BACK AT THE PARKSIDE LOUNGE!

Featuring Lorraine Garnett and Topaz Winters

Hosted by Thomas Fucaloro

Plus poetry open mic

21+

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

Lorraine Garnett is a nanny in Brooklyn. She has previously worked as a preschool teacher, after-school supervisor, and summer camp activities director. Her poems are published in Coronavirus Haiku Workers Writers School Anthology ,and Good Cop/Bad Cop (FlowerSong Press). Her haiku have been featured by Coffee House Press and also the Philadelphia Contemporary’s Healing Verse Poetry Line. Lorraine’s poems are also forthcoming in I Can't Breathe: Poetic Anthology of Fresh Air ( Kistrech Poetry). She has read her poems at venues including Dia Beacon Museum, Wizard’s Wardrobe Readers Theatre Event, the Workers United Film Festival, Pen World Voice Festival, and the Crush Reading Series at Woodbine. Born and raised in Jamaica W.I. Garnett currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Topaz Winters is the Singaporean-American author of three full-length poetry collections (most recently So, Stranger, Button Poetry, 2022). She is the founder & editor-in-chief of the independent publishing house & literary journal Half Mystic. Her peer-reviewed scholarly work is published in the Journal of Homosexuality. Her creative work is published in diode, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, DIALOGIST, Birdfeast, & Cosmonauts Avenue, & has been featured by The Straits Times, American Banker, the National University of Singapore, the Boston Poetry Slam, the Center for Fiction, & the Academy of American Poets. Topaz is 22 years old & studies English at Princeton University. You can find more of her work at topazwinters.com.