Poetry Reading: Cold Pizza with Márton Simon
Thu, Feb 13
|New York
We’re inviting you to an unconventional poetry evening featuring poems, slams, and stories with the acclaimed Hungarian poet Márton Simon. Please note that no pizzas will be served!
Time & Location
Feb 13, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
New York, 215 E 82nd St, New York, NY 10028, USA
About the Event
Simon Márton (born 1984) is a poet and one of the most-read Hungarian authors of the past decade. He has been publishing poems since 2004, with five books released since 2010, and has become a prominent member of the Hungarian slam poetry movement. Among other accolades, he has received the Visegrad Literary Fellowship and the Horváth Péter Literary Scholarship. By training, he is a Japanologist and literary translator. He is also the founder and owner of the independent micro-publisher Okapi Press. With some detours, he currently resides in Budapest.
About the moderator
Aniko Szucs is an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dramaturgy at Queens College. She holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University and an M.A. in Theatre Studies and Dramaturgy from the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest. Dr. Szucs’s research interests include Central and East European political theater, feminist protest movements and performances,…