BACK AT THE PARKSIDE LOUNGE!

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Featuring Susan Michele Coronel and RescuePoetix

Hosted by David Lawton

Plus open mic

21+

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

Susan Michele Coronel, a former teacher and journalist, lives in Ridgewood, Queens, where she owns and directs a childcare center.  Her poems have appeared in publications including Spillway 29, Aeolian Harp Anthology, TAB Journal, The Inflectionist Review, Gyroscope Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, Newtown Literary Journal, and One Art. In 2021 one of her poems was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and another was longlisted for the Sappho Prize.  In the same year, her poems were runners-up for the Beacon Street Poetry Prize and the Millennium Writing Awards. Her first manuscript was a finalist for the Harbor Editions' Laureate Prize.

Susan Justiniano (RescuePoetix), first Puerto Rican woman Poet Laureate of Jersey City, NJ, is a self-taught bilingual poet. Her passion for words started at age 9 with a dictionary, notebook, and the latest paperback she could get her hands on. In 2006 RescuePoetix™ emerged as a professional artist entrepreneur. As a published and performing poet, she has recorded poems to music, in English and Spanish, is deeply immersed in the Arts across communities throughout NJ, NY, CT, PA and MD and is developing a body of work that focuses on the rich linguistic diversity of poetry. RescuePoetix™ poetry is motivational, uplifting, and empowering; designed to connect on a level far deeper than what the eye can perceive. Spinning verses in Spanish and English, her words weave stories of strength, growth, experience, and love in its many evolving forms. More info: https://linktr.ee/rescuepoetix