PiP 86 Featuring Kat R. Vann

Poets in Pajamas brings you Kat R. Vann at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) on June 28 with a 15-minute live reading immediately followed by a short Q&A. The event will be held at the PiP Facebook page.

By clicking “going” to the Facebook event, you will let us know to expect you and will ensure that you are sent a reminder, so you don’t forget. Remember to prepare your questions for the featured poet, too!

Kat R. Vann (they/he) is a white Transgenderful Magic Writer, Educator, Community Organizer, and Mischievous Agent of Joy.

Kat firmly believes in the creative power of the heart and imagination and that through collaborative imaginings and magic we can write new futures that apocalypse current systems of oppression. It is these beliefs that drive Kat in his metamorphic writing, teachings, and decade of work with survivors of sexual violence.Kat received his MFA in Creative Writing Fiction from Solstice MFA Program at Pine Manor College and has work featured in the recently released Bible Belt Queers Anthology. Currently, they are working on narratives for young adult and adult readers within the speculative fiction genre. You can read a bit about their journey in the Vice Article Five People on Their Favorite Things About Being Nonbinary and follow his across the country adventures with his cat, Lunchbox, on social media (Instagram: @hocusinyourpocus Twitter: @hocusinyourpoc).

Join us at the Poets in Pajamas Facebook page at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) on June 28, 2020. When the live video starts, click join to watch the reading and interact with the poet.

Annie McIntosh will host.

This reading series is hosted courtesy of Sundress Publications.

PiP 85 Featuring Ashely Adams

Poets in Pajamas brings you Ashely Adams at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) on June 21 with a 15-minute live reading immediately followed by a short Q&A. The event will be held at the PiP Facebook page.

By clicking “going” to the Facebook event, you will let us know to expect you and will ensure that you are sent a reminder, so you don’t forget. Remember to prepare your questions for the featured poet, too!

Ashely Adams is a swamp-adjacent writer whose work has appeared in Paper Darts, Fourth River, Permafrost, Apex Magazine, and other places. She is the nonfiction editor of the literary journal Lammergeier and can be found on Twitter @goosegloriosa. Ask her about the weather.

Join us at the Poets in Pajamas Facebook page at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) on June 21, 2020. When the live video starts, click join to watch the reading and interact with the poet.

“An Apology to the Toad​​ in the Ruffed Grouse Pen,” Five:2:One Magazine
“A Theorized Form of Matter,” Apex Magazine
“HERE ARE THE THINGS THE MOON TOLD ME DURING THE LUNAR ECLIPSE OF JANUARY 21, 2019,” Cotton Xenomorph

Sarah Clark will host.

This reading series is hosted courtesy of Sundress Publications.

PiP 84 Featuring Jane Wong

Poets in Pajamas brings you Jane Wong at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) on June 14 with a 15-minute live reading immediately followed by a short Q&A. The event will be held at the PiP Facebook page.

By clicking “going” to the Facebook event, you will let us know to expect you and will ensure that you are sent a reminder, so you don’t forget. Remember to prepare your questions for the featured poet, too!

Jane Wong‘s poems can be found in places such as Best American Poetry 2015, American Poetry Review, POETRY, AGNI, Third Coast, New England Review, and others. Her essays have appeared in McSweeney’s, Black Warrior Review, Ecotone, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, and This is the Place: Women Writing About Home. A Kundiman fellow, Wong is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships and residencies from the U.S. Fulbright Program, Artist Trust, 4Culture, the Fine Arts Work Center, Bread Loaf, Willapa Bay AiR, Hedgebrook, the Jentel Foundation, SAFTA, and Mineral School. This July, she will be Sarabande’s Writer-in-Residence at Blackacre. She is the author of Overpour, from Action Books, and How to Not Be Afraid of Everything, which is forthcoming from Alice James Books. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Western Washington University.

“I Put on My Fur Coat,” The American Poetry Review
“After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly,” Poetry
“When You Died,” Bennington Review

Join us at the Poets in Pajamas Facebook page at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) on June 14, 2020. When the live video starts, click join to watch the reading and interact with the poet.

Annie McIntosh will host.

This reading series is hosted courtesy of Sundress Publications.