BACK AT THE PARKSIDE LOUNGE!

Featuring Soodabeh Saeidnia and Adriana Scopino

Hosted by David Lawton

Plus open mic

21+

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

Soodabeh Saeidnia was born in Iran and received her Pharm.D. and Ph.D. of Pharmacognosy from Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Iran. She has worked as a Visiting Researcher and awarded a Foreign Researcher Fellowship to work as a Research Associate in Kyoto University, Japan, as well as Assistant and Associate Professor at TUMS and Visiting Professor at Saskatchewan University, Canada. Soodabeh is currently living in Kew Gardens, New York. Her English poems have been published in different American, Canadian and British magazines and literary journals. A number of her poems have been printed in the anthologies, The Careless Embrace of the Boneshaker (by great weather for MEDIA), Where the Mind Dwells, American Poet, The Literacy Review NYU, and many others. She is the author of Street of the Ginkgo Trees, and the translator and editor of anthologies like Voice of Monarch Butterflies, Apple Fruits of an Old Oak, and the bilingual anthologies Where Are You From?, Persian Sugar in English Tea Vol I, II, III, and Saffron Flavored Rock Candy Vol I, II in Persian and English. Among them, Persian Sugar in English Tea, Vol I is among poetry collections, novels, arts, music and films on the Lunar Codex archive launched by NASA Artemis partners to the moon.

Adriana Scopino is a poet and translator living in New York City. Her poetry collection Let Me Be Like Glass was published by Exot Books. She is the translator of My Mother Resurrected (Calypso Editions, 2017), poems by contemporary Argentinean writer Fabián Casas. Scopino received an MFA in Poetry and Poetry in Translation from Drew University. Her translation work has appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation and Great River Review.