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.
Poets in Pajamas Reading Series 