BACK AT THE PARKSIDE LOUNGE!

Featuring Daniella Deutsch and Raymond Alexander Turco

Hosted by Jerry T. Johnson

Plus open mic

21+

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

Daniella Deutsch is a 27-year-old poet originally from Los Angeles, California, currently studying at NYU for her Masters in Clinical Social Work. Her poems have been published by online literary journals such as Ink and Voices, LittleDeathLit, and 5x5 Literary Magazine. Her print publications include In Parentheses Literary Magazine, Gargoyle Magazine, Wingless Dreamer, and Clockhouse Journal. Her debut book of poetry, all the things my mother never told me, came out in December of 2020, and her second book, I Woke Up To Words Today, is out now.

Raymond Alexander Turco is a poet and playwright born in Hackensack, NJ. He writes poems in English and Italian and has a special affinity for European history, surrealism, magical realism, and absurdism. The author of nine stageplays, he has published his poetry in the Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, and with Bordighera Press.