Mia Arias Tsang Book Release Party

Wet Spot Presents Mia Arias Tsang's Book Release Party at The Parkside Lounge 

March 7 2025

7-9pm

Tickets $10

Come celebrate the launch of Mia Arias Tsang's new book Fragments of Wasted Devotion. In her debut collection, Tsang explores the complexity and torture of queer heartbreak with an urgency that will leave you breathless. Flash nonfiction, vignettes and personal narrative combine to tell the almost-love stories of her young adulthood. From dusty university libraries to Boston-bound BoltBuses, and the glimmering skyscrapers of New York City to the smoggy shores of Venice Beach, FRAGMENTS OF WASTED DEVOTION spans seven years of failing, losing, and finding oneself in love.

Featuring readings from 

Yami Vizcaíno Rivera is an educator and MFA candidate at Hunter College. She is a Tin House Summer Workshop and VONA alum, has received fellowships from the HUES Foundation and Sundress Academy for the Arts, and was the inaugural writer in residence at Velvet Park Media. Her chapbook “Little, Little, Big, Big” was published in 2022 by The Hellebore Press. Her words can be found online at Barrelhouse, Cosmonauts Avenue, and Liminal Transit Review, and she can be found in Brooklyn with her cat. 

Swati Sudarsan is an Indian-American writer from the Midwest. Her work is published in The Rumpus, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Catapult, and Denver Quarterly among others. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and she was the 2023 recipient of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Katharine Bakeless Nason Award in Fiction. She has received funding and support from the Tin House Workshops, the Kenyon Review, Kweli Journal, and more. She now lives in Brooklyn with her black cat Toothless and works in public health.

Corrine Jasmin is a multidisciplinary artist, celebrated and published poet, and filmmaker. Jasmin works intimately with photography, video, multimedia, installation, and performance. She's known for her unique lens-based work, commanding performances, and thoughtful writing. Her work has been exhibited in three solo shows, numerous group exhibitions, and she's performed around the country. Jasmin makes music under her given name and is a recent artist in residence at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

and more!

21+ 

Accessibility Information:
The bar is on the ground floor. The performance venue and accessible bathrooms are accessed via a portable ramp (1.5 steps). All tickets are general admission first come first serve, but if you have accessibility needs and need a seat, need to be close to the stage, or will be coming in a wheelchair, please let us know at checkout and we will have a spot reserved for you.  Strobe lighting and fog may be used in this performance.