is a visual artist & a bilingual (Japanese/English) writer of Japanese origin. She writes poetry, haiku, art criticism, travelogues & essays. Her publications include Garden: a collection of Haiku (Beehive Press); Genesis (Sisyphus Press), Small Poems (Ugly Duckling Presse), The Hand of The Poet (UDP), STUDY & Other Poems on Art (UDP), Elements (the Feral Press), KOAN (New Feral Press), FROZEN HEATWAVE: a collaborative linked poem project with Steve Dalachinsky (Luna Bisonte Prods), Envelope (Poems-For-All) & the most recent Anonymous Landscape (Lithic Press). She’s shown her visual works at The Vision Festival, Tribes Gallery & The Courthouse Gallery @ Anthology Film Archives. She lives in New York City.